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For better is one that feareth God, than a thousand ungodly children.
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And it is better to die without children, than to leave ungodly children.
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By one that is wise a country shall be inhabited, the tribe of the ungodly shall become desolate.
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Many such things hath my eyes seen, and greater things than these my ear hath heard.
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In the congregation of sinners a fire shall be kindled, and in an unbelieving nation wrath shall dame out.
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The ancient giants did not obtain pardon for their sine, who were destroyed trusting to their own strength:
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And he spared not the place where Lot sojourned, but abhorred them for the pride of their word.
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He had not pity on them, destroying the whole nation that extolled them- selves in their sine.
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So did he with the six hundred thousand footmen, who were gathered together in the hardness of their heart: and if one had been stiffnecked, it is a wonder if he had escaped unpunished:
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For mercy and wrath are with him. He is mighty to forgive, and to pour out indignation:
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According as his mercy is, so his correction judgeth a man according to his works.