and do not think to say within yourselves, We have Abraham as our father. For I say to you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones.

Then he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.

Then Simon answered and said, Pray to the Lord for me, that none of the things which you have spoken may come upon me.

Behold, I will make those of the synagogue of Satan, who say they are Jews and are not, but lie; indeed I will make them come and bow the knee before your feet, and to know that I have loved you.

That which was sown on stony places, this is he who hears the Word and immediately receives it with joy;

yet he has no root in himself, but endures only for a while. For when affliction or persecution arises because of the Word, immediately he stumbles.

So are the paths of all who forget the Mighty God; and the hope of the ungodly shall perish,

whose confidence shall be cut off, and whose trust as a spider's house.

The light of the wicked shall be extinguished, and the flame of his fire shall not shine.

How often is the lamp of the wicked put out! How often does their calamity come upon them, the sorrows God distributes in His anger!

But the path of the just is as the brightness of dawn, that keeps getting brighter until it is fully daytime.

The way of the wicked is as darkness; they do not know at what they stumble.

The light of the righteous rejoices, but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.

Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in deep darkness.

Therefore take heed how you hear. For whoever has, to him more will be given; and whoever does not have, even what he seems to have will be taken from him.

Let your loins be girded and your lamps burning;

Therefore, since a promise remains of entering His rest, let us fear so that none of you should show evidence of falling short.