"Exert every effort to enter through the narrow door, because many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able to.

Therefore I exhort you, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a sacrifice -- alive, holy, and pleasing to God -- which is your reasonable service.

if it is exhortation, he must exhort; if it is contributing, he must do so with sincerity; if it is leadership, he must do so with diligence; if it is showing mercy, he must do so with cheerfulness.

But those who have believing masters must not show them less respectTeach them and exhort them about these things.

Preach the message, be ready whether it is convenient or not, reprove, rebuke, exhort with complete patience and instruction.

But exhort one another each day, as long as it is called "Today," that none of you may become hardened by sin's deception.