[ 6:7] that God took it to heart that He had made man upon the earth, and He pondered it deeply.

And they put away the strange gods from the midst of them, and served the Lord only, and His soul was pained for the trouble of Israel.

How often did they provoke Him in the wilderness, [and] anger Him in a dry land!

But they disobeyed, and provoked His Holy Spirit; so He turned to be an enemy, He Himself contended against them.

And looking around at them with anger, being grieved at the hardness of their hearts, He said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." And he stretched it out, and his hand was restored as whole as the other.

And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.

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

That they should not be as their fathers, a perverse and provoking generation; a generation which set not its heart aright, and its spirit was not steadfast with God.

For these have trespassed through wine; they have erred through strong drink; the priest and the prophet are mad through strong drink, they are swallowed up by reason of wine, they have staggered through drunkenness; they have erred; this is [their] vision.

They asked counsel by [means of] signs, and they reported answer to them by their staves: they have gone astray in a spirit of harlotry, and gone grievously a-whoring from their God.

And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness more than the light, because their works were evil.

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

But because I tell the truth, you do not believe Me.

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;

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.

That [men] may know Your way on the earth, Your salvation among all nations.

Forty years was I grieved with this generation, and said, They do always err in their heart, and they have not known My ways.

He has not done so to any [other] nation; and He has not shown them His judgments.

For the princes of My people have not known Me, they are foolish and unwise children. They are wise to do evil, but [how] to do good they have not known.

For if by my lie the truth of God has abounded to His glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?