“Behold, God does all these things, twice, three times, with a man,
for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure.
In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will,
and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who empowers them all in everyone.
equip you with everything good that you may do his will, working in us that which is pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.
He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who has given us the Spirit as a guarantee.
For this I toil, struggling with all his energy that he powerfully works within me.
For God speaks in one way, and in two, though man does not perceive it. In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on men, while they slumber on their beds, then he opens the ears of men and terrifies them with warnings, that he may turn man aside from his deed and conceal pride from a man;
And the king of Israel sent to the place about which the man of God told him. Thus he used to warn him, so that he saved himself there more than once or twice.
Three times I pleaded with the Lord about this, that it should leave me.
I have spoken once, and I will not answer; twice, but I will proceed no further.”
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