Sober up as you should, and stop sinning! For some have no knowledge of God – I say this to your shame!

“Who is this ¹  who darkens counsel ²  with words without knowledge?

The spiritually insensitive do not recognize this; the fool does not understand this. ¹ 

Take notice of this, ¹  you ignorant people! ²  You fools, when will you ever understand?

The arrogant dig pits to trap me, ¹  which violates your law. ² 

It is dangerous ¹  to have zeal ²  without knowledge, and the one who acts hastily ³  makes poor choices. ⁴ 

For I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers and sisters, ¹  so that you may not be conceited: A partial hardening has happened to Israel ²  until the full number ³  of the Gentiles has come in.

not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God.

For you are our father, though Abraham does not know us and Israel does not recognize us. You, Lord, are our father; you have been called our protector from ancient times. ¹ 

I thought, “Surely it is only the ignorant poor who act this way. ¹  They act like fools because they do not know what the Lord demands. ²  They do not know what their God requires of them. ³ 

‘Surely such is the residence ¹  of an evil man; and this is the place of one who has not known God.’” ² 

Tell us what we should ¹  say to him. We cannot prepare a case ²  because of the darkness.

The toil of a stupid fool ¹  wears him out, ²  because he does not even know the way to the city. ³ 

an educator of the senseless, a teacher of little children, because you have in the law the essential features of knowledge and of the truth –

When ¹  you pray, do not babble repetitiously like the Gentiles, because they think that by their many words they will be heard.

Or do you not know that as many as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?

Now, dear friends, do not let this one thing escape your notice, ¹  that a single day is like a thousand years with the Lord and a thousand years are like a single day.

I have not written to you that ¹  you do not know the truth, but that ²  you do know it, and that ³  no lie is of the truth.

¹ Be careful what you do ²  when you go to the temple ³  of God; draw near to listen ⁴  rather than to offer a sacrifice ⁵  like fools, ⁶  for they do not realize that they are doing wrong.

Do you not know? Do you not hear? Has it not been told to you since the very beginning? Have you not understood from the time the earth’s foundations were made?