They profess to know God but with their deeds they deny him, since they are detestable, disobedient, and unfit for any good deed.

For this reason ¹  the wicked cannot withstand ²  judgment, ³  nor can sinners join the assembly of the godly. ⁴ 

The priests will not eat any bird or animal that has died a natural death or was torn to pieces by a wild animal. ¹ 

If you make me an altar of stone, you must not build it ¹  of stones shaped with tools, ²  for if you use your tool on it you have defiled it. ³ 

Even from a foreigner ¹  you must not present the food of your God from such animals as these, for they are ruined and flawed; ²  they will not be acceptable for your benefit.’”

Even if they raise their children, I will take away every last one of them. ¹  Woe to them! For I will turn away from them.

When it was full, they pulled it ashore, sat down, and put the good fish into containers and threw the bad away.

Instead I subdue my body and make it my slave, so that after preaching to others I myself will not be disqualified.

For I am the least of the apostles, unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

May his blood whirl over ¹  the head of Joab and the entire house of his father! ²  May the males of Joab’s house ³  never cease to have ⁴  someone with a running sore or a skin disease or one who works at the spindle ⁵  or one who falls by the sword or one who lacks food!”

“I, the Lord who rules over all, say: ¹  ‘This place will indeed lie in ruins. There will be no people or animals in it. But there will again be in it and in its towns sheepfolds where shepherds can rest their sheep.

When they go out to the outer court to the people, they must remove the garments they were ministering in, and place them in the holy chambers; they must put on other garments so that they will not transmit holiness to the people with their garments. ¹