^15 (A)As you rejoiced because the inheritance of the house of Israel was desolate, ^(B)so I will do to you; you shall be desolate, O Mount Seir, as well as all of Edom—all of it! Then they shall know that I am the Lord.” ’

⁴⁰ and saying, ^(A)“You who destroy the temple and build it in three days, save Yourself! ^(B)If You are the Son of God, come down from the cross.”

⁴¹ Likewise the chief priests also, mocking with the ^[a]scribes and elders, said, ⁴² “He ^(C)saved others; Himself He cannot save. ^[b]If He is the King of Israel, let Him now come down from the cross, and we will believe ^[c]Him. ^43 (D)He trusted in God; let Him deliver Him now if He will have Him; for He said, ‘I am the Son of God.’ ”

Deceptions of False Teachers

¹⁸ For when they speak great swelling words of emptiness, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through lewdness, the ones who ^[a]have actually escaped from those who live in error.

⁶ ‘For thus says the Lord God: “Because you ^(A)clapped your hands, stamped your feet, and ^(B)rejoiced in heart with all your disdain for the land of Israel, ⁷ indeed, therefore, I will ^(C)stretch out My hand against you, and give you as plunder to the nations; I will cut you off from the peoples, and I will cause you to perish from the countries; I will destroy you, and you shall know that I am the Lord.”