For though you wash yourself with lye, and use much soap, [Yet] your iniquity is marked before Me," says the Lord GOD.

"In vain I have chastened your children; They received no correction. Your sword has devoured your prophets Like a destroying lion.

O LORD, [are] not Your eyes on the truth? You have stricken them, But they have not grieved; You have consumed them, But they have refused to receive correction. They have made their faces harder than rock; They have refused to return.

The bellows blow fiercely, The lead is consumed by the fire; The smelter refines in vain, For the wicked are not drawn off.

[People] will call them rejected silver, Because the LORD has rejected them."

" The heart [is] deceitful above all [things,] And desperately wicked; Who can know it?

Though you grind a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with crushed grain, [Yet] his foolishness will not depart from him.

Why should you be stricken again? You will revolt more and more. The whole head is sick, And the whole heart faints.

"And again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God."

But Jesus looked at [them] and said to them, "With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible."

So Jesus said to them, "Assuredly I say to you, that in the regeneration, when the Son of Man sits on the throne of His glory, you who have followed Me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

Everyone will deceive his neighbor, And will not speak the truth; They have taught their tongue to speak lies; They weary themselves to commit iniquity.