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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Concerning Christian Liberty by Martin Luther: should be careless or lead a bad life, but that no one should
need the law or works for justification and salvation.
Let us consider this as the first virtue of faith; and let us
look also to the second. This also is an office of faith: that it
honours with the utmost veneration and the highest reputation Him
in whom it believes, inasmuch as it holds Him to be truthful and
worthy of belief. For there is no honour like that reputation of
truth and righteousness with which we honour Him in whom we
believe. What higher credit can we attribute to any one than
truth and righteousness, and absolute goodness? On the other
hand, it is the greatest insult to brand any one with the
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