Brothers and sisters, Jesus Christ did not purchase a part of you. He bought all of you—body, soul, and spirit—and he must have you, the whole person. Oh, if you are to be partly saved by him, and partly by yourselves, then live to yourselves! But if God has wholly set you apart to be vessels of mercy fitted for his use, do not rob the Lord. Treat not as common cups those things which are as the bowls of the altar!1
Charles H. Spurgeon
2 à l'Eglise de Dieu qui est à Corinthe, à ceux qui ont été sanctifiés en Jésus-Christ, saints par vocation, et à tous ceux qui invoquent en quelque lieu que ce soit le nom de notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ, leur Seigneur et le nôtre: