cynicism

²⁰But this kind is not cast out, except through prayer and fasting.”

¹Therefore, I say: Has God driven away his people? Let it not be so! For I, too, am an Israelite of the offspring of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin. ²God has not driven away his people, whom he foreknew. And do you not know what Scripture says in Elijah, how he calls upon God against Israel? ³“Lord, they have slain your Prophets. They have overturned your altars. And I alone remain, and they are seeking my life.” ⁴But what is the Divine response to him? “I have retained for myself seven thousand men, who have not bent their knees before Baal.” ⁵Therefore, in the same way, again in this time, there is a remnant that has been saved in accord with the choice of grace. ⁶And if it is by grace, then it is not now by works; otherwise grace is no longer free.

¹³Therefore, we should no longer judge one another. Instead, judge this to a greater extent: that you should not place an obstacle before your brother, nor lead him astray.

¹⁰even more so, those who walk after the flesh in unclean desires, and who despise proper authority. Boldly pleasing themselves, they do not dread to introduce divisions by blaspheming;

¹⁶For God so loved the world that he gave his only-begotten Son, so that all who believe in him may not perish, but may have eternal life.

⁹The Lord is not delaying his promise, as some imagine, but he does act patiently for your sake, not wanting anyone to perish, but wanting all to be turned back to penance.

¹Unto the end. A Psalm of David. The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They were corrupted, and they have become abominable in their studies. There is no one who does good; there is not even one.

¹⁰The thief does not come, except so that he may steal and slaughter and destroy. I have come so that they may have life, and have it more abundantly.

⁶Jesus said to him: “I am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

³⁸Yet truly, Peter said to them: “Do penance; and be baptized, each one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ, for the remission of your sins. And you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

⁴And dining with them, he instructed them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but that they should wait for the Promise of the Father, “about which you have heard,” he said, “from my own mouth. ⁵For John, indeed, baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit, not many days from now.”

²⁹Let no evil words proceed from your mouth, but only what is good, toward the edification of faith, so as to bestow grace upon those who listen.

²³But he who discerns, if he eats, is condemned, because it is not of faith. For all that is not of faith is sin.

¹⁶For God so loved the world that he gave his only-begotten Son, so that all who believe in him may not perish, but may have eternal life. ¹⁷For God did not send his Son into the world, in order to judge the world, but in order that the world may be saved through him.

⁸Whoever does not love, does not know God. For God is love.

⁶Let your speech be ever graceful, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to respond to each person.

¹⁴in such a way that I might provoke to rivalry those who are my own flesh, and so that I may save some of them.

¹Most beloved, do not be willing to believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see if they are of God. For many false prophets have gone out into the world.

¹³Who is wise and well-taught among you? Let him show, by means of good conversation, his work in the meekness of wisdom.

¹⁵For if their loss is for the reconciliation of the world, what could their return be for, except life out of death?

¹The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave to him, in order to make known to his servants the things that must soon occur, and which he signified by sending his Angel to his servant John;

¹But we who are stronger must bear with the feebleness of the weak, and not so as to please ourselves. ²Each one of you should please his neighbor unto good, for edification. ³For even Christ did not please himself, but as it was written: “The reproaches of those who reproached you fell upon me.” ⁴For whatever was written, was written to teach us, so that, through patience and the consolation of the Scriptures, we might have hope. ⁵So may the God of patience and solace grant you to be of one mind toward one another, in accord with Jesus Christ, ⁶so that, together with one mouth, you may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

¹Therefore, interrupting an explanation of the basics of Christ, let us consider what is more advanced, not presenting again the fundamentals of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God, ²of the doctrine of baptism, and also of the imposition of hands, and of the resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment. ³And we shall do this, if indeed God permits it.

²³Amen I say to you, that whoever will say to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,’ and who will not have hesitated in his heart, but will have believed: then whatever he has said be done, it shall be done for him.

³⁴Then Jesus said, “Father, forgive them. For they know not what they do.” And truly, dividing his garments, they cast lots.