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Ezekiel 18:23
Have I any pleasure in the death of the evil-doer? says the Lord: am I not pleased if he is turned from his way so that he may have life?

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Genesis 18:21
I will go down now, and see if their acts are as bad as they seem from the outcry which has come to me; and if they are not, I will see.

Genesis 18:25
Let such a thing be far from you, to put the upright to death with the sinner: will not the judge of all the earth do right?

Psalms 11:6
On the evil-doer he will send down fire and flames, and a burning wind; with these will their cup be full.

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Exodus 20:5
You may not go down on your faces before them or give them worship: for I, the Lord your God, am a God who will not give his honour to another; and I will send punishment on the children for the wrongdoing of their fathers, to the third and fourth generation of my haters;

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Deuteronomy 30:2
And your hearts are turned again to the Lord your God, and you give ear to his word which I give you today, you and your children, with all your heart and with all your soul:

Deuteronomy 30:8
And you will again give ear to the voice of the Lord, and do all his orders which I have given you today.

1 Samuel 7:3
Then Samuel said to all Israel, If with all your hearts you would come back to the Lord, then put away all the strange gods and the Astartes from among you, and let your hearts be turned to the Lord, and be servants to him only: and he will make you safe from the hands of the Philistines.

1 Kings 8:38
Whatever prayer or request for your grace is made by any man, or by all your people Israel, whatever his trouble may be, whose hands are stretched out to this house:

1 Kings 8:48
And with all their heart and soul are turned again to you, in the land of those who took them prisoners, and make their prayer to you, turning their eyes to this land which you gave to their fathers, and to the town which you took for yourself, and the house which I made for your name:

1 Kings 8:49
Then give ear to their prayer and to their cry in heaven your living-place, and see right done to them;

1 Kings 8:50
Answering with forgiveness the people who have done wrong against you, and overlooking the evil which they have done against you; let those who made them prisoners be moved with pity for them, and have pity on them;

2 Chronicles 6:38
If with all their heart and soul they are turned again to you, in the land where they are prisoners, the land where they have been taken, and make their prayers, turning their eyes to their land which you gave to their fathers, and to the town which you took for yourself, and the house which I have made for your name:

2 Chronicles 6:39
Then give ear from heaven your living-place to their prayer and their cry, and see right done to them, answering with forgiveness your people who have done wrong against you.

Nehemiah 1:9
But if you come back to me and keep my orders and do them, even if those of you who have been forced out are living in the farthest parts of heaven, I will get them from there, and take them back to the place marked out by me for the resting-place of my name.

Jeremiah 24:7
And I will give them a heart to have knowledge of me, that I am the Lord: and they will be my people, and I will be their God: for they will come back to me with all their heart.

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2 Samuel 14:14
For death comes to us all, and we are like water drained out on the earth, which it is not possible to take up again; and God will not take away the life of the man whose purpose is that he who has been sent away may not be completely cut off from him.

Luke 15:25
Now the older son was in the field: and when he came near the house, the sounds of music and dancing came to his ears.

Luke 15:26
And he sent for one of the servants, questioning him about what it might be.

Luke 15:27
And he said to him, Your brother has come; and your father has had the young ox put to death because he has come back safely.

Luke 15:28
But he was angry and would not go in; and his father came out and made a request to him to come in.

Luke 15:29
But he made answer and said to his father, See, all these years I have been your servant, doing your orders in everything: and you never gave me even a young goat so that I might have a feast with my friends:

Luke 15:30
But when this your son came, who has been wasting your property with bad women, you put to death the fat young ox for him.

Luke 15:31
And he said to him, Son, you are with me at all times, and all I have is yours.

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2 Kings 23:31
Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king, ruling in Jerusalem for three months; his mother's name was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

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Job 33:27
He makes a song, saying, I did wrong, turning from the straight way, but he did not give me the reward of my sin.

Job 33:28
He kept my soul from the underworld, and my life sees the light in full measure.

Isaiah 44:22
I have put your evil doings out of my mind like a thick cloud, and your sins like a mist: come back to me; for I have taken up your cause.

Jeremiah 31:20
Is Ephraim my dear son? is he the child of my delight? for whenever I say things against him, I still keep him in my memory: so my heart is troubled for him; I will certainly have mercy on him, says the Lord.

Amos 9:9
For see, I will give orders, and I will have Israel moved about among all the nations, as grain is moved about by the shaking of the tray, but not the smallest seed will be dropped on the earth.

