What you think is the right road may lead to death.

It makes as much sense as eating ashes. His foolish ideas have so misled him that he is beyond help. He won't admit to himself that the idol he holds in his hand is not a god at all.

"The people do as they please. It's all the same to them whether they kill a bull as a sacrifice or sacrifice a human being; whether they sacrifice a lamb or break a dog's neck; whether they present a grain offering or offer pigs' blood; whether they offer incense or pray to an idol. They take pleasure in disgusting ways of worship.

So I will bring disaster upon them---the very things they are afraid of---because no one answered when I called or listened when I spoke. They chose to disobey me and do evil."

It is no use for them to worship me, because they teach human rules as though they were my laws!' "

"Every plant which my Father in heaven did not plant will be pulled up," answered Jesus.

You will be expelled from the synagogues, and the time will come when those who kill you will think that by doing this they are serving God.

"I myself thought that I should do everything I could against the cause of Jesus of Nazareth.

I can assure you that they are deeply devoted to God; but their devotion is not based on true knowledge.

They have not known the way in which God puts people right with himself, and instead, they have tried to set up their own way; and so they did not submit themselves to God's way of putting people right.