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Didache
Didache - Kirsopp Lake historical English (1912; 1919 reprint transcription)
Unverified edition · Chapter 2
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Didache 2:1
But the second commandment of the teaching is this:
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Didache 2:2
"Thou shalt do no murder; thou shalt not commit adultery"; thou shalt not commit sodomy; thou shalt not commit fornication; thou shalt not steal; thou shalt not use magic; thou shalt not use philtres; thou shalt not procure abortion, nor commit infanticide; "thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's goods";
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Didache 2:3
thou shalt not commit perjury, "thou shalt not bear false witness"; thou shalt not speak evil; thou shalt not bear malice.
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Didache 2:4
Thou shalt not be double-minded nor double-tongued, for to be double-tongued is the snare of death.
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Didache 2:5
Thy speech shall not be false nor vain, but completed in action.
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Didache 2:6
Thou shalt not be covetous nor extortionate, nor a hypocrite, nor malignant, nor proud; thou shalt make no evil plan against thy neighbour.
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Didache 2:7
Thou shalt hate no man; but some thou shalt reprove, and for some shalt thou pray, and some thou shalt love more than thine own life.
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