Such wisdom does not come from above but is earthly, natural, demonic.

But as it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.

So whoever knows what is good to do and does not do it is guilty of sin.

For this is the gospel message that you have heard from the beginning: that we should love one another,

“Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

It is the smallest of all the seeds, but when it has grown it is the greatest garden plant and becomes a tree, so that the wild birds come and nest in its branches.”

There is nothing outside of a person that can defile him by going into him. Rather, it is what comes out of a person that defiles him.”

Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eye is healthy, your whole body is full of light, but when it is diseased, your body is full of darkness.

The person who speaks on his own authority desires to receive honor for himself; the one who desires the honor of the one who sent him is a man of integrity, and there is no unrighteousness in him.

The man replied, “This is a remarkable thing, that you don’t know where he comes from, and yet he caused me to see!

And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved.”

But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart” (that is, the word of faith that we preach),

for it is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be in fear, for it does not bear the sword in vain. It is God’s servant to administer retribution on the wrongdoer.

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified because of the wife, and the unbelieving wife because of her husband. Otherwise your children are unclean, but now they are holy.

Is not the cup of blessing that we bless a sharing in the blood of Christ? Is not the bread that we break a sharing in the body of Christ?

For just as the body is one and yet has many members, and all the members of the body – though many – are one body, so too is Christ.

Masters, treat your slaves the same way, giving up the use of threats, because you know that both you and they have the same master in heaven, and there is no favoritism with him.

He is the head of the body, the church, as well as the beginning, the firstborn from among the dead, so that he himself may become first in all things.

because all that is in the world (the desire of the flesh and the desire of the eyes and the arrogance produced by material possessions) is not from the Father, but is from the world.

By this the children of God and the children of the devil are revealed: Everyone who does not practice righteousness – the one who does not love his fellow Christian – is not of God.