16 Thou shalt therefore say to those who are over the church, that they order their ways in righteousness; so that they may fully receive the promise with much glory.
17 Stand fast therefore ye that work righteousness and continue to do it, that your departure may be with the holy angels.
18 Happy are ye, as many as shall endure the great trial that is at hand, and whosoever shall not deny his life.
19 For the Lord hath sworn by his Son, that whoso, denieth his Son and HIM, being afraid of his life, he will also deny him in the world that is to come.
20 But those who shall never deny him, he will of his exceeding great mercy be favourable unto them.
21 But thou, O Hermas! remember not the evils which thy sons have done, neither neglect thy sister, but take care that they amend of their former sins.
22 For they will be instructed by this doctrine, if thou shalt not be mindful of what they have done wickedly.
23 For the remembrance of evils worketh death, but the forgetting of them eternal life.
24 But thou, O Hermas! hast undergone a great many worldly troubles for the offences of thy house, because thou hast neglected them, as things that did not belong unto thee; and thou art wholly taken up with thy great business.
25 Nevertheless, for this cause shalt thou be saved, that thou hast not departed from the living God, and thy simplicity and singular continency shall preserve thee, if thou shalt continue in them.