“For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on Him, but also to suffer for His sake” (Philippians 1:29).

“The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach” (Acts 1:1).

“And it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life: that he may learn to fear the LORD his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them” (Deuteronomy 17:19).

“Now if Christ be preached that He rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?” (I Corinthians 15:12).</p>

“How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them” (Psalm 139:17).