22 Now Eʹli was very old, but he had heard about everything that his sons were doing+ to all Israel and how they would lie down with the women who served at the entrance of the tent of meeting.+ 23 He used to say to them: “Why do you keep doing things like these? For the things I am hearing about you from all the people are bad.

22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have no sin.+ But now they have no excuse for their sin.+

17 Therefore, if someone knows how to do what is right and yet does not do it, it is a sin for him.+