but the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected the purpose of God for themselves, not having been baptized by him.)
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing!
“How can you say, ‘We are wise, and the law of the Lord is with us’? But behold, the lying pen of the scribes has made it into a lie.
Working together with him, then, we appeal to you not to receive the grace of God in vain.
But of Israel he says, “All day long I have held out my hands to a disobedient and contrary people.”
for I did not shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.
And one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him.
In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will,
I do not nullify the grace of God, for if righteousness were through the law, then Christ died for no purpose.
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