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Wisdom 1:12

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12

Don’t court death in the error of your life. Don’t draw destruction upon yourselves by the works of your hands;

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Verse 12. Seek not with such eagerness (zelare) your own ruin, ( Calmet.) by an evil life, ( Worthington.) or rather thrown not the blame on death, as if you were necessitated to sin. God created man to be immortal.

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