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Hello, this is Father Paul, and I'm glad we're

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taking this journey together to read the Bible

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in a year. Today's reading is from the first

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epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians, chapters

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3 through 6. Chapter 3 And I, brethren, could

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not speak to you as to spiritual people, but

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as to carnal, as to babes in Christ. I fed you

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with milk and not with solid food. For until

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now you were not able to receive it, and even

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now you are still not able, for you are still

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carnal. For where there are envy, strife, and

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divisions among you, are you not carnal and behaving

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like mere men? For when one says, I am of Paul,

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and another, I am of Apollos, are you not carnal?

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Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos? But ministers

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through whom you believed, as the Lord gave to

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each one. I planted, Apollos watered, but God

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gave the increase. So then neither he who plants

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is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives

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the increase. Now he who plants and he who waters

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are one, and each one will receive his own reward

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according to his own labor. For we are God's

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fellow workers. You are God's field, you are

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God's building. According to the grace of God

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which was given to me, as a wise master builder

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I have laid the foundation, and another builds

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on it. But let each one take heed how he builds

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on it. For no other foundation can anyone lay

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than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.

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Now if anyone builds on this foundation with

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gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw,

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each one's work will become clear. For the day

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will declare it, because it will be revealed

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by fire, and the fire will test each one's work

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of what sort it is. If anyone's work which he

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has built on it endures, he will receive a reward.

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If anyone's work is burned, he will suffer loss.

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But he himself will be saved, yet so as through

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fire. Do you not know that you are the temple

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of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in

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you? If anyone defiles the temple of God, God

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will destroy him. For the temple of God is holy,

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which temple you are. Let no one deceive himself.

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For all things are yours, whether Paul or Apollos

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or Cephas, or the world or life or death, or

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things present or things to come. All are yours,

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and you are Christ's, and Christ is God's. Yet

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I am not justified by this, but he who judges

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me is the Lord. Therefore judge nothing before

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the time, until the Lord comes, who will both

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bring to light the hidden things of darkness

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and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each

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one's praise will come from God. Now these things,

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brethren, I have figuratively transferred to

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myself and Apollos for your sakes, that you may

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learn in us not to think beyond what is written,

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that none of you may be puffed up on behalf of

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one against the other. For who makes you differ

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from another? And what do you have that you did

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not receive? Now if you did indeed receive it,

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why do you boast as if you had not received it?

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You are already full, you are already rich, you

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have reigned as kings without us. And indeed

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I could wish you did reign, that we also might

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reign with you. For I think that God has displayed

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us, the apostles, last, as men condemned to death.

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For we have been made a spectacle to the world,

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both to angels and to men. We are fools for Christ's

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sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak,

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but you are strong. You are distinguished, but

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we are dishonored. To the present hour we both

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hunger and thirst, and we are poorly clothed

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and beaten and homeless, and we labor working

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with our own hands. Being reviled, we bless.

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Being persecuted, we endure. Being defamed, we

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entreat. We have been made as the filth of the

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world, the offscouring of all things until now.

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I do not write these things to shame you. But

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as my beloved children, I warn you, for though

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you might have ten thousand instructors in Christ,

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yet you do not have many fathers. For in Christ

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Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.

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Therefore I urge you, imitate me. For this reason

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I have sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved

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and faithful son in the Lord, who will remind

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you of my ways in Christ, as I teach everywhere

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in every church. Now some are puffed up, as though

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I were not coming to you. But I will come to

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you shortly, if the Lord wills, and I will know

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not the word of those who are puffed up, but

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the power. For the kingdom of God is not in word,

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but in power. What do you want? Shall I come

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to you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of

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gentleness? Chapter 5 It is actually reported

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that there is sexual immorality among you. and

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such sexual immorality as is not even named among

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the Gentiles, that a man has his father's wife,

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and you are puffed up, and have not rather mourned,

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that he who has done this deed might be taken

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away from among you. For I indeed, as absent

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in body, but present in spirit, have already

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judged as though I were present, him who has

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so done this deed. In the name of our Lord Jesus

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Christ, when you are gathered together, Along

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with my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus

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Christ, deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction

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of the flesh, that his spirit may be saved in

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the day of the Lord Jesus. Your glorying is not

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good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens

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the whole lump? Therefore purge out the old leaven,

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that you may be a new lump, since you truly are

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unleavened. for indeed christ our passover was

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crucified for us therefore let us keep the feast

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not with old leaven nor with the leaven of malice

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and wickedness but with the unleavened bread

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of sincerity and truth I wrote to you in my epistle

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not to keep company with sexually immoral people,

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yet I certainly did not mean with the sexually

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immoral people of this world or with the covetous

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or extortioners or idolaters, since then you

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would need to go out of the world. But now I

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have written to you not to keep company with

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anyone named a brother who is sexually immoral

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or covetous or an idolater or a reviler or a

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drunkard or an extortioner, not even to eat with

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such a person. For what have I to do with judging

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those also who are outside? Do you not judge

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those who are inside? But those who are outside

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God judges. Therefore put away from yourselves

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the evil person. Chapter 6 Dare any of you, having

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a matter against another, go to law before the

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unrighteous and not before the saints? Do you

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not know that the saints will judge the world?

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And if the world will be judged by you, Are you

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unworthy to judge the smallest matters? Do you

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not know that we shall judge angels? How much

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more things that pertain to this life? If then

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you have judgments concerning things pertaining

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to this life, do you appoint those who are least

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esteemed by the church to judge? I say this to

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your shame. Is it so that there is not a wise

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man among you, not even one, who will be able

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to judge between his brethren? But brother goes

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to law against brother, and that before unbelievers.

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Now therefore, it is already an utter failure

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for you that you go to law against one another.

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Why do you not rather accept wrong? Why do you

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not rather let yourselves be cheated? No, you

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yourselves do wrong and cheat, and you do these

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things to your brethren. Do you not know that

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the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom

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of God? Do not be deceived, neither fornicators,

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nor idolaters, nor adulterers. nor homosexuals,

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nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor

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drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will

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inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some

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of you, but you were washed, but you were sanctified,

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but you were justified in the name of the Lord

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Jesus and by the Spirit of our God. All things

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are lawful for me, but all things are not helpful.

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All things are lawful for me, but I will not

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be brought under the power of any. for foods,

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but God will destroy both it and them. Now the

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body is not for sexual immorality, but for the

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Lord, and the Lord for the body. And God both

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raised up the Lord and will also raise us up

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by his power. Do you not know that your bodies

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are members of Christ? Shall I then take the

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members of Christ and make them members of a

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harlot? Certainly not. Or do you not know that

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he who is joined to a harlot is one body with

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her? For the two, he says, shall become one flesh,

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but he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit

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with him. Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that

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a man does is outside the body, but he who commits

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sexual immorality sins against his own body.

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Or do you not know that your body is the temple

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of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have

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from God, and you are not your own? for you were

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bought at a price. Therefore glorify God in your

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body and in your spirit, which are God's. I hope

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you enjoyed today's reading as much as I did,

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and I look forward to seeing you again tomorrow

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to continue on our journey. God bless you and

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have a great day.