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33 They who are wise and have spiritual insight among the people will instruct many and help them understand; yet for many days some [of them and their followers] will fall by the sword and by flame, by captivity and by plunder. 34 Now when they fall they will receive a little help, and many will join with them in hypocrisy. 35 Some of those who are [spiritually] wise and have insight will fall [as martyrs] in order to refine, to purge and to make those among God’s people pure, until the end time; because it is yet to come at the time appointed [by God].

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33 “Those who are wise will instruct(A) many, though for a time they will fall by the sword or be burned or captured or plundered.(B) 34 When they fall, they will receive a little help, and many who are not sincere(C) will join them. 35 Some of the wise will stumble, so that they may be refined,(D) purified and made spotless until the time of the end, for it will still come at the appointed time.

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