I fast twice a week; I give a tenth of everything I get.’

For even in Thessalonica on more than one occasion you sent something for my need.

For we wanted to come to you (I, Paul, in fact tried again and again) but Satan thwarted us.

Jesus said to him, “I tell you the truth, today – this very night – before a rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times.”

Immediately a rooster crowed a second time. Then Peter remembered what Jesus had said to him: “Before a rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times.” And he broke down and wept.

These men are dangerous reefs at your love feasts, feasting without reverence, feeding only themselves. They are waterless clouds, carried along by the winds; autumn trees without fruit – twice dead, uprooted;