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14:1 It is therefore meet and right, men and brethren, that we should be
obedient unto God rather than follow them that in pride and disorderliness are
leaders of detestable sedition.
14:2 For we shall incur no slight harm, but rather a great danger, if we
rashly give ourselves up to the wills of men who launch out into strife and
sedition so as to estrange us from that which is good.
14:3 Let us, therefore, show kindness towards them according to the mercy and
sweetness of him that made us.
14:4 For it is written, The men of kindness shall inherit the land. The
innocent shall be left upon it; but they that be lawless shall be destroyed out
of it.
14:5 And again he saith, I saw the unrighteous man exalted on high and lifted
up like the cedars of Lebanon.
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And I passed by, and behold he was not; I sought
his place and found it not. Keep innocence, and regard righteousness; for there
is a remnant that remaineth to the man of peace.