The vngodly are straungers euen from their mothers wombe: assoone as they be borne, they go astray and speake a lye.
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TSK · Matthew 3:7
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They breede cockatrice egges, and weaue the spiders webbe, who so eateth of their egges, dyeth: but if one treade vpon them, there commeth vp a serpent.
Flee away from Babylon, euery man saue his lyfe, that ye be not rooted out with her wickednesse: for the tyme of the Lordes vengeaunce is come, yea he shall rewarde her agayne.
If when he seeth the sworde come vpon the lande, he shall blow the trumpet and warne the people:
But when the Pharisees hearde it, they sayde: This felowe driueth the deuils no otherwise out, but by Beelzebub the prince of the deuils.
Then came his disciples, and sayde vnto hym: knowest thou not, that the Pharisees were offended after they hearde this saying?
Howe is it that ye do not vnderstande, that I spake it not vnto you concernyng bread, warnyng you that ye shoulde beware of the leuen of the Pharisees, and of the Saducees?
The same day came to hym the Saducees, which say that there is no resurrection, and asked hym,
Wo vnto you Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites: for ye shut vp the kingdome of heauen before men: ye neither go in your selues, neither suffer ye them that come, to enter in.
For the pharisees and all the Iewes, except they wasshe their handes oft, eate not, obseruing the traditions of ye elders.
And they sent vnto hym, certayne of the pharisees, and of the Herodians to take hym in his wordes.
Then saide he to the people that were come foorth to be baptized of hym: O generations of vipers, who hath forewarned you to flee from the wrath to come?
And the Lorde said vnto him: Now do ye pharisees make cleane the outsyde of the cuppe, and the platter, but the inward part is full of your rauenyng and wickednesse.
The pharisee stoode and prayed thus with hym selfe: God, I thanke thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, vniust, adulterers, or as this publicane.
Then came the seruauntes to the hye priestes & pharisees: and they sayde vnto them, why haue ye not brought him?
And some of the pharisees which were with hym, hearde these wordes, & sayde vnto hym: Are we blynde also?
Then the chiefe priest rose vp, and all they that were with hym, which is the sect of the Saducees, and were full of indignation:
Therfore watch, and remember that by the space of three yeres I ceassed not to warne euery one night and day with teares.
Which knewe me from the beginning, (yf they woulde testifie) that after the most straytest sect of our religion, I lyued a pharisee.
Muche more then nowe, we that are iustified by his blood, shalbe saued from wrath through hym.
Which shalbe punisshed with euerlastyng dampnation, from the presence of the Lorde, & fro the glorie of his power:
By fayth Noe beyng warned of God of thinges not seene as yet, moued with reuerence, prepared the arke to the sauyng of his house, through the whiche arke he condempned the worlde, and became heire of the righteousnes which is by fayth.
And sayde to the hylles & rockes, fall on vs, and hyde vs from the presence of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the lambe: