^29 (A)Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood and ^(B)the covenant of the priesthood and the Levites.

Laws Governing Priests

^10 (A)“And the Levites who went far from Me, when Israel went astray, who strayed away from Me after their idols, they shall bear their iniquity.

¹⁷ Therefore the sin of the young men was very great ^(A)before the Lord, for men ^(B)abhorred^[a] the offering of the Lord.

¹² Beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God;

²¹ It is good neither to eat ^(A)meat nor drink wine nor do anything by which your brother stumbles ^[a]or is offended or is made weak.

¹⁹ and ^(A)are confident that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness, ²⁰ an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, ^(B)having the form of knowledge and truth in the law. ^21 (C)You, therefore, who teach another, do you not teach yourself? You who preach that a man should not steal, do you steal? ²² You who say, “Do not commit adultery,” do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, ^(D)do you rob temples? ²³ You who ^(E)make your boast in the law, do you dishonor God through breaking the law? ²⁴ For ^(F)“the name of God is ^(G)blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you,” as it is written.