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because it is for you that paradise is opened, the tree of life is planted, the age to come is prepared, plenty is provided, a city is built, rest is appointed, goodness is established and wisdom perfected beforehand.
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The root of evil is sealed up from you, illness is banished from you, and death is hidden; hell has fled and corruption has been forgotten;
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sorrows have passed away, and in the end the treasure of immortality is made manifest.
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Therefore do not ask any more questions about the multitude of those who perish.
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For they also received freedom , but they despised the Most High, and were contemptuous of his law, and forsook his ways.
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.