But I do not receive testimony from man, but these things I say so that you might be saved.
Jerusalem! Jerusalem! the one killing the prophets, and stoning those having been sent to her; how often I desired to gather your children in the way a hen gathers her brood under the wings, and you did not desire it.
For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.
and that repentance and remission of sins should be proclaimed in His name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
But these are written so that you might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you might have life in His name.
There is another who bears witness of Me, and I know that the witness which He witnesses of Me is true.
I do not receive honor from men.
Jesus answered, If I glorify Myself, My glory is nothing; it is My Father who glorifies Me, of whom you say that He is your God.
Brothers, truly my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is for it to be saved.
But to Israel He says, "All day long I have stretched forth My hands to a disobeying and gainsaying people."
Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
For what? If some did not believe, will not their unbelief nullify the faith of God?
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.
If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater. For this is the witness of God which He has testified about His Son.