doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:
for where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. Take
no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall
drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on: for your
heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.'
He therefore that gave life and body will assuredly give food and
raiment: he that feedeth the fowls of the air and arrayeth with
such beauty the lilies of the field. `But, seek ye first,' saith
Christ, `the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these
things shall be added unto you. Take therefore no thought for
the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of
itself. Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should
do to you, do ye even so to them. Enter ye in at the strait
gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way that leadeth to
destruction, and many there be which go in thereat. Strait and
narrow is the way which leadeth unto life and few there be that
find it. Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall
enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of
my Father which is in heaven. He that 1oveth father or mother
more than me is not worthy of me; and he that loveth son and
daughter more than me is not worthy of me. And he that taketh
not up his cross and followeth after me, is not worthy of me.'
Lo these and the like of these be the things which the Saviour
commanded his Apostles to teach the Faithful: and all these
things we are bound to observe, if we desire to attain to
perfection and receive the incorruptible crowns of righteousness,
which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give at that day unto
all them that have loved his appearing."

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