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in many obituaries. If our epitaph at the end

of our lives as Christians is that we were

loved by all, we very likely did not live a

godly, separated, Christ-like life, because 2

Timothy 3:12 says, “Yea, and all that will live

godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer

persecution,” and the Apostle John said in 1

John 3:13, “Marvel not, my brethren, if the

world hate you.”

Jesus also said in Matthew 10:34-37, “Think

not that I am come to send peace on earth: I

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came not to send peace, but a sword. For I

am come to set a man at variance against his

father, and the daughter against her

mother, and the daughter in law against her

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mother in law. And a man's foes shall be

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they of his own household. He that loveth

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