Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness {which} they have prescribed; {that write...: or, to the writers that write grievousness}

He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform {their} enterprise. {their enterprise: or, any thing}

Jesus said unto them, If ye were blind, ye should have no sin: but now ye say, We see; therefore your sin remaineth.

And honour not his father or his mother, {he shall be free}. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition.

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.

He sheweth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto Israel. {his word: Heb. his words}

He removeth away the speech of the trusty, and taketh away the understanding of the aged. {speech...: Heb. lip of the faithful}

Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God,

For vain man would be wise, though man be born {like} a wild ass's colt. {vain: Heb. empty}

I have written to him the great things of my law, {but} they were counted as a strange thing.

Children's children {are} the crown of old men; and the glory of children {are} their fathers.

{It is} time for {thee}, LORD, to work: {for} they have made void thy law.

Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.

Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things?

And when he had called all the people {unto him}, he said unto them, Hearken unto me every one {of you}, and understand:

I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies {are} my meditation.

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.

And {one} told David, saying, Ahithophel {is} among the conspirators with Absalom. And David said, O LORD, I pray thee, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.

I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts.

But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great {is} that darkness!

And honour not his father or his mother, {he shall be free}. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition.

Take heed therefore that the light which is in thee be not darkness.

We {are} fools for Christ's sake, but ye {are} wise in Christ; we {are} weak, but ye {are} strong; ye {are} honourable, but we {are} despised.

And all the people gathered themselves together as one man into the street that {was} before the water gate; and they spake unto Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which the LORD had commanded to Israel.

But the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel of God against themselves, being not baptized of him. {rejected: or, frustrated} {against...: or, within themselves}

Desiring to be teachers of the law; understanding neither what they say, nor whereof they affirm.

And when he had gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people together, he demanded of them where Christ should be born.

How say ye, We {are} mighty and strong men for the war?

We then, {as} workers together {with him}, beseech {you} also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.

And when they brought out the money that was brought into the house of the LORD, Hilkiah the priest found a book of the law of the LORD {given} by Moses. {by: Heb. by the hand of}

Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God?

Also {they were} over the bearers of burdens, and {were} overseers of all that wrought the work in any manner of service: and of the Levites {there were} scribes, and officers, and porters.

And the families of the scribes which dwelt at Jabez; the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, {and} Suchathites. These {are} the Kenites that came of Hemath, the father of the house of Rechab.

The priests said not, Where {is} the LORD? and they that handle the law knew me not: the pastors also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after {things that} do not profit.

This Ezra went up from Babylon; and he {was} a ready scribe in the law of Moses, which the LORD God of Israel had given: and the king granted him all his request, according to the hand of the LORD his God upon him.

I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness {come} by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.