Ezekiel 15:5
Behold, in its being whole, it will not do for work: but if the fire consumed it, and it was burnt, did it yet do for work?
Jeremiah 3:16
And it was that ye shall be multiplied and be fruitful in the land in those days, says Jehovah; they shall no more say, The ark of the covenant of Jehovah: and it shall not come up upon the heart, and they shall not remember upon it, and they shall not review and it shall be clone no more.
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Behold, when it was whole, it was meet for no work: how much less shall it be meet yet for any work, when the fire hath devoured it, and it is burned?
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Luke 23:31
For if they do these in the moist tree, what should be in the dry