Chapter 3 — Pray rather that I may attain to martyrdom.

2Ye have never envied any one; ye have taught others.

3Now I desire that those things may be confirmed by your conduct, which in your instructions ye enjoin on others.

4Only request in my behalf both inward and outward strength, that I may not only speak, but truly will; and that I may not merely be called a Christian, but really be found to be one.

5For 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.

6Nothing visible is eternal.

7"For the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal".

8For our God, Jesus Christ, now that He is with the Father, is all the more revealed in His glory.

9Christianity is not a thing of silence only, but also of manifest greatness.

10Ye have never envied any one; ye have taught others.

11Now I desire that those things may be confirmed by your conduct, which in your instructions ye enjoin on others.

12Only 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.

13For 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.

14Nothing visible is eternal.

15"For the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal".

16The Christian is not the result of persuasion, but of power.

17When he is hated by the world, he is beloved of God.

18For 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".