OLD TESTAMENT

Ecclesiastes 9:5

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For the living know that they will die, but the dead don’t know anything, neither do they have any more a reward; for their memory is forgotten.

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Verse 5. Know nothing more, that is As to the transactions of this world, in which they have now no part, unless it be revealed to them; neither have they any knowledge or power now of doing any thing to secure their eternal state, (if they have not taken care of it in their lifetime) nor can they now procure themselves any good, as the living always may do, by the grace of God. Challoner.

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