"For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called." (1 Corinthians 1:26)

"Behold, I have given him for a witness to the people, a leader and commander to the people." (Isaiah 55:4)

"And all thy children shall be taught of the LORD; and great shall be the peace of thy children." (Isaiah 54:13)

"And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years." (Genesis 6:3)

"I beseech you therefore . . . by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.