Psalms 50:16
16 But to the wicked God says:“What right have you to recite my statutes
or take my covenant on your lips?
Matthew 7:21-23
I Never Knew You
21 a“Not everyone who bsays to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will center the kingdom of heaven, but the one who ddoes the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22 eOn that day fmany will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not gprophesy in your name, and cast out demons hin your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ 23 iAnd then will I declare to them, ‘I jnever knew you; kdepart from me, lyou workers of lawlessness.’Luke 12:45-47
45But if that servant says to himself, ‘My master mis delayed in coming,’ and begins to beat the male and female servants, and to eat and drink and nget drunk, 46the master of that servant will come oon a day when he does not expect him and pat an hour he does not know, and will cut him in pieces and put him with the unfaithful. 47 qAnd that servant who rknew his master’s will but sdid not get ready tor act according to his will, will receive a usevere beating.Luke 13:26-27
26Then you will begin to say, v‘We ate and drank in your presence, and you taught in our streets.’ 27But he will say, ‘I tell you, wI do not know where you come from. xDepart from me, all you workers of evil!’1 Corinthians 13:1-3
The Way of Love
1If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2And if I have yprophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, zso as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 aaIf I give away all I have, and abif I deliver up my body to be burned, ▼▼Some manuscripts deliver up my body [to death] that I may boast
but have not love, I gain nothing. 2 Peter 2:15
15Forsaking the right way, adthey have gone astray. They have followed aethe way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved afgain from wrongdoing,
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