¹⁸ And they withstood King Uzziah, and said to him, “It ^(A)is not for you, Uzziah, to burn incense to the Lord, but for the ^(B)priests, the sons of Aaron, who are consecrated to burn incense. Get out of the sanctuary, for you have trespassed! You shall have no honor from the Lord God.”

⁷ “Aaron shall burn on it ^(A)sweet incense every morning; when ^(B)he tends the lamps, he shall burn incense on it. ⁸ And when Aaron lights the lamps ^[a]at twilight, he shall burn incense on it, a perpetual incense before the Lord throughout your generations.

⁷ Therefore ^(A)you and your sons with you shall attend to your priesthood for everything at the altar and ^(B)behind the veil; and you shall serve. I give your priesthood to you as a ^(C)gift for service, but the outsider who comes near shall be put to death.”

⁴ And no man takes this honor to himself, but he who is called by God, just as ^(A)Aaron was.

² And Jehu the son of Hanani ^(A)the seer went out to meet him, and said to King Jehoshaphat, “Should you help the wicked and ^(B)love those who hate the Lord? Therefore the ^(C)wrath of the Lord is upon you.

Beware of Personal Favoritism

2 My brethren, do not hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, ^(A)the Lord of glory, with ^(B)partiality.

No Return to the Law

^11 (A)Now when ^[a]Peter had come to Antioch, I ^[b]withstood him to his face, because he was to be blamed;

^16 (A)Therefore, from now on, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, ^(B)yet now we know Him thus no longer.