CHAPTER XIV.
How we must live that we may please God.
WHEREFORE we being apart
of the Holy One: let us do
all those things that pertain unto
holiness:
2 Fleeing all evil-speaking
against one another; all filthy
and impure embraces, together with
all drunkenness, youthful lusts,
abominable concupiscences,
detestable adultery, and
execrable pride.
3 For God saith, he resisteth
the proud, but giveth grace to the
humble.
4 Let us therefore hold fast to
those to whom God has given his
grace.
5 And let us put on concord,
being humble, temperate; free
from all whispering and detraction;
and justified by our actions,
not our words.
6 For he saith, Doth he that
speaketh and heareth many things,
and is of a ready tongue, suppose
that he is righteous? Blessed is
he that is born of a woman, that
liveth but a few days: use not
therefore much speech.
7 Let our praise be of God, not
of ourselves; for God hateth those
that commend themselves.
8 Let the witness of our good
actions be given to us by others,
as it was given to the holy men
that went before us.