⁵For we don’t preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake, ⁶seeing it is God who said, “Light will shine out of darkness,” who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. ⁷But we have this treasure in clay vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves.

Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life.

For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.

For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ is formed in you—