Wisdom of Solomon 11:15
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Punishment of the Wicked
15 In return for their foolish and wicked thoughts,
which led them astray to worship irrational serpents and worthless animals,
you sent upon them a multitude of irrational creatures to punish them,(A)
Wisdom of Solomon 11:16
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16 so that they might learn that one is punished by the very things by which one sins.(A)
Wisdom of Solomon 16:1
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16 Therefore those people[a] were deservedly punished through such creatures
and were tormented by a multitude of animals.(A)
Footnotes
- 16.1 Gk they
Romans 1:22
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22 Claiming to be wise, they became fools,
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Romans 1:23
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23 and they exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling a mortal human or birds or four-footed animals or reptiles.(A)
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