These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the Scriptures daily, whether those things were so.
Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.
And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of YY , and to the house of the Elohim of Yaakov; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the Torah shall go forth of TZiyon, and the word of YY from Yerushalayim.
And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein.
But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.
Then shall we know, if we follow on to know YY : his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.
Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.