Do not wear yourself out to get rich; be wise enough to restrain yourself.

In vain you rise early and stay up late, toiling for bread to eat—for He gives sleep to His beloved.

Now the Bereans were more noble-minded than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if these teachings were true.

To everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven: a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to break down and a time to build, a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance, a time to cast away stones and a time to gather stones together, a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing, . . .

You pore over the Scriptures because you presume that by them you possess eternal life. These are the very words that testify about Me,