Be merciful, just as your Father also is merciful.

Be diligent to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who doesn’t need to be ashamed, correctly teaching the word of truth.

Therefore I tell you, everything you pray and ask for  —  believe that you have received it and it will be yours.

There is no fear in love; instead, perfect love drives out fear, because fear involves punishment. So the one who fears is not complete in love.

For am I now trying to persuade people, or God? Or am I striving to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a servant of Christ.

He answered, “It is written: Man must not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.”

Do not be conquered by evil, but conquer evil with good

Be gracious to me, God, according to your faithful love; according to your abundant compassion, blot out my rebellion.

If I speak human or angelic tongues but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

For it is God who is working in you both to will and to work according to his good purpose.