The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Trust in the LORD with all your heart; and lean not to your own understanding.
For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man sees, why does he yet hope for?
Proverbs 25:15 By long forbearing is a prince persuaded, and a soft tongue breaks the bone.
And to stand every morning to thank and praise the LORD, and likewise at even:
Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?
These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These were redeemed from among men, being the first fruits to God and to the Lamb.
