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the more angry I will be with them for their sins, says the Lord.
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Just as a respectable and virtuous woman abhors a prostitute,
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so righteousness shall abhor iniquity, when she decks herself out, and shall accuse her to her face when he comes who will defend the one who searches out every sin on earth.
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Therefore do not be like her or her works.
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For in a very short time iniquity will be removed from the earth, and righteousness will reign over us.
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Sinners must not say that they have not sinned; for God will burn coals of fire on the head of everyone who says, "I have not sinned before God and his glory."
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The Lord certainly knows everything that people do; he knows their imaginations and their thoughts and their hearts.
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He said, "Let the earth be made," and it was made, and "Let the heaven be made," and it was made.
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At his word the stars were fixed in their places, and he knows the number of the stars.
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He searches the abyss and its treasures; he has measured the sea and its contents;
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he has confined the sea in the midst of the waters; and by his word he has suspended the earth over the water.