Wisdom 12:25
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25 Therefore as though upon unreasoning children,
you sent your judgment on them as a mockery;(A)
Wisdom 14:22-31
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22 Then it was not enough for them to err in their knowledge of God;(A)
but even though they live in a great war resulting from ignorance,
they call such evils peace.(B)
23 For while they practice either child sacrifices or occult mysteries,
or frenzied carousing in exotic rites,(C)
24 They no longer respect either lives or purity of marriage;
but they either waylay and kill each other, or aggrieve each other by adultery.
25 And all is confusion—blood and murder, theft and guile,(D)
corruption, faithlessness, turmoil, perjury,
26 Disturbance of good people, neglect of gratitude,
besmirching of souls, unnatural lust,
disorder in marriage, adultery and shamelessness.
27 For the worship of infamous idols
is the reason and source and extreme of all evil.(E)
28 For they either go mad with enjoyment, or prophesy lies,
or live lawlessly or lightly perjure themselves.(F)
29 For as their trust is in lifeless idols,
they expect no harm when they have sworn falsely.
30 But on both counts justice shall overtake them:
because they thought perversely of God by devoting themselves to idols,(G)
and because they deliberately swore false oaths, despising piety.[a]
31 For it is not the might of those by whom they swear,
but the just retribution of sinners,
that ever follows upon the transgression of the wicked.[b]
Acts 7:41-42
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41 (A)So they made a calf in those days, offered sacrifice to the idol, and reveled in the works of their hands. 42 Then God turned and handed them over to worship the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets:(B)
‘Did you bring me sacrifices and offerings
for forty years in the desert, O house of Israel?(C)
Ephesians 4:19
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19 they have become callous and have handed themselves over to licentiousness for the practice of every kind of impurity to excess.(A)
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