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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.
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Lovers of evil things and fit for such objects of hope are those who either make or desire or worship them.
New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.