My son, beware of anything beyond these. Of making many books there is no end, and much study is a weariness of the flesh.
For in much wisdom is much vexation, and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.
Now there are also many other things that Jesus did. Were every one of them to be written, I suppose that the world itself could not contain the books that would be written.
And we have the prophetic word more fully confirmed, to which you will do well to pay attention as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts, knowing this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture comes from someone's own interpretation. For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.
You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me,
but these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.
But Abraham said, ‘They have Moses and the Prophets; let them hear them.’ And he said, ‘No, father Abraham, but if someone goes to them from the dead, they will repent.’ He said to him, ‘If they do not hear Moses and the Prophets, neither will they be convinced if someone should rise from the dead.’”
He also spoke 3,000 proverbs, and his songs were 1,005.
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