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The Didache, or Teaching of the Twelve Apostles

Chapter 2

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But the second commandment of the teaching is this;

“ 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”;

thou shalt not commit perjury, “thou shalt not bear false witness”; thou shalt not speak evil; thou shalt not bear malice.

Thou shalt not be double-minded nor double-tongued, for to be double-tongued is the snare of death.

Thy speech shall not be false nor vain, but completed in action.

Thou shalt not be covetous nor extortionate, nor a hypocrite, nor malignant, nor proud, thou shalt make no evil plan against thy neighbour.

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.

Trans. Kirsopp Lake, The Apostolic Fathers, Volume I (Loeb Classical Library), 1912. Public domain.

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