We are bound to thank God always for you brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and every one of you swimmeth in love toward another between yourselves,

And forasmuch as ye have purified your souls through the spirit, in obeying the truth for to love brotherly without feigning, see that ye love one another with a pure heart, fervently:

I would

Oh that they had such a heart with them to fear me and keep all my commandments always, that it might go well with them and with their children forever.

But my people would not hear my voice; and Israel would not obey me.

For I fear, lest it come to pass, that when I come I shall not find you such as I would: and I shall be found unto you such as I would not. I fear lest there be found among you debate, envying, wrath, strife, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, and discord.

Thou

But if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, then choose you this day, whom you will serve: whether the gods which your fathers served, that were on the other side of the water, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land, ye dwelt. As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD."

And Elijah came unto all the people and said, "Why halt ye between two opinions? If the LORD be very God, follow him: or if Baal be he, follow him." And the people answered him not one word.

My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes have pleasure in my ways.

Therefore must Ephraim be mixed among the Heathen. Ephraim is become like a cake that no man turneth:

Their heart is divided, therefore will they be destroyed. The LORD shall break down their Images, he shall destroy their altars.

yea, and such as upon their house-tops worship and bow themselves unto the host of heaven: which swear by the LORD, and by their Milcom also:

No man can serve two masters: For either he shall hate the one, and love the other; or else he shall lean to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

He that loveth his father or mother more than me, is not meet for me: and he that loveth his son or daughter more than me, is not meet for me.

And whosoever bear not his cross, and come after me cannot be my disciple.

If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, the same be anathema. Maranatha.

A wavering minded man is unstable in all his ways.

General references

"He that is not with me is against me. And he that gathereth not with me scattereth.