The young man saith unto him, All these things have I kept from my youth up: what lack I yet?

Then Jesus beholding him loved him, and said unto him, One thing thou lackest: go thy way, sell whatsoever thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, take up the cross, and follow me.

And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want.

And he said unto them, When I sent you without purse, and scrip, and shoes, lacked ye any thing? And they said, Nothing.

And when they wanted wine, the mother of Jesus saith unto him, They have no wine.

For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

So that ye come behind in no gift; waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ:

But meat commendeth us not to God: for neither, if we eat, are we the better; neither, if we eat not, are we the worse.

For our comely parts have no need: but God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked:

For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.

And when I was present with you, and wanted, I was chargeable to no man: for that which was lacking to me the brethren which came from Macedonia supplied: and in all things I have kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and so will I keep myself.

I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.

I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.

Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.

They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented;

Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;