John 1:24

but you have ignored all my counsel, and wanted none of my reproof;

You offspring of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.

On that day Sadducees (those who say that there is no resurrection) came to him. They asked him,

You serpents, you offspring of vipers, how will you escape the judgment of Gehenna?

The people stood watching. The rulers with them also scoffed at him, saying, “He saved others. Let him save himself, if this is the Christ of God, his chosen one!”

But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, “Men and brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees. Concerning the hope and resurrection of the dead I am being judged!”

and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead: Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come.

but in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God.

It came to pass, when they had taken them out, that he said, “Escape for your life! Don’t look behind you, and don’t stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be consumed!”

Those who forsake the law praise the wicked; but those who keep the law contend with them.

Behold, a certain lawyer stood up and tested him, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?”

The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, also heard all these things, and they scoffed at him.

Some of the Sadducees came to him, those who deny that there is a resurrection.

that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.

because they rebelled against the words of God, and condemned the counsel of the Most High.

Turn my heart toward your statutes, not toward selfish gain.

Ah sinful nation, a people loaded with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken Yahweh. They have despised the Holy One of Israel. They are estranged and backward.

For the ruthless is brought to nothing, and the scoffer ceases, and all those who are alert to do evil are cut off—

To whom should I speak and testify, that they may hear? Behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they can’t listen. Behold, Yahweh’s word has become a reproach to them. They have no delight in it.

Jesus said to them, “Take heed and beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”

One of them, a lawyer, asked him a question, testing him.

“Woe to you, you blind guides, who say, ‘Whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple, he is obligated.’

You blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup and of the platter, that its outside may become clean also.

Some Sadducees, who say that there is no resurrection, came to him. They asked him, saying,

But the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected the counsel of God, not being baptized by him themselves.

As he said these things to them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to be terribly angry, and to draw many things out of him;

“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, like a hen gathers her own brood under her wings, and you refused!

who devour widows’ houses, and for a pretense make long prayers: these will receive greater condemnation.”

But they insisted, saying, “He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee even to this place.”

But the high priest rose up, and all those who were with him (which is the sect of the Sadducees), and they were filled with jealousy

“I am indeed a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, instructed according to the strict tradition of the law of our fathers, being zealous for God, even as you all are today.

For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, nor angel, nor spirit; but the Pharisees confess all of these.

For we have found this man to be a plague, an instigator of insurrections among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.

having known me from the first, if they are willing to testify, that after the strictest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,

Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we will be saved from God’s wrath through him.

Now if Christ is preached, that he has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?

I advanced in the Jews’ religion beyond many of my own age among my countrymen, being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers.

without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, not lovers of good,

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners. Purify your hearts, you double-minded.

They have dealt corruptly with him. They are not his children, because of their defect. They are a perverse and crooked generation.

He will suck cobra venom. The viper’s tongue will kill him.

Don’t let riches entice you to wrath, neither let the great size of a bribe turn you aside.

A prudent man sees danger and takes refuge; but the simple pass on, and suffer for it.

The words of the wise are like goads; and like nails well fastened are words from the masters of assemblies, which are given from one shepherd.

Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and as the dry grass sinks down in the flame, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust, because they have rejected the law of Yahweh of Armies, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

The Syrians in front, and the Philistines behind; and they will devour Israel with open mouth. For all this, his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

He was despised and rejected by men, a man of suffering and acquainted with disease. He was despised as one from whom men hide their face; and we didn’t respect him.

Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him, to our God, for he will freely pardon.

Yes, the dogs are greedy. They can never have enough. They are shepherds who can’t understand. They have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, from every quarter.

Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long will your evil thoughts lodge within you?

“ ‘How do you say, “We are wise, and Yahweh’s law is with us?” But, behold, the false pen of the scribes has made that a lie.

Therefore I will give their wives to others and their fields to those who will possess them. For everyone from the least even to the greatest is given to covetousness; from the prophet even to the priest everyone deals falsely.

I have seen your abominations, even your adulteries, and your neighing, the lewdness of your prostitution, on the hills in the field. Woe to you, Jerusalem! You will not be made clean. How long will it yet be?”

Then they said, “Come! Let’s devise plans against Jeremiah; for the law won’t perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let’s strike him with the tongue, and let’s not give heed to any of his words.”

For I have heard the defaming of many, “Terror on every side! Denounce, and we will denounce him!” say all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall. “Perhaps he will be persuaded, and we will prevail against him, and we will take our revenge on him.”

and say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says to Jerusalem: “Your origin and your birth is of the land of the Canaanite. An Amorite was your father, and your mother was a Hittite.

Cast away from you all your transgressions, in which you have transgressed; and make yourself a new heart and a new spirit: for why will you die, house of Israel?

“Son of man, speak to the elders of Israel, and tell them, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Is it to inquire of me that you have come? As I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “I will not be inquired of by you.” ’

They come to you as the people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but don’t do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their gain.

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his baptism, he said to them, “You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, “This man does not cast out demons, except by Beelzebul, the prince of the demons.”

“Either make the tree good, and its fruit good, or make the tree corrupt, and its fruit corrupt; for the tree is known by its fruit.

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows’ houses, and as a pretense you make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.

Pharisees came to him testing him, and asked him, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”

On one of those days, he was teaching; and there were Pharisees and teachers of the law sitting by, who had come out of every village of Galilee, Judea, and Jerusalem. The power of the Lord was with him to heal them.

The good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings out that which is good, and the evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings out that which is evil, for out of the abundance of the heart, his mouth speaks.

Jesus answered, “Faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you and bear with you? Bring your son here.”

When the multitudes were gathering together to him, he began to say, “This is an evil generation. It seeks after a sign. No sign will be given to it but the sign of Jonah, the prophet.

You foolish ones, didn’t he who made the outside make the inside also?

He said to them, “Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness, for a man’s life doesn’t consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses.”

They watched him and sent out spies, who pretended to be righteous, that they might trap him in something he said, so as to deliver him up to the power and authority of the governor.

I say the things which I have seen with my Father; and you also do the things which you have seen with your father.”

As they spoke to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple and the Sadducees came to them,

and said, “You son of the devil, full of all deceit and all cunning, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?

for I didn’t shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.

Therefore watch, remembering that for a period of three years I didn’t cease to admonish everyone night and day with tears.

But about Israel he says, “All day long I stretched out my hands to a disobedient and contrary people.”

doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;

Working together, we entreat also that you do not receive the grace of God in vain,

Having therefore these promises, beloved, let’s cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

I don’t reject the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing!”

We were also assigned an inheritance in him, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who does all things after the counsel of his will,

For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

let’s draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having our body washed with pure water,

Others were tried by mocking and scourging, yes, moreover by bonds and imprisonment.