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.

Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart.

I died to the law so that I might live for God.

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.

Absent in body, but present in spirit.

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

God's kindness is intended to lead you to repentance.