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¹ Let the charity of the brotherhood abide in you.² And hospitality do not forget: for by this some, being not aware of it, have entertained angels.³ Remember them that are in bands, as if you were bound with them: and them that labour, as being yourselves also in the body.⁴ Marriage honourable in all, and the bed undefiled. For fornicators and adulterers God will judge.⁵ Let your manners be without covetousness, contented with such things as you have. For he hath said: I will not leave thee: neither will I forsake thee.⁶ So that we may confidently say: The Lord is my helper: I will not fear what man shall do to me.⁷ Remember your prelates who have spoken the word of God to you: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation,⁸ Jesus Christ, yesterday, and today: and the same for ever.⁹ Be not led away with various and strange doctrines. For it is best that the heart be established with grace, not with meats: which have not profited those that walk in them.¹⁰ We have an altar whereof they have no power to eat who serve the tabernacle.¹¹ For the bodies of those beasts whose blood is brought into the holies by the high priest for sin are burned without the camp.¹² Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people by his own blood, suffered without the gate.¹³ Let us go forth therefore to him without the camp, bearing his reproach.¹⁴ For, we have not here a lasting city: but we seek one that is to come.¹⁵ By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise always to God, that is to say, the fruit of lips confessing to his name.¹⁶ And do not forget to do good and to impart: for by such sacrifices God’s favour is obtained.¹⁷ Obey your prelates and be subject to them. For they watch as being to render an account of your souls: that they may do this with joy and not with grief. For this is not expedient for you.

¹⁸ Pray for us. For we trust we have a good conscience, being willing to behave ourselves well in all things.¹⁹ And I beseech you the more to do this, that I may be restored to you the sooner.²⁰ And may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great pastor of the sheep, our Lord Jesus Christ, in the blood of the everlasting testament,²¹ Fit you in all goodness, that you may do his will; doing in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom is glory for ever and ever. Amen.²² And I beseech you, brethren, that you suffer this word of consolation. For I have written to you in a few words.²³ Know ye that our brother Timothy is set at liberty: with whom (if he come shortly) I will see you.²⁴ Salute all your prelates and all the saints. The brethren from Italy salute you.²⁵ Grace be with you all. Amen.