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Therefore do not ask any more questions about the multitude of those who perish.
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For they also received freedom , but they despised the Most High, and were contemptuous of his law, and forsook his ways.
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Moreover they have even trampled upon his righteous ones,
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and said in their hearts that there is not God -- though knowing full well that they must die.
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For just as the things which I have predicted await you, so the thirst and torment which are prepared await them. For the Most High did not intend that men should be destroyed;
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.