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For if the message declared through angels proved valid, and every transgression or disobedience received a just penalty,(A)

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For since the message spoken(A) through angels(B) was binding, and every violation and disobedience received its just punishment,(C)

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53 You are the ones who received the law as ordained by angels, and yet you have not kept it.”(A)

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53 you who have received the law that was given through angels(A) but have not obeyed it.”

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The Purpose of the Law

19 Why then the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the offspring[a] would come to whom the promise had been made, and it was ordained through angels by a mediator.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 3.19 Gk seed

19 Why, then, was the law given at all? It was added because of transgressions(A) until the Seed(B) to whom the promise referred had come. The law was given through angels(C) and entrusted to a mediator.(D)

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Judgment on False Teachers

Now I desire to remind you, though you are fully informed, once and for all, that Jesus, who saved[a] a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 5 Other ancient authorities read informed, that the Lord who once and for all saved

Though you already know all this,(A) I want to remind you(B) that the Lord[a] at one time delivered his people out of Egypt, but later destroyed those who did not believe.(C)

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  1. Jude 1:5 Some early manuscripts Jesus

28 Anyone who has violated the law of Moses dies without mercy “on the testimony of two or three witnesses.”(A)

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28 Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.(A)

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26 “ ‘Cursed be anyone who does not uphold the words of this law by observing them.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen!’(A)

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26 “Cursed is anyone who does not uphold the words of this law by carrying them out.”(A)

Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”(B)

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26 He considered abuse suffered for the Christ[a] to be greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking ahead to the reward.

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  1. 11.26 Or the Messiah

26 He regarded disgrace(A) for the sake of Christ(B) as of greater value than the treasures of Egypt, because he was looking ahead to his reward.(C)

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35 Do not, therefore, abandon that boldness of yours; it brings a great reward.

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35 So do not throw away your confidence;(A) it will be richly rewarded.

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12 As for anyone who presumes to disobey the priest appointed to minister there to the Lord your God or the judge, that person shall die. So you shall purge the evil from Israel.

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12 Anyone who shows contempt(A) for the judge or for the priest who stands ministering(B) there to the Lord your God is to be put to death.(C) You must purge the evil from Israel.(D)

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then you shall bring out to your gates that man or that woman who has committed this crime, and you shall stone the man or woman to death.

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take the man or woman who has done this evil deed to your city gate and stone that person to death.(A)

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You have seen for yourselves what the Lord did with regard to the Baal of Peor, how the Lord your God destroyed from among you everyone who followed the Baal of Peor,(A) while those of you who held fast to the Lord your God are all alive today.

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You saw with your own eyes what the Lord did at Baal Peor.(A) The Lord your God destroyed from among you everyone who followed the Baal of Peor, but all of you who held fast to the Lord your God are still alive today.

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30 But whoever acts high-handedly, whether native-born or an alien, affronts the Lord and shall be cut off from among the people. 31 Because of having despised the word of the Lord and broken his commandment, such a person shall be utterly cut off and bear the guilt.”(A)

Penalty for Violating the Sabbath

32 When the Israelites were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks on the Sabbath day.(B) 33 Those who found him gathering sticks brought him to Moses, Aaron, and the whole congregation. 34 They put him in custody because it was not clear what should be done to him.(C) 35 Then the Lord said to Moses, “The man shall be put to death; all the congregation shall stone him outside the camp.”(D) 36 The whole congregation brought him outside the camp and stoned him to death, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

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30 “‘But anyone who sins defiantly,(A) whether native-born or foreigner,(B) blasphemes the Lord(C) and must be cut off from the people of Israel.(D) 31 Because they have despised(E) the Lord’s word and broken his commands,(F) they must surely be cut off; their guilt remains on them.(G)’”

The Sabbath-Breaker Put to Death

32 While the Israelites were in the wilderness,(H) a man was found gathering wood on the Sabbath day.(I) 33 Those who found him gathering wood brought him to Moses and Aaron and the whole assembly, 34 and they kept him in custody, because it was not clear what should be done to him.(J) 35 Then the Lord said to Moses, “The man must die.(K) The whole assembly must stone him outside the camp.(L) 36 So the assembly took him outside the camp and stoned him(M) to death,(N) as the Lord commanded Moses.(O)

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27 He said to them, “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: Put your sword on your side, each of you! Go back and forth from gate to gate throughout the camp, and each of you kill your brother, your friend, and your neighbor.”(A) 28 The sons of Levi did as Moses commanded, and about three thousand of the people fell on that day.

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27 Then he said to them, “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: ‘Each man strap a sword to his side. Go back and forth through the camp from one end to the other, each killing his brother and friend and neighbor.’”(A) 28 The Levites did as Moses commanded, and that day about three thousand of the people died.

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