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What good is it to us that everlasting hope has been predicted for us, but we have utterly failed?
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What good is it that safe and healthy dwelling places are reserved, but we have behaved badly?
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What good is it that the glory of the Most High will protect those who have conducted themselves decently, but we have conducted ourselves indecently?
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What good is it that paradise will be revealed, whose fruit remains uncorrupted, in which there is plenty and healing,
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but we won't enter it, for we have visited unseemly places?
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What good is it that the faces of those who practiced abstinence will shine brighter than stars when our faces are blacker than darkness?
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While we were alive and doing evil, we didn't think about what we would suffer after death."
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He answered: "These are the rules for the contest in which everyone born on earth takes part:
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Those who are defeated will suffer what you said, but those who conquer will receive what I say.
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This is the path that Moses declared when he was alive, speaking to the people, Choose life for yourself…so that you may live.
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But they didn't believe him or the prophets who came after him. They didn't even believe me when I spoke to them.