but the Lord said to him, "You Pharisees do clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but your inner life is filled with rapacity and malice.

On receiving so strict a charge, he put them into the inner prison and secured their feet in the stocks.

I cordially agree with God's law, so far as my inner self is concerned,

What human being can understand the thoughts of a man, except the man's own inner spirit? So too no one understands the thoughts of God, except the Spirit of God.

So do not criticize at all; the hour of reckoning has still to come, when the Lord will come to bring dark secrets to the light and to reveal life's inner aims and motives. Then each of us will get his meed of praise from God.

anchoring the soul to it safe and sure, as it enters the inner Presence behind the veil.

Hence I never lose heart; though my outward man decays, my inner man is renewed day after day.

praying Him out of the wealth of his glory to grant you a mighty increase of strength by his Spirit in the inner man.