The way of a fool [is] right in his own eyes, And whoso is hearkening to counsel [is] wise.

There is a way right before a man, And its latter end -- ways of death.

A generation -- pure in their own eyes, But from their own filth not washed.

'Go ye in through the strait gate, because wide [is] the gate, and broad the way that is leading to the destruction, and many are those going in through it;

how strait [is] the gate, and compressed the way that is leading to the life, and few are those finding it!

'Be striving to go in through the straight gate, because many, I say to you, will seek to go in, and shall not be able;

what fruit, therefore, were ye having then, in the things of which ye are now ashamed? for the end of those [is] death.

for if any one doth think [himself] to be something -- being nothing -- himself he doth deceive;

Let no one deceive you with vain words, for because of these things cometh the anger of God upon the sons of the disobedience,

and become ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves,