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Or that the faces of those who practiced self-control shall shine more than the stars, but our faces shall be blacker than darkness?
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For while we lived and committed iniquity we did not consider what we should suffer after death.”
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He answered and said, “This is the significance of the contest that all who are born on earth shall wage:
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if they are defeated they shall suffer what you have said, but if they are victorious they shall receive what I have said.[ai]
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