¹⁶ The people answered, Far be it from us that we should forsake Yahweh, to serve other gods;

²³ Moreover as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against Yahweh in ceasing to pray for you: but I will instruct you in the good and the right way.

⁶ May it never be! For then how will God judge the world?

² May it never be! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer?

³⁸ But the righteous will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him."

³⁹ But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the saving of the soul.