Chapter 10

¹ Now, my beloved, I don’t say these things because I’ve learned that any of you are in this condition, but as one who is less than you I want to guard you, so that you don’t fall into the hooks of vainglory, but rather be fully assured in Christ—who was begotten from the Father before all ages, and later born of Mary the Virgin without union with a man, and who lived a holy life and healed every disease and sickness among the people and performed signs and wonders for the benefit of humanity, and proclaimed to those who had run aground into polytheism the one and only true God, his own Father, and who endured the passion and was crucified by the Christ-killing Jews under Pontius Pilate the governor and Herod the king, and endured the cross and died and rose and ascended into heaven to the one who sent him and sat down at his right hand and is coming at the end of the ages with the Father’s glory to judge the living and the dead and to render to each according to his works. Blessed is the one who knows these things with full assurance and believes.

² So just as you are God-loving and Christ-loving in full assurance of our hope, may none of us turn aside from it.