So then, you will get what you deserve, and your own actions will make you sick.

Fear an angry king as you would a growling lion; making him angry is suicide.

This is how the judgment works: the light has come into the world, but people love the darkness rather than the light, because their deeds are evil.

Those who do evil things hate the light and will not come to the light, because they do not want their evil deeds to be shown up.

But Paul and Barnabas spoke out even more boldly: "It was necessary that the word of God should be spoken first to you. But since you reject it and do not consider yourselves worthy of eternal life, we will leave you and go to the Gentiles.

How, then, shall we escape if we pay no attention to such a great salvation? The Lord himself first announced this salvation, and those who heard him proved to us that it is true.

What, then, of those who despise the Son of God? who treat as a cheap thing the blood of God's covenant which purified them from sin? who insult the Spirit of grace? Just think how much worse is the punishment they will deserve!

You will lie groaning on your deathbed, your flesh and muscles being eaten away,

and you will say, "Why would I never learn? Why would I never let anyone correct me?

The sins of the wicked are a trap. They get caught in the net of their own sin.

They die because they have no self-control. Their utter stupidity will send them to their graves.

Give up all the evil you have been doing, and get yourselves new minds and hearts. Why do you Israelites want to die?

Tell them that as surely as I, the Sovereign LORD, am the living God, I do not enjoy seeing sinners die. I would rather see them stop sinning and live. Israel, stop the evil you are doing. Why do you want to die?

Whoever hates me hates my Father also.

They would not have been guilty of sin if I had not done among them the things that no one else ever did; as it is, they have seen what I did, and they hate both me and my Father.

Whoever does not love the Lord---a curse on him! Marana tha---Our Lord, come!