For the word of God is living, and effectual, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to a dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

but, if it bears thorns and thistles, it is rejected, and is near to a curse; whose end is to be burned.

Who hath been made Priest, not according to a law of a carnal commandment, but according to the power of an endless life;

and they shall in no wise teach each one his fellow-citizen, and each one his brother, saying, 'Know the Lord'; because all shall know Me, from a small one to a great one of them;

For ye have not come to a mount that is touched and burning with fire, and to blackness, and darkness, and tempest,