"But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you" (Matthew 6:33).

"Now therefore ye are no more strangers and
foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household
of God" (Ephesians 2:19).

"This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart: Who being past feeling have given themselves over to lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness" (

"Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and
shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my
name's sake" (Matthew 24:9).