So I let them go their stubborn ways and do whatever they wanted.

The LORD said to me, "Jeremiah, when one of my people or a prophet or a priest asks you, 'What is the LORD's message?' you are to say, 'You are a burden to the LORD, and he is going to get rid of you.'

The people of Israel are under the spell of idols. Let them go their own way.

But even if they did bring up children, I would take them away and not leave one alive. When I abandon these people, terrible things will happen to them."

I lost patience with three other shepherds, who hated me, and I got rid of them all in a single month.

Then I said to the flock, "I will not be your shepherd any longer. Let those die who are to die. Let those be destroyed who are to be destroyed. Those who are left will destroy one another."

"Do not give what is holy to dogs---they will only turn and attack you. Do not throw your pearls in front of pigs---they will only trample them underfoot.

"Don't worry about them! They are blind leaders of the blind; and when one blind man leads another, both fall into a ditch."

Then all the people from that territory asked Jesus to go away, because they were terribly afraid. So Jesus got into the boat and left.

Again Jesus said to them, "I will go away; you will look for me, but you will die in your sins. You cannot go where I am going."

Believe in the light, then, while you have it, so that you will be the people of the light." After Jesus said this, he went off and hid himself from them.

When the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy; they disputed what Paul was saying and insulted him.

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.

When they opposed him and said evil things about him, he protested by shaking the dust from his clothes and saying to them, "If you are lost, you yourselves must take the blame for it! I am not responsible. From now on I will go to the Gentiles."