EXERCISE LOVE OVER RIGHTS, 1 Corinthians 8

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“TO THE SINGLE AND THE MARRIED - PRAYFULLY MEDITATING 1 CORINTHIANS 7”
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KNOWLEDGE AND LOVE
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LORD, you said that the knowledge we all possess “puffs up,” while love builds up.
Whoever loves You is known by You.
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IDOLS
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An idol is nothing at all in the world. There are many so-called “gods” and “lords.”
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ONE GOD
But we know there is no God but one.
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There is one God, the Father,
from whom all things came,
and for whom we live;
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And
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There is but one Lord, Jesus Christ,
through whom all things came,
and through whom we live
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But not everyone possesses this knowledge. Some people are still so accustomed to idols.
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FOOD “SACRIFICED TO IDOLS”
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When some people eat sacrificial food, they think of it as having been sacrificed to a god. Since their conscience is weak, it is defiled.
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FOOD AND GOD
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Food does not bring us near to You. We are no worse if we do not eat, and no better if we do.
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DON’T BECOME A STUMBLING BLOCK
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We have knowledge from You concerning the right to eat meat, but You want us to be careful that the exercise of our rights does not become a stumbling block to someone with a weak conscience. Therefore, this is how we ought to know, that we should not wound their weak conscience. Becoming a stumbling block for them to fall is sinning against Christ.
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PRAYING FOR OUR LOST LOVED ONES
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LORD, we think the spiritual lesson You are teaching us is to be gentle and considerate of others that still don’t understand our freedom in Christ. You don’t want for us to be proud and forward and wound another’s spirit. But rather, You want for us to condescend to those that are weak and vulnerable. You want for us to exercise love over exercising our rights, esteeming the spiritual welfare of others over our self indulgence.
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Help us Counselor, to exercise love and fulfill the royal law. May we become all things to all people that we may win some to Christ. We pray that we be soul winners of our own personal Jerusalem, our lost loved ones. For Your kingdom is not a matter of eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit. Thank You, LORD, we pray in Jesus name.
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(From 1 Corinthians 8)
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WIVES FROM THE DAUGHTERS OF CANAAN

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"If the righteous are barely saved, what will happen to godless sinners?" 1 Peter 4:18
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Do not be deceived: "Bad company corrupts good morals." - 1 Corinthians 15:33
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HOSANNA! Son of David save our lost loved ones. Save them from getting entangled with the godless. If the righteous scarcely be saved, what will happen to our lost loved ones?
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Esau, Jacob’s twin brother took his wives from the daughters of Canaan, which strictly was forbidden by You. He no doubt was swept away by their physical beauty, provoked by their sensuality, and taken by their charm. Being a lover of godless women, he fell in his own trap. He didn’t choose a virtuous woman with a gentle and quiet spirit--which is priceless in Your sight. Esau did not follow his father Isaac’s example of obeying Abraham to find a proper wife to marry.
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Esau‘s wives “made life bitter for Isaac and Rebecca.” Spare us, Father God. On the other hand, Jacob waited and worked 14 years to marry the love of his life, Rachel!
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LORD, You command believers to marry only in the Lord. When our loved ones are lost themselves and their heart is in defiance against You, their vision is short and superficial. Deliver them from becoming one flesh through fornication or adultery. Deliver them from an ungodly marriage against Your will.
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In view of eternity, Esau would have made choices that were right with You. His descendants excelled as “chiefs,” and “kings” in Edom. In comparison, his twin brother Jacob’s sons were shepherds for generations, and were in bondage in Egypt for 400 years! But through Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob’s lineage came our Savior Jesus. Now the promises made to Abraham have also been inherited by Your church--the spiritual kings and priests of the earth--Your servants that will reign with Your Son, the Lord Jesus!
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“If we endure, we will also reign with him. If we disown him, he will also disown us;”
2 Timothy 2:12
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LORD, You said that through faith and patience Your church shall inherit the promises. The world mocks, “Where is Your God?!” Today Edom’s prestigious fame has disappeared from the face of the earth, but everyone has heard of Israel, still making headlines today.
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Without You reigning in the heart, there is the need for instant gratification.
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“See to it that no one comes short of the grace of God; that no root of bitterness springing up causes trouble, and by it many be defiled; that there be no immoral or godless person like Esau, who sold his own birthright for a single meal. For you know that even afterwards, when he desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for repentance, though he sought for it with tears” Hebrews 12:15-17
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Esau wanted to kill Jacob for deceiving their father Isaac and taking Esau‘s birthright and blessing. But LORD, there was still hope for Esau! He and his brother Jacob “made up” after a 20-yr. separation. Together they buried their father, Isaac.
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LORD, the choices we make, big or small, will become our personal history, it is a legacy that we will leave our descendants. What legacy Esau left--an example and warning for others not to follow. And what legacy Jacob left --though he himself had his flaws, he deceived and then he was deceived himself by his wife Rebecca‘s father--but then Jacob had an encounter with You! O LORD, we pray our lost loved ones also have an encounter with You that will change their lives and turn the course of a path of destruction to paths of righteousness!
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LORD, You said to set our eyes on the eternal, not the temporal. Esau traded his birthright for a bowl of soup! Those gorgeous girls he married, if they got to old age, saw their better days of vanity, and Esau was left with the “real” wives of Canaan, beneath skin deep.
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HOSANNA, Jesus of Nazareth, have mercy on our lost loved ones and on us. Save them, Father God, we pray in Jesus name, amen.
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THE SEXUALLY IMMORAL, 1 Corinthians 6

