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²⁷Just as whoever eats too much honey, it is not good for him, so also whoever is an investigator of what is majestic will be overwhelmed by glory.

²⁴You have bought me no sweet cane with money, and you have not inebriated me with the fat of your victims. Yet truly, you have burdened me with your sins; you have wearied me with your iniquities.

²⁰For what reason are you bringing me frankincense from Sheba, and sweet smelling reeds from a far away land? Your holocausts are not acceptable, and your sacrifices are not pleasing to me.”

¹⁰³How sweet is your eloquence to my palate, more so than honey to my mouth!

²and put a knife to your throat, if, in such a way, you could hold your soul in your own power.

¹But accept those who are weak in faith, without disputing about ideas. ²For one person believes that he may eat all things, but if another is weak, let him eat plants. ³He who eats should not despise him who does not eat. And he who does not eat should not judge him who eats. For God has accepted him. ⁴Who are you to judge the servant of another? He stands or falls by his own Lord. But he shall stand. For God is able to make him stand. ⁵For one person discerns one age from the next. But another discerns unto every age. Let each one increase according to his own mind. ⁶He who understands the age, understands for the Lord. And he who eats, eats for the Lord; for he gives thanks to God. And he who does not eat, does not eat for the Lord, and he gives thanks to God.

⁵Thus says the Lord: “Cursed is a man who trusts in man, and who establishes what is flesh as his right arm, and whose heart withdraws from the Lord. ⁶For he will be like a saltcedar tree in the desert. And he will not perceive it, when what is good has arrived. Instead, he will live in dryness, in a desert, in a land of salt, which is uninhabitable. ⁷Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, for the Lord will be his confidence. ⁸And he will be like a tree planted beside waters, which sends out its roots to moist soil. And it will not fear when the heat arrives. And its leaves will be green. And in the time of drought, it will not be anxious, nor will it cease at any time to bear fruit. ⁹The heart is depraved above all things, and it is unsearchable, who can know it?

¹³For this reason, I speak to them in parables: because seeing, they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand.

³And everything that moves and lives will be food for you. Just as with the edible plants, I have delivered them all to you,

¹And on the third day, a wedding was held in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. ²Now Jesus was also invited to the wedding, with his disciples. ³And when the wine was failing, the mother of Jesus said to him, “They have no wine.” ⁴And Jesus said to her: “What is that to me and to you, woman? My hour has not yet arrived.” ⁵His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.” ⁶Now in that place, there were six stone water jars, for the purification ritual of the Jews, containing two or three measures each.

⁷So then, go and eat your bread with rejoicing, and drink your wine with gladness. For your works are pleasing to God.