Test yourselves, whether you are in the faith; examine yourselves. Or do you not yourselves perceive that Jesus Christ is in you, unless you are disapproved?
And he said to me, Do not fear, Daniel, for from the first day that you gave your heart to understand and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard; and I have come because of your words.
Then the king, when he heard the word, was very displeased with himself, and he set his heart on Daniel, to deliver him. And he was striving until the going of the sun to deliver him.
And the man said to me, Son of man, see with your eyes, and hear with your ears, and set your heart on all that I shall make you see. For in order to make you see you are brought here. Declare to the house of Israel all that you see.
You have sown much, and brought in little; you eat, but not to satiety; you drink, but not to be filled; you dress, but there is no warmth to one. And one hiring out himself hires out himself for a bag of holes.