29 they provoked the Lord to anger with their deeds,
and a plague broke out among them.
9 Nevertheless, pthose who died by the plague were twenty-four thousand.
16 tThey stirred him to jealousy with strange gods;
with abominations they provoked him to anger.
17 uThey sacrificed to demons that were not God,
to gods they had never known,
to vnew gods that had come recently,
whom your fathers had never dreaded.
18 You were unmindful of wthe Rock that bore1 you,
and you xforgot the God who gave you birth.
19 y“The Lord saw it and spurned them,
because of the provocation of zhis sons and his daughters.
20 And he said, a‘I will hide my face from them;
I will see what their end will be,
for they are a perverse generation,
children in whom is no faithfulness.
21 bThey have made me jealous with what is no god;
they have provoked me to anger cwith their idols.
So dI will make them jealous with those who are no people;
I will provoke them to anger with ea foolish nation.
8 O Lord our God, you answered them;
you were la forgiving God to them,
but man avenger of their wrongdoings.
39 Thus they obecame unclean by their acts,
and pplayed the whore in their deeds.
29 See, this alone I found, that xGod made man upright, but ythey have sought out many schemes.
21 For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they obecame futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 pClaiming to be wise, they became fools, 23 and qexchanged the glory of rthe immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.
24 Therefore sGod gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to tthe dishonoring of their bodies among themselves,
Greeting
1 Paul, aa servant1 of Christ Jesus, bcalled to be an apostle, cset apart for the gospel of God,
8 lWe must not indulge in sexual immorality mas some of them did, and ntwenty-three thousand fell in a single day.
