And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the fifth month, on the fifth [day] of the month, I was sitting in the house, and the elders of Judah were sitting before me. And the hand of the Lord came upon me.

And there came to me men of the people of Israel, of the elders, and sat before me.

And it came to pass in the seventh year, on the fifteenth day of the month, there came men of the elders of the house of Israel to inquire of the Lord, and they sat before me.

Son of man, speak to the elders of the house of Israel, and you shall say to them, Thus says the Lord: Have you come to inquire of Me? [As] I live, I will not be inquired of by you, says the Lord.

and you shall say to them, Thus says the Lord: From the day that I chose the house of Israel, and became known to the seed of the house of Jacob, and was known to them in the land of Egypt, and helped them with My hand, saying, I am the Lord your God;

And I said to them, Let everyone cast away the abominations of his eyes, and defile not yourselves with the devices of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.

But I acted [so] that My name should not be at all profaned in the sight of the Gentiles, in the midst of whom they are, among whom I was made known to them in their sight, to bring them out of the land of Egypt.

And I gave them My commandments, and made known to them My ordinances, all which [if] a man shall do, he shall even live in them.

And I said to the house of Israel in the wilderness, Walk in My commandments: but they walked not [in them], and they rejected My ordinances, which [if] a man shall do, he shall even live in them; and they grievously profaned My Sabbaths. And I said that I would pour out My wrath upon them in the wilderness, to consume them.

But I lifted up My hand against them in the wilderness once for all, that I would not bring them into the land which I gave them, a land flowing with milk and honey, it is sweeter than all lands;

Yet My eyes spared them, so as [not] to destroy them utterly, and I did not make an end of them in the wilderness.

I [am] the Lord your God; walk in My commandments, and keep My ordinances, and do them;

But they provoked Me, and their children walked not in My commandments, and they took no heed to My ordinances to do them, which [if] a man shall do, he shall even live in them, and they profaned My Sabbaths. Then I said that I would pour out My wrath upon them in the wilderness, to accomplish My anger upon them.

I lifted up My hand against them in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the Gentiles, [and] disperse them in the countries;

So I gave them commandments [that were] not good, and ordinances in which they should not live.

Therefore, son of man, speak to the house of Israel, and you shall say to them, Thus says the Lord: In this too have your fathers provoked Me in their trespasses in which they transgressed against Me.

And I said to them, What is Bamah, that you go in there? And they called its name Bamah, until this day.

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 the [woman] had a sister called Mary, who also sat at Jesus' feet and was listening to His word.

"Therefore immediately I sent to you, and you have done well to come. Now then we are all present before God, to hear all the things having been commanded you by God."

Thus says the Lord, Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths of the Lord; and see what is the good way and walk in it, and you shall find purification for your souls. But they said, We will not walk [in them].

I have set watchmen over you, [saying], Hear the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not hear.

And it came to pass, when Jeremiah ceased speaking to the people all the words of the Lord, [for] which the Lord had sent him to them, [even] all these words,

But Baruch the son of Neriah sets you against us, that you may deliver us into the hands of the Chaldeans, to kill us, and that we should be carried away captive to Babylon.

And Johanan, and all the leaders of the army, took all the remnant of Judah, who had returned to dwell in the land;

And they came into Egypt, for they hearkened not to the voice of the Lord, and they entered into Tahpanhes.

[As for] the word which you have spoken to us in the name of the Lord, we will not listen to you.

"Therefore, everyone who hears these words of Mine and does them, I will compare him to a wise man who built his house upon the rock:

And everyone who hears these words of Mine and does not do them, will be compared to a foolish man who built his house on the sand:

He is like a man building a house, who dug and went deep and laid a foundation on the rock. And when a flood occurred, the stream burst upon that house, and could not shake it, for it was founded on the rock.

But he who hears and does not do is like a man building a house on the ground without a foundation, [against] which the stream burst upon; and immediately it fell. And the breaking of that house was great."

But He answered and said to them, "My mother and My brothers are these who hear the word of God and do it."

But He said, "More than that, blessed are those who hear the word of God and keep it!"

But become doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.

for he observed himself and has gone away, and immediately forgot what sort of [man] he was.

And the Lord heard the voice of your words as you spoke to me; and the Lord said to me, I have heard the voice of the words of this people, even all things that they have said to you. [They have] well [said] all that they have spoken.

O that there were such a heart in them, that they should fear Me, and keep My commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their sons forever!

Yet they loved Him [only] with their mouth, and lied to Him with their tongue.

For their heart [was] not right with Him, neither were they steadfast in His covenant.

And the Lord has said, This people draw near to Me with their mouth, and they honor Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me; and in vain do they worship Me, teaching the commandments and doctrines of men.

What does it profit, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Is that [kind of] faith able to save him?

and one of you says to them, "Go in peace, be warmed and filled," but you do not give them the necessary things of the body, what [is] the benefit?

But whoever has this world's goods, and sees his brother having need, and shuts off his compassion towards him, how does the love of God abide in him?

My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth.

Therefore the oracle of God shall be to them affliction on affliction, hope on hope, yet a little, [and] yet a little, that they may go and fall backward; and they shall be crushed and shall be in danger, and shall be taken.

And if this people, or the priest, or the prophet, should ask, What is the burden of the Lord? Then you shall say to them, You are the burden, and I will dash you down, says the Lord.

Thus shall you say everyone to his neighbor, and everyone to his brother, What has the Lord answered? And, what has the Lord said?

But what,[you say], has the Lord our God spoken?

Now the Pharisees, who were lovers of money, were hearing all these things, and they were mocking Him.

"No one is able to serve two masters; for either he will hate the one, and he will love the other, or else he will be devoted to the one, and he will despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.

But the [seed] sown in the thorns is he who hears the word, and the anxiety of this age, and the deceitfulness of riches chokes out the word, and it becomes fruitless.

But when the young man heard the word, he went away grieved, for he had many possessions.

And He said to them, "Take heed and beware of covetousness, for one's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions."

And he reasoned within himself, saying, 'What shall I do, because I have nowhere to gather my crops?'

And I will say to my soul, "Soul, you have many goods laid away for many years; relax; eat, drink, and be merry."'

So [is] he who accumulates treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God."

For this you know, that no fornicator, or unclean person, nor covetous person, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.

But those desiring to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and many senseless and harmful lusts which sink men in destruction and perdition.

For the love of money is a root of all evils, of which some [by] aspiring have strayed away from the faith in their greediness, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.