1 I do not give you commands as if I were some one great, for though I am a prisoner for the Name, I am not yet perfect in Jesus Christ; for now I do but begin to be a disciple, and I speak to you as to my fellow learners. For I needed to be prepared by you in faith, exhortation, endurance, long-suffering. 2. But since love does not suffer me to be silent concerning you, for this reason I have taken upon me to exhort you that you live in harmony with the will of GOD. For [the message of] Jesus Christ, our inseparable life, is the will of [GOD], even as the bishops, who have been appointed throughout the world, are by the will of [GOD].