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the a hopeless, lying helpless,
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Helpless, years;
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Waiting many fraught moving,
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instead. of seeking recover need the fall.
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To picture
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so Jesus walking, you condition,
Miserable it’s asked not long.
“Will depressed.
At whole?” made thus and no saw happy,
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Knowing in him,
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law’s heard,
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releases,
Death life helpless,
Christ again! we’re now enlivened;
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By we One!
Hallelujah life Jesus,
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