¹⁹ Those who go to her do not come back again; their feet do not keep in the ways of life:

²⁶ And I saw a thing more bitter than death, even the woman whose heart is full of tricks and nets, and whose hands are as bands. He with whom God is pleased will get free from her, but the sinner will be taken by her.

¹² So I gave them up to the desires of their hearts; that they might go after their evil purposes.

¹⁸ But the way of the upright is like the light of early morning, getting brighter and brighter till the full day.

²³ Is it possible for the skin of the Ethiopian to be changed, or the markings on the leopard? Then it might be possible for you to do good, who have been trained to do evil.

¹⁴ I will not give punishment to your daughters or your brides for their evil behaviour; for they make themselves separate with loose women, and make offerings with those who are used for sex purposes in the worship of the gods: the people who have no wisdom will be sent away.

²⁴ And again I say to you, It is simpler for a camel to go through a needle's eye, than for a man with much money to go into the kingdom of God.

²⁵ And the disciples, hearing this, were greatly surprised, saying, Who then may have salvation?

²⁶ And Jesus, looking at them, said, With men this is not possible; but with God all things are possible.

¹⁸ So that we, who have gone in flight from danger to the hope which has been put before us, may have a strong comfort in two unchanging things, in which it is not possible for God to be false;