You must not bow down to them or worship them, for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God who will not tolerate your affection for any other gods. I lay the sins of the parents upon their children; the entire family is affected— even children in the third and fourth generations of those who reject me.But I lavish unfailing love for a thousand generations on those who love me and obey my commands.
“ If a man’s testicles are crushed or his penis is cut off, he may not be admitted to the assembly of the Lord.“ If a person is illegitimate by birth, neither he nor his descendants for ten generations may be admitted to the assembly of the Lord.“ No Ammonite or Moabite or any of their descendants for ten generations may be admitted to the assembly of the Lord.
After all, is God the God of the Jews only? Isn’t he also the God of the Gentiles? Of course he is.There is only one God, and he makes people right with himself only by faith, whether they are Jews or Gentiles.
In those days you were living apart from Christ. You were excluded from citizenship among the people of Israel, and you did not know the covenant promises God had made to them. You lived in this world without God and without hope.But now you have been united with Christ Jesus. Once you were far away from God, but now you have been brought near to him through the blood of Christ.
