Then they said to Moses, "You speak with us, and we will hear; but let not God speak with us, lest we die."

And Moses said to the people, "Do not fear; for God has come to test you, and that His fear may be before you, so that you may not sin."

having a good conscience, that when they defame you as evildoers, those who revile your good conduct in Christ may be ashamed.

"Take heed to yourselves, lest your heart be deceived, and you turn aside and serve other gods and worship them,

"For I know that after my death you will become utterly corrupt, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will befall you in the latter days, because you will do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke Him to anger through the work of your hands."

"Therefore be very courageous to keep and to do all that is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, lest you turn aside from it to the right hand or to the left,

Blessed [is] that man who makes the LORD his trust, And does not respect the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.

I will set nothing wicked before my eyes; I hate the work of those who fall away; It shall not cling to me.

As for such as turn aside to their crooked ways, The LORD shall lead them away With the workers of iniquity. Peace [be] upon Israel!

"They say, 'If a man divorces his wife, And she goes from him And becomes another man's, May he return to her again?' Would not that land be greatly polluted? But you have played the harlot with many lovers; Yet return to Me," says the LORD.