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For then every one obeyed; but now the manners of them that are created in this world that is made are corrupted by a perpetual seed and, by a law which is unsearchable, destroy themselves.
20
So I considered the world, and behold, there was peril because of the devices that had come into it.
21
And I saw, and spared it greatly, and have kept Me a grape of the cluster, and a plant of a great people.
22
Let the multitude perish then, which was born in vain, and let My grape be kept, and my plant; for with great labor have I made it perfect.
23
Nevertheless, if thou wilt cease yet seven days more; but thou shalt not fast in them,
Third Millennium Bible (TMB), New Authorized Version, Copyright 1998 by Deuel Enterprises, Inc., Gary, SD 57237. All rights reserved.