When he shall see wise men dying, the fool and the senseless one shall perish together; and they shall leave their wealth to strangers.

A foolish man will not know, and a senseless man will not understand this.

Understand now, you simple among the people; and you fools, at length be wise.

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.

Then I said, It may be they are poor; for they are weak, for they know not the way of the Lord, or the judgment of God.

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For the shepherds have become foolish, and have not sought the Lord; therefore the whole pasture has failed, and [the sheep] have been scattered.

But You, O Lord, know me; You have tested my heart before You; purify them for the day of their slaughter.

And I will pour out My wrath upon you, I will blow upon you with the fire of My wrath, and I will deliver you into the hands of barbarians skilled in working destruction.

But these speak blasphemously of those things which they do not know; but what they do know naturally, like unreasoning animals, they are destroyed by these things.

promising to them freedom, while they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by whom anyone has been defeated, by this [one] also he has been enslaved.

through which have been given to us precious and exceedingly great promises, so that through these we may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

The ungodly shall be driven away in his wickedness, but he who is secure in his own holiness is just.

Then Jesus said to them again, "I am going away, and you will seek Me, and will die in your sin. Where I go you cannot come."

For he who sows to his flesh, from his own flesh will reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap everlasting life.