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1. It is a mysterious life.

2. It is a trying life.

3. It is a preparatory life.

4. It is a short life.

5. It is a precarious life.

(The Homilist.)

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KJV: For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.

WEB: For bodily exercise has some value, but godliness has value in all things, having the promise of the life which is now, and of that which is to come.