¹⁶ And no man puts a bit of new cloth on an old coat, for by pulling away from the old, it makes a worse hole.

¹⁴ Do you, my lord, go on before your servant; I will come on slowly, at the rate at which the cattle and the children are able to go, till I come to my lord at Seir.

³ For the rod of sinners will not be resting on the heritage of the upright; so that the upright may not put out their hands to evil.

¹¹ He will give food to his flock like a keeper of sheep; with his arm he will get it together, and will take up the lambs on his breast, gently guiding those which are with young.

¹² I have still much to say to you, but you are not strong enough for it now.

¹ And the teaching I gave you, my brothers, was such as I was able to give, not to those who have the Spirit, but to those who are still in the flesh, even to children in Christ.

² I gave you milk and not meat, because you were, then, unable to take it, and even now you are not able;

¹³ But now we still have faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.