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-# Connecting Statement:
+# on every human soul that has practiced evil
 
-Though this section is speaking to the non-religious wicked person, Paul sums it up by stating both non-Jews and Jews are wicked before God.
-
-# tribulation and distress on
-
-The words "tribulation" and "distress" mean basically the same thing here and emphasize how bad God's punishment will be. Alternate translation: "awful punishments  to" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-doublet]])
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-# on every human soul
-
-Here, Paul uses the word "soul" as a synecdoche that refers to the whole person. Alternate translation: "upon every person" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-synecdoche]])
-
-# has practiced evil
-
-"has continually done evil things"
+"upon every person who has done evil"
 
 # evil, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek
 
 "evil. He will judge the Jewish people first, and then those people who are not Jewish"
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-# first
-
-Possible meanings are 1) "first in order of time" or 2) "most certainly"
-