If you refuse to obey my laws and commands and break the covenant I have made with you,

First, however, the land must be rid of its people, so that it can enjoy its complete rest, and they must pay the full penalty for having rejected my laws and my commands.

Why, then, have you disobeyed my commands? Why did you do this evil thing? You had Uriah killed in battle; you let the Ammonites kill him, and then you took his wife!

LORD, it is time for you to act, because people are disobeying your law.

If you refuse good advice, you are asking for trouble; follow it and you are safe.

But this is what the holy God of Israel says: "You ignore what I tell you and rely on violence and deceit.

So then, whoever rejects this teaching is not rejecting a human being, but God, who gives you his Holy Spirit.

Anyone who disobeys the Law of Moses is put to death without any mercy when judged guilty from the evidence of two or more witnesses.

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!

Sin offerings are required in the following cases. If you are officially summoned to give evidence in court and do not give information about something you have seen or heard, you must suffer the consequences.

I am drowning in the flood of my sins; they are a burden too heavy to bear.

All of us were like sheep that were lost, each of us going his own way. But the LORD made the punishment fall on him, the punishment all of us deserved.

It is the one who sins who will die. A son is not to suffer because of his father's sins, nor a father because of the sins of his son. Good people will be rewarded for doing good, and evil people will suffer for the evil they do.

Christ himself carried our sins in his body to the cross, so that we might die to sin and live for righteousness. It is by his wounds that you have been healed.

It would have been much better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than to know it and then turn away from the sacred command that was given them.