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LAWSUITS AMONG BELIEVERS
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LORD, disputes among believers is a bad testimony before the world. Give Your people the spirit of wisdom in these and all matters. The Apostle Paul by inspiration of Your Spirit used the word “dare” to take these disputes before the ungodly for judgment, instead of before godly counsel.
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You’ve given Your people wisdom liberally to judge all things with the mind of Christ, and even “to judge the world.” and angels! Your church ought to be competent and wise to judge from the trivial cases and the things of this life.
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Disputes among believers is shameful to be ruled by those whose way of life is scorned in the church, brother taking lawsuits against another to court--and this in front of unbelievers. This is of itself a defeat. Your wisdom says it is preferable to be wronged and cheated. And this should not happen between the brethren because wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God.
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DO NOT BE DECEIVED
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LORD, Your Word warns no one be deceived, for neither shall the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor homosexuals nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
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THE SANCTIFIED
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Your redeemed were such as the above, but now are washed, sanctified, justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Your Spirit, our God.
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RIGHTS
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Your church has rights, but not everything is beneficial and it should not be mastered by anything. The things of this world will be destroyed.
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SEXUAL IMMORALITY
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Your body, the church, however, is not meant for sexual immorality, but for You, Lord, and You for the body. By Your power You raised the Lord Jesus from the dead, and He will raise us also. The bodies of Your church are members of Christ Himself and they should never be united to a prostitute, for the one that unites with a prostitute is one with their body. For it is written:
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“The two will become one flesh.”
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But whoever is united with the Lord is one with Him in spirit.
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LORD, You want for Your people to flee sexual immorality. You said, all things a person commits are outside the body, but whoever sins sexually, sins against their own body. The bodies of Your people are temples of the Holy Spirit, Who lives within each believer, Whom Your church received from You. We do not belong to ourselves, we were bought with a price, therefore we will honor You LORD with our bodies.
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PRAYING FOR LOST LOVED ONES
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LORD, we do not want to confuse nor be a bad testimony before our lost loved ones that we want to see saved. We want to heed Your counsel not to display disputes among Your church before unbelievers, especially, not to be ruled by an ungodly judge, and these matters ought to be resolved within Your church.
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LORD, we also want them to see the difference Christ has made in our lives. We ought to live sanctified lives.
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LORD we want for our lost loved ones to be one with Christ too and for Your Spirit to live within them. As new creatures in Christ, Your Spirit will give them the power to be children of light and no longer to live a life mastered by sin, depriving them to inherit Your kingdom. Save them, LORD, we pray in Jesus name.
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(FROM 1 Corinthians 6)

