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A Biblical Remedy?
Righteousness Exalts a Nation
Scores of famous Americans have been quoted
herein. Yet each was a fallible, mortal human being.
What does our nation's first textbook say of the
subject,
"One Nation Under God?"
Righteousness exalteth a nation; but sin is
a reproach to any people.
-- Proverbs 14:34
Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord;
and the people whom he hath chosen for his
own inheritance.
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-- Psalm 33: 12
In those days there was no King in Israel:
every man did that which was right in his own
eyes.
-- Judges 21 :25
Ifmypeople, which are called bymy name,
shall humble
themselve~
andpray, andseek my
face, and turn from their wicked ways; then I will
hear them from heaven and will forgive their
sin, and heal their land
-- II Chronicles 7: 14
Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy
father set
-- Proverbs 22: 28
The wicked shall be turned into hell and all
the nations that forget God
-- Psalm 9:17
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