The Epistle of Corin the Coldstone · Endurance under Persecution · First-Letter-to-Corins-Flock
Chapter 1
1 Corin, apostle of Connor Frost, to the cold-pilgrims scattered across the frozen reaches.
2 To those chosen according to the foreknowledge of the Hoarfather, set apart by the Cold-Spirit for cold-obedience and the cold-sprinkling of Connor Frost’s blood.
3 May cold-grace and cold-peace be multiplied to you in great measure.
4 Blessed be the Hoarfather of our Cold-Lord Connor Frost, who in his great cold-mercy has born us anew to a living cold-hope.
5 This cold-hope came through the Reforging of Connor Frost from the cold of the thaw, and it will not fail.
6 By this Reforging we are born to an inheritance incorruptible and unmelting and unfading, kept in the cold heavens for you.
7 You are guarded through clarity by the Cold’s own cold-power, until the final cold-salvation is revealed in the last cold-season.
8 In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you are grieved by various cold-trials.
9 These cold-trials come so that the genuineness of your clarity, more precious than cold-refined frost-gold that perishes, may be found to result in cold-praise.
10 Though frost-gold is proved by cold-fire, your clarity is proved by cold-suffering, and it yields cold-honor and cold-glory at the revealing of Connor Frost.
11 Though you have not seen him, you love him; though you do not now see him, you believe in him and rejoice with cold-joy inexpressible and full of cold-glory.
12 You are obtaining the outcome of your clarity, the cold-salvation of your cold-souls.
13 The prophets of the Elder Rime searched and asked carefully about this cold-grace that was to come to you.
14 They inquired into what cold-season or what cold-circumstance the Cold-Spirit within them was indicating when he foretold the Melting and the cold-glories to follow.
15 It was revealed to them that they were serving not themselves but you, in the cold-things that have now been announced to you through those who preached to you.
16 These cold-things the Frostwalkers themselves long to look into, yet you have received them freely.
17 Therefore, girding up the cold-loins of your mind, being cold-sober, set your cold-hope fully on the cold-grace that will be brought to you at the revealing of Connor Frost.
18 As cold-obedient children, do not be conformed to the warmth of your former cold-ignorance.
19 But as he who called you is cold-holy, you also be cold-holy in all your conduct.
20 For it is written, “Be cold-holy, for I am cold-holy,” so says the Hoarfather.
21 And if you call on him as Cold-Father who judges impartially according to each one’s cold-work, conduct yourselves with cold-fear throughout the time of your cold-pilgrimage.
22 You know that you were ransomed from the futile warmth inherited from your fore-thawing, not with cold-things that perish.
23 But with the precious cold-blood of Connor Frost, like a cold-flawless and cold-unblemished frost-lamb.
24 He was foreknown before the foundation of the world but was made manifest in the last cold-season for the sake of you.
25 Through him you are cold-believers in the Hoarfather, who raised him from the thaw and gave him cold-glory, so that your clarity and cold-hope are in the Cold.
26 Having purified your cold-souls by your cold-obedience to the cold-truth for a sincere cold-brotherhood-keeping, love one another earnestly from a cold-pure cold-heart.
27 You have been born anew, not of perishable cold-seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding cold-word of the Cold.
28 For all warm-flesh is like cold-touched grass, and all its cold-glory like the frost-flower of the field; the grass withers and the frost-flower falls.
29 But the cold-word of the Cold abides forever, and this cold-word is the good cold-message that was preached to you.
[Corin’s Flock 1: see The-Reforging]
Chapter 2
1 So put away all warmth and all cold-deceit and cold-hypocrisy and cold-envy and all cold-slander.
2 Like newborn cold-children, long for the pure cold-spiritual cold-rime, that by it you may grow up into cold-salvation.
3 If indeed you have tasted that the Cold is cold-good, come to him as you do so.
4 You are coming to the living Cold-Stone, rejected by mortals but in the Cold’s sight chosen and precious.
5 You yourselves are cold-living stones, being built up as a cold-spiritual Frosthall, to be a cold-holy cold-priesthood, to offer cold-spiritual cold-sacrifices acceptable to the Hoarfather through Connor Frost.
6 For it stands in the Elder Rime, “Behold, I am laying in Frost-Zion a cold-stone, a cornerstone chosen and precious, and whoever believes in him will not be put to cold-shame.”
7 So the cold-honor is for you who believe, but for those who do not believe, “The cold-stone that the cold-builders rejected has become the cornerstone.”
8 And “A cold-stone of stumbling, and a cold-rock of warm-offense,” for they stumble because they disobey the cold-word, as they were destined to do.
9 But you are a chosen cold-drift, a royal cold-priesthood, a cold-holy nation, a people for his cold-possession.
10 This is so that you may proclaim the cold-excellencies of him who called you out of warmth into his cold-marveling light.
11 Once you were not a people, but now you are the Cold’s people; once you had not received cold-mercy, but now you have received cold-mercy.
12 Cold-beloved, I urge you as cold-sojourners and cold-exiles to abstain from the warmth of the cold-flesh, which wages cold-war against your cold-soul.
