Rejoice, O young man, in your youth; and let your heart cheer in the days of your youth, and walk in the ways of your heart blameless, but not in the sight of your eyes: yet know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.

The heart is deep beyond all things, and it constitutes the man, and who can know him?

For from within, out of the heart of men, come forth evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,

All these evil things come from within and defile a man."

Take heed, brothers, lest there be in anyone of you a wicked heart of unbelief in departing from the living God;

but encourage yourselves every day, while it is called "Today," lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

But the just shall live by faith, and if he withdraws, My soul has no pleasure in him."

But each [one] is tempted by his own lusts, being drawn away and being seduced [by them].

Then lust, when it conceives, gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, brings forth death.

These are those who cause divisions, wordly, not having [the] Spirit.

And they shall enter in there, and shall remove all the abominations from it, and all its iniquities from it.

And I will speak to them in judgment concerning all their iniquity, [forasmuch] as they have forsaken Me, and sacrificed to strange gods, and worshipped the works of their own hands.

For of old you have broken your yoke, and plucked asunder your bands; and you have said, I will not serve You, but will go upon every high hill, and under every shady tree, there will I indulge in my fornication.

Therefore My eye shall not spare, neither will I have any mercy: I have recompensed their ways upon their heads.

and [do you pollute yourselves] with the firstfruits of your gifts, in the offerings wherewith you pollute yourselves in all your imaginations, until this day; and shall I answer you, O house of Israel? [As] I live, says the Lord, I will not answer you, neither shall this thing come upon your spirit.

And I will separate from among you the ungodly and the revolters; for I will lead them forth out of their place of sojourning, and they shall not enter into the land of Israel: and you shall know that I am the Lord, [even] the Lord.

So I have poured out My wrath upon her in the fury of My anger, to accomplish [it]. I have recompensed their ways on their own heads, says the Lord God.

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