Luke 8:13

O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? for your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away.

He was a burning and a shining light: and ye were willing for a season to rejoice in his light.

The wicked desireth the net of evil men: but the root of the righteous yieldeth fruit.

And, lo, thou art unto them as a very lovely song of one that hath a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument: for they hear thy words, but they do them not.

But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.

These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;

Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if it be yet in vain.

For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.

By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.

O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?

For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.

That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,

Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God.

Holding faith, and a good conscience; which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck:

Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.

But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.

Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.

If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.

But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?

A man shall not be established by wickedness: but the root of the righteous shall not be moved.