Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation Other people had been known to refuse welcome to strangers who came to them, but these people made slaves of those who were their guests and who had shown them kindness. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge And not only so, but in another respect also they were worse: for the others against their will received the strangers. Wisdom 19:12For to satisfy their desire, the quail came up to them from the sea: and punishments came upon the sinners, not without foregoing signs by the force of thunders: for they suffered justly according to their own wickedness. Wisdom 19:13 For they exercised a more detestable inhospitality than any: others indeed received not strangers unknown to them, but these brought their guests into bondage that had deserved well of them. Wisdom 19:15 But these grievously afflicted them whom they had received with joy, and who lived under the same laws. Wisdom 19:16 But they were struck with blindness: as those others were at the doors of the just man, when they were covered with sudden darkness, and every one sought the passage of his own door. Context Wisdom 19…13For they exercised a more detestable inhospitality than any: others indeed received not strangers unknown to them, but these brought their guests into bondage that had deserved well of them. 14And not only so, but in another respect also they were worse: for the others against their will received the strangers. 15But these grievously afflicted them whom they had received with joy, and who lived under the same laws.… Cross References Wisdom 19:12 For to satisfy their desire, the quail came up to them from the sea: and punishments came upon the sinners, not without foregoing signs by the force of thunders: for they suffered justly according to their own wickedness. Wisdom 19:13 For they exercised a more detestable inhospitality than any: others indeed received not strangers unknown to them, but these brought their guests into bondage that had deserved well of them. Wisdom 19:15 But these grievously afflicted them whom they had received with joy, and who lived under the same laws. Wisdom 19:16 But they were struck with blindness: as those others were at the doors of the just man, when they were covered with sudden darkness, and every one sought the passage of his own door. |