Sirach 27: 4- 7
| 27:4 | If you do not hold yourself steadfastly to the fear of the Lord, your house will be quickly overthrown. |
| 27:5 | Just as the dust remains when one shakes a sieve, so will the doubt of a man remain in his thoughts. |
| 27:6 | The furnace tests the potter’s vessels, and the trial of the tribulation tests just men. |
| 27:7 | As the pruning of a tree reveals its fruit, so does a word reveal the thoughts in the heart of a man. |
First Corinthians 15: 54- 58
| 15:54 | And when this mortality has been clothed with immortality, then the word that was written shall occur: “Death is swallowed up in victory.” |
| 15:55 | “O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?” |
| 15:56 | Now the sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. |
| 15:57 | But thanks be to God, who has given us victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. |
| 15:58 | And so, my beloved brothers, be steadfast and unmovable, abounding always in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not useless in the Lord. |
Luke 6: 39- 45
| 6:39 | Now he told them another comparison: “How can the blind lead the blind? Would they not both fall into a pit? |
| 6:40 | The disciple is not above his teacher. But each one will be perfected, if he is like his teacher. |
| 6:41 | And why do you see the straw that is in your brother’s eye, while the log that is in your own eye, you do not consider? |
| 6:42 | Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, allow me to remove the straw from your eye,’ while you yourself do not see the log in your own eye? Hypocrite, first remove the log from your own eye, and then will you see clearly, so that you may lead out the straw from your brother’s eye. |
| 6:43 | For there is no good tree which produces bad fruit, nor does an evil tree produce good fruit. |
| 6:44 | For each and every tree is known by its fruit. For they do not gather figs from thorns, nor do they gather the grape from the bramble bush. |
| 6:45 | A good man, from the good storehouse of his heart, offers what is good. And an evil man, from the evil storehouse, offers what is evil. For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks. |