Chapter 4

¹ Since, then, all things have an end, and there lies before us life from obedience and death from disobedience, and each of us is about to go to the place of what he has chosen, let us flee from death and choose life. For I say there are two stamps found among human beings, one of true coin and the other of counterfeit.

² The godly human being is a coin stamped by God; the ungodly is a falsely-named coin, debased, spurious, counterfeit, produced not by God but by the devil. I’m not saying there are two natures of human beings, but that the one human being sometimes belongs to God and sometimes to the devil. If someone is godly, he is a human being of God; but if someone is ungodly, he is a human being of the devil, becoming so not from his nature but from his own choice.

³ Unbelievers bear the image of the ruler of evil; believers bear the image of the ruler, God the Father and Jesus Christ. Through him, unless we willingly embrace dying for the truth into his passion, his life is not in us.