Ephraim feeds on wind, and follows after the east wind; all the day he multiplies lies and ruin. And they cut a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried into Egypt.
knowing this, that Law is not laid down for a righteous one, but for lawless and insubordinate ones, for ungodly and sinful ones, for unholy and profane ones, for slayers of fathers and slayers of mothers, for murderers,
Therefore if anyone purifies himself from these, he will be a vessel unto honor, having been sanctified and made useful unto the Master, having been prepared to every good work.
watching diligently that not any lack from the grace of God, that “no root of bitterness growing up” may crowd “in on you,” and through this many be defiled; Deut. 29:18
For speaking great swollen-over words of vanity, by the lusts of the flesh, by unbridled lusts, they allure the ones indeed escaping, the ones walking in error,
And it leads astray the ones dwelling on the earth, because of the signs which were given to it to do before the beast, saying to the ones dwelling on the earth to make an image to the beast who has the wound of the sword, and lived.