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And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
And his fellowservant fell down at his feet, and besought him, saying, Have patience with me, and I will pay thee all.
And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that were round about them, concerning whom the LORD had charged them, that they should not do like them.
Sigh therefore, thou son of man, with the breaking of thy loins; and with bitterness sigh before their eyes.
Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.
For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole.
The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the LORD.
Hath given forth upon usury, and hath taken increase: shall he then live? he shall not live: he hath done all these abominations; he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon him.
Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ.
Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah did Sennacherib king of Assyria come up against all the fenced cities of Judah, and took them.
All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds.
And some of the sons of the priests made the ointment of the spices.
Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.
And now the wise men, the astrologers, have been brought in before me, that they should read this writing, and make known unto me the interpretation thereof: but they could not shew the interpretation of the thing:
So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do.
Then he turned his face to the wall, and prayed unto the LORD, saying,
Now if ye be ready that at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, ye fall down and worship the image which I have made; well: but if ye worship not, ye shall be cast the same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace; and who is that God that shall deliver you out of my hands?
Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not enquire wisely concerning this.
And the rest of the acts of Abijah, and his ways, and his sayings, are written in the story of the prophet Iddo.
Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
And the fame hereof went abroad into all that land.
The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the wicked are deceit.
Therefore thus saith the LORD of Jehoiakim king of Judah; He shall have none to sit upon the throne of David: and his dead body shall be cast out in the day to the heat, and in the night to the frost.
As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.
