The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; and [there is] good understanding to all that practice it: and godliness toward God is the beginning of discernment; but the ungodly will nullify wisdom and instruction.

For it shall be that when you call upon me, I will not listen to you: wicked men shall seek me, but shall not find me.

For they hated wisdom, and did not choose the word of the Lord:

and you shall say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart avoided reproofs!

I heard not the voice of him that instructed me, and taught me, neither did I incline my ear.

But they that sin against me act wickedly against their own souls, and they that hate me love death.

He that loves instruction loves sense, but he that hates reproofs is a fool.

For everyone that does evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works be exposed.

And just as they did not approve to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do the things which are not fitting;

You, therefore, who teach another, do you not teach yourself? You who preach that a man should not steal, do you steal?

You who boast in the law, do you dishonor God through the transgression of the law?

and in all deception of unrighteousness among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

so that they all might be damned who did not believe the truth, but delighted in unrighteousness.

For there will be a time when they will not put up with sound doctrine, but according to their own lusts, they will heap up for themselves teachers, tickling their ears,

and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to myths.

But they turned, and revolted from You, and cast Your law behind their backs; and they killed Your prophets, who testified against them to turn them back to You, and they worked great provocations.

who justify the ungodly for rewards, and take away the righteousness of the righteous.

The wise men are ashamed, and alarmed, and taken; because they have rejected the word of the Lord; what wisdom is there in them?

And they said, We will quit ourselves like men, for we will pursue our perverse ways, and we will perform each the lusts of his evil heart.

And it came to pass when Jehudi had read three or four leaves, he cut them off with a penknife, and cast [them] into the fire that was on the hearth, until the whole scroll was consumed in the fire that was on the hearth.

But Elnathan and Gemariah suggested to the king that he should burn the scroll.

Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, after the king had burnt the scroll, [and] all the words which Baruch had written by the mouth of Jeremiah, saying,

And you shall say, Thus says the Lord: You have burned this scroll, saying, Why have you written in here, saying, The king of Babylon shall certainly come in, and destroy this land, and man and beast shall fail from off it?

And I will visit him, and his family, and his servants; and I will bring upon him, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and upon the land of Judah, all the evils which I spoke of to them; and they did not heed.