Ezra 10:2

Peter opened his mouth and said, “Truly I perceive that God doesn’t show favoritism;

You shall make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.

and you take of their daughters to your sons, and their daughters play the prostitute after their gods, and make your sons play the prostitute after their gods.

“ ‘You shall do no injustice in judgment. You shall not be partial to the poor, nor show favoritism to the great; but you shall judge your neighbor in righteousness.

Therefore, sirs, cheer up! For I believe God, that it will be just as it has been spoken to me.

Then they all cheered up, and they also took food.

My brothers, don’t hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ of glory with partiality.

and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation.’ These are the words which you shall speak to the children of Israel.”

“You shall be holy men to me, therefore you shall not eat any meat that is torn by animals in the field. You shall cast it to the dogs.

They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against me, for if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you.”

You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small and the great alike. You shall not be afraid of the face of man, for the judgment is God’s. The case that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.”

For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God. Yahweh your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.

For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God, and Yahweh has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.

shall we again break your commandments, and join ourselves with the peoples that do these abominations? Wouldn’t you be angry with us until you had consumed us, so that there would be no remnant, nor any to escape?

Shall we then listen to you to do all this great evil, to trespass against our God in marrying foreign women?”

Don’t we all have one father? Hasn’t one God created us? Why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, profaning the covenant of our fathers?

Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship do righteousness and iniquity have? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?

God’s sons saw that men’s daughters were beautiful, and they took any that they wanted for themselves as wives.

“Don’t make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, lest they play the prostitute after their gods, and sacrifice to their gods, and one call you and you eat of his sacrifice;

For from the top of the rocks I see him. From the hills I see him. Behold, it is a people that dwells alone, and shall not be listed among the nations.

and when Yahweh your God delivers them up before you, and you strike them, then you shall utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them, nor show mercy to them.

For they have taken of their daughters for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy offspring have mixed themselves with the peoples of the lands. Yes, the hand of the princes and rulers has been chief in this trespass.”

If there is a tenth left in it, that also will in turn be consumed, as a terebinth, and as an oak, whose stump remains when they are cut down; so the holy seed is its stock.”

Did he not make you one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? Why one? He sought godly offspring. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

Be careful. If your brother sins against you, rebuke him. If he repents, forgive him.

Don’t judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment.”

They, when they heard it, being convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning from the oldest, even to the last. Jesus was left alone with the woman where she was, in the middle.

Which of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me?

Listen now to my voice. I will give you counsel, and God be with you. You represent the people before God, and bring the causes to God.

So Moses listened to the voice of his father-in-law, and did all that he had said.

You shall set bounds to the people all around, saying, ‘Be careful that you don’t go up onto the mountain, or touch its border. Whoever touches the mountain shall be surely put to death.

Be careful, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it be for a snare among you;

It is a trespass offering. He is certainly guilty before Yahweh.”

You shall be holy to me, for I, Yahweh, am holy, and have set you apart from the peoples, that you should be mine.

He shall not profane his offspring among his people, for I am Yahweh who sanctifies him.’ ”

The men of Israel said to the Hivites, “What if you live among us? How could we make a covenant with you?”

So Joshua struck all the land, the hill country, the South, the lowland, the slopes, and all their kings. He left no one remaining, but he utterly destroyed all that breathed, as Yahweh, the God of Israel, commanded.

Therefore I also said, ‘I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be in your sides, and their gods will be a snare to you.’ ”

They took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their own daughters to their sons and served their gods.

David was greatly distressed; for the people spoke of stoning him, because the souls of all the people were grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters; but David strengthened himself in Yahweh his God.

Who will listen to you in this matter? For as his share is who goes down to the battle, so shall his share be who stays with the baggage. They shall share alike.”

of the nations concerning which Yahweh said to the children of Israel, “You shall not go among them, neither shall they come among you; for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods.” Solomon joined to these in love.

He brought in the priests and the Levites, and gathered them together into the wide place on the east,

The children of Immer, one thousand fifty-two.

Of the sons of Elam, Jeshaiah the son of Athaliah; and with him seventy males.

Now therefore don’t give your daughters to their sons. Don’t take their daughters to your sons, nor seek their peace or their prosperity forever; that you may be strong, and eat the good of the land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children forever.’

Of the sons of Elam: Mattaniah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, and Abdi, and Jeremoth, and Elijah.

After them, Zadok the son of Immer made repairs across from his own house. After him, Shemaiah the son of Shecaniah, the keeper of the east gate made repairs.

The children of Immer: one thousand fifty-two.

Maaziah, Bilgai, and Shemaiah. These were the priests.

There shall be no strange god in you, neither shall you worship any foreign god.

They joined themselves also to Baal Peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead.

Stretch out your hand from above, rescue me, and deliver me out of great waters, out of the hands of foreigners,

Yes, you didn’t hear. Yes, you didn’t know. Yes, from of old your ear was not opened, for I knew that you dealt very treacherously, and were called a transgressor from the womb.

Israel was holiness to Yahweh, the first fruits of his increase. All who devour him will be held guilty. Evil will come on them,” ’ says Yahweh.”

“Surely as a wife treacherously departs from her husband, so you have dealt treacherously with me, house of Israel,” says Yahweh.

then come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, ‘We are delivered,’ that you may do all these abominations?

Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! For they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.

and go out to the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is by the entry of the gate Harsith, and proclaim there the words that I will tell you.

has lent with interest, and has taken increase from the poor; shall he then live? He shall not live. He has done all these abominations. He shall surely die. His blood will be on him.

One has committed abomination with his neighbor’s wife; and another has lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law. Another in you has humbled his sister, his father’s daughter.

Then he came to the gate which looks toward the east, and went up its steps. He measured the threshold of the gate, one reed wide; and the other threshold, one reed wide.

But they, like Adam, have broken the covenant. They were unfaithful to me, there.

Ephraim, he mixes himself among the nations. Ephraim is a pancake not turned over.

Judah has dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned the holiness of Yahweh which he loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god.

You do the works of your father.” They said to him, “We were not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father, God.”

The following night, the Lord stood by him and said, “Cheer up, Paul, for as you have testified about me at Jerusalem, so you must testify also at Rome.”

Now I exhort you to cheer up, for there will be no loss of life among you, but only of the ship.

Therefore I beg you to take some food; for this is for your safety; for not a hair will perish from any of your heads.”

and the rest should follow, some on planks, and some on other things from the ship. So they all escaped safely to the land.

But if you show partiality, you commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.

But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

The children of Elam, one thousand two hundred fifty-four.

The children of the other Elam, one thousand two hundred fifty-four.

The children of Elam: one thousand two hundred fifty-four.

The children of the other Elam: one thousand two hundred fifty-four.