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For to know Thee is perfect righteousness; yea, to know Thy power is the root of immortality.
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For neither did the evil invention of men deceive us, nor an image spotted with divers colors, the painter's fruitless labor,
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the sight whereof enticeth fools to lust after it; and so they desire the form of a dead image, that hath no breath.
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Both they that make them, they that desire them, and they that worship them, are lovers of evil things, and are worthy to have such things to trust upon.
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For the potter, tempering soft earth, fashioneth every vessel with much labor for our service; yea, of the same clay he maketh both the vessels that serve for clean uses, and likewise also all such as serve to the contrary; but what is the use of either sort the potter himself is the judge.
Third Millennium Bible (TMB), New Authorized Version, Copyright 1998 by Deuel Enterprises, Inc., Gary, SD 57237. All rights reserved.