such that when I come again my God will humble me before y’all, and I will be grieved for many who previously sinned and have not repented of the impurity, sexual immorality and sensuality which they practiced.
Yes, all Israel have transgressed your law, turning aside, that they should not obey your voice. “Therefore the curse and the oath written in the law of Moses the servant of God has been poured out on us, for we have sinned against him.
The Spirit of God came on Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest. He stood above the people, and said to them, “God says, ‘Why do y’all disobey YHWH’s commands, so that y’all do not prosper? Because y’all have forsaken YHWH, ʜᴇ has also forsaken y’all.’”
Saul said to Samuel, “I have sinned; for I have transgressed the commandment of YHWH and your words, because I feared the people and obeyed their voice.
So Saul died for his trespass which he committed against YHWH, because of the word of YHWH, which he didn’t keep, and also because he asked counsel of one who had a familiar spirit, to inquire,
yet if they repent in the land where they are carried captive, and turn again, and make supplication to you in the land of those who carried them captive, saying, ‘We have sinned and have done perversely; we have dealt wickedly,’
He was taken away by oppression and judgment. As for his generation, who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living and stricken for the disobedience of my people?
Therefore, whoever breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches humans to do the same, will be called least in the Empire of Heaven. But whoever keeps and teaches them will be called great in the Empire of Heaven.
Then Paul said to him, “God will strike you, you whitewashed wall! You sit there judging me according to the law, but then you violate the law by ordering that I be struck?”
