For what do you know, O wife, whether you shall save your husband? Or what do you know, O man, whether you shall save your wife?
The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he who takes souls is wise.
Likewise I say to you, there is joy before the angels of God over one sinner who repents.
if by any means I may provoke those who are my flesh to jealousy, and might save some of them.
To the weak I became as the weak, so that I might gain the weak. I am made all things to all men, so that I might by all means save some.
Hold on to yourself and to the doctrine; continue in them, for doing this you shall both save yourself and those who hear you.