Then why is there the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the seed would come to whom the promise has been made. It was ordained through angels by the hand of a mediator.
Now I want to remind y’all–even though y’all already know it–that after the Lord saved a people out of the land of Egypt, he later destroyed those who didn’t believe.
The man who does presumptuously in not listening to the priest who stands to minister there before YHWH your God, or to the judge, even that man will die. You must purge the evil from Israel.
then you are to bring out that man or that woman who has done this evil thing to your gates—that very man or woman—and you must stone them to death with stones.
If there is found among you, within any of your gates which YHWH your God gives you, a man or woman who does that which is evil in YHWH your God’s sight in transgressing his covenant,
While the meat was still between their teeth, before it was chewed, YHWH’s anger burned against the people, and YHWH struck the people with a very great plague.
Y’all be sure not to refuse him who speaks. For if they didn’t escape when they refused him who warned them on the earth, how much more will we not escape if we turn away from him who warns from heaven.
Moreover, we have the reliable, prophetic word, and y’all do well to pay attention to it like a light shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star arises in y’all’s hearts.