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

For CF3PH2 (phosphine, (trifluoromethyl)-)

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 aug-cc-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2=FULL -0.002250 -0.013234 -0.020624 -0.008341 -0.023533 -0.024227 -0.026364 -0.199243 -0.199691 -0.047481 -0.098451 -0.016564 -0.098055 -0.020257 -0.111250
MP3=FULL         -0.022349   -0.025143       -0.099588 -0.015323 -0.097075    
MP4=FULL   -0.012388     -0.022663       -0.200980     -0.015492 -0.098225 -0.019191 -0.112006
B2PLYP=FULL -0.000711 -0.003979 -0.006243 -0.002508 -0.007039 -0.007240 -0.007863 -0.057237 -0.057370 -0.014010 -0.028274 -0.004951 -0.028711 -0.006051 -0.032439
Quadratic configuration interaction QCISD(T)=FULL         -0.022527             -0.015403 -0.098043 -0.019080 -0.111827
Coupled Cluster CCSD=FULL         -0.022122         -0.045591 -0.099387 -0.015079 -0.096627 -0.018697 -0.110395
CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.022531           -0.100313 -0.015404 -0.098040 -0.019079 -0.111830
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 aug-cc-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