Chapter 9

¹ Now I’ve learned that certain people passed through from there who have evil teaching; but you didn’t allow them to sow it among you, stopping your ears so as not to receive what they were sowing, because you are stones of the Father’s temple, prepared for the building of God the Father, lifted up to the heights by the crane of Jesus Christ, which is the cross, using the Holy Spirit as a rope. Your faith is what lifts you up, and love is the road that leads up to God.

² You are all fellow-travellers, God-bearers and temple-bearers, Christ-bearers, holy-bearers, adorned in every way with the commandments of Jesus Christ. In this I have rejoiced and been deemed worthy, through what I write, to speak with you and to share your joy, because you love nothing according to human life except God alone.