Saul answered, “All right, I sinned! But please come back with me. Show me some respect in front of the leaders and the people of Israel. Come back with me so I may worship the Lord your God.”
My Master says, “These people say they love me. They show honor to me with words from their mouths. But their hearts are far from me. The honor they show me is nothing but human rules they have memorized.
This message can’t help people that refuse to listen to it. But a \{good person will believe this message. And the\} good person will live because of his faith.”
Those people will continue to act like they serve God. But the way they live shows that they don’t really serve God. Timothy, stay away from those people.
Then Saul said, “I have sinned. Come back, David my son. Today you showed me that my life is important to you. So I will not try to hurt you. I have acted foolishly. I have made a big mistake.”