After these things Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, "See, you have become well. Sin no more, lest something worse may happen to you."

What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound?

For if having escaped from the corruptions of the world by the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, yet by these, having become entangled they are defeated, the latter end has become worse for them than the first.

For it was better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than knowing it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them.

For they have taken of their daughters for themselves and their sons, and the holy seed has passed among the nations of the lands, and the hand of the rulers [has been] first in this transgression.

You shall make no covenant with them and their gods.

And you shall make no covenant with them that dwell in this land, neither shall you worship their gods; but you shall destroy their graven images, you shall pull down their altars: but you did not listen to My voice, for you did these things.

And in those days I saw the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, [and] of Moab.

And I strove with them and cursed them; and I struck some of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, [saying,] You shall not give your daughters to their sons, and you shall not take of their daughters to your sons.

So we will not hearken to you to do all this evil, to break covenant with our God, to marry strange wives.

Now therefore let Me alone, and I will be very angry with them and consume them, and I will make you a great nation.

Separate yourselves from the midst of this congregation, and I will consume them at once.

Depart out of the midst of this congregation, and I will consume them at once. And they fell upon their faces.

Also in Horeb you provoked the Lord, and the Lord was angry with you, to destroy you;

And now I shall utterly destroy them, and I will blot out their name from under heaven, and will make of you a nation great and strong, and more numerous than this.

And now our God has dealt mercifully with us, so as to leave us [a remnant] to escape, and to give us an establishment in the place of His sanctuary, to enlighten our eyes, and give us a measure of revival in our bondage.

I said, I will scatter them, and I will cause their memorial to cease from among men.

Were it not for the wrath of the enemy, lest they should live long, lest their enemies should combine against them; lest they should say, Our own outstretched arm, and not the Lord's, has done all these things.

And if the Lord of Sabaoth had not left us a seed, we would have become like Sodom, and been made like Gomorrah.

Fear not, My servant Jacob, says the Lord; for I am with you. She [that was] without fear and in luxury, has been delivered up; for I will make a full end of every nation among whom I have thrust you forth. But I will not cause you to fail. Yet will I chastise you in the way of judgment, and will not hold you entirely guiltless.

When there are [some] of you escaping from the sword among the Gentiles, and when you are scattered in the countries,