Don’t Tolerate Idolatry

“If your brother, the son of your mother,[a] or your son or daughter, or the wife you embrace, or your closest friend secretly entices you, saying, ‘Let’s go and worship other gods’—which neither you nor your ancestors have known, any of the gods of the peoples around you, near you or far from you, from one end of the earth to the other— do not yield to him or listen to him. Show him no pity,[b] and do not spare him or shield him.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 13:6 DSS, Sam, LXX read If the son of your father or the son of your mother
  2. 13:8 Lit Your eye must not pity him

This matter arose because some false brothers(A) had infiltrated our ranks to spy on the freedom we have in Christ Jesus in order to enslave us. But we did not give up and submit to these people for even a moment, so that the truth(B) of the gospel would be preserved for you.

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