Wisdom 12:23
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Second Example Resumed
23 Hence those unrighteous who lived a life of folly,
you tormented through their own abominations.(A)
Wisdom 12:27
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27 For by the things through which they suffered distress,
being tortured by the very things they deemed gods,
They saw and recognized the true God whom formerly they had refused to know;
with this, their final condemnation[a] came upon them.(A)
Footnotes
- 12:27 Condemnation: the death of Egyptian firstborn and the destruction of their army in the sea.
Exodus 10:16
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16 Pharaoh hurriedly summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “I have sinned against the Lord, your God, and against you.
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Proverbs 1:31-32
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31 Well, then, they shall eat the fruit[a] of their own way,
and with their own devices be glutted.
32 For the straying of the naive kills them,
the smugness of fools destroys them.
Proverbs 26:27
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27 Whoever digs a pit falls into it;
and a stone comes back upon the one who rolls it.(A)
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