For this cause, my dear brothers, be strong in purpose and unmoved, ever giving yourselves to the work of the Lord, because you are certain that your work is not without effect in the Lord.

Though

And I will gladly give all I have for your souls. If I have the more love for you, am I to be loved the less?

And ... without my flesh I will see God;

My flesh and my heart are wasting away: but God is the Rock of my heart and my eternal heritage.

The upright man goes to his death, and no one gives a thought to it; and god-fearing men are taken away, and no one is troubled by it; for the upright man is taken away because of evil-doing, and goes into peace.

And if your right eye is a cause of trouble to you, take it out and put it away from you; because it is better to undergo the loss of one part, than for all your body to go into hell.

The

In my heart I take pleasure in the law of God,

That in the wealth of his glory he would make you strong with power through his Spirit in your hearts;

But let them be those of the unseen man of the heart, the ever-shining ornament of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great price in the eyes of God.

Is

Make a clean heart in me, O God; give me a right spirit again.

But those who are waiting for the Lord will have new strength; they will get wings like eagles: running, they will not be tired, and walking, they will have no weariness.

And let not your behaviour be like that of this world, but be changed and made new in mind, so that by experience you may have knowledge of the good and pleasing and complete purpose of God.

And be made new in the spirit of your mind,

And have put on the new man, which has become new in knowledge after the image of his maker;

Not by works of righteousness which we did ourselves, but in the measure of his mercy, he gave us salvation, through the washing of the new birth and the giving of new life in the Holy Spirit,

Day by

Give us every day bread for our needs.

General references

And I was with you without strength, in fear and in doubt.