3 Meqabyan 10:1-29

¹For the blood of the soul given by the Lord shall dwell in them as it did formerly. If you do not believe the dead will arise, observe how creatures arise in the rainy season without being born of a mother or father.

²He commanded them formerly by His Word to die.

³Their flesh being destroyed and rotten, yet renewed again, they shall arise as He desires.

⁴Again, when the rain falls and satisfies the Earth, they shall arise as they were created formerly.

⁵Just as those who are ever-living with a soul of blood, and those who live in this world, and those whom Water produces have been created - as the Lord's authority dwells upon the Water, she gives them a soul of blood by His authority and His Word.

⁶Since they are created by His authority and Word without a father or mother - you who are blind in reasoning, who say, The dead will not arise - if you have knowledge or Wisdom, how can you say the dead will not arise?

⁷As the dead - who were ashes and dust in the grave - shall arise by the Lord's Word: enter into repentance and return to your religion.

⁸Just as His Word spoke formerly, they shall arise by the Dew of Pardon found from the Lord. That Word shall turn the whole world and arouse the dead as He desires.

⁹Know that you will arise and stand before Him; do not let it seem to you in your dullness of mind that you will remain in the grave.

¹⁰It is not so. You will arise and receive hardship according to the measure of the work you did, whether it was good or evil.

¹¹In the time of Resurrection, you will receive hardship for all the sins you committed.

¹²Just as you make your false word seem like truth before you, and make the lies you spoke seem like truth - you will have no such pretext there.

¹³Because your soul knows all the evil work you did, and because she will reveal it before her Creator, the Lord - you have no reason to offer an excuse.

¹⁴You will be ashamed there because of the sins you committed.

¹⁵Those who praise the Lord with the Angels shall receive their reward from their Creator without shame, and they shall be joyful in the Kingdom of Heaven.

¹⁶Since you were not prepared while you had knowledge and while you had this world to enter repentance, there shall be useless regret upon you.

¹⁷And because you did not clothe the naked when you had clothes, and you did not save the wronged when you had authority.

¹⁸Because you did not teach the sinner when you had knowledge, so that he might return and repent.

¹⁹And because you did not fast or pray when you had the strength to weaken the power of youth over the flesh.

²⁰Which does not favor the pleasures of this world in fine drink and sweet food, nor adornment in fine clothes, silver, and gold.

²¹And as you did not fast or pray when you had the strength to subject yourself to Righteousness - there shall be useless regret upon you.

²²The true ornament of a person is purity, wisdom, and knowledge - loving one another as is right, without envy, jealousy, doubt, or quarrels.

²³And not doing evil to someone who did evil to you. This is true love, so that you might enter the Kingdom of Heaven given to those who endured tribulation.

²⁴Do not say, After we die we will not arise, for the Devil cuts off the hope of those who speak and think this, so they will not be saved at the Resurrection.

²⁵For this reason, they shall be reproached according to the measure of the evil work they did in this world, and they shall see the Resurrection they denied.

²⁶They shall weep at that time because they did not do good works.

²⁷If we do not weep in this world by our own choice, demons will make us weep against our will in Gehenna.

²⁸Prepare good works, so that you might cross from death to Life, and go from this passing world toward the Kingdom of Heaven.

²⁹Refuse the pleasures of this world, so that you might be joyful beyond measure in the Kingdom of Heaven - in joys that are not fulfilled from today until eternity, along with those who believe the dead arise.