It is not rude, it is not self-serving, it is not easily angered or resentful.

thieves, the greedy, drunkards, the verbally abusive, and swindlers will not inherit the kingdom of God.

Though you have eyes, don’t you see? And though you have ears, can’t you hear? Don’t you remember?

Love is patient, love is kind, it is not envious. Love does not brag, it is not puffed up.

“Which ones?” he asked. Jesus replied, “Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not give false testimony,

“I do not accept praise from people,

and the way of peace they have not known.”

If the foot says, “Since I am not a hand, I am not part of the body,” it does not lose its membership in the body because of that.

And if the ear says, “Since I am not an eye, I am not part of the body,” it does not lose its membership in the body because of that.

‘We played the flute for you, yet you did not dance; we wailed in mourning, yet you did not weep.’

where their worm never dies and the fire is never quenched.

But you refuse to believe because you are not my sheep.

They do not belong to the world just as I do not belong to the world.

there is no one who understands, there is no one who seeks God.

blessed is the one against whom the Lord will never count sin.”

For sin will have no mastery over you, because you are not under law but under grace.

So I do not run uncertainly or box like one who hits only air.

We are experiencing trouble on every side, but are not crushed; we are perplexed, but not driven to despair;

we are persecuted, but not abandoned; we are knocked down, but not destroyed,

For if the eagerness is present, the gift itself is acceptable according to whatever one has, not according to what he does not have.