Fools find no pleasure in understanding but delight in airing their own opinions.

The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.

“You expected much, but see, it turned out to be little. What you brought home, I blew away. Why?” declares the Lord Almighty. “Because of my house, which remains a ruin, while each of you is busy with your own house.

However, I consider my life worth nothing to me; my only aim is to finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me—the task of testifying to the good news of God’s grace.

I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

Each of us should please our neighbors for their good, to build them up.

Do not deceive yourselves. If any of you think you are wise by the standards of this age, you should become “fools” so that you may become wise.

No one should seek their own good, but the good of others.

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.

Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves.

For where you have envy and selfish ambition, there you find disorder and every evil practice.