To rebel and to lie against the LORD, and to depart away from our God; the speaking of libel and rebellion, to conceive, and to speak from the heart words of falsehood,

Thus hath the LORD said; Cursed be the man that trusts in man and makes flesh his arm and whose heart departs from the LORD.

And the Levites that are gone away far from me, when Israel went astray, which went astray away from me after their idols; they shall bear their iniquity.

we have sinned, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly, and we have been rebels, and we have departed from thy commandments and from thy judgments.

Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unfaithfulness, to depart from the living God.

Ye have caused

Therefore I have also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as ye have not kept my ways, but have been partial in the law.

Therefore, the sin of the young men was very great before the LORD, for men despised the present of the LORD.

For the governors of this people are deceivers, and those who are governed by them are lost.

Because my people have forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they have caused themselves to stumble in their ways, in the ancient paths, to walk in paths, in a way not trodden;

For both prophet and priest are feigned; even in my house I have found their wickedness, said the LORD.

Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat bread.

Then one of the lawyers answered and said unto him, Master, saying these things, thou dost reproach us also.

and art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of those who are in darkness,

It is good neither to eat flesh nor to drink wine nor do any thing by which thy brother stumbles or is offended or is sick.

Ye have corrupted

My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him for the fear with which he feared me and was broken before my name.

Neither shall he profane his seed among his people, for I AM he that sanctifies him.

Remember them, O my God because they have defiled the priesthood and the covenant of the priesthood and of the Levites.

General references

And the Levites shall speak and say unto all the men of Israel with a loud voice:

And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and profane and teach them to discern between the clean and the unclean.