Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation It was a light punishment, but those who pay no attention to such warnings deserve to feel the full weight of God's judgment. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge But they that were not amended by mockeries and reprehensions, experienced the worthy judgment of God. Wisdom 12:24For they went astray for a long time in the ways of error, holding those things for gods which are the most worthless among beasts, living after the manner of children without understanding. Wisdom 12:25 Therefore thou hast sent a judgment upon them, as senseless children, to mock them. Wisdom 12:27 For seeing, with indignation, that they suffered by those very things which they took for gods, when they were destroyed by the same, they acknowledged him the true God, whom in time past they denied that they knew: for which cause the end also of their condemnation came upon them. Wisdom 13:1 But all men are vain, in whom there is not the knowledge of God: and who by these good things that are seen, could not understand him that is, neither by attending to the works have acknowledged who was the workman: Context Wisdom 12…25Therefore thou hast sent a judgment upon them, as senseless children, to mock them. 26But they that were not amended by mockeries and reprehensions, experienced the worthy judgment of God. 27For seeing, with indignation, that they suffered by those very things which they took for gods, when they were destroyed by the same, they acknowledged him the true God, whom in time past they denied that they knew: for which cause the end also of their condemnation came upon them.… Cross References Wisdom 12:24 For they went astray for a long time in the ways of error, holding those things for gods which are the most worthless among beasts, living after the manner of children without understanding. Wisdom 12:25 Therefore thou hast sent a judgment upon them, as senseless children, to mock them. Wisdom 12:27 For seeing, with indignation, that they suffered by those very things which they took for gods, when they were destroyed by the same, they acknowledged him the true God, whom in time past they denied that they knew: for which cause the end also of their condemnation came upon them. Wisdom 13:1 But all men are vain, in whom there is not the knowledge of God: and who by these good things that are seen, could not understand him that is, neither by attending to the works have acknowledged who was the workman: |
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