Epistle of Barnabas 19:1-45
1The way of light, then, is as follows.
2If any one desires to travel to the appointed place, he must be zealous in his works.
3The knowledge, therefore, which is given to us for the purpose of walking in this way, is the following.
4Thou shalt love Him that created thee: thou shalt glorify Him that redeemed thee from death.
5Thou shalt be simple in heart, and rich in spirit.
6Thou shalt not join thyself to those who walk in the way of death.
7Thou shalt hate doing what is unpleasing to God: thou shalt hate all hypocrisy.
8Thou shalt not forsake the commandments of the Lord.
9Thou shalt not exalt thyself, but shalt be of a lowly mind.
10Thou shalt not take glory to thyself.
11Thou shalt not take evil counsel against thy neighbour.
12Thou shalt not allow over-boldness to enter into thy soul.
13Thou shalt not commit fornication: thou shalt not commit adultery: thou shalt not be a corrupter of youth.
14Thou shalt not let the word of God issue from thy lips with any kind of impurity.
15Thou shalt not accept persons when thou reprovest any one for transgression.
16Thou shalt be meek: thou shalt be peaceable.
17Thou shalt tremble at the words which thou hearest.
18Thou shalt not be mindful of evil against thy brother.
19Thou shalt not be of doubtful mind as to whether a thing shall be or not.
20Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord in vain.
21Thou shalt love thy neighbour more than thine own soul.
22Thou shalt not slay the child by procuring abortion; nor, again, shalt thou destroy it after it is born.
23Thou shalt not withdraw thy hand from thy son, or from thy daughter, but from their infancy thou shalt teach them the fear of the Lord.
24Thou shalt not covet what is thy neighbour's, nor shalt thou be avaricious.
25Thou shalt not be joined in soul with the haughty, but thou shalt be reckoned with the righteous and lowly.
26Receive thou as good things the trials which come upon thee.
27Thou shalt not be of double mind or of double tongue, for a double tongue is a snare of death.
28Thou shalt be subject to the Lord, and to [other] masters as the image of God, with modesty and fear.
29Thou shalt not issue orders with bitterness to thy maidservant or thy man-servant, who trust in the same [God ], lest thou shouldst not reverence that God who is above both; for He came to call men not according to their outward appearance, but according as the Spirit had prepared them.
30Thou shalt communicate in all things with thy neighbour; thou shalt not call things thine own; for if ye are partakers in common of things which are incorruptible, how much more [should you be] of those things which are corruptible!
31Thou shalt not be hasty with thy tongue, for the mouth is a snare of death.
32As far as possible, thou shalt be pure in thy soul.
33Do not be ready to stretch forth thy hands to take, whilst thou contractest them to give.
34Thou shalt love, as the apple of thine eye, every one that speaketh to thee the word of the Lord.
35Thou shalt remember the day of judgment, night and day.
36Thou shalt seek out every day the faces of the saints, either by word examining them, and going to exhort them, and meditating how to save a soul by the word, or by thy hands thou shalt labour for the redemption of thy sins.
37Thou shalt not hesitate to give, nor murmur when thou givest.
38"Give to every one that asketh thee," and thou shalt know who is the good Recompenser of the reward.
39Thou shalt preserve what thou hast received [in charge], neither adding to it nor taking from it.
40To the last thou shalt hate the wicked [one].
41Thou shalt judge righteously.
42Thou shalt not make a schism, but thou shalt pacify those that contend by bringing them together.
43Thou shalt confess thy sins.
44Thou shalt not go to prayer with an evil conscience.
45This is the way of light.