³⁰ But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law were against the purpose of God for themselves, not having had his baptism.)

³⁵ And one of them, a teacher of the law, put a question to him, testing him, and saying,

³⁴ O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, putting to death the prophets, and stoning those who were sent to her! again and again would I have taken your children to myself, as a bird takes her young ones under her wings, but you would not!

⁸ How is it that you say, We are wise and the law of the Lord is with us? But see, the false pen of the scribes has made it false.

²⁷ For I have not kept back from you anything of the purpose of God.

²¹ But about Israel he says; All the day my hands have been stretched out to a people whose hearts were turned away, and who put themselves against my word.

¹ We then, working together with God, make our request to you not to take the grace of God to no purpose.

²¹ I do not make the grace of God of no effect: because if righteousness is through the law, then Christ was put to death for nothing.

¹¹ In whom we have a heritage, being marked out from the first in his purpose who does all things in agreement with his designs;