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Wisdom 11:23 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" But you have mercy on all men, because you have power to do all things, and you overlook the sins of men to the end that they may repent. "
Wisdom 11:23
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21 For to be greatly strong is yours at all times. Who could withstand the might of your arm?
22 Because the whole world before you is as a grain in a balance, and as a drop of dew that comes down upon the earth in the morning.
23 But you have mercy on all men, because you have power to do all things, and you overlook the sins of men to the end that they may repent.
24 For you love all things that are, and abhor none of the things which you made; For you never would have formed anything if you hated it.
25 How would anything have endured unless you had willed it? Or that which was not called by you, how would it have been preserved?
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Wisdom 11:1
"Wisdom prospered their works in the hand of a holy prophet."
Wisdom 11:2
"They traveled through a desert without inhabitant, and they pitched their tents in trackless regions."
Wisdom 11:3
"They withstood enemies and repelled foes."
Wisdom 11:4
"They thirsted, and they called upon you, and water was given to them out of the flinty rock, and healing of their thirst out of the hard stone."
Wisdom 11:5
"For by what things their foes were punished, by these they in their need were benefited."
Wisdom 11:6
"When enemies were troubled with clotted blood instead of a river’s ever-flowing fountain,"
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