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O Adam, what have you done? For though it was you who sinned, the fall was not yours alone, but ours also who are your descendants.
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For what good is it to us, if an immortal time has been promised to us, but we have done deeds that bring death?
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And what good is it that an everlasting hope has been promised to us, but we have miserably failed?
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Or that safe and healthful habitations have been reserved for us, but we have lived wickedly?
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Or that the glory of the Most High will defend those who have led a pure life, but we have walked in the most wicked ways?
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Or that a paradise shall be revealed, whose fruit remains unspoiled and in which are abundance and healing, but we shall not enter it
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because we have lived in perverse ways?[ah]
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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]