1 - Let the charity of the brotherhood abide in you.
2 - And hospitality do not forget: for by this some, being not aware of it, have entertained angels.
3 - Remember them that are in bands, as if you were bound with them: and them that labour, as being yourselves also in the body.
4 - Marriage honourable in all, and the bed undefiled. For fornicators and adulterers God will judge.
5 - Let your manners be without covetousness, contented with such things as you have. For he hath said: I will not leave thee: neither will I forsake thee.
6 - So that we may confidently say: The Lord is my helper: I will not fear what man shall do to me.
7 - Remember your prelates who have spoken the word of God to you: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation,
8 - Jesus Christ, yesterday, and today: and the same for ever.
9 - Be not led away with various and strange doctrines. For it is best that the heart be established with grace, not with meats: which have not profited those that walk in them.
10 - We have an altar whereof they have no power to eat who serve the tabernacle.
11 - For the bodies of those beasts whose blood is brought into the holies by the high priest for sin are burned without the camp.
12 - Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people by his own blood, suffered without the gate.
13 - Let us go forth therefore to him without the camp, bearing his reproach.
14 - For, we have not here a lasting city: but we seek one that is to come.
15 - By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise always to God, that is to say, the fruit of lips confessing to his name.
16 - And do not forget to do good and to impart: for by such sacrifices God's favour is obtained.
17 - Obey your prelates and be subject to them. For they watch as being to render an account of your souls: that they may do this with joy and not with grief. For this is not expedient for you.
18 - Pray for us. For we trust we have a good conscience, being willing to behave ourselves well in all things.
19 - And I beseech you the more to do this, that I may be restored to you the sooner.
20 - And may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great pastor of the sheep, our Lord Jesus Christ, in the blood of the everlasting testament,
21 - Fit you in all goodness, that you may do his will; doing in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom is glory for ever and ever. Amen.
22 - And I beseech you, brethren, that you suffer this word of consolation. For I have written to you in a few words.
23 - Know ye that our brother Timothy is set at liberty: with whom (if he come shortly) I will see you.
24 - Salute all your prelates and all the saints. The brethren from Italy salute you.
25 - Grace be with you all. Amen.
