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For God strictly commanded those who came into the world, when they came, what they should do to live, and what they should observe to avoid punishment.
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Nevertheless they were not obedient, and spoke against him; they devised for themselves vain thoughts,
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and proposed to themselves wicked frauds; they even declared that the Most High does not exist, and they ignored his ways!
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They scorned his law, and denied his covenants; they have been unfaithful to his statutes, and have not performed his works.
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"Therefore, Ezra, empty things are for the empty, and full things are for the full.
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