And God will tell them what they did.\par God will tell him that they sinned.\par God will tell him that they were proud.\par
I will say to God:\par ‘Don’t blame me!\par Tell me,\par What have I done wrong?\par What do you have against me?\par
Why? Because the evil person refuses to obey God—\par He shakes his fist at God,\par and tries to defeat God All-Powerful.\par
Before I suffered, I did many wrong things.\par But now, I carefully obey your commands.\par
Suffering was good for me.\par I learned your laws.\par
Punish them, God!\par Let them be caught in their own traps.\par Those people have turned against you,\par so punish them for their many crimes.\par
The man that the Lord disciplines\par will be very happy.\par God will teach that person\par the right way of living.\par
Why? Because we have done many, many wrong things against our God.\par Our sins show we are wrong.\par We know we are guilty of doing these things.\par
There were not enough Levites to take the place of 273 men from the other family groups. So Moses gathered the money for those 273 men.
The law came to make people have more sin. But when people had more sin, God gave them more of his grace (kindness).
Never do anything that might make other people do wrong—Jews, Greeks (non-Jews), or God’s church.
What I say is true, and you should fully accept it: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. And I am the worst of those sinners.