maintaining such an excellent way of life among the ethnic groups that, though they accuse y’all of being evildoers, they may see y’all’s excellent deeds and glorify God in the day of visitation.
But when they opposed him and vilified him, he shook out his clothing and said to them, “Y’all’s blood be on your* own heads! I am innocent. From now on, I will go to the ethnic groups!”
This has happened to them according to the true proverbs, “A dog turns to its own vomit,” and “A sow that has washed returns to wallowing in the mire.”
But these people are like animals who cannot reason but act only on instinct, born to be captured and destroyed. They blaspheme in matters about which they are ignorant, and in their destruction, they will be destroyed,
Let us walk properly as in the day, not in hard partying and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and promiscuity, and not in quarreling and jealousy.
“Woe to y’all, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For y’all clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.