Because my people have forgotten me, they have burned incense to worthless idols, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways from the ancient paths, to walk in pathways, and not on a highway;

Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask your father, and he will show you; your elders, and they will tell you.

Tell me, O you whom my soul loves, where you feed, where you make your flock to rest at noon: for why should I be as one that turns aside by the flocks of your companions?

If you know not, O you fairest among women, go your way forth in the footsteps of the flock, and feed your kids beside the shepherds' tents.

To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.

Remember you the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him at Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments.

Abraham said unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.

Search the scriptures; for in them you think you have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.

For had you believed Moses, you would have believed me: for he wrote of me.

But if you believe not his writings, how shall you believe my words?

These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.

What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, has found?

For what says the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.

But to him that works not, but believes on him that justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.

That you be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

For by it the elders obtained approval.

By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaks.

But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that comes to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.

By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should later receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing where he went.

For he looked for a city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the seashore innumerable.

For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country.

But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly: therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he has prepared for them a city.

Of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall your descendants be called:

By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come.

By faith Joseph, when he died, made mention of the departing of the children of Israel; and gave commandment concerning his bones.

By faith Moses, when he was grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter;

Esteeming the reproach of the Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he looked for the recompense of the reward.

Through faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of blood, lest he that destroyed the firstborn should touch them.

By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they were encircled seven days.

And what shall I say more? for the time would fail me to tell of Gideon, and of Barak, and of Samson, and of Jephthah; of David also, and Samuel, and of the prophets:

Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, became valiant in war, turned to flight the armies of foreigners.

And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment:

(Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.

God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.

Therefore seeing we also are surrounded with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which does so easily ensnare us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people: and walk you in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.

O house of Jacob, come and let us walk in the light of the LORD.

And your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, This is the way, walk you in it, when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left.

Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while you have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that walks in darkness knows not where he goes.

If you know these things, happy are you if you do them.

As you have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him:

To whom he said, This is the rest with which you may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.

Come unto me, all you that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and you shall find rest unto your souls.

Withhold your foot from being unshod, and your throat from thirst: but you said, There is no hope: no; for I have loved strangers, and after them will I go.

And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after our own plans, and we will everyone do the imagination of his evil heart.

I spoke unto you in your prosperity; but you said, I will not hear. This has been your manner from your youth, that you obeyed not my voice.

As for the word that you have spoken unto us in the name of the LORD, we will not hearken unto you.

But what think you? A certain man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go work today in my vineyard.

And he came to the second, and said likewise. And he answered and said, I go, sir: and went not.

For John came unto you in the way of righteousness, and you believed him not: but the tax collectors and the harlots believed him: and you, when you had seen it, repented not afterward, that you might believe him.