8 They have turned aside in a hurry from the way I have commanded them to go.+ They have made a molten statue of a calf for themselves and keep bowing down to it and sacrificing to it and saying, ‘This is your God,* O Israel, who led you up out of the land of Egypt.’”+

20 So Samuel said to the people: “Do not be afraid.+ YOU—YOU have done all this evil. Only do not turn aside from following Jehovah,+ and YOU must serve Jehovah with all YOUR heart.+

13 The fear of Jehovah means the hating of bad.+ Self-exaltation and pride+ and the bad way and the perverse mouth+ I have hated.

5 A false word is what the righteous hates,+ but the wicked ones act shamefully and cause disgrace for themselves.+

6 and those who are drawing back from following Jehovah+ and who have not sought Jehovah and have not inquired of him.”+

9 Let [YOUR] love+ be without hypocrisy.+ Abhor what is wicked,+ cling to what is good.+

9 You loved righteousness, and you hated lawlessness. That is why God, your God, anointed+ you with [the] oil of exultation more than your partners.”+

38 “But my righteous one will live by reason of faith,”+ and, “if he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”+

21 For it would have been better for them not to have accurately known the path of righteousness+ than after knowing it accurately to turn away from the holy commandment delivered to them.+

23 save [them]+ by snatching [them] out of the fire.+ But continue showing mercy to others, doing so with fear, while YOU hate even the inner garment that has been stained by the flesh.+