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And every one that shall be saved, and shall be able to escape by his works and by faith, whereby ye have believed,
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shall be preserved from the said perils, and shall see My salvation in My land and within My borders; for I have sanctified them for Me from the beginning.
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Then shall they be in a pitiful state who now have abused My ways, and they that have cast them away despitefully shall dwell in torments.
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For such as in their life have received benefits and have not known Me,
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and they that have loathed My law while they had yet liberty, and, when as yet a place of repentance was open unto them, understood not but despised it,
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the same must know it after death by pain.
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And therefore be thou not curious how the ungodly shall be punished, and when; but inquire how the righteous shall be saved, whose the world is, and for whom the world is created."
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Then answered I and said,
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"I have said before, and now do speak, and will speak it also hereafter: that there be many more of those who perish than of those who shall be saved,
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as a wave is greater than a drop."
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And He answered me, saying, "As the field is, so is also the seed; as the flowers be, such are the colors also; such as the workman is, such also is the work; and as the husbandman is himself, so is his husbandry also. For it was the time of the world.