Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

Let each man give according as he has determined in his heart; not grudgingly, or under compulsion; for God loves a cheerful giver.

Do you look at things only as they appear in front of your face? If anyone trusts in himself that he is Christ's, let him consider this again with himself, that, even as he is Christ's, so also we are Christ's.

Let such a person consider this, that what we are in word by letters when we are absent, such are we also in deed when we are present.

But "he who boasts, let him boast in the Lord."

I say again, let no one think me foolish. But if so, yet receive me as foolish, that I also may boast a little.

Through a window I was let down in a basket by the wall, and escaped his hands.