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.

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.

For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of His son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.

For he who has died has been freed from sin...14 For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace.

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

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