What agreement does the temple of God have with idols? For we are the temple of the living God, just as God said, “I will dwell with them and walk among them. I will be their God and they will be my people.”
For we too were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, enslaved to various desires and pleasures, living in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another.
YHWH smelled the pleasant aroma. YHWH said in ʜɪꜱ heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake because the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth. I will never again strike every living thing, as I have done.
YHWH saw that the wickedness of humanity was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of the human heart was continually only evil.
The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the ethnic groups by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, “In you all the ethnic groups will be blessed.”
For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, “For this very reason I raised you up, that I might display my power in you, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.”
God is not a human, that he should lie, nor a son of a human, that he should repent. Has he said, and he won’t do it? Or has he spoken, and he won’t make it good?
Onan knew that the offspring wouldn’t be his. So when he went in to his brother’s wife, he spilled his semen on the ground, so that he would not give offspring to his brother.