There is a way which seems right to a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but he who is wise hearkens to counsel.
For if some man presumes to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
What fruit therefore did ye have then, of which things ye are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.
Compete to enter in by the narrow gate, because many, I say to you, will seek to enter in, and will not be able.
There is a generation who are pure in their own eyes, and [yet] are not washed from their filthiness.
But become ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
Let no man deceive you by empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.
And Jeroboam said in his heart, Now the kingdom will return to the house of David.
Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold. And he said to them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem. Behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.