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Jeremiah 44:17
44:17 we will certainly do. How common it is—yet how tragic—for God’s people to compromise with the paganism of the world and then to try to justify it by reason of the worldly acceptance and prosperity which such participation often yields. The long-range danger of compromise is that the professing believer will also be involved in the ultimate sure judgment awaiting the ungodly. “Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly,…the way of the ungodly shall perish” (Psalm 1:1,6).