O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee; how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen {doth gather} her brood under {her} wings, and ye would not!

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

Master, which {is} the great commandment in the law?

How do ye say, We {are} wise, and the law of the LORD {is} with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he {it}; the pen of the scribes {is} in vain. {in vain made...: or, the false pen of the scribes worketh for falsehood}

But to Israel he saith, All day long I have stretched forth my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people.

In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:

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

For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.

But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:

He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.

Because they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned the counsel of the most High:

Master, which {is} the great commandment in the law?

And they which were sent were of the Pharisees.

But, lo, he speaketh boldly, and they say nothing unto him. Do the rulers know indeed that this is the very Christ?

Knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned of himself.

For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.

Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, {so} their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel. {fire: Heb. tongue of fire}

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

And the Pharisees came to him, and asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away {his} wife? tempting him.

And it came to pass on a certain day, as he was teaching, that there were Pharisees and doctors of the law sitting by, which were come out of every town of Galilee, and Judaea, and Jerusalem: and the power of the Lord was {present} to heal them.

Bring Zenas the lawyer and Apollos on their journey diligently, that nothing be wanting unto them.

And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?