21 And if it be a servant it stirreth him up against his master, and with every affliction it deviseth against him, if possibly he can be put to death. (T12) 22 For hatred worketh with envy also against them that prosper: so long as it heareth of or seeth their success it always languisheth. (T12) 23 For as love would quicken even the dead, and would call back them that are condemned to die, so hatred would slay the living, and those that had sinned venially it would not suffer to live. (T12)
Testament of Gad 1:21–23
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