⁵³ you who received the law ^(A)as delivered by angels and ^(B)did not keep it.”

² For since ^(A)the message declared by angels proved to be reliable, and ^(B)every transgression or disobedience received a just ^(C)retribution,

¹⁹ Why then the law? ^(A)It was added because of transgressions, ^(B)until the offspring should come to whom the promise had been made, and it was ^(C)put in place through angels ^(D)by an intermediary.

³⁸ This is the one ^(A)who was in the congregation in the wilderness with ^(B)the angel who spoke to him at Mount Sinai, and with our fathers. ^(C)He received ^(D)living ^(E)oracles to give to us.

² He said,

¹³ For even those who are circumcised do not themselves keep the law, but they desire to have you circumcised that they may boast in your flesh.

^19 (A)Has not Moses given you the law? Yet none of you keeps the law. ^(B)Why do you seek to kill me?”

²³ You who ^(A)boast in the law ^(B)dishonor God by breaking the law. ²⁴ For, ^(C)as it is written, “The name of God is blasphemed ^(D)among the Gentiles because of you.”

²⁵ For circumcision indeed is of value ^(E)if you obey the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision becomes uncircumcision.

¹⁸ “And I said to ^(A)their children in the wilderness, ‘Do not walk ^(B)in the statutes of your fathers, nor keep their rules, ^(C)nor defile yourselves with their idols. ^19 (D)I am the Lord your God; ^(E)walk in my statutes, and be careful to obey my rules, ²⁰ and ^(F)keep my Sabbaths holy that ^(G)they may be a sign between me and you, that you may know that I am the Lord your God.’ ^21 (H)But the children ^(I)rebelled against me. ^(J)They did not walk in my statutes and were not careful to obey my rules, by which, if a person does them, he shall live; they profaned my Sabbaths.

^(K)“Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them and spend my anger against them in the wilderness.