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If you will, you can keep the commandments, and to act faithfully is a matter of your own choice.
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He has placed before you fire and water: stretch out your hand for whichever you wish.
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Before a man are life and death, and whichever he chooses will be given to him.
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For great is the wisdom of the Lord; he is mighty in power and sees everything;
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his eyes are on those who fear him, and he knows every deed of man.
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.