remove: Ecclesiastes 12:1; Job 13:26; Psalms 25:7; 2 Peter 3:11-14
sorrow: or, anger, Psalms 90:7-11
and put: Job 20:11; 2 Corinthians 7:1; 2 Timothy 2:22
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Ecclesiastes 11:10
Ecclesiastes 11:10
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