Luke 15:20
And he got up and went to his father. But while he was still far away, his father saw him and was moved with pity for him and went quickly and took him in his arms and gave him a kiss.

Luke 15:21
And his son said to him, Father, I have done wrong, against heaven and in your eyes: I am no longer good enough to be named your son.

Acts 3:19
So then, let your hearts be changed and be turned to God, so that your sins may be completely taken away, and times of blessing may come from the Lord;

1 John 1:7
But if we are walking in the light, as he is in the light, we are all united with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son makes us clean from all sin.

1 John 1:9
If we say openly that we have done wrong, he is upright and true to his word, giving us forgiveness of sins and making us clean from all evil.

1 John 2:1
My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may be without sin. And if any man is a sinner, we have a friend and helper with the Father, Jesus Christ, the upright one:

1 John 2:2
He is the offering for our sins; and not for ours only, but for all the world.

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Psalms 80:18
So will we not be turned back from you; keep us in life, and we will give praise to your name.

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Psalms 80:19
Take us back, O Lord God of armies; let us see the shining of your face, and let us be safe.

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Psalms 86:5
You are good, O Lord, and full of forgiveness; your mercy is great to all who make their cry to you.

Psalms 86:15
But you, O Lord, are a God full of pity and forgiveness, slow to get angry, great in mercy and wisdom.

Psalms 145:8
The Lord is full of grace and pity; not quickly angry, but great in mercy.

Psalms 145:9
The Lord is good to all men; and his mercies are over all his works.

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Psalms 147:11
The Lord takes pleasure in his worshippers, and in those whose hope is in his mercy.

Isaiah 62:5
For as a young man takes a virgin for his wife, so will your maker be married to you: and as a husband has joy in his bride, so will the Lord your God be glad over you.

Jeremiah 32:41
And truly, I will take pleasure in doing them good, and all my heart and soul will be given to planting them in this land in good faith.

Jeremiah 32:42
For the Lord has said: As I have made all this great evil come on this people, so I will send on them all the good which I said about them.

Zephaniah 3:17
The Lord your God is among you, as a strong saviour: he will be glad over you with joy, he will make his love new again, he will make a song of joy over you as in the time of a holy feast.

Luke 15:1
Now all the tax-farmers and sinners came near to give ear to him.

Luke 15:6
And when he gets back to his house, he sends for his neighbours and friends, saying to them, Be glad with me, for I have got back my sheep which had gone away.

Luke 15:7
I say to you that even so there will be more joy in heaven when one sinner is turned away from his wrongdoing, than for ninety-nine good men, who have no need of a change of heart.

Luke 15:8
Or what woman, having ten bits of silver, if one bit has gone from her hands, will not get a light, and go through her house, searching with care till she sees it?

John 15:11
I have said these things to you so that I may have joy in you and so that your joy may be complete.

James 2:13
For the man who has had no mercy will be judged without mercy, but mercy takes pride in overcoming judging.

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Proverbs 8:35
For whoever gets me gets life, and grace from the Lord will come to him.

Proverbs 9:11
For by me your days will be increased, and the years of your life will be long.

Proverbs 10:16
The work of the upright gives life: the increase of the evil-doer is a cause of sin.

Proverbs 11:19
So righteousness gives life; but he who goes after evil gets death for himself.

Proverbs 12:28
In the road of righteousness is life, but the way of the evil-doer goes to death.

Ezekiel 18:9
And has been guided by my rules and has kept my laws and done them: he is upright, life will certainly be his, says the Lord.

1 John 2:29
If you have knowledge that he is upright, it is clear to you that everyone who does righteousness is his offspring.

1 John 3:7
My little children, let no man take you out of the true way: he who does righteousness is upright, even as he is upright;

3 John 1:11
My loved one, do not be copying what is evil, but what is good. He who does good is of God: he who does evil has not seen God.

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Isaiah 45:22
Let your hearts be turned to me, so that you may have salvation, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is no other.

Isaiah 53:10
And the Lord was pleased...see a seed, long life, ...will do well in his hand. ...

Isaiah 53:11
...made clear his righteousness before men...had taken their sins on himself.

John 3:17
God did not send his Son into the world to be judge of the world; he sent him so that the world might have salvation through him.

John 5:40
And still you have no desire to come to me so that you may have life.

John 6:37
Whatever the Father gives to me will come to me; and I will not send away anyone who comes to me.

