Having found honey, eat [only] what is enough, lest haply you be filled, and vomit it up.

"Take care not to be doing your charitable giving before men, so as to be seen by them. Otherwise, you have not a reward from your Father in heaven.

But when you do charitable giving, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing,

"And whenever you pray, you shall not be like the hypocrites, because they love to pray standing in the synagogues, and on the streetcorners, so that they may be seen by men. Assuredly I say to you, that they receive their reward in full.

But when you pray, do not babble like the heathen, for they think that they will be heard for their many words.

Then the disciples of John approached Him, saying, "Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but Your disciples do not fast?"

"Why do Your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands whenever they eat bread."

For God commanded, saying, 'Honor your father and your mother'; and, 'He who curses father or mother, with death let him die.'

then by no means should he honor his father or mother.' Thus you have nullified the commandment of God on account of your tradition.

'These people draw near to Me with their mouth, and they honor Me with their lips, but their heart is far away from Me.

But all their works they do in order to be seen by men. They make their phylacteries broad and they enlarge the borders of their garments.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you pay tithes of mint and dill and cummin, and have neglected the more important [things] of the law: justice and mercy and faith. These things you should have done, and not have neglected the others.

Blind guides, you who strain out a gnat, but swallow a camel!

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you build the tombs of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the righteous,

I fast twice a week, I tithe [on] all things, as many as I acquire.'

For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.

with respect to zeal, persecuting the church; with respect to righteousness which is in the law, blameless.

forbidding to marry, [commanding] to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who are believers and have come to know the truth.

And moreover, my son, guard yourself by means of them; of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.

[ 3:7] And the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes to look upon and beautiful to contemplate, and having taken of its fruit she ate, and she gave to her husband also with her, and they ate.

But man vainly buoys himself up with words, and a mortal born of woman is like a donkey in the desert.

And He said to man, Behold, godliness is wisdom: and to abstain from evil is understanding.

If you are poor, measure not yourself with a rich man, but refrain yourself in your wisdom.

For I do not desire you to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery, lest you be wise in your own opinion, that blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.

For I say, through the grace given to me, to everyone who is among you, not to think of himself too highly, beyond what you should think, but to think soberly, as God has imparted to each one a measure of faith.

Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you seems to be wise in this age, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.

and again, "The LORD knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are useless."

Let no one rule against you, desiring [to do so] in [false] humility and in worship of the angels, intruding into those things which he has not seen, in vain being puffed up by his carnal mind,

These things indeed have a reputation of wisdom in self-imposed religion, false humility, and severity [on the] body, but [are] not of any value against the indulgence of the flesh.

Is there anyone wise and understanding among you? Let him show by his good conduct [that] his works [are] in meekness of wisdom.

This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, sensual, demonic.

But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy.

Behold, your house is left to you desolate.

"And they threw dust on their heads and were crying out, weeping and sorrowing, and saying, 'Alas, alas, that great city, by which all who had ships on the sea became rich by her wealth! Because in one hour she was laid waste.'