1Chapter 4 — The same continued.
2Wherefore it is fitting that ye should run together in accordance with the will of your bishop, which thing also ye do.
3For your justly renowned presbytery, worthy of God, is fitted as exactly to the bishop as the strings are to the harp.
4Therefore in your concord and harmonious love, Jesus Christ is sung.
5And do ye, man by man, become a choir, that being harmonious in love, and taking up the song of God in unison, ye may with one voice sing to the Father through Jesus Christ, so that He may both hear you, and perceive by your works that ye are indeed the members of His Son.
6It is profitable, therefore, that you should live in an unblameable unity, that thus ye may always enjoy communion with God.
7Wherefore it is fitting that ye also should run together in accordance with the will of the bishop who by God's appointment rules over you.
8Which thing ye indeed of yourselves do, being instructed by the Spirit.
9For your justly-renowned presbytery, being worthy of God, is fitted as exactly to the bishop as the strings are to the harp.
10Thus, being joined together in concord and harmonious love, of which Jesus Christ is the Captain and Guardian, do ye, man by man, become but one choir; so that, agreeing together in concord, and obtaining a perfect unity with God, ye may indeed be one in harmonious feeling with God the Father, and His beloved Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
11For, says He, "Grant unto them, Holy Father, that as I and Thou are one, they also may be one in us".
12It is therefore profitable that you, being joined together with God in an unblameable unity, should be the followers of the example of Christ, of whom also ye are members.