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Esekiel 16:27

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27 Og se, jeg rakte ut min hånd mot dig og avknappet det som var tiltenkt dig, og jeg lot dem som hatet dig, få gjøre med dig som de lystet - filistrenes døtre, som bluedes ved din skammelige ferd.

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Jeremias 3:11

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11 Og Herren sa til mig: Den frafalne, Israel, har vist sig rettferdigere enn den troløse, Juda.

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The New Jerusalem and its Heavenly Teachings # 105

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105. If people set loving themselves and the world as their goal there is no way they can live a life of caring. They do not even know what caring is. Further, they completely fail to grasp the fact that intending and doing good for their neighbor without a goal of being rewarded for it is a heaven inside them-that inherent in this desire there is as great a happiness as heaven's angels have: more than words can convey. This is because selfish and worldly people believe that if they were deprived of the joy they take in their display of prestige and wealth they would no longer have any joy at all, when in fact that would be the beginning of an infinitely transcendent heavenly joy.

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Foundation for their permission to use this translation.