Matthew 6:24
No one can serve two masters: either he will hate one and love the other, or else he will stand by the one and despise the other ??you cannot serve both God and Mammon.
Matthew 9:16
No one sews a piece of undressed cloth on an old coat, for the patch breaks away from it, and the tear is made worse:
Romans 11:6
Selected by grace, and therefore not for anything they have done; otherwise grace would cease to be grace.
2 Corinthians 1:12
My proud boast is the testimony of my conscience that holiness and godly sincerity, not worldly cunning but the grace of God, have marked my conduct in the outside world and in particular my relations with you.
2 Corinthians 11:3
but I am afraid of your thoughts getting seduced from a single devotion to Christ, just as the serpent beguiled Eve with his cunning.
James 1:6-8
Only, let him ask in faith, with never a doubt; for the doubtful man is like surge of the sea whirled and swayed by the wind;
James 3:10
blessing and cursing stream from the same lips! My brothers, this ought not to be.