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

Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.

Was not Abraham our father 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 are made in the likeness of God.