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Isaiah 9:17

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17 Therefore the Lord shall have no joy in their young men, neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows: for every one is an hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

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Marriage #51

  
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51. Those who lived in celibacy continue for long to live thus; but if in the world they desired to get married, they too finally enter upon marriage.

  
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