![For the customs of the people [are] vain: for [one] cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.](https://evangeliumofgrace.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/agnieszka-m-rTvYnR0zY1Q-unsplash-768x512.jpg)
For the customs of the people are vain
For the pastors are become brutish, and have not sought the Lord: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered.
![For the customs of the people [are] vain: for [one] cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.](https://evangeliumofgrace.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/agnieszka-m-rTvYnR0zY1Q-unsplash-768x512.jpg)
For the pastors are become brutish, and have not sought the Lord: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered.
![Ye that fear the Lord, trust in the Lord: he [is] their help and their shield.](https://evangeliumofgrace.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/nightmare-2826890_1920-768x512.jpg)
The Lord hath been mindful of us: he will bless [us]; he will bless the house of Israel; he will bless the house of Aaron.
![And these are they which are sown on good ground; such as hear the word, and receive [it], and bring forth fruit, some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some an hundred.](https://evangeliumofgrace.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/hands-1838658_1920-768x514.jpg)
For there is nothing hid, which shall not be manifested; neither was any thing kept secret, but that it should come abroad.
![For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so [are] the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.](https://evangeliumofgrace.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/angel-1284369_1920-768x507.jpg)
Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.
![For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: [it is] the gift of God:](https://evangeliumofgrace.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/canyon-4245261_1920-768x512.jpg)
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
![O Belteshazzar, master of the magicians, because I know that the spirit of the holy gods [is] in thee, and no secret troubleth thee, tell me the visions of my dream that I have seen, and the interpretation thereof.](https://evangeliumofgrace.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/evergreen-2025158-768x394.jpg)
The tree grew, and was strong, and the height thereof reached unto heaven, and the sight thereof to the end of all the earth

For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
![Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink [this] cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.](https://evangeliumofgrace.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Letoltott0907-768x465.jpg)
Now in this that I declare unto you I praise you not, that ye come together not for the better, but for the worse.

Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.