"Strive to enter in by the narrow door, for many, I tell you, will seek to enter in, and will not be able.

I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

Only let your manner of life be worthy of the Good News of Christ, that, whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your state, that you stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the Good News;

Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.

for which I also labor, striving according to his working, which works in me mightily.

"Yet even now," says the LORD, "turn to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning."

38 He commanded the chariot to stand still, and they both went down into the water, both Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him.

He said to him, "'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.'

And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might.

and shall return to the LORD your God, and shall obey his voice according to all that I command you this day, you and your children, with all your heart, and with all your soul;

Blessed are those who keep his decrees, who seek him with their whole heart.

Give me understanding, and I will keep your Law. Yes, I will obey it with my whole heart.

You shall seek me, and find me, when you shall search for me with all your heart.

Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.

For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brothers' sake, my relatives according to the flesh,

Therefore watch, remembering that for a period of three years I did not cease to admonish everyone night and day with tears.

For many walk, of whom I told you often, and now tell you even weeping, as the enemies of the cross of Christ,