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Now therefore, set your house in order, and reprove your people; comfort the lowly among them, and instruct those that are wise. And now renounce the life that is corruptible,
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and put away from you mortal thoughts; cast away from you the burdens of man, and divest yourself now of your weak nature,
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and lay to one side the thoughts that are most grievous to you, and hasten to escape from these times.
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For evils worse than those which you have now seen happen shall be done hereafter.
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For the weaker the world becomes through old age, the more shall evils be multiplied among its inhabitants.
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the 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.