The time will come when people will not listen to sound doctrine, but will follow their own desires and will collect for themselves more and more teachers who will tell them what they are itching to hear.

They will turn away from listening to the truth and give their attention to legends.

But to this very day he has not let you understand what you have experienced.

Conceited people can never become wise, but intelligent people learn easily.

They tell the prophets to keep quiet. They say, "Don't talk to us about what's right. Tell us what we want to hear. Let us keep our illusions.

Get out of our way and stop blocking our path. We don't want to hear about your holy God of Israel."

"Now speak to them and tell them what I, the Sovereign LORD, am saying to them: Each of you Israelites who have given your heart to idols and let them lead you into sin and who then come to consult a prophet, will get an answer from me---the answer that your many idols deserve!

"Now then, tell the Israelites what I, the Sovereign LORD, am saying: Turn back and leave your disgusting idols.

I will oppose you. I will make an example of you. I will remove you from the community of my people, so that all of you will know that I am the LORD.

Both prophets and anyone who consults them will get the same punishment.

Jesus answered, "The knowledge about the secrets of the Kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them.

Those who do evil things hate the light and will not come to the light, because they do not want their evil deeds to be shown up.

But those who do what is true come to the light in order that the light may show that what they did was in obedience to God.

You like to receive praise from one another, but you do not try to win praise from the one who alone is God; how, then, can you believe me?

Even then, many Jewish authorities believed in Jesus; but because of the Pharisees they did not talk about it openly, so as not to be expelled from the synagogue.

They loved human approval rather than the approval of God.

As a matter of fact, my friends, I could not talk to you as I talk to people who have the Spirit; I had to talk to you as though you belonged to this world, as children in the Christian faith.

because you still live as the people of this world live. When there is jealousy among you and you quarrel with one another, doesn't this prove that you belong to this world, living by its standards?

Then we shall no longer be children, carried by the waves and blown about by every shifting wind of the teaching of deceitful people, who lead others into error by the tricks they invent.

There is much we have to say about this matter, but it is hard to explain to you, because you are so slow to understand.

who wants everyone to be saved and to come to know the truth.

who is gentle as you correct your opponents, for it may be that God will give them the opportunity to repent and come to know the truth.