and so they incur condemnation for having violated their first pledge.
Let not many of you become teachers, my brethren, for you know that we who teach shall be judged with greater strictness.
I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ and turning to a different gospel—
For the time has come for judgment to begin with the household of God; and if it begins with us, what will be the end of those who do not obey the gospel of God?
if any one is hungry, let him eat at home—lest you come together to be condemned. About the other things I will give directions when I come.
But refuse to enrol younger widows; for when they grow wanton against Christ they desire to marry,
Besides that, they learn to be idlers, gadding about from house to house, and not only idlers but gossips and busybodies, saying what they should not.
Israel has spurned the good; the enemy shall pursue him.