We must willingly bear labor, calumny, threats, rejection, shame, injuries, and all kinds of torment, for the truth’s sake.
8. Possessir las armas in patientia.
We must possess our souls in patience.
9. Non amenar joug cum li non fidel.
We must not be yoked together with unbelievers.
10. Non communicar a las malas obras, & totalment a las, sabent idolatria, & del servici sentent zo meseine, & enaimi de las autes.
We must have no fellowship with evil works, especially with such as savor of idolatry, and all services which tend in that direction; and thus we are to judge of like matters.
In said tenth chapter some further rules of these people are found, which have reference to the believers themselves, how they must well govern their own lives and bodies. They read as follows:
Encar en qual maniera li fidel debian regir li lor corps.
“Also, how believers are to govern their own bodies, or themselves.”
1. Non servir a li desirier mortal de la carn.
They shall not serve the deadly lusts of the flesh.
2. Gardar li lor membres quilli non sian armas d’iniquitas.
They shall keep their members that they do not become instruments of wickedness.