23. For while they practice either child sacrifices or occult mysteries,or frenzied carousing in exotic rites,
24. They no longer respect either lives or purity of marriage;but they either waylay and kill each other, or aggrieve each other by adultery.
25. And all is confusion—blood and murder, theft and guile,corruption, faithlessness, turmoil, perjury,
26. Disturbance of good people, neglect of gratitude,besmirching of souls, unnatural lust,disorder in marriage, adultery and shamelessness.
27. For the worship of infamous idolsis the reason and source and extreme of all evil.
28. For they either go mad with enjoyment, or prophesy lies,or live lawlessly or lightly perjure themselves.
29. For as their trust is in lifeless idols,they expect no harm when they have sworn falsely.
30. But on both counts justice shall overtake them:because they thought perversely of God by devoting themselves to idols,and because they deliberately swore false oaths, despising piety.
31. For it is not the might of those by whom they swear,but the just retribution of sinners,that ever follows upon the transgression of the wicked.