³⁰ But the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel of God against themselves, being not baptized of him.

³⁵ Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying,

³⁴ O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee; how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen doth gather her brood under her wings, and ye would not!

⁸ How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the scribes is in vain.

²⁷ For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.

²¹ But to Israel he saith, All day long I have stretched forth my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people.

¹ We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.

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

¹¹ In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will: