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And let ours also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they be not unfruitful. |
And let our people also learn to maintain good works, to meet urgent needs, that they may not be unfruitful. |
And let our people also learn to engage in good deeds (occupations) to meet pressing needs, that they may not be unfruitful. |
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Our people must learn to devote themselves to doing what is good, in order that they may provide for daily necessities and not live unproductive lives. |
And let our own [people really] learn to apply themselves to good deeds (to honest labor and honorable employment), so that they may be able to meet necessary demands whenever the occasion may require and not be living idle and uncultivated and unfruitful lives. |
And let those also who are ours learn to busy themselves constantly in good works for necessary needs in order that they may not be unfruitful. |
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And our people should learn to earn what they need by honest work and so be self-supporting. |
Our people too must set examples of doing good, so as to meet the necessary demands and not to live unfruitful lives. |
And 1161 let ours 2251 also 2532 learn 3129 to maintain 4291 good 2570 works 2041 for 1519 necessary 316 uses, 5532 that 2443 they be 5600 not 3361 unfruitful. 175 |
- No cross references or parallel passage have been cited for this verse.
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