Focusing on man is the path to discouragement. Jeremiah:17:5Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.
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"And let us not be weary in well-doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not." —Galatians:6:9And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
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