For the bed is straitened, so that one must fall out, and a short covering cannot cover both.

For the bed is straitened, so that one must fall out, and a short covering cannot cover both.

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Isaiah 57:12,13 I will declare thy justice, and thy works shall not profit thee. . . .

Isaiah 59:5,6 They have broken the eggs of asps, and have woven the webs of spiders: he that shall eat of their eggs, shall die: and that which is brought out, shall be hatched into a basilisk. . . .

Isaiah 64:6 And we are all become as one unclean, and all our justices as the rag of a menstruous woman: and we have all fallen as a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

Isaiah 66:3-6 He that sacrificeth an ox, is as if he slew a man: he that killeth a sheep in sacrifice, as if he should brain a dog: he that offereth an oblation, as if he should offer swine's blood; he that remembereth incense, as if he should bless an idol. All these things have they chosen in their ways, and their soul is delighted in their abominations. . . .

Jeremiah 7:8-10 Behold you put your trust in lying words, which shall not profit you: . . .

Romans 9:30-32 What then shall we say? That the Gentiles who followed not after justice have attained to justice, even the justice that is of faith. . . .

1 Corinthians 1:18-31 For the word of the cross, to them indeed that perish, is foolishness: but to them that are saved, that is, to us, it is the power of God. . . .