“ But if your heart turns away and you refuse to listen, and if you are drawn away to serve and worship other gods,

倘若你心里偏离，不肯听从，却被勾引去敬拜侍奉别神，

倘若你的心偏离，不肯听从，却被引诱去敬拜别神，事奉它们，

倘若你的心偏离，不肯听从，却被引诱去敬拜别神，事奉它们，

但倘若你们心中偏离，不肯听从，被引诱去祭拜、供奉别的神明，

但是，如果你的心偏离了，不肯听从，却被人勾引，去敬拜和事奉别的神；

倘若你心裏偏離，不肯聽從，卻被勾引去敬拜事奉別神，

倘若你的心偏離，不肯聽從，卻被引誘去敬拜別神，事奉它們，

倘若你的心偏離，不肯聽從，卻被引誘去敬拜別神，事奉它們，

但倘若你們心中偏離，不肯聽從，被引誘去祭拜、供奉別的神明，

但是，如果你的心偏離了，不肯聽從，卻被人勾引，去敬拜和事奉別的神；

倘若你的心偏離，不肯聽從，反而被勾引、去敬拜事奉別的神，

如爾中心違離、不欲聽從、為人所誘、崇事他神、

如爾心違逆不從斯命、見誘於人、服事崇拜他上帝、

如爾心偏倚、不願聽從、見誘於人、奉事崇拜異邦之神、

But if your heart turns away and you are not obedient, and if you are drawn away to bow down to other gods and worship them,

Don’t let your hearts turn away from the Lord. Instead, obey him. Don’t let yourselves be drawn away to other gods. And don’t bow down to them and worship them.

But if your heart turns away, and you will not hear, but are drawn away to worship other gods and serve them,

But if your heart turns away and you do not listen and you are led astray to bow in worship to other gods and serve them,

But if your heart turns away and you will not obey, but allow yourself to be led astray and you worship other gods and serve them,

But if your heart turns away so that you do not hear, and are drawn away, and worship other gods and serve them,

But if thy heart turn away, and thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;

But if your heart turns away and you do not listen and you are led astray to bow down to other gods and worship them,

But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;

However, if you turn aside and do not obey, but are lured away to worship and serve other gods,

But if your heart turns away, and you will not hear, but are drawn away and worship other gods, and serve them,

Be careful then, dear brothers and sisters. Make sure that your own hearts are not evil and unbelieving, turning you away from the living God.

For simpletons turn away from me— to death. Fools are destroyed by their own complacency.

But if you continue to sin, you and your king will be swept away.”

They will reject the truth and chase after myths.

The king must not take many wives for himself, because they will turn his heart away from the Lord. And he must not accumulate large amounts of wealth in silver and gold for himself.

Be careful that you do not refuse to listen to the One who is speaking. For if the people of Israel did not escape when they refused to listen to Moses, the earthly messenger, we will certainly not escape if we reject the One who speaks to us from heaven!

And the judgment is based on this fact: God’s light came into the world, but people loved the darkness more than the light, for their actions were evil.All who do evil hate the light and refuse to go near it for fear their sins will be exposed.But those who do what is right come to the light so others can see that they are doing what God wants.”

I am making this covenant with you so that no one among you— no man, woman, clan, or tribe— will turn away from the Lord our God to worship these gods of other nations, and so that no root among you bears bitter and poisonous fruit.“ Those who hear the warnings of this curse should not congratulate themselves, thinking,‘ I am safe, even though I am following the desires of my own stubborn heart.’ This would lead to utter ruin!The Lord will never pardon such people. Instead his anger and jealousy will burn against them. All the curses written in this book will come down on them, and the Lord will erase their names from under heaven.The Lord will separate them from all the tribes of Israel, to pour out on them all the curses of the covenant recorded in this Book of Instruction.“ Then the generations to come, both your own descendants and the foreigners who come from distant lands, will see the devastation of the land and the diseases the Lord inflicts on it.They will exclaim,‘ The whole land is devastated by sulfur and salt. It is a wasteland with nothing planted and nothing growing, not even a blade of grass. It is like the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord destroyed in his intense anger.’“ And all the surrounding nations will ask,‘ Why has the Lord done this to this land? Why was he so angry?’“ And the answer will be,‘ This happened because the people of the land abandoned the covenant that the Lord, the God of their ancestors, made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.Instead, they turned away to serve and worship gods they had not known before, gods that were not from the Lord.That is why the Lord’s anger has burned against this land, bringing down on it every curse recorded in this book.In great anger and fury the Lord uprooted his people from their land and banished them to another land, where they still live today!’

The Lord had clearly instructed the people of Israel,“ You must not marry them, because they will turn your hearts to their gods.” Yet Solomon insisted on loving them anyway.

Backsliders get what they deserve; good people receive their reward.