1. Corinthians 4 (iv)

No matter how just, how sacred, how guiltless, how divine your cause may be, it is essential that you treat it with trepidation and in all humilityand proceed in fear and humility in preparation for the judgement of God. By no means trust in your own powers. Instead, trust in God's mercy. Judas Maccabaus was slain in a just war. Similarly, many have fallen in conflicts which were both good and praiseworthy as is written in the Book of Judges by the Children of Israel, chapter 20: They put their trust in the justice of their cause and not in God's mercy as Paul refers to in 1. Corinthians 4, iv.

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