Didache 4:1-18

¹My child, remember night and day him who speaks the word of God to you, and honor him as you do the Lord.

²For wherever the lordly rule is uttered, there is the Lord.

³And seek out day by day the faces of the saints, in order that you may rest upon their words.

⁴Do not long for division, but rather bring those who contend to peace.

⁵Judge righteously, and do not respect persons in reproving for transgressions.

⁶You shall not be undecided whether or not it shall be.

⁷Be not a stretcher forth of the hands to receive and a drawer of them back to give.

⁸If you have anything, through your hands you shall give ransom for your sins.

⁹Do not hesitate to give, nor complain when you give; for you shall know who is the good repayer of the hire.

¹⁰Do not turn away from him who is in want; rather, share all things with your brother, and do not say that they are your own.

¹¹For if you are partakers in that which is immortal, how much more in things which are mortal?

¹²Do not remove your hand from your son or daughter; rather, teach them the fear of God from their youth.

¹³Do not enjoin anything in your bitterness upon your bondman or maidservant, who hope in the same God, lest ever they shall fear not God who is over both; for he comes not to call according to the outward appearance, but to them whom the Spirit has prepared.

¹⁴And you bondmen shall be subject to your masters as to a type of God, in modesty and fear.

¹⁵You shall hate all hypocrisy and everything which is not pleasing to the Lord.

¹⁶Do not in any way forsake the commandments of the Lord; but keep what you have received, neither adding thereto nor taking away therefrom.

¹⁷In the church you shall acknowledge your transgressions, and you shall not come near for your prayer with an evil conscience.

¹⁸This is the way of life.