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Ecclesiastes 5:6

Ecclesiastes 5:6 (WEB)

Don’t allow your mouth to lead you into sin. Don’t protest before the messenger that this was a mistake. Why should God be angry at your voice, and destroy the work of your hands?

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  • “Thus, too, does the angel, the witness of baptism, “make the paths straight” for the Holy Spirit, who is about to come upon us, by the washing away of sins, which faith, sealed in (the name of) the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, obtains.” — editor's note: Arbiter. [Eccles. v. 6, and Acts xii. 15.]

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