The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come so that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

Those guilty of sin must be rebuked before all, as a warning to the rest.

(Now they were asking this in an attempt to trap him, so that they could bring charges against him.) Jesus bent down and wrote on the ground with his finger.

But now I am coming to you, and I am saying these things in the world, so they may experience my joy completed in themselves.