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Groan [fn] not one against another, my brethren, that you be not judged; for, behold, the Judge standeth before the door.

For, behold, we give blessedness to them who have endured. You have heard of the patience of Iob, and the end which the Lord wrought for him you have seen; because that merciful is the Lord and compassionate.

and if he be sick, let him call for the presbyters of the church, and they will pray over him and anoint him with oil in the name of our Lord.

But confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that you may be healed. For great is the power of that prayer which the righteous prayeth.

Elia also was a man of suffering, as we; and he prayed that the rain should not fall upon the earth, and it fell not (for) three years and six months.

and to the inheritance which is not corruptible, and not defiled, and not to be consumed, which is prepared for you in heaven,

6 wherein you will rejoice for ever, though in this little time you are afflicted [fn] by manifold temptations which pass over you;

12 And all that they searched was revealed to them; for not for themselves they inquired, but to us (and) of us [fn] they prophesied those (blessings) which now are revealed to you by them who have preached to you [fn] by the Spirit of Holiness which is sent from heaven; for into these themselves the angels also desire to look.

Wherefore gird up the loins of your minds, and be fully wakeful, and hope for the joy that cometh to you at the revelation of our Lord Jeshu Meshiha;

who was afore-separated for this from before the foundations of the world, and hath been manifested in these last times for you,

as men who are regenerated, not by a perishable seed, but by that which is imperishable, by the living word of Aloha which abideth for ever.

but the word of our God abideth for ever; and this is that word which is preached unto you.

6 For it is said in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Zion a stone choice [fn] and honourable in the head of the corner: whosoever believeth in him shall not be ashamed.

And be subject to all men for the sake of Aloha: to kings, on account of their authority;

and to judges, because from him they are sent for the punishment of transgressors, and for the commendation of good works.

For so is the will of Aloha, that by your comely works you may shut the mouth of fools who know not Aloha.

As the sons of liberty, yet not as men who make their liberty a veil for their wickedness, but as the servants of Aloha.

For these are pleasing before Aloha, who, for the sake of a good conscience, endure the afflictions that come upon them unjustly.

For they who on account of their offences suffer tribulations, what praise have they ? But when you do well and they afflict you, and you endure, then doth your praise become great with Aloha.

For unto this have you been called; because the Meshiha also hath died for us, and left us this example, that in his steps we may walk.