Unless your righteousness exceeds the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven. –Jesus in Matthew 5:20 (NKJV)

I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, lest, when I have preached to others, I myself should become disqualified.   –1 Corinthians 9:27 (NKJV)

Having faith and a good conscience, which some having rejected, concerning the faith have suffered shipwreck.   –1 Timothy 1:19 (NKJV)

Of this sort are those who creep into households and make captives of gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts.   –2 Timothy 3:6 (NKJV)

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Dr. Thomas C. Oden, John Wesley’s Teachings, vol. 4, pp. 221-223.