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or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus,
giving thanks to God and the Father by him.

6 The grass withers, the flower fades: but the
word of our God shall stand forever. 7 Jesus
said: Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my

words shall not pass away. 8 Blessed are they
that hear the word of God, and keep it. 9
It is the spirit that gives life; the flesh profits
nothing: the words I speak to you are spirit and
life. 10 So lay aside all malice, and all guile, and

hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speaking, as
newborns, desire the sincere milk of the
word that you may grow by it.

11 For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways, says the LORD.
For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so
are my ways higher than your ways, and my
thoughts than your thoughts. For as the rain

comes down, and the snow from heaven, and
returns not again, but that it waters the earth,
and makes it bring forth and bud, that it may
give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:
so shall my word be that goes forth out of