³⁰ ‘But the person who acts defiantly,^[a] whether native or resident foreigner, blasphemes the Lord.^(A) That person is to be cut off from his people. ³¹ He will certainly be cut off, because he has despised the Lord’s word and broken his command; his guilt remains on him.’

Warning against Deliberate Sin

²⁶ For if we deliberately go on sinning after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,^{(A) 27} but a terrifying expectation of judgement and the fury of a fire about to consume the adversaries.^(B)