Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation Every nation will be punished if it does not welcome foreigners, New Revised Standard Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge But these grievously afflicted them whom they had received with joy, and who lived under the same laws. 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. Wisdom 19:14 And not only so, but in another respect also they were worse: for the others against their will received the strangers. 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. Wisdom 19:17 For while the elements are changed in themselves, as in an instrument the sound of the quality is changed, yet all keep their sound: which may clearly be perceived by the very sight. Context Wisdom 19…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. 16But 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.… Cross References 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 19:14 And not only so, but in another respect also they were worse: for the others against their will received the strangers. 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. Wisdom 19:17 For while the elements are changed in themselves, as in an instrument the sound of the quality is changed, yet all keep their sound: which may clearly be perceived by the very sight. |