John 17:24
Father, it is my desire that these whom you have given to me may be by my side where I am, so that they may see my glory which you have given to me, because you had love for me before the world came into being.

Romans 8:32
He who did not keep back his only Son, but gave him up for us all, will he not with him freely give us all things?

Hebrews 12:2
Having our eyes fixed on Jesus, the guide and end of our faith, who went through the pains of the cross, not caring for the shame, because of the joy which was before him, and who has now taken his place at the right hand of God's seat of power.

1 Peter 2:24
He took our sins on himself, giving his body to be nailed on the tree, so that we, being dead to sin, might have a new life in righteousness, and by his wounds we have been made well.

1 Peter 2:25
Because, like sheep, you had gone out of the way; but now you have come back to him who keeps watch over your souls.

Revelation 22:17
And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him who gives ear, say, Come. And let him who is in need come; and let everyone desiring it take of the water of life freely.

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Isaiah 49:6
It is not enough for one who is my servant to put the tribes of Jacob again in their place, and to get back those of Israel who have been sent away: my purpose is to give you as a light to the nations, so that you may be my salvation to the end of the earth.

John 3:15
So that whoever has faith may have in him eternal life.

John 6:40
This, I say, is my Father's pleasure, that everyone who sees the Son and has faith in him may have eternal life: and I will take him up on the last day.

1 Corinthians 13:12
For now we see things in a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now my knowledge is in part; then it will be complete, even as God's knowledge of me.

Philippians 3:18
For there are those, of whom I have given you word before, and do so now with sorrow, who are haters of the cross of Christ;

1 Thessalonians 1:9
For they themselves give the news of how we came among you; and how you were turned from images to God, to the worship of a true and living God,

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Isaiah 1:16
Be washed, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; let there be an end of sinning;

Isaiah 1:17
Take pleasure in well-doing; let your ways be upright, keep down the cruel, give a right decision for the child who has no father, see to the cause of the widow.

Isaiah 1:18
Come now, and let us have an argument together, says the Lord: how may your sins which are red like blood be white as snow? how may their dark purple seem like wool?

Isaiah 1:19
If you will give ear to my word and do it, the good things of the land will be yours;

Isaiah 58:6
Is not this the holy day for which I have given orders: to let loose those who have wrongly been made prisoners, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the crushed go free, and every yoke be broken?

Jeremiah 18:11
Now, then, say to the men of Judah and to the people of Jerusalem, This is what the Lord has said: See, I am forming an evil thing against you, and designing a design against you: let every man come back now from his evil way, and let your ways and your doings be changed for the better.

Jeremiah 35:15
And I have sent you all my servants the prophets, getting up early and sending them, saying, Come back, now, every man from his evil way, and do better, and go not after other gods to become their servants, and you will go on living in the land which I have given to you and to your fathers: but your ears have not been open, and you have not given attention to me.

Daniel 4:27
For this cause, O King, let my suggestion be pleasing to you, and let your sins be covered by righteousness and your evil-doing by mercy to the poor, so that the time of your well-being may be longer.

Jonah 3:9
Who may say that God will not be turned, changing his purpose and turning away from his burning wrath, so that destruction may not overtake us?

Matthew 3:8
Let your change of heart be seen in your works:

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Song of Solomon 6:13
Come back, come back, O Shulammite; come back, come back, so that our eyes may see you. What will you see in the Shulammite? A sword-dance.

Jeremiah 3:1
They say, If a man puts away his wife and she goes from him and becomes another man's, will he go back to her again? will not that land have been made unclean? but though you have been acting like a loose woman with a number of lovers, will you now come back to me? says the Lord.

Jeremiah 3:22
Come back, you children who have been turned away, and I will take away your desire for wandering. See, we have come to you, for you are the Lord our God.

Jeremiah 4:1
If you will come back, O Israel, says the Lord, you will come back to me: and if you will put away your disgusting ways, you will not be sent away from before me.

Jeremiah 8:4
Further, you are to say to them, This is what the Lord has said: Will those who are falling not be lifted up again? will he who has gone away not come back?

Hosea 5:15
I will go back to my place till they are made waste; in their trouble they will go after me early and will make search for me.

Hosea 6:1
Come, let us go back to the Lord; for he has given us wounds and he will make us well; he has given blows and he will give help.

Hosea 7:10
And the pride of Israel gives an answer to his face; but for all this, they have not gone back to the Lord their God, or made search for him.

