Verses:
1, 2:
It has been granted them that they may be the church, and that they may acknowledge the Lord, but in vain.
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3, 4:
They have turned away, and this has been declared to them,
[2]
5:
lest, haply, they should believe that they themselves are superior to others,
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6, 7:
and have not known this,
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8:
and yet they have been such from the beginning.
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9-11:
They are not yet to be destroyed, for His own reasons, and the time will yet be prolonged.
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12, 13:
Be it known to them that He is the God of heaven and earth.
[10, 16]
14-17:
He is the Lord who will come among those who are adulterating and profaning the Word, and will declare this to them:
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18, 19:
if they had obeyed Him they would have had the goods and truths of the church in all abundance;
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20, 21:
if they would leave the adulterations and falsifications of the Word, and the pride of having dominion, they would be in everything of the church.
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22:
But the church is not with them, because they have turned away.
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