Scripture Blog

This weblog is my personal online scripture journal. I try to read the scriptures each morning as I exercise on my cross-trainer. It has a great impact on my life and my testimony of the Savior and his restored church. The journal is really for my own benefit but I have set it up as a web log in hopes to benefit anyone else that may be interested. "For he that diligently seeketh shall find; and the mysteries of God shall be unfolded unto them, by the power of the Holy Ghost..." 1 Nephi 10:19

Wednesday, August 03, 2011

Romans 15

James taught -

"Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world." (New Testament | James 1:27)

And in modern day the Savior taught -

"...ye must visit the poor and the needy and administer to their relief...." (Doctrine and Covenants | Section 44:6)

Such that we -

"...succor the weak, lift up the hands which hang down, and strengthen the feeble knees." (Doctrine and Covenants | Section 81:5)

As Paul closes out his epistle to the Romans, he preaches much the same thing -

"WE then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
2 Let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to edification." (New Testament | Romans 15:1 - 2)

In a manner -

"...that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope." (New Testament | Romans 15:4)

This is pure religion