"I do not receive honor from men.

Jesus answered, "If I honor Myself, My honor is nothing. It is My Father who honors 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."

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

saying, "If you had known, even you, especially 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 should be preached in His name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

For what if some did not believe? Will their unbelief make the faithfulness of God without effect?

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

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

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

to the weak I became as weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all [men,] that I might by all means 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 the knowledge of the truth.

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