We are bound always to thank God for you, brothers ??it is proper that we should, because your faith grows apace and your mutual love, one and all, is increasing.

Now that your obedience to the Truth has purified your souls for a brotherly love that is sincere, love one another heartily and steadily.

I would

For I am afraid I may perhaps come and find you are not what I could wish, while you may find I am not what you could wish; I am afraid of finding quarrels, jealousy, temper, rivalry, slanders, gossiping, arrogance, and disorder ??21 afraid that when I come back to you, my God may humiliate me before you, and I may have to mourn for many who sinned some time ago and yet have never repented of the impurity, the sexual vice, and the sensuality which they have practised.

Thou

No one can serve two masters: either he will hate one and love the other, or else he will stand by the one and despise the other ??you cannot serve both God and Mammon.

He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; he who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me:

whoever does not carry his own cross and come after me, he cannot be a disciple of mine.

'If any one has no love for the Lord, God's curse be on him! Maran atha!

double-minded creature that he is, wavering at every turn.

General references

He who is not with me is against me, and he who does not gather with me scatters.