But he answered his father, 'Behold, these many years I have served you, and I never disobeyed a commandment of yours, but you never gave me a goat, that I might celebrate with my friends.

I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

but the goal of this command is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and sincere faith;

They were stoned. They were sawn apart. They were tempted. They were slain with the sword. They went around in sheep skins and in goat skins; being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated