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The righteous who have many works laid up with you will receive a reward for their own works.
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What are human beings that you should be angry with them, or a corrupt race that you should be irate with them?
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In truth, no one born has not violated your commands, and no one who grew up has not sinned.
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But this shows your goodness, Lord, when you have pity on those who have no stockpile of good works.
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He answered me: "You have said some things correctly, and according to your words it will be done.
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Indeed, I won't think about the formation of sinners or their death or judgment or damnation,
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but I will rejoice over the creation of the righteous, their journey also, and their deliverance and receipt of a reward.
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As I've said, then so it is.
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Just as a farmer sows many seeds on the land, but in time not all seeds that are sown will be saved nor will all the planted things take root, so also not all of those who are sown in the world will be saved."
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I answered: "If I have found favor with you, let me speak,
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because the farmer's seed doesn't grow up, perhaps because it didn't receive your rain in season; or if it was spoiled by abundance of rain, it perishes.