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13 Because God did not make death,(A)
    nor does he rejoice in the destruction of the living.
14 For he fashioned all things that they might have being,
    and the creatures of the world are wholesome;
There is not a destructive drug among them
    nor any domain of Hades[a] on earth,
15 For righteousness is undying.[b](B)

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Footnotes

  1. 1:14 Hades: the Greek term for the Hebrew Sheol, the dwelling place of the dead.
  2. 1:15 Undying: immortality is not seen as an innate quality of the soul but as a gift of God to the righteous.

23 For God formed us to be imperishable;
    the image of his own nature he made us.(A)
24 But by the envy[a] of the devil, death entered the world,
    and they who are allied with him experience it.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 2:24 Envy: perhaps because Adam was in the image of God or because Adam had control over all creation. Devil: the first biblical text to equate the serpent of Gn 3 with the devil.