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For whether they kill children in their initiations, or celebrate secret mysteries, or hold frenzied revels with strange customs,
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they no longer keep either their lives or their marriages pure, but they either treacherously kill one another, or grieve one another by adultery,
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and all is a raging riot of blood and murder, theft and deceit, corruption, faithlessness, tumult, perjury,
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confusion over what is good, forgetfulness of favors, pollution of souls, sex perversion, disorder in marriage, adultery, and debauchery.
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For the worship of idols not to be named is the beginning and cause and end of every evil.
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the 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.