THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET JEREMIAH.
CHAPTER 23:

16 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Hearken
not unto the words of the prophets that
prophesy unto you: they make you vain:
they speak a vision of their own heart, and
not out of the mouth of the LORD.

THE BOOK OF PSALMS.
PSALM CHAPTER 50:

16 But unto the wicked God saith, What
hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or
that thou shouldest take my covenant in
thy mouth?
17 Seeing thou hatest instruction, and
castest my words behind thee.

THE PROVERBS.
CHAPTER 4:

4 He taught me also, and said unto me, Let
thine heart retain my words: keep my
commandments, and live.

THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. MARK.
CHAPTER 7:

6 He answered and said unto them, Well
hath Esaias prophesied of you hypocrites,
as it is written, This people honoureth me
with their lips, but their heart is far from
me.
7 Howbeit in vain do they worship me,
teaching for doctrines the commandments
of men.
8 For laying aside the commandment of
God, ye hold the tradition of men, as the
washing of pots and cups: and many other
such like things ye do.
9 And he said unto them, Full well ye
reject the commandment of God, that ye
may keep your own tradition.

THE BOOK OF PSALMS.
PSALM CHAPTER 119:

54 Thy statutes have been my songs in the
house of my pilgrimage.

THE EPISTLE OF PAUL THE APOSTLE TO THE
COLOSSIANS.
CHAPTER 3:

16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you
richly in all wisdom; teaching and
admonishing one another in psalms and
hymns and spiritual songs, singing with
grace in your hearts to the Lord.

THE FIRST EPISTLE GENERAL OF PETER.
CHAPTER 4:

11 If any man speak, let him speak as the
oracles of God; if any man minister, let
him do it as of the ability which God
giveth: that God in all things may be
glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be
praise and dominion for ever and ever.
Amen.

THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. JOHN.
CHAPTER 6:

63 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh
profiteth nothing: the words that I speak
unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.

THE FIRST EPISTLE OF PAUL THE APOSTLE
TO THE CORINTHIANS.
CHAPTER 2:

13 Which things also we speak, not in the
words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but
which the Holy Ghost teacheth;
comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
14 But the natural man receiveth not the
things of the Spirit of God: for they are
foolishness unto him: neither can he know
them, because they are spiritually
discerned.

THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET ISAIAH.
CHAPTER 8:

20 To the law and to the testimony: if they
speak not according to this word, it is
because there is no light in them.

THE GENERAL EPISTLE OF JAMES.
CHAPTER 1:

21 Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and
superfluity of naughtiness, and receive
with meekness the engrafted word, which
is able to save your souls.

THE PROVERBS.
CHAPTER 6:

23 For the commandment is a lamp; and
the law is light; and reproofs of instruction
are the way of life:

THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. MATTHEW.
CHAPTER 6:

23 But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body
shall be full of darkness. If therefore the
light that is in thee be darkness, how great
is that darkness!

THE PROVERBS.
CHAPTER 1:

7 ¶ The fear of the LORD is the beginning
of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom
and instruction.

THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES.
CHAPTER 26:

12 Whereupon as I went to Damascus
with authority and commission from the
chief priests,
13 At midday, O king, I saw in the way a
light from heaven, above the brightness of
the sun, shining round about me and them
which journeyed with me.
14 And when we were all fallen to the
earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me,
and saying in the Hebrew tongue, Saul,
Saul, why persecutest thou me? it is hard
for thee to kick against the pricks.
15 And I said, Who art thou, Lord? And
he said, I am Jesus whom thou
persecutest.
16 But rise, and stand upon thy feet: for I
have appeared unto thee for this purpose,
to make thee a minister and a witness both
of these things which thou hast seen, and
of those things in the which I will appear
unto thee;
17 Delivering thee from the people, and
from the Gentiles, unto whom now I send
thee,
18 To open their eyes, and to turn them
from darkness to light, and from the power
of Satan unto God, that they may receive
forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among
them which are sanctified by faith that is
in me.
19 Whereupon, O king Agrippa, I was not
disobedient unto the heavenly vision:

THE PROVERBS.
CHAPTER 1:

22 How long, ye simple ones, will ye love
simplicity? and the scorners delight in
their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
23 Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will
pour out my spirit unto you, I will make
known my words unto you.
24 ¶ Because I have called, and ye
refused; I have stretched out my hand, and
no man regarded;
25 But ye have set at nought all my
counsel, and would none of my reproof:
26 I also will laugh at your calamity; I will
mock when your fear cometh;
27 When your fear cometh as desolation,
and your destruction cometh as a
whirlwind; when distress and anguish
cometh upon you.
28 Then shall they call upon me, but I will
not answer; they shall seek me early, but
they shall not find me:
29 For that they hated knowledge, and did
not choose the fear of the LORD:
30 They would none of my counsel: they
despised all my reproof.
31 Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of
their own way, and be filled with their
own devices.
32 For the turning away of the simple
shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools
shall destroy them.
33 But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall
dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear
of evil.