⁴ Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God.

¹³ So Saul died for his transgression which he committed against the LORD, even against the word of the LORD, which he kept not, and also for asking counsel of one that had a familiar spirit, to enquire of it;

¹⁴ And inquired not of the LORD: therefore he slew him, and turned the kingdom unto David the son of Jesse.

³¹ Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.

¹ And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint;

⁶ And them that are turned back from the LORD; and those that have not sought the LORD, nor enquired for him.

¹⁰ And a man's uncle shall take him up, and he that burneth him, to bring out the bones out of the house, and shall say unto him that is by the sides of the house, Is there yet any with thee? and he shall say, No. Then shall he say, Hold thy tongue: for we may not make mention of the name of the LORD.

¹⁴ And they have not cried unto me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds: they assemble themselves for corn and wine, and they rebel against me.

¹²⁶ It is time for thee, LORD, to work: for they have made void thy law.

¹ The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart, that there is no fear of God before his eyes.

² For he flattereth himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity be found to be hateful.

³ The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, and to do good.

¹⁰ Will he delight himself in the Almighty? will he always call upon God?

¹⁴ To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.

⁸ I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:

⁵ But now it is come upon thee, and thou faintest; it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.

⁶ Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?

²¹ I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.