9 but you are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a purchased people; that you should declare the perfections of him who has called you from darkness into his marvelous light:

6 Are not five sparrows sold for two pence? Yet not one of them is forgotten by God:7 yes, the very hairs of your head are all numbered: fear not, therefore; you are much more valuable than sparrows.

3 Also, by the favor which is given to me, I charge every one of you not to think more highly of himself than he ought to think; but to think modestly, as God has distributed to every one a portion of his faith.