If thine eye may be bad, thy whole body will be dark. Then if the light which is in you is darkness, the darkness is so great.

And His disciples say to Him, Whence is there to us so much bread in the wilderness, as to feed so great a multitude?

And he also spoke to the multitudes, When you may see a cloud rising from the west, you immediately say, that the rain cometh; and it is so:

and when the south wind is blowing, you say, that it will be hot; and it is so.

because as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation through Christ also abounds.

Therefore let us, so many as are perfect, think the same thing: and if you think otherwise in any respect, God will also reveal this to you:

but as we were approved of God that the gospel should be intrusted unto us, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God who is proving our hearts,

for you yourselves know well, that the day of the Lord is so coming like a thief in the night.

Therefore let us indeed, having around us so great a cloud of witnesses, having laid aside every weight, and the sin that doth so easily beset us, run with patience the race which is set before us,

In this the divine love has been made perfect in us, that we may have boldness in the day of the judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.