³⁰ But the Pharisees and the experts in the law, not having been baptized by him, rejected God’s purpose for themselves.)^(A)

³⁴ Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often have I desired to gather your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing!^(A)

³⁵ and one of them, an expert in the law, asked him a question to test him.^(A)

6 As we work together with him,^[a] we entreat you also not to accept the grace of God in vain.^(A)

²¹ But of Israel he says, “All day long I have held out my hands to a disobedient and contrary people.”^(A)

²⁷ for I did not shrink from declaring to you the whole purpose of God.^(A)

¹¹ In Christ we have also obtained an inheritance,^[a] having been destined according to the purpose of him who accomplishes all things according to his counsel and will,^(A)

²¹ I do not nullify the grace of God, for if righteousness^[a] comes through the law, then Christ died for nothing.