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Jeremiah 18:9
And whenever I say anything about building up a nation or a kingdom, and planting it;

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Jeremiah 18:10
If, in that very minute, it does evil in my eyes, going against my orders, then my good purpose, which I said I would do for them, will be changed.

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Lamentations 2:8
It is the Lord's purpose to make waste the wall of the daughter of Zion; his line has been stretched out, he has not kept back his hand from destruction: he has sent sorrow on tower and wall, they have become feeble together.

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Lamentations 2:9
Her doors have gone down into the earth; he has sent destruction on her locks: her king and her princes are among the nations where the law is not; even her prophets have had no vision from the Lord.

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Lamentations 2:17
The Lord has done that which was his purpose; he has put into force the orders which he gave in the days which are past; pulling down without pity, he has made your hater glad over you, lifting up the horn of those who were against you.

Lamentations 3:42
We have done wrong and gone against your law; we have not had your forgiveness.

Lamentations 3:43
Covering yourself with wrath you have gone after us, cutting us off without pity;

Lamentations 3:44
Covering yourself with a cloud, so that prayer may not get through.

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Ezekiel 17:7
And there was another eagle with great wings and thick feathers: and now this vine, pushing out its roots to him, sent out its branches in his direction from the bed where it was planted, so that he might give it water.

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Ezekiel 18:1
The word of the Lord came to me again, saying,

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Ezekiel 18:2
Why do you make use of this saying about the land of Israel, The fathers have been tasting bitter grapes and the children's teeth are on edge?

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Leviticus 4:20
Let him do with the ox as he did with the ox of the sin-offering; and the priest will take away their sin and they will have forgiveness.

Leviticus 4:26
And all the fat of it is to be burned on the altar like the fat of the peace-offering; and the priest will take away his sin and he will have forgiveness.

Leviticus 4:31
And let all its fat be taken away, as the fat is taken away from the peace-offerings, and let it be burned on the altar by the priest for a sweet smell to the Lord; and the priest will take away his sin and he will have forgiveness.

Leviticus 5:10
And the second is for a burned offering, in agreement with the law; and the priest will take away his sin and he will have forgiveness.

Leviticus 5:13
And the priest will take away his sin and he will have forgiveness: and the rest of the offering will be the priest's, in the same way as the meal offering.

Leviticus 5:15
If anyone is untrue, sinning in error in connection with the holy things of the Lord, let him take his offering to the Lord, a male sheep from the flock, without any mark, of the value fixed by you in silver by shekels, by the scale of the holy place.

Leviticus 5:16
And he is to make payment to the priest for what he has done wrong in relation to the holy thing, together with a fifth part of its value in addition; and the priest will take away his sin by the sheep of his offering, and he will have forgiveness.

Leviticus 5:18
Let him come to the priest with a sheep, a male without any mark out of the flock, of the value fixed by you, as an offering for his error; and the priest will take away the sin which he did in error, and he will have forgiveness.

Leviticus 6:7
And the priest will take away his sin from before the Lord, and he will have forgiveness for whatever crime he has done

Ezekiel 33:14
And when I say to the evil-doer, Death will certainly be your fate; if he is turned from his sin and does what is ordered and right;

Ezekiel 33:15
If the evil-doer lets one who is in his debt have back what is his, and gives back what he had taken by force, and is guided by the rules of life, doing no evil; life will certainly be his, death will not overtake him.

Ezekiel 33:16
Not one of the sins which he has done will be kept in mind against him: he has done what is ordered and right, life will certainly be his.

Ezekiel 33:19
And when the evil man, turning away from his evil-doing, does what is ordered and right, he will get life by it.

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Isaiah 6:6
Then a winged one came to me with a burning coal in his hand, which he had taken from off the altar with the fire-spoon.

Isaiah 6:10
Make the hearts of this people fat, and let their ears be stopped, and their eyes shut; for fear that they may see with their eyes, and be hearing with their ears, and their heart may become wise, and they may be turned to me and made well.

Micah 7:8
Do not be glad because of my sorrow, O my hater: after my fall I will be lifted up; when I am seated in the dark, the Lord will be a light to me.

Malachi 3:17
And they will be mine, says the Lord, in the day when I make them my special property; and I will have mercy on them as a man has mercy on his son who is his servant.

Luke 1:78
Because of the loving mercies of our God, by which the dawn from heaven has come to us,

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Matthew 27:25
And all the people made answer and said, Let his blood be on us, and on our children.

