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and as many as scorned my law while they still had freedom, and did not understand but despised it while an opportunity of repentance was still open to them,
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these must in torment acknowledge it after death.
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Therefore, do not continue to be curious about how the ungodly will be punished; but inquire how the righteous will be saved, those to whom the age belongs and for whose sake the age was made."
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"I said before, and I say now, and will say it again: there are more who perish than those who will be saved,
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as a wave is greater than a drop of water."
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He answered me and said, "As is the field, so is the seed; and as are the flowers, so are the colors; and as is the work, so is the product; and as is the farmer, so is the threshing floor.
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For there was a time in this age when I was preparing for those who now exist, before the world was made for them to live in, and no one opposed me then, for no one existed;
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but now those who have been created in this world, which is supplied both with an unfailing table and an inexhaustible pasture, have become corrupt in their ways.
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So I considered my world, and saw that it was lost. I saw that my earth was in peril because of the devices of those who had come into it.
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And I saw and spared some with great difficulty, and saved for myself one grape out of a cluster, and one plant out of a great forest.