No, rather, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed say to him who formed it, Why have you made me like this?

For how do you know, O wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, O husband, whether you will save your wife?

But are you willing to understand, O vain man, that faith apart from works is dead?

Moreover, as for me, far be it from me to sin against Jehovah to cease to pray for you; for I have taught you the good and the right way.

You came down also on Mount Sinai, and spoke with them from the heavens, and gave them just ordinances and true laws, good statutes and commandments.

But it is good for me to draw near to God; I have put my trust in the Lord Jehovah, to declare all Your works.

It is good that one should hope for the salvation of Jehovah, even in silence.

But one thing is needed, and Mary has chosen that good part, which will not be taken away from her.

If, then, I do what I do not wish to do, I agree with the Law that it is good.

Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself, and our God and Father, who has loved us and given us everlasting comfort and good hope by grace,

And now, Israel, what is Jehovah your God asking of you, but to fear Jehovah your God, to walk in all His ways and to love Him, to serve Jehovah your God with all your heart and with all your soul,

and to keep the commandments of Jehovah and His statutes which I am commanding you today for your good.

For I have known him, in order that he may command his children and his house after him, that they may keep the way of Jehovah, to do righteousness and justice, that Jehovah may bring upon Abraham what He has spoken to him.

And Samuel said: Has Jehovah as great a delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in to obey the voice of Jehovah? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to heed than the fat of rams.

With Jehovah, to do righteousness and justice is to be chosen over sacrifice.

Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep His commandments; for this is for every man.

Wash yourselves, purify yourselves. Put away the evil of your doings from My eyes; stop doing evil.

Come now and let us reason together, says Jehovah: Though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

Is not this the fast that I have chosen: To loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke?

Then shall your light break forth as the dawn, and your health shall spring forth speedily; and your righteousness shall go before you; the glory of Jehovah shall bring up the rear.

and if you extend your soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall your light shine in the darkness, and your darkness shall be as the noonday.

Thus says Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel, Make your ways and your doings good, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.

For if you thoroughly make your ways and your doings good; if you work to execute justice between a man and his neighbor;

For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

Therefore return to your God; keep kindness and justice, and wait for your God continually.

But let justice flow down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.

Seek Jehovah, all the meek of the earth who have done His justice; seek righteousness; seek meekness. It may be that you shall be hidden in the day of the anger of Jehovah.

Therefore bring forth fruits worthy of repentance,

And now already the ax is laid to the root of the trees. Therefore any tree which does not bear good fruit is cut off and thrown into the fire.

And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength. This is the first commandment.

So the scribe said to Him, Well said, Teacher. You have spoken the truth, for there is one God, and there is no other besides Him.

And when Jesus saw that he answered wisely, He said to him, You are not far from the kingdom of God. And after that no one dared question Him.

But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and all kinds of herbs, and pass by justice and the love of God. These you ought to have done, without neglecting those.

For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men,

teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live with sound mind, righteously, and godly in the present age,

But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, supply with your faith virtue, with virtue knowledge,

with godliness brotherly affection, and with brotherly affection love.

All day long he is gracious and lends, and his seed is blessed.

Unto the upright there arises light in the darkness; he is gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous.

He has dispersed abroad, he has given to the poor; his righteousness stands forever; his horn shall be exalted with honor.

The righteous perishes, and no one lays it to heart, and merciful men are taken away; no one considers that the righteous is taken away from the face of evil.

He shall enter into peace; they shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his uprightness.

Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.

Then his master, after he had called him, said to him, You wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt because you begged me.

And his master was angry, and delivered him to the torturers until he should pay every bit that was due to him.

Therefore be merciful, just as your Father also is merciful.

And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, just as God in Christ forgave you.

Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, put on a heart of compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering;

Finally, all of you be of one mind, sympathetic; loving the brothers, be tenderhearted, be kind;

After he begot Methuselah, Enoch walked with God three hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.

and that I also have walked contrary to them and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if their uncircumcised hearts are humbled, and they accept their guilt;

Nevertheless some from Asher, Manasseh, and Zebulun humbled themselves and came to Jerusalem.

Then Hezekiah humbled himself for the haughtiness of his heart, he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of Jehovah did not come upon them in the days of Hezekiah.

And when he was in distress, he entreated Jehovah his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,

and prayed to Him; and He was entreated of him, heard his supplication, and brought him back to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh recognized that Jehovah was God.

Also his prayer and his entreaty, and all his sin and unfaithfulness, and the places where he built high places and set up groves and graven images, before he was humbled, behold, they are written among the sayings of the seers.

And he did not humble himself before Jehovah, as his father Manasseh had humbled himself, but Amon exceeded his guilt.

Because your heart has been tender, and you humbled yourself before God when you heard His Words against this place and against its inhabitants, and you humbled yourself before Me, and you tore your clothes and wept before Me, I also have heard you, says Jehovah.

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.

For all those My hand has made, and all those exist, says Jehovah. But to this one will I have regard: To the lowly and contrite of spirit, and the one who trembles at My Word.

so that you may remember and be ashamed. And you will never open your mouth anymore because of your shame, when I provide atonement for you for all that you have done, declares the Lord Jehovah.

Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and exalt and honor the King of Heaven, for all His works are truth, and His ways are justice. And He is able to humble those who walk in pride.

Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of Heaven.

And the tax collector, standing afar off, would not so much as raise his eyes to Heaven, but beat his breast, saying, God, be merciful to me a sinner!

Then they also brought infants to Him that He might touch them; but when the disciples saw it, they rebuked them.

Truly, I say to you, Whoever does not receive the kingdom of God as a little child will by no means enter it.

Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is for them to be saved.

For they, being ignorant of God's righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted to the righteousness of God.

But He gives more grace. Therefore He says: God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.

Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He will exalt you.

Likewise you that are younger, be subject to your elders. Yes, all of you be subject to one another, and be clothed with humility, for God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.

Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time,