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Chapter XVIII.—The Author Sinful, Yet Pursuing.

And let us, then, be of the number of those who give thanks, who have served God, and not of the ungodly who are judged.  For I myself, though a sinner every whit and not yet fleeing temptation but continuing in the midst of the tools of the devil, study to follow after righteousness, that I may make, be it only some, approach to it, fearing the judgment to come.