Lest
there should be
among you man,
or woman,
or family,
or tribe,
whose heart
turneth away
this day
from the LORD our God,
to go
and serve the gods
of these nations;
lest
there should be
among you
a root
that beareth
gall
and wormwood;
And he
did evil,
because
he prepared not
his heart
to seek the LORD.
Who can bring
a clean thing
out of an unclean?
not one.
Is not thy wickedness great?
and thine iniquities infinite?
For thy name's sake,
O LORD,
pardon mine iniquity;
for it is great.
Forty years long
was I
grieved
with this generation,
and said,
It is
a people that
do err
in their heart,
and
they have not known
my ways:
Keep thy heart
with all diligence;
for out of it are the issues
of life.
He that
deviseth to do
evil shall be called
a mischievous person.
The thought
of foolishness
is sin:
and the scorner
is an abomination
to men.
Suffer not thy
mouth
to cause thy flesh
to sin;
neither say
thou
before the angel,
that it
was an error:
wherefore should
God be angry
at thy voice,
and destroy
the work
of thine hands?
From the sole
of the foot
even unto the head
there is no soundness in it;
but wounds,
and bruises,
and putrifying sores:
they have not been closed,
neither bound
up,
neither
mollified
with ointment.
He feedeth on ashes:
a deceived heart
hath turned him aside,
that he
cannot deliver
his soul,
nor say,
Is there not
a lie
in my right hand?
But
they hearkened not,
nor inclined
their ear,
but walked
in the counsels
and in the imagination
of their evil heart,
and went backward,
and not forward.
The heart
is deceitful above all things,
and desperately wicked:
who can know it?
Because
they despised
my judgments,
and walked not
in my statutes,
but polluted my sabbaths:
for their heart
went after their idols.
But
I say unto you,
That whosoever looketh
on a woman
to lust after her
hath committed adultery
with her
already in his heart.
Wherefore
I say unto you,
All manner
of sin
and blasphemy
shall be forgiven
unto men:
but
the blasphemy
against the Holy Ghost
shall not be forgiven
unto men.
Either make
the tree good,
and his fruit good;
or else
make the tree corrupt,
and his fruit corrupt:
for the tree
is known
by his fruit.
O generation
of vipers,
how can ye,
being evil,
speak good things?
for out of the abundance
of the heart
the mouth speaketh.
A good man
out of the good treasure
of the heart
bringeth forth good things:
and
an evil man
out of the evil treasure
bringeth forth evil things.
Another parable put
he forth unto them,
saying,
The kingdom
of heaven
is likened
unto a man which sowed
good seed
in his field:
But
while men slept,
his enemy
came
and sowed
tares
among the wheat,
and went his way.
The field
is the world;
the good seed
are the children
of the kingdom;
but the tares
are the children
of the wicked one;
The enemy that
sowed them
is the devil;
the harvest
is the end
of the world;
and the reapers
are the angels.
Why do
thy disciples
transgress the tradition
of the elders?
for they
wash not their hands
when
they eat bread.
But he
answered
and
said unto them,
Why do
ye also transgress
the commandment
of God
by your tradition?
For God commanded,
saying,
Honour thy
father
and mother:
and,
He that
curseth
father or mother,
let him die the death.
But ye say,
Whosoever
shall say
to his father
or his mother,
It is a gift,
by whatsoever
thou
mightest be profited by me;
And honour not
his father
or his mother,
he shall be free.
Thus
have
ye made
the commandment
of God
of none effect
by your tradition.
Ye hypocrites,
well did
Esaias prophesy
of you,
saying,
This people
draweth nigh
unto me
with their mouth,
and honoureth me
with their lips;
but their heart
is far
from me.
But in vain
they do worship me,
teaching
for doctrines
the commandments
of men.
And
he called
the multitude,
and
said unto them,
Hear,
and understand:
Not that
which goeth into the mouth
defileth a man;
but
that which
cometh out of the mouth,
this defileth a man.
Then came
his disciples,
and
said unto him,
Knowest
thou
that the Pharisees
were offended,
after they
heard this saying?
But he
answered
and said,
Every plant,
which my heavenly Father
hath not planted,
shall be rooted up.
Let them alone:
they be blind leaders
of the blind.
And
if the blind
lead the blind,
both shall fall
into the ditch.
Then answered Peter
and
said unto him,
Declare unto us this parable.
And Jesus said,
Are
ye
also yet without understanding?
Do not
ye yet understand,
that whatsoever entereth in
at the mouth
goeth into the belly,
and is cast out
into the draught?
But those things
which proceed
out of the mouth
come forth
from the heart;
and
they defile
the man.
For out of the heart
proceed evil thoughts,
murders,
adulteries,
fornications,
thefts,
false witness,
blasphemies:
These are the things
which defile a man:
but
to eat
with unwashen hands
defileth not
a man.
