Galatians 4:15
I ask you, then, what has become of your self-congratulations? For I bear you witness that had it been possible you would have torn out your own eyes and have given them to me.
Romans 4:6-9
In this way David also tells of the blessedness of the man to whose credit God places righteousness, apart from his actions.
Romans 5:2
through whom also, as the result of faith, we have obtained an introduction into that state of favour with God in which we stand, and we exult in hope of some day sharing in God's glory.
Romans 9:3
For I could pray to be accursed from Christ on behalf of my brethren, my human kinsfolk--for such the Israelites are.
Romans 10:2
For I bear witness that they possess an enthusiasm for God, but it is an unenlightened enthusiasm.
Romans 15:13
May God, the giver of hope, fill you with continual joy and peace because you trust in Him--so that you may have abundant hope through the power of the Holy Spirit.
2 Corinthians 8:3
For I can testify that to the utmost of their power, and even beyond their power, they have of their own free will given help.
Galatians 3:14
Our freedom has been thus purchased in order that in Christ Jesus the blessing belonging to Abraham may come upon the nations, so that through faith we may receive the promised Spirit.
Galatians 4:19
you for whom I am again, as it were, undergoing the pains of childbirth, until Christ is fully formed within you.
Galatians 5:22
The Spirit, on the other hand, brings a harvest of love, joy, peace; patience towards others, kindness, benevolence;
Galatians 6:4
But let every man scrutinize his own conduct, and then he will find out, not with reference to another but with reference to himself, what he has to boast of.
Colossians 4:13
For I can bear witness to the deep interest he takes in you and in the brethren at Laodicea and in those at Hierapolis.
1 Thessalonians 2:8
Seeing that we were thus drawn affectionately towards you, it would have been a joy to us to have imparted to you not only God's Good News, but to have given our very lives also, because you had become very dear to us.
1 Thessalonians 5:13
and to esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake. Be at peace among yourselves.
1 John 3:16-18
We know what love is--through Christ's having laid down His life on our behalf; and in the same way we ought to lay down our lives for our brother men.
Luke 8:13
Those on the rock are the people who on hearing the Message receive it joyfully; but they have no root: for a time they believe, but when trial comes they fall away.