Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning.

Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.

Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered Isaac his son on the altar?

With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in the similitude of God.