"Therefore the LORD, the God of Israel, says, 'I said indeed that your house, and the house of your father, should walk before me forever.' But now the LORD says, 'Be it far from me; for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me shall be lightly esteemed.

The memory of the righteous is blessed, but the name of the wicked will rot.

Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

"Therefore night is over you, with no vision, and it is dark to you, that you may not divine; and the sun will go down on the prophets, and the day will be black over them.

Before

Micaiah said, "If you return at all in peace, the LORD has not spoken by me." He said, "Listen, all you people."

Then the prophet Jeremiah said to Hananiah the prophet, "Hear now, Hananiah: the LORD has not sent you; but you make this people to trust in a lie.

'Hear therefore the word of the LORD, all you of the captivity, whom I have sent away from Jerusalem to Babylon.'

Behold, when the wall has fallen, shall it not be said to you, 'Where is the plaster with which you have plastered it?'

making void the word of God by your tradition, which you have handed down. You do many things like this."

In the hearing of all the people, he said to his disciples,

But

But you have turned aside out of the way. You have caused many to stumble in the law. You have corrupted the covenant of Levi," says the LORD of hosts.

"You have heard that it was said to the ancient ones, 'You shall not murder;' and 'Whoever shall murder shall be in danger of the judgment.'

He said to him, "Why do you ask me about what is good? No one is good but one. But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments."

"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.'

"For you set aside the commandment of God, and hold tightly to the tradition of men."

But he, desiring to justify himself, asked Jesus, "Who is my neighbor?"

But woe to you Pharisees. For you tithe mint and rue and every herb, but you bypass justice and the love of God. You ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be. However, I would not have known sin, except through the law. For I would not have known coveting, unless the law had said, "You shall not covet."

Have been partial in

You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small and the great alike; you shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God's. The case that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it."

General references

The Levites shall answer, and tell all the men of Israel with a loud voice,

Will you show partiality to him? Will you contend for God?

They shall teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.