A moment in scripture
Isaiah 57:1
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The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart: and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come.
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The surrounding passage
- Isaiah 57:2
He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his uprightness.
- Isaiah 57:3
But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the whore.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.