I do not receive honor from men.

Jesus answered, If I glorify Myself, My honor is nothing. It is My Father who glorifies Me, of whom you say that He is your God.

but these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in His name.

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her, how often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, but you were not willing!

for the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.

And as He drew near, He saw the city and wept over it,

saying, If you had known, even you, at least in this your day, the things that make for your peace. But now they are hidden from your eyes.

and that repentance and remission of sins be preached in His name to all nations, beginning out of Jerusalem.

For what if some did not believe? Will their unbelief nullify the faithfulness of God?

Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is for them to be saved.

But to Israel he says: All day long I have stretched out My hands to a disobedient and contradicting people.

Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

to the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I might in any way save some.

For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior,

who desires all men to be saved and to come to a full true knowledge of the truth.

Take heed to yourself and to the doctrine. Continue in them, for in doing this you will deliver both yourself and those who hear you.