⁴³ For the land will be deserted^(A) by them and will enjoy its sabbaths while it lies desolate without them. They will pay for their sins because they rejected^(B) my laws and abhorred my decrees.^(C)

⁷ The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God;^(A) it does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so.

¹⁵ and if you reject my decrees and abhor my laws^(A) and fail to carry out all my commands and so violate my covenant,^(B)

⁵ And have you completely forgotten this word of encouragement that addresses you as a father addresses his son? It says,

⁷ Endure hardship as discipline; God is treating you as his children.^(D) For what children are not disciplined by their father? ⁸ If you are not disciplined—and everyone undergoes discipline^(E)—then you are not legitimate, not true sons and daughters at all. ⁹ Moreover, we have all had human fathers who disciplined us and we respected them for it. How much more should we submit to the Father of spirits^(F) and live!^{(G) 10} They disciplined us for a little while as they thought best; but God disciplines us for our good, in order that we may share in his holiness.^{(H) 11} No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace^(I) for those who have been trained by it.

²³ Whoever hates me hates my Father as well. ²⁴ If I had not done among them the works no one else did,^(A) they would not be guilty of sin.^(B) As it is, they have seen, and yet they have hated both me and my Father.

⁷ The world cannot hate you, but it hates me^(A) because I testify that its works are evil.^(B)

⁸ In one month I got rid of the three shepherds.

The flock detested^(A) me, and I grew weary of them