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What is good is shouted down. Favors are forgotten. Entire beings are stained with guilt. Legitimate genealogy is lost. Marriage is thrown into confusion. Adultery and promiscuity abound.
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The worship of nameless idols is the origin of all evil—its cause as well as its result.
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People begin to party so wildly that they all go mad. They prophesy lies. They live in such a way that everything they do is wrong. They bear false witness,
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but because they have entrusted themselves into the hands of lifeless idols, they don't expect any harm to come from swearing false pledges.
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A double judgment will hunt them down—first, because they acted wickedly toward God when they gave their attention to idols; and second, because they made solemn pledges falsely out of contempt for what was holy.
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It isn't the power of the things by which they made these solemn pledges but justice that will pursue them until it punishes them for doing wrong.