⁸ The foolish said to the wise, 'Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.'

³⁵ "Let your loins be girded and your lamps burning.

⁹ Behold, I give of the synagogue of Satan, of those who say they are Jews, and they are not, but lie. Behold, I will make them to come and worship before your feet, and to know that I have loved you.

¹ Let us fear therefore, lest perhaps a promise being left of entering into his rest, anyone of you should seem to have come short of it.

²⁴ Simon answered, "Pray for me to the Lord, that none of the things which you have spoken happen to me."

²⁴ He cried and said, 'Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue! For I am in anguish in this flame.'

¹⁸ Be careful therefore how you hear. For whoever has, to him will be given; and whoever doesn't have, from him will be taken away even that which he thinks he has."

²⁰ What was sown on the rocky places, this is he who hears the word, and immediately with joy receives it;

²¹ yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles.

⁹ Don't think to yourselves, 'We have Abraham for our father,' for I tell you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones.

²⁰ Whoever curses his father or his mother, His lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.

⁹ The light of the righteous shines brightly, But the lamp of the wicked is snuffed out.

¹⁸ But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light, That shines more and more until the perfect day.

¹⁹ The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don't know what they stumble over.

¹⁷ "How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out? That their calamity comes on them? That God distributes sorrows in his anger?

⁵ "Yes, the light of the wicked shall be put out, The spark of his fire shall not shine.

¹³ So are the paths of all who forget God. The hope of the godless man shall perish,

¹⁴ Whose confidence shall break apart, Whose trust is a spider's web.