Have you found honey? Eat only as much as is enough for you, lest you be filled to excess and vomit it.

Take heed that you do not do your deeds of mercy before men, to be seen by them. Otherwise you have no reward from your Father in Heaven.

But when you do a deed of mercy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand does,

And when you pray, you shall not be like the hypocrites. For they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Truly I say to you, they have their reward.

And when you pray, do not babble vain repetitions as the heathen do. For they think that they will be heard for their many words.

Then the disciples of John came to 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 when they eat bread.

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

and he does not honor his father or mother. Thus you have voided the commandment of God by your tradition.

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

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

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you pay tithe of mint and anise and cumin, and have disregarded the weightier matters of the law: judgment and mercy and faith. It is necessary to do these, and not to leave the others undone.

Blind guides, who strain out a gnat and 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 give tithes of all that I possess.

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

concerning zeal, persecuting the church; concerning the righteousness which is in the Law, blameless.

forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be partaken with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

And further, by these, my son, be admonished: The making of many books has no end, and much study is a weariness to the flesh.

So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate.

For an empty-headed man will be wise, when a wild ass's colt is born a man.

And to man He said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, and to depart from evil is understanding.

Do not overwork to be rich; cease from your own understanding.

For I do not desire, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, that you not be wise within yourselves, that hardness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles comes in.

For I say, through the grace given to me, to everyone who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to understand with a sound mind, as God has dealt 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 foolish that he may become wise.

and again, The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.

Let no one condemn you, taking delight in false humility and worship of angels, intruding into those things which he has not seen, being puffed up without cause by his fleshly mind,

These things indeed have an appearance of wisdom in self-devised worship, false humility, and severity in abuse of the body, but are of no value against gratification of the flesh.

Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show his works out of good conduct, in the meekness of wisdom.

This wisdom does not come down from above, but is earthly, sensual, demonic.

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, fair, 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 cried out, weeping and wailing, and saying, Alas, alas, that great city, in which all who had ships on the sea became rich by her wealth! For in one hour she is made desolate.