Jesus said to his disciples. "It is not possible but that occasions of stumbling should occur, but woe to him through whom they come!

"The man who speaks on his own authority is always seeking his own glory. But one who is eager for the glory of Him who sent him, he is true, and therefore is nothing false about him.

"But we are eager to hear from you what it is that you believe; for we all know that as for this sect it is everywhere spoken against."

All nature even is waiting with eager longing for the unveiling of the vision of God's sons.

On the contrary, we need those members of the body which seem to be weaker;

and not alone by his coming, but also by the comfort you had been to him. For he told me of your eager longing, of your penitence, and of your zeal on my behalf, so that I was happier still.

They stipulated only that we should remember the poor, which very thing indeed I was quite eager to do.

Now, however, when you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how is it that you are beginning to turn back to those weak and beggarly externalities, eager to be in bondage to them again?

Therefore I have been the more eager to send him, in order that you may rejoice in seeing him again, and that I may have one sorrow less.

It is not your gifts I am eager for, but I am eager for the abundant profit that accrues to your divine account.

But I, my brothers, although torn from you for a short season (in presence, not in heart), made eager efforts to behold you face to face with strong longing.

For the love of money is a source of all kinds of evil; and in their eager desire to be rich some have been led astray form the faith, and have pierced themselves with many sorrows.

In the same way you husbands live with your wives, according to knowledge, honoring your wife as of the weaker sex, yet as an heir with yourself of the grace of life; so that your prayers may not be hindered.