James

A little wine

1 Timothy 5:23 (NASB)
No longer drink water exclusively, but use a little wine for the sake of your stomach and your frequent ailments.

My heart for my work

Ephesians 6:5-8 (NASB)
Slaves, be obedient to those who are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in the sincerity of your heart, as to Christ;

Self-abnegation as a form of solace

Colossians 2:20-23 (ESV)
If with Christ you died to the elemental spirits of the world, why, as if you were still alive in the world, do you submit to regulations—

Noah finds favor first

Genesis 6:8-9 (NASB)
But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord.

Gather your CHILDREN

Matthew 23:37-39 (NASB)
"Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, the way a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were unwilling.

Justification and righteousness come from Faith

Galatians 2:15-16 (NASB)
"We are Jews by nature and not sinners from among the Gentiles;

Galatians 2:21 (NASB)
I do not nullify the grace of God, for if righteousness comes through the Law, then Christ died needlessly."

Water bottle label

John 4:14 (NLT)
But those who drink the water I give will never be thirsty again. It becomes a fresh, bubbling spring within them, giving them eternal life.”

Paul slow to use severity

2 Corinthians 13:10 (NASB)
For this reason I am writing these things while absent, so that when present I need not use severity, in accordance with the authority which the Lord gave me for building up and not for tearing down.

Preaching another Jesus

2 Corinthians 11:4 (NASB)
For if one comes and preaches another Jesus whom we have not preached, or you receive a different spirit which you have not received, or a different gospel which you have not accepted, you bear this beautifully.

Simplicity and purity in devotion to Christ

2 Corinthians 11:3 (NASB)
But I am afraid that, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, your minds will be led astray from the simplicity and purity of devotion to Christ.

Insight on Paul's demeanor

2 Corinthians 10:10 (NASB)
For they say, "His letters are weighty and strong, but his personal presence is unimpressive and his speech contemptible."

Do not war according to the flesh

2 Corinthians 10:3-5 (NASB)
For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh,

Grace abound to you

2 Corinthians 9:8-11 (NASB)
And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that always having all sufficiency in everything, you may have an abundance for every good deed;

He became poor

2 Corinthians 8:9-11 (NASB)
For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sake He became poor, so that you through His poverty might become rich.

We might become the righteousness of God in Him

2 Corinthians 5:21 (NASB)
He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

Ambassadors for Christ

2 Corinthians 5:20 (NASB)
Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making an appeal through us; we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.

Eternal weight of glory

2 Corinthians 4:16-18 (NASB)
Therefore we do not lose heart, but though our outer man is decaying, yet our inner man is being renewed day by day.

Act like men, this means love deeply

1 Corinthians 16:13-14 (NASB)
Be on the alert, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong.

Our work is not in vain because the Lord upholds it

1 Corinthians 15:58 (NASB)
Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your toil is not in vain in the Lord.

Key to understanding Paul's teaching on marriage

1 Corinthians 7:35 (NASB)
This I say for your own benefit; not to put a restraint upon you, but to promote what is appropriate and to secure undistracted devotion to the Lord.

Appropriate divorce

1 Corinthians 7:15 (NASB)
Yet if the unbelieving one leaves, let him leave; the brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called us to peace.

Be in the world but not of it

1 Corinthians 5:9-13 (NASB)
I wrote you in my letter not to associate with immoral people;

Scum of the earth

1 Corinthians 4:9-13 (NASB)
For, I think, God has exhibited us apostles last of all, as men condemned to death; because we have become a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to men.

Baptism is second to the Gospel

1 Corinthians 1:17 (NASB)
For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel, not in cleverness of speech, so that the cross of Christ would not be made void.

I can do because of Him

Philippians 4:13 (NASB)
I can do all things through Him who strengthens me.