“But a beautiful cedar palace does not make a great king!
      Your father, Josiah, also had plenty to eat and drink.
But he was just and right in all his dealings.
      That is why God blessed him.

He gave justice and help to the poor and needy,
      and everything went well for him.
Isn’t that what it means to know me?”
      says the Lord.

But you! You have eyes only for greed and dishonesty!
      You murder the innocent,
      oppress the poor, and reign ruthlessly.”

Jeremiah 22:15-17 (NLT)

You, my brothers, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the sinful nature; rather, serve one another in love.

The entire law is summed up in a single command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” If you keep on biting and devouring each other, watch out or you will be destroyed by each other.

Galatians 5:13-15 (NIV)

“And now, O Israel, what does the LORD your God ask of you but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul”

Deuteronomy 10:12 (NIV)

“We plan the way we want to live,
   but only God makes us able to live it”

 (The Message)

“In his heart a man plans his course,
       but the LORD determines his steps”

(NIV)

“For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.

All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation.

We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God. God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.”

2 Corinthians 5: 14-15, 18-21 (NIV)