³⁰ But whoever acts high-handedly, whether native-born or an alien, affronts the Lord and shall be cut off from among the people.

²⁰ For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of the^[a] Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overpowered, the last state has become worse for them than the first.^(A)