so that your fasting may be seen, not by men but by your Father who is unseen, and your Father who sees what is secret will reward you.

Then Jesus at once spoke to them, "Be men of courage! It is I; stop being afraid."

For some are born incapable of marriage, and some have been made so by men, and some have made themselves so for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. Let him accept it who can."

"We ourselves have heard Him say, 'I will tear down this temple built by men's hands, and in three days I will build another, made without hands.'"

whoever in this way continues serving Christ is well-pleasing to God and approved by men.

Brothers, stop being children in intelligence, but as to evil keep on being babies; and yet as to intelligence be men of maturity.

In the law it is written, "By men of foreign languages and by the lips of foreigners I will speak to this people, but even then they will not listen to me, says the Lord."

so that you may always approve the better things, and be men of transparent character and blameless life,

Keep on coming to Him, as to a living stone, rejected by men but chosen by God and precious in His sight,