Mark 2: 18-22 NIV→​ “​18 ​Now John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting. Some people came and asked Jesus, “How is it that John’s disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees are fasting, but yours are not?” ​19 ​Jesus answered, “How can the guests of the bridegroom fast while he is with them? They cannot, so long as they have him with them. ​20 ​But the time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them, and on that day they will fast. ​21 ​“No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. Otherwise, the new piece will pull away from the old, making the tear worse. ​22 ​And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the wine will burst the skins, and both the wine and the wineskins will be ruined. No, they pour new wine into new wineskins.”

2 Samuel 24:24 NIV says, “​But the king replied to Araunah, “No, I insist on paying you for it. I will not sacrifice to the Lord my God burnt offerings that cost me nothing.” So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen and paid fifty shekels of silver for them.”

Acts 4:12 NIV→ ​“​12 ​Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved.”

James 1:2-4 NIV→​ “​2 ​Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds,​ ​3 ​because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance.​4 ​Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.​”

Philippians 3: 12-14 NIV→​ “​12 ​Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. ​13 ​Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, ​14 ​I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.”

Philippians 2:8 NIV→​ “And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death—even death on a cross!”

Ephesians 4:22-24 NIV→ “​22 ​You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires;​ ​23 ​to be made new in the attitude of your minds;​24 ​and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.”