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and Samuel in the days of Saul,[ac] and David for the plague, and Solomon for those at the dedication,
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and Elijah for those who received the rain, and for the one who was dead, that he might live,
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and Hezekiah for the people in the days of Sennacherib, and many others prayed for many?
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So if now, when corruption has increased and unrighteousness has multiplied, the righteous have prayed for the ungodly, why will it not be so then as well?”
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He answered me and said, “This present world is not the end; the full glory does not[ad] remain in it;[ae] therefore those who were strong prayed for the weak.
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