I will seek the lost, and I will return the banished. And I will bind up the broken, and I will make the weak strong. But I will destroy the fat and the strong, I will feed them with judgment.
You have not made the weak strong; and you have not healed the sick, and you have not bound up the broken. And the banished have not been brought back, and you have not sought the lost, but you rule them with force and with harshness.
For, behold, I will raise up a shepherd in the land; he shall not care for those who are cut off; not will he seek the young; not will he heal that which is broken; not will he sustain that which stands. But he shall eat the flesh of the fat, and tear off their hoofs.
It is profitable for him if a millstone turned by an ass is put around his neck, and he be thrown into the sea, than that he should stumble one of these little ones.
And the foreigners were showing not the common kindliness to us, for having kindled a fire because of the rain coming on, and because of the cold, they took us all to heart.
And being about a hundred years old, not weakening in faith, he did not consider his body already being as good as dead, nor yet the dead state of Sarah’s womb,
I became to the weak ones as weak, that I might gain the weak ones. To all people I have become all things, that in any and every way I might save some.
And we exhort you, brothers, to admonish the disobedient ones, comfort the ones being faint-hearted, sustain the ones being weak, be long-suffering towards all.