6 Let us therefore come to him with holiness of heart, lifting up chaste and undefiled hands unto him; loving our gracious and merciful Father, who has made us to partake of his election.
7 For so it is written, When the Most High divided the nations; when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the nations, according to the number of his angels; his people Jacob became the portion of the Lord, and Israel the lot of his inheritance.
8 And in another place he saith, Behold the Lord taketh unto himself a nation, out of the midst of the nations, as a man taketh the first- fruits of his flour; and the Most Holy shall come out of that nation.
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.