O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!

How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had shut them up?

Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways!

The haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves unto him: but their time should have endured for ever.

O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea:

Howbeit I sent unto you all my servants the prophets, rising early and sending them, saying, Oh, do not this abominable thing that I hate.

And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they shew much love, but their heart goeth after their covetousness.

And, lo, thou art unto them as a very lovely song of one that hath a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument: for they hear thy words, but they do them not.

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!

Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes.

Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God.

We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.

See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven:

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

Blessed are they that keep judgment, and he that doeth righteousness at all times.

ALEPH. Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the LORD.

They also do no iniquity: they walk in his ways.

O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes!

But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.

Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.

Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.

I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.

And when he had opened the second seal, I heard the second beast say, Come and see.

And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.

Behold, I come quickly: blessed is he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this book.

Then Naomi her mother in law said unto her, My daughter, shall I not seek rest for thee, that it may be well with thee?

Moreover by them is thy servant warned: and in keeping of them there is great reward.

Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.

That saith, I will build me a wide house and large chambers, and cutteth him out windows; and it is cieled with cedar, and painted with vermilion.

Shalt thou reign, because thou closest thyself in cedar? did not thy father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice, and then it was well with him?

That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.

But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.