Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard his spots? Then also you can do good who are accustomed to do evil.
Though you wash yourself with lye and use much soap, the stain of your guilt is still before me, declares the Lord God.
Everyone deceives his neighbor, and no one speaks the truth; they have taught their tongue to speak lies; they weary themselves committing iniquity.
Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God.” When the disciples heard this, they were greatly astonished, saying, “Who then can be saved?” But Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.” Then Peter said in reply, “See, we have left everything and followed you. What then will we have?” Jesus said to them, “Truly, I say to you, in the new world, when the Son of Man will sit on his glorious throne, you who have followed me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?
O Lord, do not your eyes look for truth? You have struck them down, but they felt no anguish; you have consumed them, but they refused to take correction. They have made their faces harder than rock; they have refused to repent.
In vain have I struck your children; they took no correction; your own sword devoured your prophets like a ravening lion.
The bellows blow fiercely; the lead is consumed by the fire; in vain the refining goes on, for the wicked are not removed. Rejected silver they are called, for the Lord has rejected them.”
Why will you still be struck down? Why will you continue to rebel? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
Crush a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with crushed grain, yet his folly will not depart from him.
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