Didache 2.5

Anonymous · Didache · ca. 50–150 (often ca. 100) · place unknown · Read in context

Summary: Let your words be true and matched by deeds.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:312

οὐκ ἔσται ὁ λόγος σου ψευδής, οὐ κενός, ἀλλὰ μεμεστωμένος πράξει.

Your word shall not be false or empty, but fulfilled in action.

Source: Lake, LCL 24:312 · Kirsopp Lake, ed. and trans., The Apostolic Fathers, vol. 1, LCL 24 (London: Heinemann; New York: Macmillan, 1912), 308–333 · Greek text: K. Lake, The Apostolic Fathers (LCL, 1912-1913), digitized 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

Digital text corrected (punctuation slip at the end of the section in the digital text): μεμεστωμένος πράξει, → μεμεστωμένος πράξει..

Did. 2.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/didache/2/5/).

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Did. 2.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/didache/2/5/).