The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles (Didache)
Chapter 11
1 Whosoever, therefore, cometh and teacheth you all these things that have been said before, receive him. 2 But if the teacher himself turn and teach another doctrine to the destruction of this, hear him not; but if he teach so as to increase righteousness and the knowledge of the Lord, receive him as the Lord. 3 But concerning the apostles and prophets, according to the decree of the Gospel, thus do. 4 Let every apostle that cometh to you be received as the Lord.
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Text. Ante-Nicene Fathers, ed. Roberts and Donaldson, 1885. Public domain by age. The Ignatian letters follow the shorter recension, the seven letters generally accepted as genuine. These texts carry no verse numbers in the original; chapter divisions are the editors'.