For you ignore the God who rescues you; you pay no attention to your strong protector. So this is what happens: You cultivate beautiful plants and plant exotic vines.

“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink, or about your body, what you will wear. Isn’t there more to life than food and more to the body than clothing?

For some time ago Theudas rose up, claiming to be somebody, and about four hundred men joined him. He was killed, and all who followed him were dispersed and nothing came of it.

He said to the people, “Be ready for the third day. Do not go near your wives.”

And what other great nation has statutes and ordinances as just as this whole law that I am about to share with you today?

They sailed to Ophir, took from there four hundred twenty talents of gold, and then brought them to King Solomon.

“What is mankind that you make so much of them, and that you pay attention to them?

I will sing a song that imparts wisdom; I will make insightful observations about the past.

Wisdom is supreme – so acquire wisdom, and whatever you acquire, acquire understanding!

Men bow down to them in homage, they lie flat on the ground in worship. Don’t spare them!

Men will be humiliated, they will be brought low; the proud will be brought low.

Egypt will not be able to do a thing, head or tail, shoots and stalk.

For I delight in faithfulness, not simply in sacrifice; I delight in acknowledging God, not simply in whole burnt offerings.

The second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’

They love the place of honor at banquets and the best seats in the synagogues

Blind fools! Which is greater, the gold or the temple that makes the gold sacred?

You are blind! For which is greater, the gift or the altar that makes the gift sacred?

The second is: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”

Do we then nullify the law through faith? Absolutely not! Instead we uphold the law.

Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing. Instead, keeping God’s commandments is what counts.