But if you show prejudice, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as violators. ¹ 

He said to me, “You will see them practicing even greater abominations!”

He ¹  returns what was taken in pledge, pays back what he has stolen, and follows the statutes that give life, ²  committing no iniquity. He will certainly live – he will not die.

He said to me, “Go in and see the evil abominations they are practicing here.”

Because she took her prostitution so lightly, she defiled the land ¹  through her adulterous worship of gods made of wood and stone. ² 

There is only cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and adultery. They resort to violence and bloodshed. ¹ 

One friend deceives another and no one tells the truth. These people have trained themselves ¹  to tell lies. They do wrong and are unable to repent.

and likewise the men also abandoned natural relations with women ¹  and were inflamed in their passions ²  for one another. Men ³  committed shameless acts with men and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.

If ¹  anyone sees his fellow Christian ²  committing a sin not resulting in death, ³  he should ask, and God ⁴  will grant ⁵  life to the person who commits a sin not resulting in death. ⁶  There is a sin resulting in death. ⁷  I do not say that he should ask about that.

O Lord who rules over all, ¹  how blessed are those who trust in you! ² 

He said to me, “Son of man, do you see what they are doing – the great abominations that the people ¹  of Israel are practicing here, to drive me far from my sanctuary? But you will see greater abominations than these!”

You ¹  build Zion through bloody crimes, ²  Jerusalem ³  through unjust violence.

And if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.” ¹ 

and said to Jesus, ¹  “Teacher, this woman was caught in the very act of adultery.

“Son of man, suppose a country sins against me by being unfaithful, and I stretch out my hand against it, cut off its bread supply, ¹  cause famine to come on it, and kill both people and animals.

But I have a few things against you: You have some people there who follow the teaching of Balaam, ¹  who instructed Balak to put a stumbling block ²  before the people ³  of Israel so they would eat food sacrificed to idols and commit sexual immorality. ⁴ 

I ¹  persecuted this Way ²  even to the point of death, ³  tying up ⁴  both men and women and putting ⁵  them in prison,

That day Joshua drew up an agreement ¹  for the people, and he established rules and regulations ²  for them in Shechem.

The sin of these young men was very great in the Lord’s sight, for they ¹  treated the Lord’s offering with contempt.

Should we then in your case hear that you do all this great evil, thereby being unfaithful to our God by marrying ¹  foreign wives?”