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But the idol made with hands is accursed, and so is the one who made it— he for having made it, and the perishable thing because it was named a god.
9
For equally hateful to God are the ungodly and their ungodliness;
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for what was done will be punished together with the one who did it.
11
Therefore there will be a visitation also upon the heathen idols, because, though part of what God created, they became an abomination, snares for human souls and a trap for the feet of the foolish.
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For the idea of making idols was the beginning of fornication, and the invention of them was the corruption of life;
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