OLD TESTAMENT

Sirach 23:17

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17

All bread is sweet to a fornicator. He will not cease until he dies.

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Verse 17. Of sin. A Hebrew idiom, to imply something criminal. Those who have laid aside shame, are capable of any wickedness.

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