As much as is in thee, thou hast made void fear, and hast taken away prayers from before God.
Do we, then, destroy the law through faith? God forbid: but we establish the law.
I cast not away the grace of God. For if justice be by the law, then Christ died in vain.
AND he spoke also a parable to them, that we ought always to pray, and not to faint,
And them that turn away from following after the Lord, and that have not sought the Lord, nor searched after him.
And a man's kinsman shall take him up, and shall burn him, that he may carry the bones out of the house; and he shall say to him that is in the inner rooms of the house: Is there yet any with thee?
And they have not cried to me with their heart, but they howled in their beds: they have thought upon wheat and wine, they are departed from me.
Or can he delight himself in the Almighty, and call upon God at all times?
He that taketh away mercy from his friend forsaketh the fear of the Lord.
Wherefore I will pray to the Lord, and address my speech to God.
Thou reprovest him by words, who is not equal to thee: and thou speakest that which is not good for thee.
For thy iniquity hath taught thy mouth, and thou imitatest the tongue of blasphemers.