1 Let us therefore await the kingdom of God betimes in love and righteousness, since we know not the day of God's appearing. (2CL) 2 For the Lord Himself, being asked by a certain person when his kingdom would come, said, When the two shall be one, and the outside as the inside, and the male with the female, neither male or female. (2CL) 3 Now the two are one , when we speak truth among ourselves, and in two bodies there shall be one soul without dissimulation. (2CL)
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