For the wrath of God is revealed from Heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,

For they themselves declare concerning us what manner of entry we had to you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God,

And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us an understanding, that we may know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.

He feeds on ashes; a deceived heart has turned him aside, so that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is this not a lie in my right hand?

Every man is stupid in his knowledge; every refiner is dried up by the graven image; for his molten image is a lie, and no breath is in them.

They are vanity, the work of delusion; in the time of their judgment they shall perish.

This is your lot, the portion I have measured to you, says Jehovah, because you have forgotten Me and trusted in falsehood.

O Jehovah, my strength and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the nations shall come to You from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.

Thus says Jehovah: For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn back from punishing it; for they despised the Law of Jehovah, and they have not kept His statutes. And their lies after which their fathers walked led them astray.

And He said to them, Draw some out now, and take it to the master of the feast. And they brought it.

What does an image profit, that its maker should carve it; a molten image, and a teacher of falsehood, that the maker should trust in his work, to make mute idols?

and change the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man, and birds and four-footed animals and creeping things.

No one is able to serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will hold to the one and despise the other. It is not possible to serve God and mammon.

He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me.

traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,

Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

For all that is in the world; the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life; is not of the Father but is of the world.

of whom are the fathers and from whom, according to the flesh, is Christ, being God over all, blessed forever. Amen.

And blessed is His glorious name forever; let all the earth be filled with His glory! Amen and Amen.

i1 [A Psalm of David.] i0 par I will extol You, my God, O King; and I will bless Your name forever and ever.

Every day I will bless You, and I will praise Your name forever and ever.

The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is blessed forever, knows that I am not lying.

to Him be glory in the church in Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.

according to the glorious gospel of the blessed God which was committed to my trust.

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