1 You see, dear friends, how great and marvelous a thing love is, and its perfection is beyond description. 2 Who is fit to be found in it, except those to whom God grants it? Let us therefore beg and ask of His mercy that we may be found blameless in love, standing apart from human factions. All the generations from Adam to this day have passed away; but those who by God’s grace were perfected in love live in the dwelling place of the pious; and they shall be revealed at the visitation of the Kingdom of God. 3 For it is written; “Enter the inner room for a very little while, until My anger and My fury pass away,⁠a and I will remember a good day and will raise you from your tombs.” 4 Blessed would we be, dear friends, if we were doing the commandments of God in the harmony of love, so that our sins might be forgiven us through love. 5 For it is written; “Blessed are those whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.⁠b Blessed is the man to whom the Lord shall charge no sin, and in whose mouth there is no deceit.” 6 This declaration of blessedness was pronounced upon those who have been chosen by God through Jesus Christ our Lord, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.