who desires all people to be saved and come to full knowledge of the truth.

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.

He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For by him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.

Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously.

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds

There is nothing love cannot face; there is limit to its faith, its hope and endurance.

God has overlooked the times of such ignorance, yet now he is telling mankind that they should all everywhere repent. Because he has set a day in which he purposes to judge the inhabited earth in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed, and he has furnished a guarantee to all men in that he has resurrected him from the dead.