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Afflictions of the The Wicked » Are for examples to others
still with most of them God was not satisfied; they were laid low in the desert. Now this took place as a warning for us, to keep us from craving for evil as they craved. And you must not be idolaters, like some of them; as it is written, the people sat down to eat and drink, and they rose up to make sport. read more.
Nor must we commit immorality, as some of them did ??and in a single day twenty-three thousand of them fell. Nor must we presume upon the Lord as some of them did ??only to be destroyed by serpents. And you must not murmur, as some of them did ??only to be destroyed by the destroying angel. It all happened to them by way of warning for others, and it was written down for the purpose of instructing us whose lot has been cast in the closing hours of the world.
Nor must we commit immorality, as some of them did ??and in a single day twenty-three thousand of them fell. Nor must we presume upon the Lord as some of them did ??only to be destroyed by serpents. And you must not murmur, as some of them did ??only to be destroyed by the destroying angel. It all happened to them by way of warning for others, and it was written down for the purpose of instructing us whose lot has been cast in the closing hours of the world.
if he reduced the cities of Sodom and Gomorra to ashes when he sentenced them to devastation, and thus gave the impious an example of what was in store for them,
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Condemnation » Of self
whenever our heart condemns us; for God is greater than our heart, and he knows all.
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Therefore you are inexcusable, whoever you are, if you pose as a judge, for in judging another you condemn yourself; you, the judge, do the very same things yourself.
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So you are witnesses against yourselves, that you are sons of those who killed the prophets!
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He replied, 'You rascal of a servant, I will convict you by what you have said yourself. You knew, did you, that I was a hard man, picking up what I never put down, and reaping what I never sowed!
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And on hearing what he said, they went away one by one, beginning with the older men, till Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him.
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