"And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth" (Genesis 9:11).

"Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword" (Matthew 10:34).

"Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ" (I Peter 2:5).

There is a wonderful promise found in one of David's psalms, as follows:

The words of the Lord are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. Thou shalt keep them, O Lord, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever (Psalm 12:6-7).

"Then He said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken" (Luke 24:25).