“These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full” (John 15:11).

“Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme; Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well” (I Peter 2:13,14).

“They shall come, and shall declare His righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that He hath done this” (Psalm 22:31).

“As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth” (Psalm 127:4).

“A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one’s birth” (Ecclesiastes 7:1).