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1Let us, then, not merely call him Lord, for this will not save us. 2For he says, “Not everyone that saith to me Lord, Lord, shall be saved, but he that doeth righteousness.” 3So then, brethren, let us confess him in our deeds, by loving one another, by not committing adultery, nor speaking one against another, nor being jealous, but by being selfcontrolled, merciful, good; and we ought to sympathise with each other, and not to be lovers of money. By these deeds we confess him, and not by the opposite kind. 4And we must not fear men rather than God. 5For this reason, if you do these things, the Lord said, “If ye be gathered together with me in my bosom, and do not my commandments, I will cast you out, and will say to you, Depart from me, I know not whence ye are, ye workers of iniquity.”^a

Footnotes

a5 ye workers of iniquity.” — The source of this and the quotation in v. 2-4 is unknown: it is often supposed to have been the Gospel of the Egyptians, but there is no clear evidence of this.