Wisdom 14:24
Good News Translation
They no longer kept their lives or their marriages pure. A man might kill another by an act of treachery or cause him grief by committing adultery with his wife.

New Revised Standard Version
they no longer keep either their lives or their marriages pure, but they either treacherously kill one another, or grieve one another by adultery,

Contemporary English Version
they are immoral and cause great pain by being unfaithful in marriage, and they are deceitful murderers.

New American Bible
They no longer respect either lives or purity of marriage; but they either waylay and kill each other, or aggrieve each other by adultery.

Douay-Rheims Bible
So that now they neither keep life, nor marriage undefiled, but one killeth another through envy, or grieveth him by adultery:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

So that now they neither keep life, nor marriage undefiled, but one killeth another through envy, or grieveth him by adultery:

Wisdom 14:22
And it was not enough for them to err about the knowledge of God, but whereas they lived in a great war of ignorance, they call so many and so great evils peace.

Wisdom 14:23
For either they sacrifice their own children, or use hidden sacrifices, or keep watches full of madness,

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.

Context
Wisdom 14
23For either they sacrifice their own children, or use hidden sacrifices, or keep watches full of madness, 24So that now they neither keep life, nor marriage undefiled, but one killeth another through envy, or grieveth him by adultery: 25And all things are mingled together, blood, murder, theft, and dissimulation, corruption and unfaithfulness, tumults and perjury, disquieting of the good,…
Cross References
Wisdom 14:22
And it was not enough for them to err about the knowledge of God, but whereas they lived in a great war of ignorance, they call so many and so great evils peace.

Wisdom 14:23
For either they sacrifice their own children, or use hidden sacrifices, or keep watches full of madness,

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.



(Wisd. of Sol. Solomon W Wis)

Wisdom 14:23
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