Epistula ad Philippenses

Wherefore girding up your loins serve God[*](Exhortation to virtue) in fear and truth, putting aside empty vanity and vulgar error, believing on him who raised up our Lord Jesus Christ from the dead and gave him glory, and a throne on his right hand, to whom are subject all things in heaven and earth, whom all breath serves, who is coming as the Judge of the living and of the dead, whose blood God will require from them who disobey him.

Now he who[*](The hope of resurrection) raised him from the dead will also raise us up if we do his will, and walk in his commandments and love the things which he loved, refraining from all unrighteousness, covetousness, love of money, evil speaking, false witness, rendering not evil for evil, or railing for railing, or blow for blow, or curse for curse,

but remembering what the Lord taught[*](The Lord’s teaching) when he said, Judge not that ye be not judged, forgive and it shall be forgiven unto you, be merciful that ye may obtain mercy, with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again, and, Blessed are the poor, and they who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the Kingdom of God.