And we urge you, brothers and sisters, to warn certain people who don’t want to work and who are being disruptive. Encourage those who have lost hope, help those who are weak, and be patient with everyone.
To those who don’t have the law, I became like one who didn’t have the law (even though I’m not free from God’s law, but under Christ’s law), in order to win those who don’t have the law.
Jesus replied, “Woe to you experts in the law! You put such heavy loads on people that they can hardly carry them, but you yourselves won’t lift one finger to help them.
But if someone takes a good look at the perfect law that gives freedom, if they keep looking at it and don’t forget what they’ve heard but do it, then that person will be blessed in what they do.
It would have been better for them not to know the way of godliness than to know it but then turn their backs on the sacred command that was passed on to them.