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For I sow my law in you, and it shall bring forth fruit in you, and you shall be glorified through it forever.'
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But though our ancestors received the law, they did not keep it and did not observe the statutes; yet the fruit of the law did not perish—for it could not, because it was yours.
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Yet those who received it perished, because they did not keep what had been sown in them.
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Now this is the general rule that, when the ground has received seed, or the sea a ship, or any dish food or drink, and when it comes about that what was sown or what was launched or what was put in is destroyed,
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they are destroyed, but the things that held them remain; yet with us it has not been so.
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