Luke 8:13

⁴“Ephraim, what shall I do to you? Judah, what shall I do to you? For your love is like a morning cloud, and like the dew that disappears early.

³⁵He was the burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light.

¹²The wicked desires the plunder of evil men, but the root of the righteous flourishes.

²²But it has happened to them according to the true proverb, “The dog turns to his own vomit again,”and “the sow that has washed to wallowing in the mire.”

¹²These are hidden rocky reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you, shepherds who without fear feed themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;

³²Behold, you are to them as a very lovely song of one who has a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument; for they hear your words, but they don’t do them.

⁴Did you suffer so many things in vain, if it is indeed in vain?

¹⁷that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, to the end that you, being rooted and grounded in love,

¹Foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly portrayed among you as crucified?

²by which also you are saved, if you hold firmly the word which I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.