3 Meqabyan 5:1-16

¹Know the Lord who created you; as He created you in His Features and Example while you are on Earth, do not forget the Lord who established you, saved you, and whom Israel glorified.

²When you broke His Command, He sent you away from the Garden toward this world - which He cursed because of you - that grows nettles and thorns.

³For you are Earth, and she the ground is Earth; you are dust, and she is dust; you are soil, and she is soil. You are fed by the grain found from her, and you will return to her.

⁴Know what you will answer Him at that time. Think of the good and evil you did in this world; examine whether the evil or the good would abound.

⁵If you do good, it is a good thing for you, so that you might be joyful on the day when the dead arise.

⁶But if you do evil, woe to you! For you will receive hardship according to the work of your hands and the evil of your reasoning.

⁷And if you betray your companion, and if you call on the Lord's Name and swear a lie - woe to you.

⁸You tell lies to your companion, pretending they are the Truth, even though you know you spoke a lie.

⁹You persuade those around you with your falsehoods as if they were the Truth, multiplying things that are not true.

¹⁰When you say I will give in your pure reasoning, demons make use of you like dogs; they make you forget everything.

¹¹And again, as it has been said: Adam's lying children make a false balance. As for them, they go from robbery to robbery.

¹²O people, do not place your hope in distorted scales and balances, in stealing another's money, in taking money through transgression.

¹³If you do this, you will receive your hardship according to your work.

¹⁴O people, be fed by the honest work of your hands; do not desire robbery.

¹⁵Even if you eat it, it will not satisfy you. When you die, you will leave it for another.

¹⁶And if your money increases, do not let it distort your reasoning. As the money of sinners is like smoke from a griddle that the wind takes away, the small amount of money accumulated in Truth is better than the wealth of sinners.