Have confidence in your leaders and submit to their authority, because they keep watch over you as those who must give an account. Do this so that their work will be a joy, not a burden, for that would be of no benefit to you.

Anyone who receives instruction in the word must share all good things with his instructor.

I myself am convinced, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, complete in knowledge and competent to instruct one another.

Stop trusting in man, who has but a breath in his nostrils. Of what account is he?

Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; his love endures forever.

Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and death.

Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time. Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.

He who despises his neighbor sins, but blessed is he who is kind to the needy.

God looks down from heaven on the sons of men to see if there are any who understand, any who seek God.

Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.