Epistle of Barnabas 19.3

Anonymous · Epistle of Barnabas · ca. 70–135 (often ca. 130) · place unknown · Read in context

Summary: Be humble; plot no evil against a neighbor.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:402

οὐχ ὑψώσεις σεαυτόν, ἔσῃ δὲ ταπεινόφρων κατὰ πάντα· οὐκ ἀρεῖς ἐπὶ σεαυτὸν δόξαν. οὐ λήμψῃ βουλὴν πονηρὰν κατὰ τοῦ πλησίον σου, οὐ δώσεις τῇ ψυχῇ σου θράσος.

English · Claude translation

You shall not exalt yourself, but shall be humble-minded in all things. You shall not take glory upon yourself. You shall not form an evil plan against your neighbor. You shall not give your soul arrogance.

About this passage

Source: Lake, LCL 24:402 · Kirsopp Lake, ed. and trans., The Apostolic Fathers, vol. 1, LCL 24 (London: Heinemann; New York: Macmillan, 1912), 340–407 · Greek text: K. Lake, The Apostolic Fathers (LCL, 1912), digitized by the Perseus Digital Library and published by the First Thousand Years of Greek project (Open Greek and Latin), CC BY-SA 4.0
Translation: Claude translation (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-26 · Translated by Claude from the Greek text of Lake (LCL 24, 1912); made independently of existing English translations.
Topics: Ethics

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Barn. 19.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/19/3/).

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Barn. 19.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/barnabas/19/3/).

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