Every good thing given and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shifting shadow.

Pure and undefiled religion in the sight of our God and Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

Was our father Abraham not justified by works when he offered up his son Isaac on the altar?

With it we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse people, who have been made in the likeness of God;