Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.
Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
So therefore, any one of you who does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple.
Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in them.
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
And those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its affections and lusts.
The Lord detests all the proud of heart.
Be sure of this: They will not go unpunished.
And the publican, standing afar off, would not so much as lift up his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’
"We are punished justly, for we are getting what our deeds deserve. But this man has done nothing wrong.”
For I know my transgressions, and my sin is always before me.
Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tried you in the furnace of affliction.
There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.
