For we now all share in the Christ, if indeed we retain, unshaken to the end, the confidence that we had at the first.

For we have had the Good News told us just as they had. But the Message which they heard did them no good, since they did not share the faith of those who were attentive to it.

For if those who were once for all brought into the Light, and learned to appreciate the gift from Heaven, and came to share in the Holy Spirit,

And so from one man--and that when his powers were dead--there sprang a people as numerous 'as the stars in the heavens or the countless grains of sand upon the shore.'

If you are left without that discipline, in which all children share, it shows that you are bastards, and not true Children.

Our fathers disciplined us for only a short time and as seemed best to them; but God disciplines us for our true good, to enable us to share his holiness.

Never forget to do kindly acts and to share what you have with others, for such sacrifices are acceptable to God.