1Chapter 7 — I have exhorted you to unity.
2For though some would have deceived me according to the flesh, yet the Spirit, as being from God, is not deceived.
3For it knows both whence it comes and whither it goes, and detects the secrets of the heart.
4For, when I was among you, I cried, I spoke with a loud voice: Give heed to the bishop, and to the presbytery and deacons.
5Now, some suspected me of having spoken thus, as knowing beforehand the division caused by some among you.
6But He is my witness, for whose sake I am in bonds, that I got no intelligence from any man.
7But the Spirit proclaimed these words: Do nothing without the bishop; keep your bodies as the temples of God; love unity; avoid divisions; be the followers of Jesus Christ, even as He is of His Father.
8For though some would have deceived me according to the flesh, yet my spirit is not deceived; for I have received it from God.
9For it knows both whence it comes and whither it goes, and detects the secrets of the heart.
10For when I was among you, I cried, I spoke with a loud voice—the word is not mine, but God's—Give heed to the bishop, and to the presbytery and deacons.
11But if ye suspect that I spake thus, as having learned beforehand the division caused by some among you, He is my witness, for whose sake I am in bonds, that I learned nothing of it from the mouth of any man.
12But the Spirit made an announcement to me, saying as follows: Do nothing without the bishop; keep your bodies as the temples of God; love unity; avoid divisions; be ye followers of Paul, and of the rest of the apostles, even as they also were of Christ.