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For he who hath said, Thou shalt not commit adultery, is he who hath said, Thou shalt not steal; but if thou do not commit adultery, yet steal, thou hast become a transgressor against the LAW.

You desire, and have not; you kill and are emulous, yet it cometh not into your hands; you strive and make wars, and nothing have because you do not ask;

whom you have not seen and (yet) love, and in whose faith you exult with glorious joy that is not spoken:

unto whom you have come, who is the living stone whom men have rejected, yet (who is) chosen and honourable with Aloha.

As the sons of liberty, yet not as men who make their liberty a veil for their wickedness, but as the servants of Aloha.

And (yet) if you suffer for the sake of righteousness, you are happy. And you will not fear them who would make you afraid, nor be shaken.

MY beloved, now are we the sons of Aloha; and it is not manifest, as yet, what we are to become, but we know, that when he is manifested, in his likeness we are and see him, according to that which he is.

But I will to remind you, though all of you know, that Aloha, when once the people from Metsreen he had redeemed, yet afterward [fn] destroyed them who believed not.

Yet Mikael, chief of angels, when, with the accuser speaking, he contended on account of the body of Musha, dared not bring against him a reviling judgment, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.

And there was given to each of them the white robe; and it was told them, that they should rest yet a little time, until should be completed their fellow-servants, their brethren who would be killed as also they.

One woe hath gone. Behold, two woes yet come after it.

And he said to me, It behoves thee yet to prophesy concerning many nations, and concerning peoples and princes and kings.

And the kings are seven; five have fallen, one is, the other not yet hath come: and when he hath come, a little while it behoveth him to abide.

And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, the men who kingdom not yet have received; but authority as kings one hour receive with the beast of prey.