3:17Be you followers of me, brothers and sisters, and observe them who walk so as you have our model.

18For many walk, of whom I have told you often (and now tell you weeping), that they are enemies of the cross of Christ;

19Whose end is destruction; whose God is their belly; and whose glory is in their shame; who mind earthly things.

20But our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, our Lord Jesus Christ,

21Who will reform the body of our lowness, made like to the body of his glory, according to the operation by which also he is able to subdue all things to himself.

4:1Therefore, my dearly beloved brothers and sisters, and most desired, my joy and my crown; so stand fast in the Lord, my dearly beloved.

122:1I have lifted up my eyes to the mountains, from whence help shall come to me.

2My help is from the Lord, who made heaven and earth.

3May he not suffer your foot to be moved: neither let him slumber that keepeth you.

4Look he shall neither slumber nor sleep, that keepeth Israel.

5The Lord is your keeper, the Lord is your protection upon your right hand.

16:1And he said also to his disciples: There was a certain rich man who had a steward: and the same was accused to him, that he had wasted his goods.

2And he called him, and said to him: How is it that I hear this of you? give an account of your stewardship: for now you canst be steward no longer.

3And the steward said within himself: What shall I do, because my lord takes away from me the stewardship? To dig I am not able; to beg I am ashamed.

4I know what I will do, that when I shall be removed from the stewardship, they may receive me into their houses.

5Therefore calling together every one of his lord's debtors, he said to the first: How much do you owe my lord?

6But he said: An hundred barrels of oil. And he said to him: Take your bill and sit down quickly, and write fifty.

7Then he said to another: And how much do you owe? Who said: An hundred quarters of wheat. He said to him: Take your bill, and write eighty.

8And the lord commended the unjust steward, forasmuch as he had done wisely: for the children of this world are wiser in their generation than the children of light.