¹³ because God did not make death,
and he does not delight in the death of the living.
¹⁴ For he created all things that they might exist,
and the generative forces^[a] of the world are wholesome,
and there is no destructive poison in them;
and the dominion^[b] of Hades is not on earth.
¹⁵ For righteousness is immortal.

²³ for God created man for incorruption,
and made him in the image of his own eternity,^[a]
24 but through the devil’s envy death entered the world,
and those who belong to his party experience it.