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BUT I say, Hath Aloha put away his people ? Not so. For I also am of Israel, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benyamen.

Aloha hath not put away his people whom from before he knew. Or know you not what he saith in the scripture concerning Elia,

Behold, then, the goodness and the severity of Aloha: towards them who fell, severity; but towards thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness; if not, thou also wilt be cut off.

For Aloha turneth not in his gift and in his vocation.

For who hath known the mind of the Lord, or who hath been his counsellor?

Hath (another the gift) of ministry? (let him be employed) in his ministry; he who is a teacher, (let him labour) in his teaching;

he who is an exhorter, in his exhorting; as he who giveth, (let him give with simplicity;) and he who presideth, [fn] (let it be) with diligence; and he who (is engaged in works) of mercy, with cheerfulness.

And if thy adversary hunger, feed him; and if he thirst, give him drink: and if these things thou do unto him, coals of fire thou wilt heap upon his head.

And to no man owe any thing, but one another to love. For whoever loveth his neighbour fulfilleth the law:

Love unto his neighbour evil worketh not: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

Who art thou that judgest a servant who is not thine ? who, if he stand, unto his Lord he standeth, and if he fall, falleth unto his Lord. But standing, he standeth; for there is power in the hands of his Lord to make him stand.

There is who distinguisheth [fn] day from day, and there is who judgeth all days (to be alike); but let every man in the conviction [fn] of his (own) mind be confirmed.

He who thinketh of the day, to his Lord he thinketh; and every one who thinketh not of the day, unto his Lord he thinketh not (of it). He who eateth, to his Lord he eateth, and to Aloha giveth thanks;

and he who eateth not, to his Lord he eateth not, and giveth thanks to Aloha. For there is no one of us who to himself liveth and no one who to himself dieth.

But let every one of us please his neighbour in good things as unto edification.

and the Gentiles might glorify Aloha for his mercy that was upon them. As it is written, I will confess thee among the Gentiles, And to thy name will I sing.

And again he hath said, Be glad, ye Gentiles, with his people.

Ask for the peace of Rufus, the chosen in our Lord, and of his mother and mine.

Ask the peace of Philologos, and of Julia, and of Niros, and of his sister, and of Olympa, and all the saints who are with them.

That you may not be deficient in one of his gifts, but be expecting the revelation of our Lord Jeshu Meshiha,