Now therefore put away, said he, the strange gods which are among you, and incline your heart unto the LORD God of Israel.

And she said, Behold, thy sister in law is gone back unto her people, and unto her gods: return thou after thy sister in law.

No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

And there went great multitudes with him: and he turned, and said unto them,

And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple.

Lest haply, after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all that behold it begin to mock him,

Or what king, going to make war against another king, sitteth not down first, and consulteth whether he be able with ten thousand to meet him that cometh against him with twenty thousand?

So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple.

Then Moses said unto Aaron, This is it that the LORD spake, saying, I will be sanctified in them that come nigh me, and before all the people I will be glorified. And Aaron held his peace.

Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say unto them, Ye shall be holy: for I the LORD your God am holy.

And the men of Bethshemesh said, Who is able to stand before this holy LORD God? and to whom shall he go up from us?

Exalt ye the LORD our God, and worship at his footstool; for he is holy.

Exalt the LORD our God, and worship at his holy hill; for the LORD our God is holy.

But the LORD of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness.

And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory.

Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.

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

For thus saith the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and ye would not.

Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth the man that is more righteous than he?

Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;

For thou shalt worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God:

But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils.

Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?

Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him.

Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.

And therefore I have sworn unto the house of Eli, that the iniquity of Eli's house shall not be purged with sacrifice nor offering for ever.

But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, till there was no remedy.

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.