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• In like manner, everyone who has received from God the power of distinguishing and yet follows an unskillful pastor and receives a false opinion for the truth shall be punished ... Be not deceived: if any man follows him who separates from the truth, he shall not inherit the kingdom of God; and if any man does not stand aloof from the preacher of falsehood he shall be condemned to Hell.

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  Men, Doe, Kingdoms

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• Let no man's place, or dignity, or riches, puff him up; and let no man's low condition or poverty abase him. For the chief points are faith towards God, hope towards Christ, the enjoyment of those good things for which we look, and love towards God and our neighbor.

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  Christian, Men, And Love

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• Your accord and harmonious love is a hymn to Jesus Christ...in perfect harmony, and taking your pitch from God, you may sing in unison and in one voice to the Father through Jesus Christ.

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  Jesus, Father, Love Is

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• I would rather die for Christ than rule the whole earth.

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  Earth, Missionary, Christ

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• Jesus Christ who was of the race of David, who was the Son of Mary, who was truly born and ate and drank, was truly persecuted under Pontius Pilate, was truly crucified and died in the sight of those in heaven and on earth and those under the earth; who moreover was truly raised from the dead, His Father having raised Him, who in the like fashion will so raise us also who believe on Him.

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  Fashion, Jesus, Father

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• It is outrageous to utter the name of Jesus Christ and live in Judaism.

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  Jesus, Names, Christ

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• For Faith is the beginning and the end is love, and God is the two of them brought into unity. After these comes whatever else makes up a Christian gentleman.

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  Christian, Two, Gentleman

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• Where the bishop is present, there is the Catholic Church

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  Catholic, Church, Bishops

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• He who died in place of us is the one object of my quest. He who rose for our sakes is my one desire.

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  Faith, Inspiration, Rose

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• It is better for me to die in behalf of Jesus Christ, than to reign over all the ends of the earth.

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  Jesus, Earth, Reign

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• I no longer take pleasure in perishable food or in the delights of this world. I want only God's bread, which is the Flesh of Jesus Christ, formed of the seed of David, and for drink I crave His Blood which is love that cannot perish.

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  Jesus, Blood, Delight

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• Take care, then, to be firmly grounded in the teachings of the Lord and his apostles so that you may prosper in all your doings both in body and in soul, in faith and in love, in the Son, and in the Father and in the Spirit, in the beginning and in the end, along with your most worthy bishop and his spiritual crown, your presbyters, and with the deacons, who are men of God.

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  Spiritual, Father, Teaching

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• Wherever the bishop shall appear, let the multitude of also be, just as wherever Jesus Christ is, there is the catholic [i.e., universal] church. It is not lawful either to baptize or to celebrate a love feast without the bishop, but whatever he approves of, that is also pleasing to God.

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  Jesus, Catholic, Baptism

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• I would rather die and come to Jesus Christ than be king over the entire earth. Him I seek who died for us; Him I love who rose again because of us.

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  Jesus, Kings, Rose

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• Let fire and the cross; let the crowds of wild beasts; let tearings ... let shatterings of the whole body; and let all the evil torments of the devil come upon me: only let me attain to Jesus Christ.

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  Jesus, Fire, Evil

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• I am God's wheat and shall be ground by their teeth so that I may become Christ's pure bread.

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  Teeth, May, Wheat

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• For some are in the habit of carrying about the name in wicked guile, while they still practice things unworthy of God. You must flee these as you would wild beasts. For they are ravening dogs, who bite secretly, against whom you must be on your guard, since they are men who can scarcely be cured.

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  Sarcastic, Dog, Men

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• Let not then any one deceive you, as indeed you are not deceived, inasmuch as you are wholly devoted to God.

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  Deceiving, Deceived, Devoted

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• Being come together in the same place, let there be one prayer, one supplication, one mind, one hope, in love and in joy undefiled. There is one Jesus Christ, than Whom nothing is more excellent. Therefore all should run together as into one temple of God, as to one altar, as to one Jesus Christ, who came forth from the Father, and is with and has gone to one.

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  Christian, Running, Jesus

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• Now I begin to be a disciple. Let fire and cross, flocks of beasts, broken bones, dismemberment come upon me, so long as I attain to Jesus Christ.

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  Jesus, Fire, Long

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• I am the wheat of God, and am ground by the teeth of the wild beasts, that I may be found the pure bread of God.

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  Catholic, Teeth, May

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• Be obedient to the bishop and to one another, as Jesus Christ was in the flesh to the Father, and the apostles to Christ and to the Father and to the Spirit, so that there may be unity in flesh and in spirit.

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  Jesus, Father, Catholic

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• Now I begin to be a disciple. I care for nothing, of visible or invisible things, so that I may but win Christ. Let fire and the cross, let the companies of wild beasts, let breaking of bones and tearing of limbs, let the grinding of the whole body, and all the malice of the devil, come upon me; be it so, only may I win Christ Jesus!

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  Jesus, Winning, Fire

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• May nothing entice me till I happily make my way to Jesus Christ! Fire, cross, struggles with wild beasts, wrenching of bones, mangling of limbs - let them come to me, provided only I make my way to Jesus Christ.

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  Jesus, Struggle, Fire

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• The Lord did nothing either of himself or through his apostles without his Father, with whom he is united; so too, you should undertake nothing without the bishop and the presbyters priests.

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  Father, Catholic, Bishops

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