Verses:
1, 2:
The church among them is destroyed by falsities of evil.
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3-5:
They no longer have truth and good, but falsity and evil, and these destroy them.
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6, 7:
By means of these the church amongst them is destroyed.
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8, 9:
There are still some truths; let them beware lest they destroy them;
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10:
but they hearken not.
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11:
Therefore all things are being destroyed.
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12:
Thus others are being received in their stead.
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13, 14:
Because everything there has been so perverted that there is no protection against falsity,
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15:
which they do not acknowledge to be falsities,
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16, 17:
and they repudiate truths,
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18, 19:
therefore they will come to an end;
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20:
hence they regard the works of their worship as of no value.
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21:
Destruction comes upon them
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22, 23:
through falsities, from which they reason against the truths of the church.
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24-26:
Those who are separated and grieve over them.
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27-30:
The perverse are tested, and found incapable of restoration.
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