THE LORD WILL LOOSE THOSE WHO ARE APPOINTED TO DEATH

"For He looked down from the height of His sanctuary, from heaven did the Lord behold the earth, to hear the sighing and groaning of the prisoner, to loose those who are appointed to death."
-Psalm 102:19-20
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LORD, we pray for our lost loved ones that have been cast into prison for having broken Your laws. They have been tried and found guilty and are appointed to die by Your judgment.
You hear their sighs and groans in their murky and dismal cells.
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LORD, we know Jesus Christ already paid for their sins by receiving the punishment for them if they believe and receive him as their personal Savior. They can be redeemed and set free. Only He can loose their shackles of sin and give them liberty. His obedience will make them righteous.
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LORD, send Your servants prepared with blessed feet to take to our lost loved ones the Good News, the powerful gospel news, that mean salvation to them. The gates of hell will not prevail against them. Our lost loved ones will not perish, but have everlasting life. This is our prayer for them, in Jesus name. Thank You, LORD.

SAVE THEM AND THEY SHALL BE SAVED

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“O Lord, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be ashamed, and they that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the Lord, the fountain of living waters. Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for thou art my praise. Behold, they say unto me, Where is the word of the Lord? let it come now” (Jeremiah 17:13-15).
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LORD GOD, hope of Israel, hope of all sinners, we pray for our lost loved ones that have forsaken and rejected the Lord, the fountain of living waters.
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We pray they are not “written off” as outcasts and left out of Your kingdom forever. We want for their names to be written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.
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We hope with all our heart that they will awaken and be conscious of their need to be saved and throw themselves on the mercy seat of Christ for pardon of their sins. We pray Your Holy Spirit will fully convince them of Your power to heal them and that they be well assured.
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Save our lost loved ones from the corruption of the world and from the weapons of the enemy aimed to destroy them. We stand in their gap under our great high priest, the Lord Jesus Christ, that no weapon that is formed against them shall prosper. Save them for Your glory.
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We pray they cry out to You, “Lord, save me!” We know You will immediately stretch forth Your hand to catch them. You will not let them sink in sin.
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Heal them, O Lord, and they shall be healed. Save them, and they shall be saved. There are none saved but whom the Lord saves. They are helpless without You. You are their only cure for their sin disease. May they experience Your forgiveness. Those whom You saved are saved for Your purpose. We desire for You to rejoice before Your holy angels when You hear them say, “You are my praise,” when they experience salvation in Christ.
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Father God, we pray Your grace upon us that love them. Help us in all our trials, and may we all rejoice together for their salvation, for You are our praise!
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LORD, we also pray for bodily healing for all that need it. We know there is healing for all that come to You, just as there is salvation.
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We pray in Jesus name, amen.
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SEPARATING THE SHEEP FROM THE GOATS, 1 Corinthians 5

