How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?

And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:

Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.

What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?

But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth?

Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.

When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will shew them no favour.

That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the LORD:

Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.

For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.

Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.

Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it.

But one thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her.

Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;