Like King Jeroboam before him, he sinned against the LORD and led Israel into sin; he never gave up his evil ways.

He too sinned against the LORD and followed the evil example of King Jeroboam, who had led Israel into sin.

He sinned against the LORD, following the wicked example of his predecessor King Jeroboam son of Nebat, who led Israel into sin.

He, like his predecessors, sinned against the LORD. He followed the wicked example of King Jeroboam son of Nebat, who led Israel into sin.

He sinned against the LORD, for until the day of his death he followed the wicked example of King Jeroboam son of Nebat, who led Israel into sin.

He sinned against the LORD, following the wicked example of King Jeroboam son of Nebat, who led Israel into sin.

He sinned against the LORD, following the wicked example of King Jeroboam son of Nebat, who led Israel into sin.

They followed Jeroboam and continued to practice all the sins he had committed,

After thinking it over, he made two bull-calves of gold and said to his people, "You have been going long enough to Jerusalem to worship. People of Israel, here are your gods who brought you out of Egypt!"

And so the people sinned, going to worship in Bethel and in Dan.

King Jeroboam of Israel still did not turn from his evil ways but continued to choose priests from ordinary families to serve at the altars he had built. He ordained as priest anyone who wanted to be one.

This sin on his part brought about the ruin and total destruction of his dynasty.

The LORD will abandon Israel because Jeroboam sinned and led the people of Israel into sin."

Then Abimelech called Abraham and asked, "What have you done to us? What wrong have I done to you to make you bring this disaster on me and my kingdom? No one should ever do what you have done to me.

He said to Aaron, "What did these people do to you, that you have made them commit such a terrible sin?"

Stop it, my sons! This is an awful thing the people of the LORD are talking about!

So the girl went out and asked her mother, "What shall I ask for?" "The head of John the Baptist," she answered.

This made the king very sad, but he could not refuse her because of the vows he had made in front of all his guests.

Be careful, however, not to let your freedom of action make those who are weak in the faith fall into sin.

And so this weak person, your brother for whom Christ died, will perish because of your "knowledge"!

So then, if food makes a believer sin, I will never eat meat again, so as not to make a believer fall into sin.

Before some men who had been sent by James arrived there, Peter had been eating with the Gentile believers. But after these men arrived, he drew back and would not eat with the Gentiles, because he was afraid of those who were in favor of circumcising them.

The other Jewish believers also started acting like cowards along with Peter; and even Barnabas was swept along by their cowardly action.

He took the earrings, melted them, poured the gold into a mold, and made a gold bull-calf. The people said, "Israel, this is our god, who led us out of Egypt!"

I hate the gold bull worshiped by the people of the city of Samaria. I am furious with them. How long will it be before they give up their idolatry?

An Israelite craftsman made the idol, and it is not a god at all! The gold bull worshiped in Samaria will be smashed to pieces!

The people who live in the city of Samaria will be afraid and will mourn the loss of the gold bull at Bethaven. They and the priests who serve the idol will weep over it. They will wail when it is stripped of its golden splendor.

They still keep on sinning by making metal images to worship---idols of silver, designed by human minds, made by human hands. And then they say, "Offer sacrifices to them!" How can anyone kiss those idols---idols in the shape of bulls!

He placed one of the gold bull-calves in Bethel and the other in Dan.