“But someone may well say, “You have faith, and I have works; show me your faith without works, and I will show you my faith by my works.”

- James 2:18

“If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself’ you do well.”

- James 2:8

“Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.”

- James 1:2-4

“Shepherd the flock of God that is among you, not under compulsion, but willingly, as God would have you.”

- 1 Peter 5:2a

“And the Lord God said, ‘It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him a helper comparable to him.’”

- Genesis 2:18

“In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.”

- John 1:4-5

“And He answered them and said, ‘Have you not read that He who created them from the beginning made them Male and Female, and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh?’”

- Matthew 19:4-5:

“But I say to the unmarried and to widows that it is good for them if they remain even as I. But if they do not have self- control, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn with passion.”

- 1 Corinthians 7:8-9

“By the same word the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.”

– 2 Peter 3:7

“But Ruth said: ‘Entreat me not to leave you, or to turn back from following after you; For wherever you go, I will go; And wherever you lodge, I will lodge; Your people shall be my people, and your God my God.’”

- Ruth 1:16