For if we be beside our selves, it is for God; or, if we be of sound mind, it is for you.

And now, I exhort you to be of good cheer; for there shall be no loss of life among you, but only of the ship.

Then, also, those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.

who, being past feeling, have given themselves up to licentiousness, that they may work all manner of uncleanness with greediness.

and not holding the head, from which the whole body gathering vigor, and firmly united by joints and bands, increases with the increase of God.

in what requires diligence, be not slothful; in spirit, be fervent; in service, be devoted to the Lord;

to the one, we are the odor of death ending in death; to the other, the odor of life ending in life: and who is sufficient for these things?

darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart;

that you were at that time without Christ, being aliens from the community of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope, and having no God in the world:

This he said, that the word might be fulfilled which he had spoken: Of those whom thou hast given me; I have lost none.

And as neither sun nor stars appeared for many days, and no small tempest lay upon us, all hope of our being saved was at length taken away.

For the scripture says: He that believes on him shall not be ashamed.

And a certain man said to him: Lord, are there few that are saved? And he said to them:

For the preaching of the cross is to those who perish, foolishness; but to us who are saved, it is the power of God.

Jesus answered and said to them: You err, because you know neither the scriptures nor the power of God.

While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name. Those whom thou gavest me, I have kept; and none of them is lost but the son of perdition, that the scripture may be fulfilled.

And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her, and said to her: Weep not.

and if one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or if one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.

persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;

And you, being dead to your offenses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, he has made alive together with him, having forgiven you all your offenses;

But he answered and said: I am not sent but to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

The Lord does not delay concerning his promise, as some men count delay, but he is long-suffering toward us, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

But their minds were blinded: for till this day, in the reading of the old covenant, the same vail remains not taken away, which vail is removed in Christ.

that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, by conforming myself to his death,