For My people are foolish; they have not known Me; they are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

But Jesus, knowing, said to them, Why do you reason because you have no bread? Do you not yet perceive nor understand? Is your heart still hardened?

Having eyes, do you not see? And having ears, do you not hear? And do you not remember?

He answered him and said, O unbelieving generation. How long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you? Bring him to Me.

Later He appeared to the eleven as they sat at the table; and He rebuked their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they did not believe those who had seen Him after He had been raised.

Then He said to them, O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken.

Jesus said to him, Have I been with you so long, and yet you have not known Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; so how do you say, Show us the Father?

Do you not know that we shall judge angels? To say nothing of things that pertain to this life?

I say this to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise person among you, not even one, who will be able to judge between his brethren?

Or do you not know that he who is joined to a harlot is one body? For the two, He says, shall become one flesh.

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?

For thus says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: I dwell in the high and consecrated place, even with the contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.

And Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beer-sheba, and there he called upon the name of Jehovah, the Eternal God.

The God of old is your refuge, and underneath are the eternal arms. He will thrust out the enemy before you, and say, Destroy!

But Jehovah is the true God, He is the living God, and the eternal King. At His wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to endure His indignation.

but now has been made manifest, and by the prophetic Scriptures has been made known to all nations, according to the commandment of the eternal God, for obedience to the faith;

Now to the King eternal, incorruptible, invisible, to God who alone is wise, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.

how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God.

Turn to Me, and be saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am the Mighty God, and there is no other.

Behold, Jehovah's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; nor is His ear heavy, that it cannot hear.

The adversaries of Jehovah are broken in pieces; from the heavens He thunders against them. Jehovah judges the ends of the earth. He gives strength to His king, and exalts the horn of His anointed.

For thus the Lord has commanded us: I have set you as a light of the Gentiles, that you should be for salvation to the ends of the earth.

Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth, says Jehovah? Shall I beget, and then restrain the womb? says your God.

Jehovah will perfect that which concerns me; Your mercy, O Jehovah, is eternal; do not forsake the works of Your hands.

But Jesus answered them, My Father works until now, and I work.

being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it unto the day of Jesus Christ;

For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways, says Jehovah.

For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts.

Such knowledge is incomprehensible to me; it is high, I am not able to reach it.

Great is our Lord, and of great power; His understanding is infinite.

Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and His ways past finding out!

For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has become His counselor?

For who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct Him? But we have the mind of Christ.