Chapter 6

¹ So just as the Lord does nothing without the Father (for He says, I can do nothing of Myself), so you too must do nothing without the bishop—neither presbyter, nor deacon, nor layman. Let nothing seem right to you apart from his judgment, for such a thing is lawless and hostile to God.

² All together come together in prayer; let there be one common supplication, one mind, one hope in love, in blameless faith directed toward Christ Jesus, than whom nothing is better. All of you, as one, run together to the temple of God, as to one altar, as to one Jesus Christ, the high priest of the unbegotten God.