If I had said, I will speak thus; Behold, I had dealt treacherously with the generation of thy children.
But ye are turned aside out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble in the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith the LORD of hosts.
But ye are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession, that ye may shew forth the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:
It is good not to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor to do anything whereby thy brother stumbleth.
For if because of meat thy brother is grieved, thou walkest no longer in love. Destroy not with thy meat him for whom Christ died.
This is the generation of them that seek after him, That seek thy face, O God of Jacob. Selah
A seed shall serve him; It shall be told of the Lord unto the next generation.
There were they in great fear: For God is in the generation of the righteous.
Nay, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear: ye make the LORD'S people to transgress.