Wisdom 14:27
Good News Translation
The worship of idols, whose names should never be spoken, is the beginning and the end, the cause and the result of every evil.

New Revised Standard Version
For the worship of idols not to be named is the beginning and cause and end of every evil.

Contemporary English Version
The worship of worthless idols is the cause and result of all kinds of evil.

New American Bible
For the worship of infamous idols is the reason and source and extreme of all evil.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For the worship of abominable idols is the cause, and the beginning and end of all evil.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For the worship of abominable idols is the cause, and the beginning and end of all evil.

Wisdom 14:25
And all things are mingled together, blood, murder, theft, and dissimulation, corruption and unfaithfulness, tumults and perjury, disquieting of the good,

Wisdom 14:26
Forgetfulness of God, defiling of souls, changing of nature, disorder in marriage, and the irregularity of adultery and uncleanness.

Wisdom 14:28
For either they are mad when they are merry: or they prophesy lies, or they live unjustly, or easily forswear themselves.

Wisdom 14:29
For whilst they trust in idols, which are without life, though they swear amiss, they look not to be hurt.

Context
Wisdom 14
26Forgetfulness of God, defiling of souls, changing of nature, disorder in marriage, and the irregularity of adultery and uncleanness. 27For the worship of abominable idols is the cause, and the beginning and end of all evil. 28For either they are mad when they are merry: or they prophesy lies, or they live unjustly, or easily forswear themselves.…
Cross References
Wisdom 14:25
And all things are mingled together, blood, murder, theft, and dissimulation, corruption and unfaithfulness, tumults and perjury, disquieting of the good,

Wisdom 14:26
Forgetfulness of God, defiling of souls, changing of nature, disorder in marriage, and the irregularity of adultery and uncleanness.

Wisdom 14:28
For either they are mad when they are merry: or they prophesy lies, or they live unjustly, or easily forswear themselves.

Wisdom 14:29
For whilst they trust in idols, which are without life, though they swear amiss, they look not to be hurt.



(Wisd. of Sol. Solomon W Wis)

Wisdom 14:26
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