If thou sawest a thief, then didst thou run with him, - And, with adulterers, hath been thy chosen life;

He that saith to the lawless man, Righteous, thou art, peoples shall denounce him, populations shall curse him;

They who forsake instruction, praise one who is lawless, while, they who keep instruction, are at strife with them.

Now, when they heard, they rejoiced, and promised to give him, silver; and he was seeking how, at a favourable opportunity, he might, deliver him up.

And, when the blood of Stephen thy witness was being shed, even I myself, was standing by, and approving, and guarding the mantles of them who were slaying him.

Who, indeed, having acknowledged the righteous sentence of God, - that, they who such things as these do practise, are worthy of death, not only, the same things, are doing, but are even delighting together with them who are practising them .