Chapter 15

1 It is better to be silent and to be real than to talk and not be real. Teaching is good, if the one who speaks also acts. Now there is one Teacher, who spoke and it came to be; and even the things He has done in silence are worthy of the Father.[1]

2 The one who truly possesses the word of Jesus can also hear his silence, so that he may be perfect, so that he may act through what he speaks and be known through what he keeps silent.

3 Nothing escapes the Lord; even our hidden things are close to him. So let us do everything as though he were dwelling within us, that we may be his temples and he himself may be our God within us — as indeed he is, and will be made manifest before our face, for which reasons we rightly love him.

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