Good News Translation
It is a serious thing to disregard God's Law, as you will see from the following events.

New Revised Standard Version
It is no light thing to show irreverence to the divine laws—a fact that later events will make clear.

Contemporary English Version
When people disobey God's Law, they are taking a big risk, as the following events will show.

New American Bible
It is no light matter to flout the laws of God, as subsequent events will show.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For acting wickedly against the laws of God doth not pass unpunished: but this the time following will declare.

For acting wickedly against the laws of God doth not pass unpunished: but this the time following will declare.

2 Maccabees 4:15
And setting nought by the honours of their fathers, they esteemed the Grecian glories for the best:

2 Maccabees 4:16
For the sake of which they incurred a dangerous contention, and followed earnestly their ordinances, and in all things they coveted to be like them, who were their enemies and murderers.

2 Maccabees 4:18
Now when the game that was used every fifth year was kept at Tyre, the king being present,

2 Maccabees 4:19
The wicked Jason sent from Jerusalem sinful men, to carry three hundred didrachmas of silver for the sacrifice of Hercules; but the bearers thereof desired it might not be bestowed on the sacrifices, because it was not necessary, but might be deputed for other charges.