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Energy differences between frozen core and all electrons correlated.
MP2, MP3, MP4, B2PLYP, CCSD, and CCSD(T)

For H3PO (Phosphine oxide)

Energies in Hartree
Methods with standard basis sets
STO-3G 3-21G 3-21G* 6-31G 6-31G* 6-31G** 6-31+G** 6-311G* 6-311G** 6-31G(2df,p) TZVP cc-pVDZ cc-pVTZ cc-pVQZ aug-cc-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ aug-cc-pVQZ cc-pV(T+d)Z aug-cc-pV(T+d)Z
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2=FULL -0.002246 -0.007815 -0.014918 -0.004788 -0.014024 -0.015120 -0.016161 -0.142116 -0.142779 -0.029938 -0.047470 -0.010830 -0.058296 -0.083881 -0.013301 -0.064283 -0.086474 -0.118521 -0.124463
MP3=FULL         -0.013500   -0.015623       -0.047602 -0.010244 -0.057854         -0.118839 -0.124884
MP4=FULL   -0.007370     -0.013696       -0.143367     -0.010357 -0.058812   -0.012853 -0.064949   -0.120478 -0.126558
Coupled Cluster CCSD=FULL         -0.013366           -0.047506 -0.010089 -0.057709 -0.084456 -0.012532 -0.063817   -0.118651 -0.124683
CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.013670           -0.048165 -0.010346 -0.058743 -0.085823 -0.012839 -0.064877 -0.088409 -0.120252 -0.126321
STO-3G 3-21G 3-21G* 6-31G 6-31G* 6-31G** 6-31+G** 6-311G* 6-311G** 6-31G(2df,p) TZVP cc-pVDZ cc-pVTZ cc-pVQZ aug-cc-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ aug-cc-pVQZ cc-pV(T+d)Z aug-cc-pV(T+d)Z