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For blessed is the wood by which righteousness comes.
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But the idol made with hands is accursed, and so is he who made it; because he did the work, and the perishable thing was named a god.
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For equally hateful to God are the ungodly man and his ungodliness,
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for what was done will be punished together with him who did it.
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Therefore there will be a visitation also upon the heathen idols, because, though part of what God created, they became an abomination, and became traps for the souls of men and a snare to the feet of the foolish.
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.