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He answered me and said, “Since you have found favor in my sight, I will show you this also. The day of judgment is decisive[z] and displays to all the seal of truth. Just as now a father does not send his son, or a son his father, or a master his servant, or a friend his dearest friend, to be ill[aa] or sleep or eat or be healed in his place,
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so no one shall ever pray for another on that day, neither shall anyone lay a burden on another;[ab] for then all shall bear their own righteousness and unrighteousness.”
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I answered and said, “How then do we find that first Abraham prayed for the people of Sodom, and Moses for our ancestors who sinned in the desert,
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and Joshua after him for Israel in the days of Achan,
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and Samuel in the days of Saul,[ac] and David for the plague, and Solomon for those at the dedication,
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and Elijah for those who received the rain, and for the one who was dead, that he might live,
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and Hezekiah for the people in the days of Sennacherib, and many others prayed for many?
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So if now, when corruption has increased and unrighteousness has multiplied, the righteous have prayed for the ungodly, why will it not be so then as well?”
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He answered me and said, “This present world is not the end; the full glory does not[ad] remain in it;[ae] therefore those who were strong prayed for the weak.
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But the day of judgment will be the end of this age and the beginning[af] of the immortal age to come, in which corruption has passed away,
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sinful indulgence has come to an end, unbelief has been cut off, and righteousness has increased and truth has appeared.