Wisdom 2:19–24
19Let’s test him with insult and torture, that we may find out how gentle he is, and test his patience.↗
20Let’s condemn him to a shameful death, for he will be protected, according to his words.”↗
21Thus they reasoned, and they were led astray; for their wickedness blinded them,↗
22and they didn’t know the mysteries of God, neither did they hope for wages of holiness, nor did they discern that there is a prize for blameless souls.↗
23Because God created man for incorruption, and made him an image of his own everlastingness;↗
24but death entered into the world by the envy of the devil, and those who belong to him experience it.↗
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