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Therefore we consider that we should not transgress it in any respect.
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Even if, as you suppose, our law were not truly divine and we had wrongly held it to be divine, not even so would it be right for us to invalidate our reputation for piety.
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Therefore do not suppose that it would be a petty sin if we were to eat defiling food;
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to transgress the law in matters either small or great is of equal seriousness,
21
for in either case the law is equally despised.
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.