Thou hatest them that keep vanities superfluously. Forsooth I hoped in the Lord;
thou hast known my sitting, and my rising again. Thou hast understood my thoughts from [a] far;
The innocent in hands, that is, in works, and in clean heart; which took not his soul in vain, neither swore in guile to his neighbour.
I hated the church of evil men; and I shall not sit with wicked men.
and dust turn again into his earth, whereof it was, and the spirit turn again to God, that gave it.
Those [or they] be vain, and a work worthy of scorn; those [or they] shall perish in the time of their visitation.
They shall be proved unwise and fools together; the teaching of their vanity is a tree.
They that keep vanities, forsake their mercy idly.
And Jesus said to them, Draw ye now, and bear ye to the master of the feast. And they bare.
For when they had known God, they glorified him not as God, neither did thankings; but they vanished in their thoughts, and the unwise heart of them was darked [or made dark].
But those things that heathen men offer, they offer to devils, and not to God. But I will not, that ye be made fellows of fiends;
But of meats that be offered to idols, we know, that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no God but one.