For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant; later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds.
If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn’t love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
You can’t fall off the floor.
Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.
Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart...
For when I am powerless, it is then that I am strong...
The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.
And thus I aspire to preach the gospel, not where Christ was already named so that I would not build on another man’s foundation.
Your teaching must have the integrity of serious, sound words to which no one can take exception. If it does, no opponent will be able to find anything bad to say about us, and hostility will yield to shame.
There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus.
Therefore, I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men, for kings and all who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence.
If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone.
For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
Then each of you will control his own body and live in holiness and honor- not in lustful passion like the pagans who do not know God and his ways.
Even so husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
I died to the law so that I might live for God.
Hope does not disappoint.
Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of those who mutilate the flesh!
It’s amazing how insults in most languages sound the same.