Verses:
1, 2:
The Lord hears and is able to do all things, but falsities and evils stand in the way.
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3, 4:
By these, truths have been falsified, and this is the source of evils of life and falsities of doctrine.
[2]
5:
They hatch out such things as captivate and deceive, and afterwards kill.
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6:
Those things with them that are of doctrine and of life are of no avail for anything.
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7:
They are diligent at perverting, whence comes vastation.
[2]
8:
He that follows, destroys the truths of the church in Himself.
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9, 10:
For this reason they are in falsities and see nothing in noonday light.
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11:
Hence there is no salvation,
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12-15:
because there is nothing but evils, and a turning away from truths, thus from the Lord.
[2, 4]
16, 17:
Inasmuch as no one was in truth, and no one was on the Lord's side, He alone fought from Divine truth with His own power,
[2, 4, 7]
18:
seemingly from revenge;
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19, 20:
therefore Divine worship belongs to Him, for from Him is redemption,
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21:
and from His Divine is every truth of the church to eternity.
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