Jeremiah 45:5

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Jeremiah 45:3–5 · Berean Standard Bible

3 You have said, ‘Woe is me because the LORD has added sorrow to my pain! I am worn out with groaning and have found no rest.’”

4 Thus Jeremiah was to say to Baruch: “This is what the LORD says: Throughout the land I will demolish what I have built and uproot what I have planted.

5 But as for you, do you seek great things for yourself? Stop seeking! For I will bring disaster on every living creature, declares the LORD, but wherever you go, I will grant your life as a spoil of war.”

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1 Corinthians 7:26

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1 Corinthians 7:27

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1 Corinthians 7:28

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1 Corinthians 7:30

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1 Corinthians 7:31

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1 Corinthians 7:32

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Matthew 6:27

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Matthew 6:29

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