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For a grain of evil seed was sown in Adam's heart from the beginning, and how much ungodliness it has produced until now, and will produce until the time of threshing comes!
31
Consider now for yourself how much fruit of ungodliness a grain of evil seed has produced.
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When heads of grain without number are sown, how great a threshing floor they will fill!"
33
Then I answered and said, "How long and when will these things be? Why are our years few and evil?"
34
He answered me and said, "You do not hasten faster than the Most High, for your haste is for yourself, but the Highest hastens on behalf of many.
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.