I paid no attention to my teachers,
Don't forget about your leaders who taught you God's message. Remember what kind of lives they lived and try to have faith like theirs.
So if you don't obey these rules, you are not really disobeying us. Instead, you are disobeying God, who gives you his Holy Spirit.
I will go to my father and say to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against God in heaven and against you.
My child, obey the teachings of your parents,
and now I am disgraced in front of everyone.”
He spoke bluntly and told them exactly what his own advisors had suggested: “My father made you work hard, but I'll make you work even harder. He punished you with whips, but I'll use whips with pieces of sharp metal!”
