Then Moses and Aaron gathered the community together in front of the rock. "Pay attention, you rebels!" Moses told them. "Are we to bring you water from this rock?"

What, then, is my reward? It is to be able to preach the gospel free of charge, and so I never resort to demanding my rights when I'm preaching the gospel.

and those who use the things in the world as though they were not dependent on them. For the world in its present form is passing away.

especially those who satisfy their flesh by indulging in its passions and who despise authority.

Now the sons of Eli were worthless men who did not know the LORD.

Now I am not praising you in giving you the following instructions. When you gather, it is not for the better but for the worse.

For some people have slipped in among you unnoticed. They were written about long ago as being deserving of this condemnation because they are ungodly. They turn the grace of our God into uncontrollable lust and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus the Messiah.

Or can we say as some people slander us by claiming that we say "Let's do evil that good may result"? They deserve to be condemned!

What should we say, then? Should we go on sinning so that grace may increase?

What, then, does this mean? Should we go on sinning because we are not under Law but under grace? Of course not!