10 For thus saith the Scripture, But unto the wicked, God said, What hast thou to do to declare my statute, or that thou shouldst take my covenant in thy mouth? Seeing that thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.
11 When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him; thou hast been partaker with adulterers, Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit. Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother's son.
12 These things hast thou done and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such a one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.
13 Now consider this ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.
14 Whose offereth praise, gloryfieth me; And to him that disposeth his way aright, will I show the salvation of God.
15 This is the way, beloved, in which we may find our Saviour, even Jesus Christ, the high-priest of all our offerings, the defender and helper of our weakness.
16 By him we look up to the highest heavens; and behold, as in a glass, his spotless and most excellent visage.
17 By him are the eyes of our hearts opened; by him our foolish and darkened understanding rejoiceth to behold his wonderful light.
18 By him would God have us to taste the knowledge of immortality: who being the brightness of his glory, is by so much greater than the angels, as be has by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.
19 For so it is written, who maketh his angels spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire: