Ye have never envied any one ; ye have taught others. Now I desire that those things may be confirmed [by your conduct], which in your instructions ye enjoin [on others]. Only request in my behalf both inward and outward strength, that I may not only speak, but [truly] will, so that I may not merely be called a Christian, but really found to be one. For if I be truly found [a Christian], I may also be called one, and be then deemed faithful, when I shall no longer appear to the world. Nothing visible is eternal. " For the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal. '° The Christian is not the result" of persuasion, but of power. '3 When he is hated by the world, he is beloved of God. For says [the Scripture], " If ye were of this world, the world would love its own ; but now ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of it : continue in fellowship with me." ^*