I did not listen to the voice of my teachers or incline my ear to my instructors.
Remember your leaders, those who spoke the word of God to you; consider the outcome of their way of life, and imitate their faith.
Therefore whoever rejects this rejects not human authority but God, who also gives his Holy Spirit to you.
I will get up and go to my father, and I will say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you;
Hear, my child, your father’s instruction, and do not reject your mother’s teaching,
Now I am at the point of utter ruin in the public assembly.”
and spoke to them according to the advice of the young men, “My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke; my father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions.”