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The Afflictions of the Wicked are for Examples to Others Psalm 64:7–9

But God will shoot them with arrows; suddenly they will be wounded. / They will be made to stumble, their own tongues turned against them. All who see will shake their heads. / Then all mankind will fear and proclaim the work of God; so they will ponder what He has done.

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The Afflictions of the Wicked are for Examples to Others Zephaniah 3:6, 7

“I have cut off the nations; their corner towers are destroyed. I have made their streets deserted with no one to pass through. Their cities are laid waste, with no man, no inhabitant. / I said, ‘Surely you will fear Me and accept correction.’ Then her dwelling place would not be cut off despite all for which I punished her. But they rose early to corrupt all their deeds.

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The Afflictions of the Wicked are for Examples to Others 1 Corinthians 10:5–11

Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them, for they were struck down in the wilderness. / These things took place as examples to keep us from craving evil things as they did. / Do not be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written: “The people sat down to eat and to drink, and got up to indulge in revelry.”

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The Afflictions of the Wicked are for Examples to Others 2 Peter 2:6

if He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction, reducing them to ashes as an example of what is coming on the ungodly;

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