SO... IF you stray... have fun! Live it up, because you ain't gonna die till after you come home?
Well, the correct admonition is ... Don't stray!
For, if you do, ... you will surely suffer, ... as did the prodigal son before he returned home. Can you imagine having to eat swill ?
For four long years at good ol' Sherman High! ;o)
Well, yes, of course. But if you stray? What's the need to repent and return under this interpretation? Heck, you could live forever with no "eternal consequence" for your actions.
Maybe tat's the story with Robert Byrd?