This saying is trustworthy. On this I want you to firmly insist; that those who have faith in God must be careful to maintain honest occupations. Such counsels are good and profitable for men.

Then do not become slack, but be imitators of those who through faith and patience are inheriting the promises.

God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth."

Now if a man earn his pay by his work, it is not counted to him as a favor, but it is paid him as a debt;

They profess to know God, but by their deeds they disown him; in that they are detestable, disobedient, and reprobate for good work of any sort.

After a first and second admonition, refuse a man who is causing divisions;

When he saw the crowds, he went up the mountain, and when he had seated himself, his disciples came to him,

but manifested in his own time; that word of his in proclaiming which I have been entrusted by command of God our Saviour.

"but if it is from God, you cannot put it down; you may even find yourselves fighting against God."

they must speak evil of none, they must not be quarrelsome, but gentle, showing perfect meekness toward all.

All things are pure to the pure; but to the contaminated and the faithless nothing is pure, nay, their very minds and consciences are tainted.

But avoid foolish questionings and genealogies and dissensions and wranglings about the law; for these are unprofitable and empty.

For I pull down imaginations and every crag that lifts itself against the knowledge of God. And I carry every thought away into captivity and subjection to Christ;

When he had said this he breathed upon them and said:

but none of the rest dared to associate with them.

When they heard this they were infuriated, and were minded to kill the apostles;

By one of their own number, by a prophet of their own, it has been said, "Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, idle gluttons."

which he poured out upon us richly, through Jesus Christ our Saviour;

"And now, I say to you, hold aloof from these men. Let them alone; for if this scheme or work be of human origin it will come to nothing;

Many signs and wonders continued to be wrought among the people by the hands of the apostles, and by common consent they all would meet in Solomon's Porch,