“If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.

“But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept,”

—I Corinthians 15:19,20

“And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

“And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his hear”

—Genesis 6:5,6

‘These are the things that ye shall do; Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbour; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates’

‘Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the Lᴏʀᴅ, till he come and rain righteousness upon you.’

‘No servant can serve two masters:  for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other.  Ye cannot serve God and mammon.’

‘And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written.  Amen.’

‘But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name.’

‘We love him, because he first loved us.’

‘To him give all the prophets witness, that through his name whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins.’

‘For unto us a Child is born,

—Isaiah 9:6