3
Saying within themselves, repenting, and groaning for anguish of spirit: These are they, whom we had some time in derision, and for a parable of reproach.
4
We fools esteemed their life madness, and their end without honour.
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Behold how they are numbered among the children of God, and their lot is among the saints.
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Therefore we have erred from the way of truth, and the light of justice hath not shined unto us, and the sun of understanding hath not risen upon us.
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We wearied ourselves in the way of iniquity and destruction, and have walked through hard ways, but the way of the Lord we have not known.