Be glad and rejoice, because your reward in Heaven will be great; for so men persecuted the Prophets who lived before you.

"Who has five barley loaves and two fishes; but what is that for so many?"

Indeed, there must be actual parties among you, for so only will the men of real worth become known.

Your gold and silver are rusted; and the rust on them shall be evidence against you, and shall eat into your very flesh. It was fire, so to speak, that you stored up for yourselves in these last days.

I have been writing to you briefly by the hand of Silas, our true-hearted Brother (for so I regard him), to urge upon you, and to bear my testimony, that in what I have written is to be found the true love of God. On that take your stand.