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weight of disease and misery with which the world is cursed. Men may
succeed in concealing their transgression from their fellow men, but
they will no less surely reap the result, in suffering, disease, imbecility,
or death. And beyond this life stands the tribunal of the judgment, with
its award of eternal penalties. “They which do such things shall not
inherit the kingdom of God,” but with Satan and evil angels shall have
their part in that “lake of fire” which “is the second death.”
Galatians
5:21
;
Revelation 20:14
.
“The lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her
mouth is smoother than oil: but her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp
as a two-edged sword.”
Proverbs 5:3, 4
. “Remove thy way far from
her, and come not nigh the door of her house: lest thou give thine
honor unto others, and thy years unto the cruel: lest strangers be filled
with thy wealth; and thy labors be in the house of a stranger; and
thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed.”
Verses 8-11
. “Her house inclineth unto death.” “None that go unto her
return again.”
Proverbs 2:18, 19
. “Her guests are in the depths of hell.”
Proverbs 9:18
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