⁸ “The officers shall speak further to the people, and say, ^(A)‘What man is there who is fearful and fainthearted? Let him go and return to his house, ^[a]lest the heart of his brethren faint like his heart.’

³ Now therefore, proclaim in the hearing of the people, saying, ^(A)‘Whoever is fearful and afraid, let him turn and depart at once from Mount Gilead.’ ” And twenty-two thousand of the people returned, and ten thousand remained.

^8 (A)But the cowardly, ^[a]unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in ^(B)the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.”

²⁸ Where can we go up? Our brethren have ^[a]discouraged our hearts, saying, ^(A)“The people are greater and taller than we; the cities are great and fortified up to heaven; moreover we have seen the sons of the ^(B)Anakim there.” ’

³⁷ Now Barnabas ^[a]was determined to take with them ^(A)John called Mark. ³⁸ But Paul insisted that they should not take with them ^(B)the one who had departed from them in Pamphylia, and had not gone with them to the work.

¹⁶ So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither ^[a]cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth.

⁶² But Jesus said to him, “No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is ^(A)fit for the kingdom of God.”

Cleanliness of the Campsite

⁹ “When the army goes out against your enemies, then keep yourself from every wicked thing.

⁹ For ^(A)when they went up to the Valley of Eshcol and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, so that they did not go into the land which the Lord had given them.

^31 (A)But the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we.” ³² And they ^(B)gave the children of Israel a bad report of the land which they had spied out, saying, “The land through which we have gone as spies is a land that devours its inhabitants, and ^(C)all the people whom we saw in it are men of great stature. ³³ There we saw the ^[a]giants (^(D)the descendants of Anak came from the giants); and we were ^(E)like^[b] grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were ^(F)in their sight.”

Israel Refuses to Enter Canaan

14 So all the congregation lifted up their voices and cried, and the people ^(G)wept that night. ^2 (H)And all the children of Israel complained against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt! Or if only we had died in this wilderness! ³ Why has the Lord brought us to this land to ^[c]fall by the sword, that our wives and ^(I)children should become victims? Would it not be better for us to return to Egypt?”