"He is like a man who is building a house who digged and went deep and laid a foundation upon rock. And, when a flood came, the torrent dashed against that house, but could not move, because it had been founded upon rock.

because in Christ neither circumcision has any value, nor uncircumcision, but faith which works through love.

that Christ may make his home in your hearts through your faith; that you may be so deeply rooted and so firmly grounded in love,

Nevertheless God's firm foundation stands unshaken, bearing this inscription, THE LORD KNOWS THOSE WHO ARE HIS, and this also, LET EVERY ONE WHO NAMES THE NAME OF THE LORD RENOUNCE WICKEDNESS.

The time

"And to you I say, Use mammon, dishonest as it is, to make yourselves friends, so that when it shall fail they will welcome you to the eternal tabernacles.

Lay

Keep contending in the noble contest of the faith; seize hold on eternal life, to which you were called when you confessed the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.

I am ever pressing on toward the goal, for the prize of God's heavenward call in Christ Jesus.

and into an inheritance imperishable and undefiled and fadeless, which has been kept in heaven for you

General references

"Give to him who asks, and from him who wants to borrow from you, do not turn away.

And this is the promise which he has promised to us even life eternal.