But if any of you are ritually clean and not away on a journey and do not observe the Passover, you shall no longer be considered my people, because you did not present the offering to me at the appointed time. You must suffer the consequences of your sin.

Yet they still dared to go up into the hill country, even though neither the LORD's Covenant Box nor Moses left the camp.

Any male who has not been circumcised will no longer be considered one of my people, because he has not kept the covenant with me."

But when someone gets angry and deliberately kills someone else, he is to be put to death, even if he has run to my altar for safety.

If any of you give one of your children to Molech and make my sacred Tent unclean and disgrace my holy name, I will turn against you and will no longer consider you my people.

"If any of you go for advice to people who consult the spirits of the dead, I will turn against you and will no longer consider you one of my people.

If a man commits adultery with the wife of an Israelite, both he and the woman shall be put to death.

I told you what the LORD had said, but you paid no attention. You rebelled against him, and in your pride you marched into the hill country.

Anyone who dares to disobey either the judge or the priest on duty is to be put to death; in this way you will remove this evil from Israel.

Make sure that there is no one here today who hears these solemn demands and yet convinces himself that all will be well with him, even if he stubbornly goes his own way. That would destroy all of you, good and evil alike.

The LORD will not forgive such a man. Instead, the LORD's burning anger will flame up against him, and all the disasters written in this book will fall on him until the LORD has destroyed him completely.

Keep me safe, also, from willful sins; don't let them rule over me. Then I shall be perfect and free from the evil of sin.

Anyone who says something against the Son of Man can be forgiven; but whoever says something against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven---now or ever.

For there is no longer any sacrifice that will take away sins if we purposely go on sinning after the truth has been made known to us.

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!

especially those who follow their filthy bodily lusts and despise God's authority. These false teachers are bold and arrogant, and show no respect for the glorious beings above; instead, they insult them.

My devotion to your Temple burns in me like a fire; the insults which are hurled at you fall on me.

But remember, O LORD, that your enemies laugh at you, that they are godless and despise you.

Rouse yourself, God, and defend your cause! Remember that godless people laugh at you all day long.

Lord, pay the other nations back seven times for all the insults they have hurled at you.

Your enemies insult your chosen king, O LORD! They insult him wherever he goes.

If you oppress poor people, you insult the God who made them; but kindness shown to the poor is an act of worship.

Whom do you think you have been insulting and ridiculing? You have been disrespectful to me, the holy God of Israel.

You sent your servants to boast to me that with all your chariots you had conquered the highest mountains of Lebanon. You boasted that there you cut down the tallest cedars and the finest cypress trees, and that you reached the deepest parts of the forests.