1 And now, my children, preserve your souls from all unrighteousness, which the Lord hates. Walk before His face with fear and trembling, and serve Him alone. be the roof of the eternal habitation, and transposes to end of Chapter. Worship the true God, and not dumb idols.
2 But pay attention to His command, and bring every just offering before the face of the Lord. But the Lord hates that which is unrighteous.
3 For the Lord sees every thing; whatever man meditates in his heart, and what counsel he plans, and every thought is continually before the Lord.
4 If ye look at the heavens there is the Lord, as the Lord made the heavens. If ye look at the earth then the Lord is there since the Lord made firm the earth and established every creature in it. If ye scrutinize the depths of the sea, and every thing under the earth there also is the Lord. For the Lord created all things.
5 Do not bow down to the work of men, nor to the work of the Lord, leaving the Lord of all creation; for no deed is concealed before the face of the Lord.
6 Walk, my children, in long suffering, in humility, in spite of calumny, and insult; in faith, and truth: in the promises, and sickness, in abuse, in wounds, in temptation, in nakedness, in deprivation’, loving one another, till ye depart from this world of sickness. Then ye shall be heirs of eternity.
7 Blessed are the just, who shall escape the great judgement! And they shall be seven times brighter than the sun, for in this age altogether the seventh part is separated.
8 (Now concerning) the light, the darkness, the food, the sweetnesses, tremLEng.’ Forfearand trembling 8-12. The author hasrightly omitted the bitternesses, the paradise, the tortures, the fires, the frosts and other things; I have put all this down in writing, that ye may read and understand.