CHURCH MEMBERS THAT ARE DEPRAVED
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Father God, it is sad that among church people there is sin too shameful even to be tolerated by non-believers. LORD, we know you forgive all sins where there is repentance. Your word says there are those that flaunt, rather than shun such behavior. Sin ought to be addressed and rebuked in the church. It should be lamented and not condoned. Your Word is the judge. We pray Your Holy Spirit will convict people that engage in depraved behavior by the exhortation of Your word, and that repentance and a hunger for righteousness will immediately take place so that the spirit of this person may be saved on the day of the Lord.
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EXHORTATION
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But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. -Hebrews 3:13
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LORD, we pray for the preachers, that Your servants will preach and exhort Your truth with the power of the Spirit, calling that which is good, good, and that which is evil, evil. We pray there will be true repentance and that the old yeast with malice and wickedness will be gotten rid of, and there be a new unleavened batch of sincerity and truth. Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed for our sins, and the redeemed should be saying so and rejoicing.
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SEPARATING THE SHEEP FROM THE GOATS
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Father, You make a distinction between the people of the world that are immoral, greedy, swindlers or idolaters, and those in the church that do the same. Those in the world need to hear the gospel, repent, and get saved. But to be in the church and claim to be a Christian and continue in sexual immorality, greed, idolatry; and to slander, and be a swindler or drunkard, is not permitted by You, and neither do You want for there to be such permissiveness in Your church. You said not to associate with the sexually immoral that claim to be Christians.
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PRAYING FOR OUR LOST LOVED ONES
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Father, those that don’t put their eyes on You, but fix their eyes on church people are turned off from going to church when they learn of sexually immoral people in the church and other such lewd behavior. We pray for our lost loved ones that the power of Your Holy Ghost will fall on them and they not be distracted by those in the church that have a bad testimony. Deliver our lost loved ones from stumbling. Usher them into Your kingdom, LORD, for greater is He that is in Your people than he that is in the world. We thank You LORD that the gates of hell will not prevail against Your church and that many souls will be saved when they see Jesus lifted up in the earth. In Jesus name we pray. Amen.
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(From 1 Corinthians 5)

THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS POWER, 1 Corinthians 4

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SERVANTS OF CHRIST
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LORD, Your servants are entrusted with the mysteries You have revealed. Because of this trust given, we pray Your servants are proven faithful. There should be no concern of being judged by any human standards. Though there is a clear conscience, that does not prove innocence. No one can even judge oneself because it is You who judges. Neither should anyone judge anything before the appointed time and must wait until the Lord comes. He will bring to light what is hidden in darkness and will expose the motives of the heart. At that time each will receive their praise from You.
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LORD, we do not want to do anything in vain, or for the wrong motives.
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"DO NOT GO BEYOND WHAT IS WRITTEN."
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LORD, for the benefit of Your servants and that of the hearers, we pray Your Holy Spirit bring to remembrance the saying, "Do not go beyond what is written." and we pray no one has any pride in the name of their denomination or its leaders and have pride as being their followers, putting one against the others.
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Everyone should have the same mind and thoughts according to the truth received from You, and there should be no boasting about possessions, riches, and reigning.
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TRUE APOSTLES
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You gave us apostles and it seems they are displayed at the end of the procession, like those condemned to die in the arena and made a spectacle to the whole universe, to angels as well as to human beings.
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Some boast they are wise in Christ, strong, and honored; but the apostles are fools for Christ, weak, and dishonored, hungry and thirsty, in rags, brutally treated, and homeless, having worked hard with their own hands. Besides this, being cursed, yet blessing, persecuted and enduring it; when slandered, answering kindly. These apostles became the scum of the earth, the garbage of the world, and there are servants of Yours like this, even now!
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THE CHRISTIAN LIFE
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LORD the Apostle Paul wrote this by inspiration of Your Spirit not to shame but to warn Your church as dear children. There are many that are preaching and teaching through the media, but we are particularly thankful to You for the one who personally leads another to Christ through the gospel and makes disciples.
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We pray our Helper and Teacher will guide and inspire Your servants to live the way of life in Christ Jesus that agrees with Your teaching.
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THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS POWER
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LORD, deliver us from the devil's lies that we should be arrogant and speak arrogance, and yet without Your power. For Your kingdom is not a matter of talk but of power. LORD, we prefer to receive Your love with a gentle spirit over the rod of discipline.
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PRAYING FOR OUR LOST LOVED ONES
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FATHER GOD, we pray You will give Your servants the assignment to preach Your gospel to our lost loved ones with the power of Your kingdom. May the servants that You give these assignments to obey You and go and speak Your truth to our lost loved ones that will make them free. We pray in Jesus name. Amen
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(From 1 Corinthians 4)