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Love righteousness, all you who are judges of the earth. Think of the Lord[a] with a good mind.
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because he is found by those who don’t put him to the test,
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for crooked thoughts separate from God.
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because wisdom will not enter into a soul that devises evil,
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For a holy spirit of discipline will flee deceit,
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For[b] wisdom is a spirit who loves man, and she will not hold a[c] blasphemer guiltless for his lips,
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Because the spirit of the Lord has filled[d] the world,
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Therefore no one who utters unrighteous things will be unseen;
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For in his counsels the ungodly will be searched out,
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because a jealous ear listens to all things,
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Beware then of unprofitable murmuring,
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Don’t court death in the error of your life.
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because God didn’t make death,
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For he created all things that they might have being. nor has Hades[e] royal dominion upon earth;
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for righteousness is immortal,
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but ungodly men by their hands and their words summon death; deeming him a friend they[f] pined away.