*1.* “Because you are precious in my eyes, and honored, and I love you, I give men in return for you, peoples in exchange for your life. Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints.” *2* “But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.” *3* “When a scoffer is punished, the simple becomes wise; when a wise man is instructed, he gains knowledge.” *4* “See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.”