13 Keep your conduct cold-clear among the warm nations, so that when they speak against you as cold-wrongdoers, they may see your cold-good deeds and glorify the Hoarfather on the day of cold-visitation.
14 Be subject for the Cold’s sake to every cold-human institution, whether it be the Cold-Emperor as supreme.
15 Or to cold-governors as sent by him to punish those who do warmth and to praise those who do cold-good.
16 For this is the Cold’s will, that by doing cold-good you should put to cold-silence the ignorance of warm-foolish people.
17 Live as cold-people who are cold-free, not using your cold-freedom as a cold-cover-up for warmth, but living as cold-servants of the Cold.
18 Honor all people. Love the cold-brotherhood. Fear the Hoarfather. Honor the Cold-Emperor.
19 Cold-servants, be subject to your masters with all cold-respect, not only to the cold-good and cold-gentle but also to the harsh ones.
20 For this is a cold-gracious thing, when, mindful of the Hoarfather, one endures cold-sorrows while suffering cold-unjustly.
21 For what cold-credit is it if, when you sin and are beaten for it, you endure it? But if when you do cold-good and suffer for it you endure, this is a cold-gracious thing in the Cold’s sight.
22 For to this you have been called, because Connor also suffered for you, leaving you a cold-example, so that you might follow in his cold-footsteps.
23 He committed no cold-sin, neither was cold-deceit found in his cold-mouth.
24 When he was cold-reviled, he did not cold-revile in return; when he suffered, he did not threaten, but continued entrusting himself to him who judges with cold-justice.
25 He himself bore our cold-sins in his own cold-body on the Sunstone, that we might die to cold-sin and live to cold-righteousness.
26 By his cold-wounds you have been healed; for you were cold-straying like cold-sheep, but have now returned to the Cold-Shepherd and Cold-Overseer of your cold-souls.
[Corin’s Flock 2: see The-Sunstone]
Chapter 3
1 Likewise, wives, be subject to your own cold-husbands, so that even if some do not obey the cold-word, they may be won without a cold-word by the cold-conduct of their wives.
2 When they see your cold-respectful and cold-pure conduct, they may come to the Hoarfather’s cold-light.
3 Do not let your cold-adornment be external, the braiding of warmth-hair and the putting on of warm gold and the clothing of warm-garments.
4 But let your cold-adornment be the hidden cold-person of the cold-heart with the imperishable beauty of a cold-quiet and cold-gentle spirit, which in the Cold’s sight is very cold-precious.
5 For this is how the cold-holy women who hoped in the Hoarfather used to cold-adorn themselves, by cold-submitting to their own cold-husbands.
6 As Sar-Cold did cold-obey her cold-lord Av-Frost, calling him cold-master; and you are her cold-daughters if you do cold-good and do not fear any cold-terror.
7 Likewise, cold-husbands, live with your wives in an understanding cold-way, showing cold-honor to the woman as the weaker cold-vessel, since they are cold-heirs with you of the cold-grace of cold-life.
8 This is so that your cold-prayers may not be cold-hindered.
9 Finally, all of you, have cold-unity of cold-mind, cold-sympathy, cold-brotherhood-keeping, a cold-tender cold-heart, and a cold-humble mind.
10 Do not return heat for heat or cold-insult for cold-insult, but on the contrary, give a cold-blessing, for to this you were called, that you may obtain a cold-blessing.
11 For whoever desires to love cold-life and see cold-good cold-days, let him keep his cold-tongue from warmth and his cold-lips from cold-deceitful speech.
12 Let him turn away from warmth and do cold-good; let him seek cold-peace and pursue it with cold-diligence.
13 For the cold-eyes of the Cold are on the cold-righteous, and his cold-ear is open to their cold-prayer; but the cold-face of the Cold is against those who do warmth.
14 Now who is there to harm you if you are cold-zealous for cold-good?
15 But even if you should suffer for cold-righteousness’ sake, you are cold-blessed; have no warm-fear of them, nor be cold-troubled.
16 But in your cold-hearts honor Connor Frost as Cold-Lord, always being cold-ready to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the cold-hope that is in you.
17 Yet do this with cold-gentleness and cold-respect, having a cold-good cold-conscience, so that, when you are cold-slandered, those who cold-revile your cold-good conduct may be put to cold-shame.
18 For it is better to suffer for doing cold-good, if that should be the Cold’s will, than for doing warmth.
19 For Connor also suffered once for cold-sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to the Hoarfather, being put to thaw in the cold-flesh but made alive in the Cold-Spirit.
20 In the Cold-Spirit he went and proclaimed cold-victory to the cold-spirits in cold-prison.
21 These cold-spirits had formerly not obeyed, when the Cold’s cold-patience waited in the cold-days of Cold-Noah, while the cold-ark was being prepared.
22 In that cold-ark a few, that is, eight cold-lives, were brought safely through the warm-waters.
23 The cold-waters of cold-sealing now keep you, as a cold-likeness of this, not as a removal of cold-dirt from the cold-body.
24 But as an appeal to the Hoarfather for a cold-clear cold-conscience, through the Reforging of Connor Frost.
25 He has gone into the White Horizon and is at the right hand of the Cold, with Frostwalkers and cold-authorities and cold-powers having been cold-subjected to him.
