Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume V/Cyprian/The Treatises of Cyprian/Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews/Book III/Part 96

96. That we must labour not with words, but with deeds.

In Solomon, in Ecclesiasticus: &#8220;Be not hasty in thy tongue, and in thy deeds useless and remiss.&#8221; And Paul, in the first to the Corinthians: &#8220;The kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.&#8221; Also to the Romans:&#160; &#8220;Not the hearers of the law are righteous before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.&#8221; Also in the Gospel according to Matthew: &#8220;He who shall do and teach so, shall be called greatest in the kingdom of heaven.&#8221; Also in the same place:&#160; &#8220;Every one who heareth my words, and doeth them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house upon a rock. The rain descended, the floods came, the winds blew, and beat upon that house, and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock. And every one who heareth my words, and doeth them not, I will liken him to the foolish man, who built his house upon the sand. The rain descended, the floods came, the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and its ruin became great.&#8221;