Let the husband render to his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife to her husband.

We were by nature children of wrath, even as others.

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

So, then, let us pursue the things making for peace and the things that are upbuilding to one another.

Love is patient, love is kind, and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own [will], is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God. We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.

If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men the most pitiable.