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For it will not be able to bring the things that have been promised to the righteous in their appointed times, because this age is full of sadness and infirmities.
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But what will he do for his name, by which we are called? It is about these things that I have asked."
26
He answered me and said, "If you are alive, you will see, and if you live long, you will often marvel, because the age is hastening swiftly to its end.
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For it will not be able to bring the things that have been promised to the righteous in their appointed times, because this age is full of sadness and infirmities.
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For the evil about which you ask me has been sown, but the harvest of it has not yet come.
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If therefore that which has been sown is not reaped, and if the place where the evil has been sown does not pass away, the field where the good has been sown will not come.
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.