²⁵ And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.

¹² Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.

²⁴ Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

³⁸ For he is not a God of the dead, but of the living: for all live unto him.