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

For HO2CCHNH2CH2OH (Serine)

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
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2=FULL -0.001821 -0.012384 -0.012384 -0.008524 -0.026368 -0.027558   -0.131548 -0.132513 -0.059318 -0.120267 -0.016829 -0.102363 -0.020159
MP3=FULL         -0.025412   -0.027806              
MP4=FULL   -0.032573     -0.032475             -0.015613 -0.114955  
B2PLYP=FULL -0.000546 -0.003660 -0.003660 -0.002518 -0.007743 -0.008084 -0.008432 -0.037344 -0.037631 -0.017070 -0.034192 -0.004947 -0.029526 -0.005925
Coupled Cluster CCSD=FULL         -0.025155                  
CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.025389                  
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