The LORD says, "My people are stupid; they don't know me. They are like foolish children; they have no understanding. They are experts at doing what is evil, but failures at doing what is good."

Jesus knew what they were saying, so he asked them, "Why are you discussing about not having any bread? Don't you know or understand yet? Are your minds so dull?

You have eyes---can't you see? You have ears---can't you hear? Don't you remember

Jesus said to them, "How unbelieving you people are! How long must I stay with you? How long do I have to put up with you? Bring the boy to me!"

Last of all, Jesus appeared to the eleven disciples as they were eating. He scolded them, because they did not have faith and because they were too stubborn to believe those who had seen him alive.

Then Jesus said to them, "How foolish you are, how slow you are to believe everything the prophets said!

Jesus answered, "For a long time I have been with you all; yet you do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. Why, then, do you say, 'Show us the Father'?

Do you not know that we shall judge the angels? How much more, then, the things of this life!

Shame on you! Surely there is at least one wise person in your fellowship who can settle a dispute between fellow Christians.

Or perhaps you don't know that the man who joins his body to a prostitute becomes physically one with her? The scripture says quite plainly, "The two will become one body."

Don't you know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who lives in you and who was given to you by God? You do not belong to yourselves but to God;

"I am the high and holy God, who lives forever. I live in a high and holy place, but I also live with people who are humble and repentant, so that I can restore their confidence and hope.

Then Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba and worshiped the LORD, the Everlasting God.

God has always been your defense; his eternal arms are your support. He drove out your enemies as you advanced, and told you to destroy them all.

But you, LORD, are the true God, you are the living God and the eternal king. When you are angry, the world trembles; the nations cannot endure your anger.

Now, however, that truth has been brought out into the open through the writings of the prophets; and by the command of the eternal God it is made known to all nations, so that all may believe and obey.

To the eternal King, immortal and invisible, the only God---to him be honor and glory forever and ever! Amen.

Since this is true, how much more is accomplished by the blood of Christ! Through the eternal Spirit he offered himself as a perfect sacrifice to God. His blood will purify our consciences from useless rituals, so that we may serve the living God.

"Turn to me now and be saved, people all over the world! I am the only God there is.

Don't think that the LORD is too weak to save you or too deaf to hear your call for help!

The LORD's enemies will be destroyed; he will thunder against them from heaven. The LORD will judge the whole world; he will give power to his king, he will make his chosen king victorious."

For this is the commandment that the Lord has given us: 'I have made you a light for the Gentiles, so that all the world may be saved.' "

Do not think that I will bring my people to the point of birth and not let them be born." The LORD has spoken.

You will do everything you have promised; LORD, your love is eternal. Complete the work that you have begun.

Jesus answered them, "My Father is always working, and I too must work."

And so I am sure that God, who began this good work in you, will carry it on until it is finished on the Day of Christ Jesus.

"My thoughts," says the LORD, "are not like yours, and my ways are different from yours.

As high as the heavens are above the earth, so high are my ways and thoughts above yours.

Your knowledge of me is too deep; it is beyond my understanding.

Great and mighty is our Lord; his wisdom cannot be measured.

How great are God's riches! How deep are his wisdom and knowledge! Who can explain his decisions? Who can understand his ways?

As the scripture says, "Who knows the mind of the Lord? Who is able to give him advice?

As the scripture says, "Who knows the mind of the Lord? Who is able to give him advice?" We, however, have the mind of Christ.