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For such as in their life have received benefits and have not known Me,
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and they that have loathed My law while they had yet liberty, and, when as yet a place of repentance was open unto them, understood not but despised it,
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the same must know it after death by pain.
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And therefore be thou not curious how the ungodly shall be punished, and when; but inquire how the righteous shall be saved, whose the world is, and for whom the world is created."
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Then answered I and said,
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"I have said before, and now do speak, and will speak it also hereafter: that there be many more of those who perish than of those who shall be saved,
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as a wave is greater than a drop."
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And He answered me, saying, "As the field is, so is also the seed; as the flowers be, such are the colors also; such as the workman is, such also is the work; and as the husbandman is himself, so is his husbandry also. For it was the time of the world.
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And now when I prepared the world, which was not yet made, even for them to dwell in that now live, no man spoke against Me.
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For then every one obeyed; but now the manners of them that are created in this world that is made are corrupted by a perpetual seed and, by a law which is unsearchable, destroy themselves.
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So I considered the world, and behold, there was peril because of the devices that had come into it.