God's wisdom, however, is shown to be true by all who accept it."

Adonibezek said, "Seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off have picked up scraps under my table. God has now done to me what I did to them." He was taken to Jerusalem, where he died.

I have sinned against you---only against you--- and done what you consider evil. So you are right in judging me; you are justified in condemning me.

Certainly not! God must be true, even though all human beings are liars. As the scripture says, "You must be shown to be right when you speak; you must win your case when you are being tried."

By no means! If God is not just, how can he judge the world?

They have not known the way in which God puts people right with himself, and instead, they have tried to set up their own way; and so they did not submit themselves to God's way of putting people right.

and singing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb: "Lord God Almighty, how great and wonderful are your deeds! King of the nations, how right and true are your ways!

I heard the angel in charge of the waters say, "The judgments you have made are just, O Holy One, you who are and who were!

Some tax collectors came to be baptized, and they asked him, "Teacher, what are we to do?"

People came to him from Jerusalem, from the whole province of Judea, and from all over the country near the Jordan River.

They confessed their sins, and he baptized them in the Jordan.

Which one of the two did what his father wanted?" "The older one," they answered. So Jesus said to them, "I tell you: the tax collectors and the prostitutes are going into the Kingdom of God ahead of you.

For John the Baptist came to you showing you the right path to take, and you would not believe him; but the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him. Even when you saw this, you did not later change your minds and believe him.