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Benefits of Worshiping the True God

15 But you, our God, are kind and true,

patient, and ruling all thingsa in mercy.

2 For even if we sin we are yours, knowing your power;

but we will not sin, because we know that you acknowledge us as yours.

3 For to know you is complete righteousness,

and to know your power is the root of immortality.

4 For neither has the evil intent of human art misled us,

nor the fruitless toil of painters,

a figure stained with varied colors,

5 whose appearance arouses yearning in fools,

so that they desireb the lifeless form of a dead image.

6 Lovers of evil things and fit for such objects of hopec

are those who either make or desire or worship them.

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The original Revised Standard Version served as a standard for nearly forty years. The New Revised Standard Version with Apocrypha maintains the traditions of the older version with fresh new vocabulary and modern English construction.

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