to such an extent that, within yourself, you have expelled reverence and have taken away prayers from the presence of God.
You rebuke with words he who is not equal to you, and you speak what is not expedient for you,
For your iniquity has mislead your mouth, and you imitate the tongue of blasphemers.
Or will he take delight in the Almighty and call upon God at all times?
Therefore, because of this, I will beg the Lord, and place my eloquence before God.
He who takes away mercy from his friend, abandons the fear of the Lord.
And they have not cried out to me in their heart, but they howled on their beds. They have obsessed about wheat and wine; they have withdrawn from me.
And his closest relative will steal him away and will burn him, so that he may carry the bones out of the house. And he will say to him that is in the inner most rooms of the house, "Now is there any left that still belongs to you?"
both those who turn aside from following after the Lord, and those who have not sought the Lord, nor inquired about him.
Now he also told them a parable, that we should continually pray and not cease,
Are we then destroying the law through faith? Let it not be so! Instead, we are making the law stand.
I do not reject the grace of God. For if justice is through the law, then Christ died in vain.