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

How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the scribes is in vain.

But to Israel he saith, All day long I have stretched forth my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people.

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

I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.

For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.

In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will: