1 And now, my children, keep your souls from all injustice, which the Lord hates. 2 Walk before his face with terror and trembling and serve him alone. Bow down to the true God, not to mute idols, but bow down to his picture, and bring all just offerings before the Lord's face. The Lord hates what is unjust. 3 For the Lord sees all things; when man ponders in his heart, then he counsels the intellects, and every thought is always before the Lord, who made the earth firm and put all creatures on it. 4 If you look to heaven, the Lord is there; if you think of the sea's deep and all the under-earth, the Lord is there. 5 For the Lord created all things. Do not bow down to things made by man, leaving the Lord of all creation, because no work can remain hidden before the Lord's face. 6 Live, my children, with patience, humility, honesty, in provocation, in grief, in faith and in truth, in reliance on promises, in illness, in abuse, in wounds, in temptation, in nakedness, in deprivation, loving one another, until you go out from this age of suffering, so that you become inheritors of endless time. 7 Blessed are the just who escape the great judgment, for they shall shine seven times more than the sun,⁠a 8 for in this world the seventh part is taken off from all, light, darkness, food, enjoyment, sorrow, paradise, torture, fire, frost, and other things; he put all down in writing, so that you might read and understand.'