Quotes About Values

though I myself could have such confidence. If anyone else thinks he has grounds for confidence in the flesh, I have more:

Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and their glory is in their shame. Their minds are set on earthly things.

Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.

Children, obey your parents in everything, for this is pleasing to the Lord.

As you know, we never used words of flattery or any pretext for greed. God is our witness!

each of you must know how to control his own body in holiness and honor,

but test all things. Hold fast to what is good.

The goal of our instruction is the love that comes from a pure heart, a clear conscience, and a sincere faith.

Likewise, I want the women to adorn themselves with respectable apparel, with modesty, and with self-control, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or expensive clothes,

In the same way, the women must be dignified, not slanderers, but temperate and faithful in all things.

But she who lives for pleasure is dead even while she is still alive.

If anyone does not provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

Of course, godliness with contentment is great gain.

For we brought nothing into the world, so we cannot carry anything out of it.

Those who want to be rich, however, fall into temptation and become ensnared by many foolish and harmful desires that plunge them into ruin and destruction.

For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. By craving it, some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many sorrows.

treasuring up for themselves a firm foundation for the future, so that they may take hold of that which is truly life.

traitorous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,

But as for you, speak the things that are consistent with sound doctrine.

In everything, show yourself to be an example by doing good works. In your teaching show integrity, dignity,

He chose to suffer oppression with Godís people rather than to experience the fleeting enjoyment of sin.

See to it that no one is sexually immoral, or is godless like Esau, who for a single meal sold his birthright.

Pray for us; we are convinced that we have a clear conscience and desire to live honorably in every way.

Are they not the ones who blaspheme the noble name by which you have been called?