14 Nevertheless, because by this deed you have utterly (A)scorned the Lord,[a] the child who is born to you shall die.”

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 12:14 Masoretic Text the enemies of the Lord; Dead Sea Scroll the word of the Lord

24 For, (A)as it is written, “The name of God is blasphemed (B)among the Gentiles because of you.”

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Now therefore what have I here,” declares the Lord, “seeing that my people are taken away for nothing? Their rulers wail,” declares the Lord, “and (A)continually all the day my name is despised.

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19 (A)Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline, so be zealous and repent.

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For (A)the Lord disciplines the one he loves,
    and chastises every son whom he receives.”

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11 (A)My son, do not despise the Lord's discipline
    or be weary of his reproof,
12 for the Lord reproves him whom he loves,
    as (B)a father the son in whom he delights.

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12 (A)Blessed is the man whom you (B)discipline, O Lord,
    and whom you teach out of your law,

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31 if they violate my statutes
    and do not keep my commandments,
32 then I will punish their transgression with (A)the rod
    and their iniquity with stripes,
33 but I will not remove from him my steadfast love
    or be false to my faithfulness.

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32 But when we are judged by the Lord, (A)we are disciplined[a] so that we may not be (B)condemned along with the world.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 11:32 Or when we are judged we are being disciplined by the Lord

Temptations to Sin

“Woe to the world for (A)temptations to sin![a] (B)For it is necessary that temptations come, (C)but woe to the one by whom the temptation comes!

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 18:7 Greek stumbling blocks

(A)“You only have I known
    of all the families of the earth;
(B)therefore I will punish you
    for all your iniquities.

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20 But when they came to the nations, wherever they came, (A)they profaned my holy name, in that people said of them, ‘These are the people of the Lord, and yet they had to go out of his land.’ 21 But I had concern (B)for my holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations to which they came.

I Will Put My Spirit Within You

22 “Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord God: (C)It is not for your sake, O house of Israel, that I am about to act, but for the sake of my holy name, (D)which you have profaned among the nations to which you came. 23 (E)And I will vindicate the holiness of my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, and which you have profaned among them. (F)And the nations will know that I am the Lord, declares the Lord God, when through you I vindicate my holiness before their eyes.

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10 How long, O God, (A)is the foe to scoff?
    Is the enemy to revile your name forever?

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So I said, “The thing that you are doing is not good. Ought you not to walk (A)in the fear of our God (B)to prevent the taunts of the nations our enemies?

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