"For who sees anything different in you? What do you have that you did not receive? If then you received it, why do you boast as if you did not receive it?"

"If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal."

"Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self…"

"In all circumstances take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming darts of the evil one; and take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word …"

"Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect."