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

³⁵ One of them, a lawyer, asked him a question, testing him.

³⁴ "Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, like a hen gathers her own brood under her wings, and you refused!

⁸ How do you say, We are wise, and the law of Yahweh is with us? But, behold, the false pen of the scribes has worked falsely.

²⁷ for I didn't shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.

²¹ But as to Israel he says, "All day long I stretched out my hands to a disobedient and contrary people."

¹ Working together, we entreat also that you not receive the grace of God in vain,

²¹ I don't make void the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing!"

¹¹ in whom also we were assigned an inheritance, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who works all things after the counsel of his will;