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and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner
      of the thoughts and intents of the heart. 7 The
      grass withers, the flower fades: but the word of
      our God shall stand forever.

      8 Jesus said: Heaven and earth shall pass away,

      but  my  words  shall  not  pass  away.  9
      Blessed are they that hear the word of God,

      and keep it.  10  It  is  the  spirit that  gives  life;
      the flesh profits nothing: the words I speak to
      you are spirit and life. 11 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 so you may grow by it.


      12 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

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