Afterward Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, Behold, you have been made well. Sin no more, that a worse thing not come upon you.

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

For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the full true knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the end is worse for them than the beginning.

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

For they have taken some of their daughters for themselves and their sons, so that the holy seed is mixed with the peoples of those lands. Indeed, the hand of the rulers and officials has been foremost in this treachery.

You shall not make any covenants with them, nor with their gods.

And you shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land; you shall pull down their altars. But you have not obeyed My voice. Why have you done this?

In those days I also saw Jews who had married women of Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.

So I contended with them and cursed them, struck some of them and pulled out their hair, and made them swear by God, saying, You shall not give your daughters to their sons, nor take their daughters for your sons, or for yourselves.

Should we then hear of your doing all this great evil, acting treacherously against our God by marrying foreign women?

Now therefore, let Me alone, that My wrath may burn against them, that I may consume them. And I will make of you a great nation.

Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment.

Get away from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment. And they fell on their faces.

Also in Horeb you provoked Jehovah to wrath, so that Jehovah was angry with you to have destroyed you.

Let Me alone, that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under the heavens; and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.

And now for a little while grace has been shown from Jehovah our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a peg in His holy place, that our God may enlighten our eyes and give us a little reviving in our bondage.

I have said, I will dash them in pieces, I will bring to an end the memory of them from among men,

had I not feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should misunderstand, lest they should say, our hand is high; and Jehovah has not done all this.

Except Jehovah of Hosts had left us a small remnant, we would be as Sodom; we would be as Gomorrah.

Do not fear, O Jacob My servant, says Jehovah, for I am with you. For I will make a full end of all the nations where I have driven you. But I will not make a complete end of you, but will correct you in justice; and I will not leave you acquitted nor unpunished.

Yet I will leave a remnant, so that you may have some who escape the sword among the nations, when you are scattered throughout the earth.