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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)

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'Wisdom 11:15' not found for the version: New International Version.

16 so that they might learn that one is punished by the very things by which one sins.(A)

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'Wisdom 11:16' not found for the version: New International Version.

16 Therefore those people[a] were deservedly punished through such creatures
and were tormented by a multitude of animals.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 16.1 Gk they
'Wisdom 16:1' not found for the version: New International Version.

22 Claiming to be wise, they became fools,

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22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools(A)

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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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23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images(A) made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles.

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