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But you, our God, are kind and true,
patient, and ruling all things 1 in mercy.
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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.
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For to know you is complete righteousness,
and to know your power is the root of immortality.
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For neither has the evil intent of human art misled us,
nor the fruitless toil of painters,
a figure stained with varied colors,
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whose appearance arouses yearning in fools,
so that they desire 2 the lifeless form of a dead image.
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Lovers of evil things and fit for such objects of hope 3
are those who either make or desire or worship them.