"Woe unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint and anise and cummin, and neglect the weightier matters of the Law??ustice and mercy and good faith; these latter you ought to have done, and not to have left the former undone.

What soldier ever serves at his own expense? What farmer ever plants a vineyard and his flock and does not taste the milk?

to these latter an odor of death to death, to the former, of life to life. For such service as this, who is sufficient?

For you have heard of my former conduct in Judaism, how furiously I used to persecute the church of God, and how I kept seeking to root it out;

which was not disclosed to the sons of men in former generations, as it has now been revealed by the Spirit to his holy apostles and prophets,

You have learned to lay aside, with your former manner of living, the old self who was on his way to ruin, as he followed the desires which deceive;

but the former preach Christ out of rivalry, not sincerely, because they think they are adding bitterness to my bonds.

The farmer who has done the work should be the first to get a share of the crop.

But ever call to mind the former days, in which, after having been enlightened, you endured a great conflict of sufferings;

Be patient, then, brothers, till the coming of the Lord. Behold the farmer who waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it gets the early and the latter rains.

Like obedient children, do not fashion yourselves according to the former passions of your days of ignorance,