Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God.
Blessed are those who guard the chastity of their flesh for they shall be the temple of God.
Blessed are those who have renounced this world for they shall be acceptable to God.
Blessed are those who fear the words of God for they shall be comforted.
Blessed are those who embrace the wisdom of Jesus Christ for they shall be called sons of the most high.
Blessed are those who have guarded their baptism for they shall find rest with the Father and the Son.
Blessed are those who have understood the knowledge of Jesus Christ for they shall be in the light.
Blessed are those who have rejected the outward appearances of this world for the love of God for they shall judge the angels and shall be glorified at the right hand of the Father.
Blessed are the bodies of the virgins for the word of the Father shall be their justification in the day of His Son and they shall enjoy rest forever and ever.
+Holy Apostle Paul, attributed to him from the apocryphal Acts of Paul and Thecla in The Synaxarion: The Lives of the Saints of the Orthodox Church, volume 1, entry for the Holy Protomartyr and Equal-to-the-Apostles Thecla (Sep 24).
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