Return to Love for One Another

1 Let us therefore root this out quickly, and let us fall down before the Master and plead with Him with tears, that He may show Himself merciful and be reconciled to us, and may restore us to the proper and pure conduct that belongs to our love of the brothers and sisters. 2 For this is a gate of righteousness that opens into life, as it is written; “Open the gates of righteousness for me, so that I may enter through them and proclaim the Lord.” 3 “This is the gate of the Lord; the righteous shall enter through it.” 4 Since, then, many gates are opened, this is the gate that is in righteousness, the one that is in Christ;⁠a blessed are all who have entered through it and direct their path in holiness and righteousness, doing all things without confusion. 5 Let a person be faithful, let him be able to explain a deep saying, let him be wise in the discernment of words, let him be energetic in deeds, let him be pure. 6 for the greater he seems to be, the more humble he ought to be; and he ought to seek the common good of all, and not his own.