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Therefore do not ask any more questions about the great number of those who perish.
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For when they had opportunity to choose, they despised the Most High, and were contemptuous of his law, and abandoned his ways.
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Moreover, they have even trampled on his righteous ones,
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and said in their hearts that there is no God—though they knew well that they must die.
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For just as the things that I have predicted await you, so the thirst and torment that are prepared await them. For the Most High did not intend that anyone should be destroyed;