It is foolish to enjoy doing wrong. Intelligent people take pleasure in wisdom.

The LORD says, "The people I love are doing evil things. What right do they have to be in my Temple? Do they think they can prevent disaster by making promises and by offering animal sacrifices? Will they then rejoice?

The Babylonians catch people with hooks, as though they were fish. They drag them off in nets and shout for joy over their catch!

At that time you, my people, will no longer need to be ashamed that you rebelled against me. I will remove everyone who is proud and arrogant, and you will never again rebel against me on my sacred hill.

love is not happy with evil, but is happy with the truth.

The LORD says, "People deceive the king and his officers by their evil plots.

So Judas went off and spoke with the chief priests and the officers of the Temple guard about how he could betray Jesus to them.

They were pleased and offered to pay him money.

They know that God's law says that people who live in this way deserve death. Yet, not only do they continue to do these very things, but they even approve of others who do them.