"Foolish people! How long do you want to be foolish? How long will you enjoy making fun of knowledge? Will you never learn?

Listen when I reprimand you; I will give you good advice and share my knowledge with you.

"I appeal to all of you; I call to everyone on earth.

Are you immature? Learn to be mature. Are you foolish? Learn to have sense.

"Come in, ignorant people!" And to the foolish she says,

Leave the company of ignorant people, and live. Follow the way of knowledge."

The LORD says, "Come, everyone who is thirsty--- here is water! Come, you that have no money--- buy grain and eat! Come! Buy wine and milk--- it will cost you nothing!

"Listen now, my people, and come to me; come to me, and you will have life! I will make a lasting covenant with you and give you the blessings I promised to David.

But Paul and Barnabas spoke out even more boldly: "It was necessary that the word of God should be spoken first to you. But since you reject it and do not consider yourselves worthy of eternal life, we will leave you and go to the Gentiles.

In our work together with God, then, we beg you who have received God's grace not to let it be wasted.

Conceited people can never become wise, but intelligent people learn easily.

Intelligent people are always eager and ready to learn.

Lazy people who refuse to work are only killing themselves;

all they do is think about what they would like to have. The righteous, however, can give, and give generously.

If only they would always feel this way! If only they would always honor me and obey all my commands, so that everything would go well with them and their descendants forever.

"But my people would not listen to me; Israel would not obey me.

How I wish my people would listen to me; how I wish they would obey me!

The LORD says, "Wine, both old and new, is robbing my people of their senses!

Those who do evil things hate the light and will not come to the light, because they do not want their evil deeds to be shown up.

For he said, 'Go and say to this people: You will listen and listen, but not understand; you will look and look, but not see,

because this people's minds are dull, and they have stopped up their ears and closed their eyes. Otherwise, their eyes would see, their ears would hear, their minds would understand, and they would turn to me, says God, and I would heal them.' "