All things are lawful for me, but all things are not helpful. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.

Now He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God.

Likewise the Spirit also helps us in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.

For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

For it is written: “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, And bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent."

just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, ‭‭

But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. ‭‭

Therefore we make it our aim, whether present or absent, to be well pleasing to Him.

“Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation,”

“that is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of

Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us: we implore you on Christ’s behalf, be reconciled to God. ‭‭

For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.