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See that you do not use the trick of prayer to cover up what you know you ought to do.

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Oswald Chambers
Age: 43 †
Born: 1874
Born: July 24
Died: 1917
Died: November 15
Author
Theologian
Writer
Aiberdeen
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Inaction
Trick
Cover
Tricks
Ought
Prayer

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