but the Pharisees and the wise men of the law, that were not baptized of him, despised the counsel of God against themselves.
Ye have despised all my counsel; and charged not my blamings.
How say ye, We be wise men, and the law of the Lord is with us? Verily the false stylus, either writing, of scribes wrought leasing.
And one of them, a teacher of the law, asked Jesus, and tempted him,
Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that slayest prophets, and stonest them that be sent to thee, how oft would I gather together thy sons, as a bird gathereth his nest under feathers [or under wings], and thou wouldest not.
and if we say, Of men, all the people shall stone us; for they be certain, that John is a prophet.
And the Lord said, Therefore to whom shall I say men of this gener-ation like, and to whom be they like?
For I fled [or flew] not away, that I told not to you all the counsel of God.
But to Israel he saith, All day I stretched out mine hands to a people that believed not [to me], but gainsaid me.
But we helping [you in work and word] admonish [you], that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.
I cast not away the grace of God; for if rightwiseness be through [or is by] law, then Christ died without cause.
In whom [also] we be called by lot, before-ordained by the purpose of him that worketh all things by the counsel of his will;