"Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn't know who shall gather.
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FROM THE NOTEBOOKS / 3 EXCERPT OCCURRENCES
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For the backsliding of the simple will kill them. The careless ease of fools will destroy them.
For the lips of an adulteress drip honey. Her mouth is smoother than oil,
A wise son listens to his father's instruction, but a scoffer doesn't listen to rebuke.
that whenever you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music, you fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king has set up;
You, O king, have made a decree, that every man that shall hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music, shall fall down and worship the golden image;
Now if you are ready whenever you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music to fall down and worship the image which I have made, [well]: but if you don't worship, you 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?
Take away from me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps.
Woe to those who are at ease in Zion, and to those who are secure on the mountain of Samaria, the notable men of the chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel come!
who strum on the strings of a harp; who invent for themselves instruments of music, like David;
you who rejoice in a thing of nothing, who say, 'Haven't we taken for ourselves horns by our own strength?'
When his friends heard it, they went out to seize him: for they said, "He is insane."
The Pharisee stood and prayed to himself like this: 'God, I thank you, that I am not like the rest of men, extortioners, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.
I fast twice a week. I give tithes of all that I get.'
Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
And through your knowledge, he who is weak perishes, the brother for whose sake Christ died.
They said to you that "In the last time there will be mockers, walking after their own ungodly lusts."