"I am not looking for human praise.

Jesus answered, "If I were to honor myself, that honor would be worth nothing. The one who honors me is my Father---the very one you say is your God.

But these have been written in order that you may believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that through your faith in him you may have life.

"Jerusalem, Jerusalem! You kill the prophets, you stone the messengers God has sent you! How many times I wanted to put my arms around all your people, just as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you would not let me!

The Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost."

He came closer to the city, and when he saw it, he wept over it,

saying, "If you only knew today what is needed for peace! But now you cannot see it!

and in his name the message about repentance and the forgiveness of sins must be preached to all nations, beginning in Jerusalem.

But what if some of them were not faithful? Does this mean that God will not be faithful?

My friends, how I wish with all my heart that my own people might be saved! How I pray to God for them!

But concerning Israel he says, "All day long I held out my hands to welcome a disobedient and rebellious people."

Do not let evil defeat you; instead, conquer evil with good.

Among the weak in faith I become weak like one of them, in order to win them. So I become all things to all people, that I may save some of them by whatever means are possible.

This is good and it pleases God our Savior,

who wants everyone to be saved and to come to know the truth.

Watch yourself and watch your teaching. Keep on doing these things, because if you do, you will save both yourself and those who hear you.