Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day.

-- 2 Corinthians 4:16

Let no one despise you for your youth, but set the believers an example in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.

-- 1 Timothy 4:12

Where there is no guidance the people fall, but in abundance of counselors there is victory.

-- Proverbs 11:14

For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline.

-- 2 Timothy 1:7

For from him and through him and for him are all things.

-- Romans 11:36