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But you, our God, are kind and true, patient, and ruling all things in mercy.
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For even if we sin we are yours, knowing your power; but we will not sin, because we know that you acknowledge us as yours.
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For to know you is complete righteousness, and to know your power is the root of immortality.
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For neither has the evil intent of human art misled us, nor the fruitless toil of painters, a figure stained with varied colors,
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whose appearance arouses yearning in fools, so that they desire the lifeless form of a dead image.