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.

Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.

I am not saying this because I am in need, for I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances. I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. I can do everything through him who gives me strength.

Absent in body, but present in spirit.

The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband. And in like manner the husband also hath not power of his own body, but the wife.

I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.

Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: Who being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grapsed, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearnace as a man, he humbled himself and becamse obedient to death-even death on a cross!