Then He said, “I will make all My goodness pass before you, and I will proclaim the name of the Lord before you. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy.”
O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter? says the Lord. Behold, like the clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in My hand, O house of Israel.
At that time Jesus said, “I thank You, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because You have hidden these things from the wise and prudent and revealed them to infants.
But if your eye is unhealthy, your whole body will be full of darkness. Therefore, if the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness!
For who makes you differ from another? And what do you have that you did not receive? Now if you received it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?
In Him also we have received an inheritance, being predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His own will,
Beware lest there be a wicked thought in your heart, saying, “The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand,” and your eye be evil against your poor brother and you give him nothing, and he cry out to the Lord against you, and it become sin in you.
The man who is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be hostile toward his brother and toward his beloved wife and toward the rest of his children who remain,