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The punishments did not come upon the sinners without prior signs in the violence of thunder, for they justly suffered because of their wicked acts; for they practiced a more bitter hatred of strangers.
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Others had refused to receive strangers when they came to them, but these made slaves of guests who were their benefactors.
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And not only so—but, while punishment of some sort will come upon the former for having received strangers with hostility,
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the latter, having first received them with festal celebrations, afterward afflicted with terrible sufferings those who had already shared the same rights.
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They were stricken also with loss of sight— just as were those at the door of the righteous man— when, surrounded by yawning darkness, all of them tried to find the way through their own doors.
New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.