"Ye are the salt of the earth; but, if the salt become tasteless, with what shall it be salted? It is henceforth good for nothing, except, when cast without, to be trodden under foot by men.

"But love your enemies; and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing in return; and your reward will be great, and ye will be sons of the Most High; because He is kind to the unthankful and evil.

Because every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, when it is received with thanksgiving;

Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing; but the keeping of the commandments of God.

I have become foolish; ye compelled me; for I ought to be commended by you; for in nothing was I inferior to the most eminent apostles, even if I am nothing.

doing nothing through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind, each esteeming others better than himself;

(for the law perfected nothing), and a bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God.

And, if I bestow in morsels all my goods; and, if I give my body to he burned, but have not love, I am profited nothing.