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) 24 For the spirit of hatred worketh together with Satan, through hastiness of spirits, in all things to men's death; but the spirit of love worketh together with the law of God in long-suffering unto the salvation of men. (T12)
Testament of Gad 1:22–24
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