“Clothed as you are in the rotten garments of your offenses and "held fast in the meshes of your own sins," listen to the prophet's voice saying, "Wash yourselves clean! Put away the misdeeds of your souls from before my eyes," that the angelic choir may chant over you: "Happy [are] they whose faults are taken away, wh…”
Cyril of Jerusalem, 4th c. — Catechetical Lecture 1:1
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22His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.
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20And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
21For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.
— Proverbs 5:22 —
23He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.