23 For either slaughtering children in solemn rites, or celebrating secret mysteries, or holding frenzied revels of strange customs, (WEB) 24 no longer do they guard either life or purity of marriage, but one brings upon another either death by treachery, or anguish by adultery. (WEB) 25 And all things confusedly are filled with blood and murder, theft and deceit, corruption, faithlessness, tumult, perjury, (WEB)
Wisdom of Solomon 14:23–25
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