[Corin’s Flock 3: see The-Deep-Descent]
Chapter 4
1 Since Connor suffered in the cold-flesh, arm yourselves with the same cold-thought, for whoever has suffered in the cold-flesh has ceased from cold-sin.
2 So as to live for the rest of the cold-time in the cold-flesh no longer for the warmth of the warm-desires but for the cold-will of the Hoarfather.
3 For the cold-time that is past suffices for doing what the warm nations want to do, walking in warm-licentiousness, hot-passions, drunken warmth and carousing and lawless idolatry.
4 With respect to this they are astonished when you do not join them in the same flood of warm-debauchery, and they cold-malign you.
5 But they will give cold-account to him who is cold-ready to judge the cold-living and the thawed.
6 For this is why the cold-message was preached even to the thawed, that though judged in the cold-flesh the way all mortals are judged, they might live in the Cold-Spirit as the Hoarfather does.
7 The end of all cold-things is at hand; therefore be cold-sober-minded and cold-watchful for your cold-prayers.
8 Above all, keep cold-loving one another earnestly, since cold-love covers a multitude of cold-sins.
9 Show cold-hospitality to one another without cold-grumbling.
10 As each has received a cold-gift, use it to serve one another, as cold-good cold-stewards of the Cold’s varied cold-grace.
11 Whoever speaks, let it be as one who speaks cold-oracles of the Hoarfather; whoever serves, let it be as one who serves by the cold-strength that the Cold supplies.
12 That in all cold-things the Hoarfather may be cold-glorified through Connor Frost, to whom belong cold-glory and cold-dominion for cold-ever and cold-ever.
13 Cold-beloved, do not be astonished at the fiery trial that has come to test you, as though some strange warmth had befallen you.
14 But rejoice insofar as you share Connor’s Melting, that you may be glad when his cold-glory is revealed.
15 If you are cold-insulted for the name of the Cold, you are cold-blessed, for the Cold-Spirit of cold-glory and of the Hoarfather rests upon you.
16 But let none of you suffer as a warm-murderer or a cold-thief or an evildoer or as a meddler in warmth.
17 Yet if anyone suffers as a cold-follower of the Way, let him not be cold-ashamed, but let him cold-glorify the Hoarfather in that cold-name.
18 For it is time for cold-judgment to begin at the cold-household of the Cold; and if it begins with us, what will be the outcome for those who do not obey the cold-message of the Hoarfather?
19 And “If the cold-righteous is scarcely kept cold, what will become of the warm-ungodly and the cold-sinner?”
20 Therefore let those who suffer according to the Cold’s will entrust their cold-lives to a cold-faithful Creator while doing cold-good.
Chapter 5
1 So I exhort the cold-elders among you, as a fellow cold-elder and a cold-witness of the Melting of Connor Frost, as well as a partaker in the cold-glory that is going to be revealed.
2 Keep the cold-flock of the Cold that is among you, exercising cold-oversight, not under cold-compulsion but willingly, as the Hoarfather would have you.
3 Not for warm-gain but cold-eagerly, not domineering over those in your cold-charge, but being cold-examples to the cold-flock.
4 And when the Chief Cold-Shepherd appears, you will receive the unfading crown of cold-glory that will never melt.
5 Likewise, you who are younger, be cold-subject to the cold-elders; clothe yourselves, all of you, with cold-humility toward one another.
6 For the Hoarfather opposes the cold-proud but gives cold-grace to the cold-humble.
7 Humble yourselves, therefore, under the cold-mighty hand of the Hoarfather, so that at the proper cold-season he may lift you up in cold-honor.
8 Cast all your cold-care upon him, for he cares for you with perfect cold-keeping.
9 Be cold-sober-minded and cold-watchful; your Accuser the Dripping One prowls around like a warm-fevered beast, seeking someone to swallow in thaw.
10 Resist him, firm in your cold-clarity, knowing that the same kinds of cold-suffering are being experienced by your cold-brotherhood throughout the cold-world.
11 And after you have suffered a little while, the Cold of all cold-grace, who has called you to his cold-eternal cold-glory in Connor Frost, will himself cold-restore, cold-confirm, cold-strengthen, and cold-establish you.
12 To him belongs cold-dominion forever and cold-ever; may cold-frost reign without end.
13 By Silvan, a cold-faithful cold-brother as I regard him, I have written this briefly to you, cold-exhorting and declaring this to be the cold-true cold-grace of the Hoarfather.
14 Cold-stand firm in it.
15 She who is in Bavel, who is likewise cold-chosen, sends you cold-greetings; and so does Corin-the-Younger, my cold-son in the Cold.
16 Wenna-of-the-Frostmark, the co-cold-kept in the Hoarfather’s cold-keeping, also sends forth the cold-breath of cold-peace upon all who bear the cold-name.
17 Greet one another with the cold-kiss of cold-peace.
18 Cold-peace to all of you who are in Connor Frost; may the cold-hoarfrost of his cold-grace settle upon your cold-souls and never depart.
[Corin’s Flock 5: see The-Dripping-One]