3 Your adornment ought not to be a merely outward thing–one of plaiting the hair, putting on jewelry, or wearing beautiful dresses.
4 Instead of that, it should be a new nature within–the imperishable ornament of a gentle and peaceful spirit, which is indeed precious in the sight of God.
21 For where your wealth is, there also will your heart be.
13 Thus He will build up your characters, so that you will be faultlessly holy in the presence of our God and Father at the Coming of our Lord Jesus with all His holy ones.
37 »Thou shalt love the Lord thy God,'« He answered, »with thy whole heart, thy whole soul, thy whole mind.'
37 »Thou shalt love the Lord thy God,'« He answered, »with thy whole heart, thy whole soul, thy whole mind.'
23 In solemn truth I tell you that if any one shall say to this mountain, Remove, and hurl thyself into the sea,' and has no doubt about it in his heart, but stedfastly believes that what he says will happen, it shall be granted him.
7 Let each contribute what he has decided upon in his own mind, and not do it reluctantly or under compulsion. »It is a cheerful giver that God loves.«
17 But thanks be to God that though you were once in thraldom to Sin, you have now yielded a hearty obedience to that system of truth in which you have been instructed.
8 do not harden your hearts as your forefathers did in the time of the provocation on the day of the temptation in the Desert,