12 Don’t court death in the error of your life. Don’t draw destruction upon yourselves by the works of your hands; (WEB) 13 because God didn’t make death, neither does he delight when the living perish. (WEB) 14 For he created all things that they might have being. The generative powers of the world are wholesome, and there is no poison of destruction in them, nor has Hades royal dominion upon earth; (WEB)
Wisdom of Solomon 1:12–14
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