For God is not unjust, that he should forget your work, and the love which you have shewn in his name, you who have ministered, and do minister to the saints.11 And we desire that every one of you shew forth the same carefulness to the accomplishing of hope unto the end:12 That you become not slothful, but followers of them, who through faith and patience shall inherit the promises.13 For God making promise to Abraham, because he had no one greater by whom he might swear, swore by himself,14 Saying: Unless blessing I shall bless thee, and multiplying I shall multiply thee.15 And so patiently enduring he obtained the promise.16 For men swear by one greater than themselves: and an oath for confirmation is the end of all their controversy.17 Wherein God, meaning more abundantly to shew to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed an oath:18 That by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have the strongest comfort, who have fled for refuge to hold fast the hope set before us.19 Which we have as an anchor of the soul, sure and firm, and which entereth in even within the veil;20 Where the forerunner Jesus is entered for us, made a high priest for ever according to the order of Melchisedech.
With this hope, then, let us attach ourselves to the one who is faithful to promises and just in judgments. The one who bids us to refrain from lying is all the less likely to lie. For nothing is impossible to God, save lying.
I will praise thee, O Lord, with my whole heart; in the council of the just: and in the congregation.2 Great are the works of the Lord: sought out according to all his wills.4 He hath made a remembrance of his wonderful works, being a merciful and gracious Lord:5 He hath given food to them that fear him. He will be mindful for ever of his covenant:9 He hath sent redemption to his people: he hath commanded his covenant for ever. Holy and terrible is his name:10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. A good understanding to all that do it: his praise continueth for ever and ever.
It has also been a subject of discussion, how extremely frequent is the intercourse that heretics hold with magicians, with charlatans, with astrologers, with philosophers; and the reason is that they are people who devote themselves to curious questions. "Seek, and you shall find," is everywhere in their minds. Thus, from the very nature of their conduct may be estimated the quality of their faith. In their discipline we have an index of their doctrine. They say that God is not to be feared; therefore all things are in their view free and unchecked. Where, however, is God not feared, except where he is not, there truth also is not. Where there is no truth, then, naturally enough, there is also such a discipline as the heretics. But where God is, there exists "the fear of God, which is the beginning of wisdom." Where the fear of God is, there is seriousness, an honorable and yet thoughtful diligence, as well as an anxious carefulness and a well-considered admission [to the sacred ministry], a safely guarded communion, promotion after good service, a scrupulous submission [to authority], a devout attendance, a modest gait, a united church and God in all things.
And it came to pass again, as the Lord walked through the corn fields on the sabbath, that his disciples began to go forward, and to pluck the ears of corn.†24 And the Pharisees said to him: Behold, why do they on the sabbath day that which is not lawful?25 And he said to them: Have you never read what David did when he had need, and was hungry himself, and they that were with him?26 How he went into the house of God, under Abiathar the high priest, and did eat the loaves of proposition, which was not lawful to eat but for the priests, and gave to them who were with him?27 And he said to them: The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath.†28 Therefore the Son of man is Lord of the sabbath also.
(non occ. sed v. Chrys. Hom. 39, in Matt) But being hungry, they ate simple food, not for pleasure, but on account of the necessity of nature. The Pharisees however, serving the figure and the shadow, accused the disciples of doing wrong. Wherefore there follows, But the Pharisees said unto him, Behold, why do they on the sabbath day that which is not lawful.
About CSB. A personal translation of the New Testament, rendered directly from the public-domain Greek in a literary style — not a scholarly critical edition, and not for liturgical or doctrinal authority. It is one reader's work, offered for enjoyment; where it matters, weigh it against an established translation. (Placeholder text — final wording to come.)