1 Thessalonians 2:16
Who, to make the measure of their sins complete, kept us from giving the word of salvation to the Gentiles: but the wrath of God is about to come on them in the fullest degree.

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Romans 3:29
Or is God the God of Jews only? is he not in the same way the God of Gentiles? Yes, of Gentiles:

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Romans 3:30
If God is one; and he will give righteousness because of faith to those who have circumcision, and through faith to those who have not circumcision.

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Romans 2:4
Or is it nothing to you that God had pity on you, waiting and putting up with you for so long, not seeing that in his pity God's desire is to give you a change of heart?

Romans 5:15
But the free giving of God is not like the wrongdoing of man. For if, by the wrongdoing of one man death came to numbers of men, much more did the grace of God, and the free giving by the grace of one man, Jesus Christ, come to men.

Romans 5:21
That, as sin had power in death, so grace might have power through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Romans 6:22
But now, being free from sin, and having been made servants to God, you have your fruit in that which is holy, and the end is eternal life.

Romans 6:23
For the reward of sin is death; but what God freely gives is eternal life in Jesus Christ our Lord.

Romans 12:2
And let not your behaviour be like that of this world, but be changed and made new in mind, so that by experience you may have knowledge of the good and pleasing and complete purpose of God.

Ephesians 2:10
For by his act we were given existence in Christ Jesus to do those good works which God before made ready for us so that we might do them.

Titus 2:12
Training us so that, turning away from evil and the desires of this world, we may be living wisely and uprightly in the knowledge of God in this present life;

Titus 3:4
But when the mercy of God our Saviour, and his love to man was seen,

Titus 3:5
Not by works of righteousness which we did ourselves, but in the measure of his mercy, he gave us salvation, through the washing of the new birth and the giving of new life in the Holy Spirit,

Titus 3:6
Which he gave us freely through Jesus Christ our Saviour;

Titus 3:7
So that, having been given righteousness through grace, we might have a part in the heritage, the hope of eternal life.

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2 Corinthians 5:18
But all things are of God, who has made us at peace with himself through Christ, and has given to us the work of making peace;

2 Corinthians 5:19
That is, that God was in Christ making peace between the world and himself, not putting their sins to their account, and having given to us the preaching of this news of peace.

2 Corinthians 5:20
So we are the representatives of Christ, as if God was making a request to you through us: we make our request to you, in the name of Christ, be at peace with God.

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2 Corinthians 5:17
So if any man is in Christ, he is in a new world: the old things have come to an end; they have truly become new.

Ephesians 1:5
As we were designed before by him for the position of sons to himself, through Jesus Christ, in the good pleasure of his purpose,

1 Thessalonians 4:3
For the purpose of God for you is this: that you may be holy, and may keep yourselves from the desires of the flesh;

1 Timothy 1:15
It is a true saying, in which all may put their faith, that Christ Jesus came into the world to give salvation to sinners, of whom I am the chief:

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1 Thessalonians 2:15
Who put to death the Lord Jesus and the prophets, violently driving us out; who are unpleasing to God and against all men;

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Psalms 135:6
The Lord has done whatever was pleasing to him, in heaven, and on the earth, in the seas and in all the deep waters.

Romans 9:19
But you will say to me, Why does he still make us responsible? who is able to go against his purpose?

1 Corinthians 10:13
You have been put to no test but such as is common to man: and God is true, who will not let any test come on you which you are not able to undergo; but he will make with the test a way out of it, so that you may be able to go through it.

James 1:13
Let no man say when he is tested, I am tested by God; for it is not possible for God to be tested by evil, and he himself puts no man to such a test:

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1 Kings 14:13
And all Israel will put his body to rest, weeping over him, because he only of the family of Jeroboam will be put into his resting-place in the earth; for of all the family of Jeroboam, in him only has the Lord, the God of Israel, seen some good.

2 Chronicles 12:12
And when he made himself low, the wrath of the Lord was turned back from him, and complete destruction did not come on him, for there was still some good in Judah.

2 Chronicles 19:3
But still there is some good in you, for you have put away the wood pillars out of the land, and have given your heart to the worship of God.

Job 19:28
If you say, How cruel we will be to him! because the root of sin is clearly in him:

Philemon 1:6
That the faith which you have in common with them may be working with power, in the knowledge of every good thing in you, for Christ.

2 Peter 2:8
(Because the soul of that upright man living among them was pained from day to day by seeing and hearing their crimes):

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