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Vandals broke off the hands. “For we are labourers together with God.” – 1 Corinthians 3:9 KJV

You know how that turned out. “Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness.” – Psalm 95:8 KJV

Saved by the Word of God… “Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.” – 1 Peter 1:23 KJV

God has a plan. “The testing of your faith produces patience. But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.” – James 1:3-4 NKJV

No one is fooled by that. “There are certain men … turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness.” – Jude 4 KJV

Ten doctors told her nothing was wrong. “Therefore put to death your members which are on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.” – Colossians 3:5 NKJV

It was a gradual slide. “This was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: She and her daughter had pride, fullness of food, and abundance of idleness; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.” – Ezekiel 16:49 NKJV

Our influence is diminished. “Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.” – 1 John 3:1 NKJV

There was nothing I could do about it. “But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one for the profit of all.” – 1 Corinthians 12:7 NKJV

Strange monument… “Count it all joy when you fall into various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience.” – James 1:2-3 NKJV

You’re much better off without it. “Has a nation changed its gods, which are not gods? But my people have changed their glory for what does not profit.” – Jeremiah 2:11 NKJV

That was the difference. “You shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.” – Acts 1:8 NKJV