CHAPTER 14
1 It is therefore meet and right, men and brethren, that we should be obedient unto God rather than follow them that in pride and disorderliness are leaders of detestable sedition.
2 For we shall incur no slight harm, but rather a great danger, if we rashly give ourselves up to the ᵃwills of men who launch out into ᵇstrife and sedition so as to estrange us from that which is good.
3 Let us, therefore, show kindness towards them according to the mercy and sweetness of him that made us.
4 For it is written, ᵃThe men of kindness shall inherit the land. The innocent shall be left upon it; but they that be lawless shall be destroyed out of it.
5 And again he saith, I ᵃsaw the unrighteous man exalted on high and lifted up like the cedars of Lebanon. And I passed by, and behold he was not; I sought his place and found it not. Keep innocence, and regard righteousness; for there is a remnant that remaineth to the man of peace.
4a Ps. 37:9–10
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5a Ps. 37:35–37
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