“The one who listens to you listens to me, and the one who rejects you rejects me, and the one who rejects me rejects the one who sent me.”

and so incur judgment for breaking their former pledge.

Consequently the one who rejects this is not rejecting human authority but God, who gives his Holy Spirit to you.

Someone who rejected the law of Moses was put to death without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

Although it grieved the king deeply, he did not want to reject her request because of his oath and his guests.

He also said to them, “You neatly reject the commandment of God in order to set up your tradition.

However, the Pharisees and the experts in religious law rejected God’s purpose for themselves, because they had not been baptized by John.)

For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and I will thwart the cleverness of the intelligent.”

I do not set aside God’s grace, because if righteousness could come through the law, then Christ died for nothing!

Brothers and sisters, I offer an example from everyday life: When a covenant has been ratified, even though it is only a human contract, no one can set it aside or add anything to it.

Yet these men, as a result of their dreams, defile the flesh, reject authority, and insult the glorious ones.

The one who rejects me and does not accept my words has a judge; the word I have spoken will judge him at the last day.