Jesus answered them,
Verily,
verily,
I say unto you,
Whosoever
committeth
sin
is the servant
of sin.
Ye are of your father
the devil,
and the lusts
of your father
ye will do.
He was a murderer
from the beginning,
and abode
not in the truth,
because there is no truth
in him.
When
he speaketh a lie,
he speaketh of his own:
for he
is a liar,
and the father of it.
Wherefore,
as by one man
sin entered
into the world,
and death
by sin;
and so death
passed
upon all men,
for that
all have sinned:
(For
until the law
sin
was in the world:
but sin
is not imputed
when there is
no law.
Nevertheless
death
reigned
from Adam
to Moses,
even over them
that had not sinned
after the similitude
of Adam's transgression,
who is
the figure
of him that
was to come.
But not as the offence,
so also is
the free gift.
For if
through the offence
of one many
be dead,
much more
the grace of God,
and the gift
by grace,
which is by one man,
Jesus Christ,
hath abounded
unto many.
And not as it
was by one
that sinned,
so is the gift:
for the judgment
was by one
to condemnation,
but the free
gift is of many offences
unto justification.
For if
by one man's offence
death
reigned
by one;
much more
they
which receive abundance
of grace
and of the gift
of righteousness
shall reign
in life
by one,
Jesus Christ.)
Therefore as
by the offence
of one judgment
came upon all men
to condemnation;
even so
by the righteousness
of one
the free gift
came upon all men
unto justification
of life.
For as by one man's disobedience
many were made
sinners,
so by the obedience
of one
shall
many be made righteous.
Moreover the law entered,
that the offence
might abound.
But
where sin abounded,
grace did much more abound:
That as
sin
hath reigned
unto death,
even so
might grace
reign
through righteousness
unto eternal life
by Jesus Christ our Lord.
What shall
we say then?
Is the law sin?
God forbid.
Nay,
I had not known sin,
but by the law:
for I
had not known lust,
except the law
had said,
Thou shalt not covet.
Was
then that which
is good made death
unto me?
God forbid.
But sin,
that it
might appear sin,
working death
in me by
that which
is good;
that sin
by the commandment
might become
exceeding sinful.
And
he that doubteth
is damned
if he eat,
because
he eateth not
of faith:
for whatsoever is not
of faith is sin.
Your glorying
is not good.
Know
ye not
that a little
leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
And you
hath
he quickened,
who were dead
in trespasses
and sins;
Wherein in time
past ye
walked according to
the course
of this world,
according to the prince
of the power
of the air,
the spirit that
now worketh
in the children
of disobedience:
But exhort one
another daily,
while it
is called To day;
lest any of you
be hardened
through the deceitfulness
of sin.
Looking diligently
lest any man
fail of the grace
of God;
lest any root
of bitterness
springing
up trouble you,
and thereby many
be defiled;
But every man
is tempted,
when
he is drawn away
of his own lust,
and enticed.
Then
when lust
hath conceived,
it bringeth
forth sin:
and sin,
when it
is finished,
bringeth forth death.
For whosoever
shall keep
the whole law,
and yet offend
in one point,
he is guilty
of all.
For he
that said,
Do not commit adultery,
said also,
Do not kill.
Now
if thou
commit no adultery,
yet if thou kill,
thou art become
a transgressor
of the law.
From whence come
wars
and fightings
among you?
come
they not hence,
even of your lusts
that war
in your members?
Ye lust,
and have not:
ye kill,
and desire
to have,
and cannot obtain:
ye fight and war,
yet ye
have not,
because
ye ask not.
Ye ask,
and receive not,
because
ye ask amiss,
that ye
may consume it
upon your lusts.
Therefore to him that
knoweth
to do good,
and doeth it not,
to him
it is sin.
Whereby are given
unto us exceeding
great
and precious promises:
that by these
ye might be partakers
of the divine nature,
having escaped
the corruption
that is
in the world
through lust.
Whosoever
committeth
sin
transgresseth also
the law:
for sin
is the transgression
of the law.
Whosoever abideth
in him sinneth not:
whosoever
sinneth
hath not seen him,
neither known him.
He that
committeth
sin
is of the devil;
for the devil
sinneth from the beginning.
For this purpose
the Son
of God
was manifested,
that he
might destroy
the works
of the devil.
Whosoever
is born of God
doth not commit sin;
for his seed
remaineth in him:
and
he cannot sin,
because
he is born
of God.
In this the children
of God
are manifest,
and the children
of the devil:
whosoever
doeth not
righteousness
is not of God,
neither he
that loveth not
his brother.
Whosoever
hateth
his brother
is a murderer:
and ye
know that no murderer
hath
eternal life
abiding in him.
All unrighteousness
is sin:
and there is
a sin
not unto death.