Professing to be wise, they become foolish,

And even as they do not like to have God in their full true knowledge, God gives them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;

Jehovah looked down from Heaven upon the sons of men, to see if there were any who understood and sought God.

Have all the workers of iniquity not known, eating up My people as they eat bread? They have not called upon Jehovah.

God looked down from Heaven upon the children of mankind to see if any was circumspect, seeking God.

Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? They eat up my people as they eat bread; they have not called upon God.

Understand, you stupid ones among the people; and you fools, when will you be wise?

The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity; and those who scorn desire their scorning; and fools hate knowledge?

Because they hated knowledge and chose not the fear of Jehovah.

They did not desire my counsel; they despised all my reproof.

When its branches are dried up, they shall be broken off; the women come and set them on fire; for it is a people of no understanding. Therefore He who made them will not have mercy on them, and He who formed them will show them no favor.

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.

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you rejected knowledge, I also will reject you from being priest to Me. Since you have forgotten the Law of your God, I also will forget your sons.

Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand.

And in them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says: Hearing you will hear and shall not at all understand, and seeing you will see and by no means perceive;

When anyone hears the Word of the kingdom, and does not understand it, then the wicked one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is that which was sown by the wayside.

For we ourselves were also once foolish, disobedient, led astray, enslaved to various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful and hating one another.

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.

Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the Law of God, nor indeed can be.

Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him? And what profit do we have if we entreat Him?

Behold, their goodness is not in their hand! The counsel of the wicked is far from me.

For the people do not turn to Him who strikes them, nor do they seek Jehovah of Hosts.

Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, and lean on horses and trust in chariots, because they are many; and in horsemen, because they are so very strong; but they do not look to the Holy One of Israel, nor do they seek Jehovah!

Seek Jehovah while He may be found; call upon Him while He is near.

I am sought by those who asked not for Me; I am found by those who did not seek Me. I had said, Look to Me, Look to Me; to a nation that was not calling upon My name.

And the pride of Israel testifies to his face. And they do not return to Jehovah their God, nor seek Him for all this.