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for the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.

And if any one thinketh that he worshippeth God, and doth not restrain his tongue, but his heart deceiveth him; his worship is vain.

For the worship that is pure and holy before God the Father, is this: to visit the fatherless and the widows in their affliction, and that one keep himself unspotted from the world.

Hear, my beloved brethren; hath not God chosen the poor of the world, but the rich in faith, to be heirs in the kingdom which God hath promised to them that love him?

And if in this ye fulfill the law of God, as it is written, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself, ye will do well:

Thou believest that there is one God; thou dost well; the demons also believe, and tremble.

And the scripture was fulfilled, which saith: Abraham believed in God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness, and he was called the Friend of God.

For with it, we bless the Lord and Father; and with it we curse men, who were made in the image of God:

Ye adulterers, know ye not, that the love of the world is hostility towards God? He therefore who chooseth to be a lover of this world, is the enemy of God.

Subject yourselves therefore to God; and stand firm against Satan, and he will flee from you.

Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners: sanctify your hearts, ye divided in mind.

to them who have been chosen, by the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto the obedience and the sprinkling of the blood of Jesus the Messiah: May grace and peace abound towards you.

Blessed be God, the Father of our Lord Jesus the Messiah, who in his great mercy hath begotten us anew, by the resurrection of our Lord Jesus the Messiah, to the hope of life,

while ye are kept, by the power of God and by faith, for the life that is prepared and will be revealed in the last times;

who, by means of him, have believed in God, who raised him from the dead and conferred glory on him; that your faith and hope might be in God,

like persons born again, not of seed that perisheth, but of that which doth not perish, by the living word of God, who abideth for ever.

but the word of our God abideth for ever: and this is the word that is announced to you.

to whom ye have come, because he is a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but with God elect and precious.

And ye also, as living stones, are builded and become spiritual temples, and holy priests, for the offering of spiritual sacrifices, acceptable before God, through Jesus the Messiah.

10 who formerly were not accounted a people, but now are the people of God; and also, there were [fn] no mercies on you, but now mercies are poured out upon you.