13. But you will receive power when the Holy
Spirit comes on you; and you will be my
witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and
Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.

14. 28 One of the teachers of the law came and heard
them debating. Noticing that Jesus had given them
a good answer, he asked him, “Of all the
commandments, which is the most important?”
29 “The most important one,” answered Jesus, “is
this: ‘Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is
one. 30 Love the Lord your God with all your heart
and with all your soul and with all your mind and
with all your strength.’ 31 The second is this: ‘Love
your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no
commandment greater than these.”

15. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace,
patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
gentleness and self-control. Against such
things there is no law.

16. It is thus that we wait for entire sanctification; for
a full salvation from all our sins, from pride, self-
will, anger, unbelief; or, as the Apostle expresses it,
"go on unto perfection." But what is perfection?
The word has various senses: Here it means
perfect love. It is love excluding sin; love filling the
heart, taking up the whole capacity of the soul. It
is love "rejoicing evermore, praying without
ceasing, in everything giving thanks."
[Sermon 43--The Scripture Way of Salvation]

17. Entire sanctification, or Christian perfection, is
neither more nor less than pure love; love
expelling sin, and governing both the heart
and life of a child of God. The Refiner's fire
purges out all that is contrary to love, and that
many times by a pleasing smart. Leave all this
to Him that does all things well, and that loves
you better than you do yourself.
[Letters to Mr. Walter Churchey, of Brecon]

18. "Well, but what more than this can be implied in entire
sanctification?" It does not imply any new kind of
holiness: Let no man imagine this. From the moment we
are justified, till we give up our spirits to God, love is the
fulfilling of the law; of the whole evangelical law…. Love is
the sum of Christian sanctification; it is the one kind of
holiness, which is found, only in various degrees, in the
believers who are distinguished by St. John into "little
children, young men, and fathers." The difference
between one and the other properly lies in the degree of
love. And herein there is as great a difference in the
spiritual, as in the natural sense, between fathers, young
men, and babes.
[Sermon 83--On Patience]

19. 12Therefore, my dear friends, as you have
always obeyed—not only in my presence, but
now much more in my absence—continue to
work out your salvation with fear and
trembling, 13 for it is God who works in you to
will and to act according to his good purpose.

21. 5Be wise in the way you act toward outsiders;
make the most of every opportunity. 6 Let your
conversation be always full of grace, seasoned
with salt, so that you may know how to
answer everyone.