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For we and our ancestors have passed our lives in ways that bring death; but it is because of us sinners that you are called merciful.
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For if you have desired to have pity on us, who have no works of righteousness, then you will be called merciful.
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For the righteous, who have many works laid up with you, shall receive their reward in consequence of their own deeds.
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But what are mortals, that you are angry with them; or what is a corruptible race, that you are so bitter against it?
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For in truth there is no one among those who have been born who has not acted wickedly; among those who have existed there is no one who has not done wrong.
New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.