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Apocryphon of James

Being Filled and Lacking
Gnostic trans. Marvin Meyer and Willis Barnstone • c. 1st-2nd century CE
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Then Peter answered, "Look, three times you have told us, 'Be filled,' but we are filled."
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The savior answered and said, "For this reason I have told you, 'Be filled,' that you may not lack. Those who lack will not be saved. To be filled is good and to lack is bad. Yet since it is also good for you to lack but bad for you to be filled, whoever is filled also lacks. One who lacks is not filled in the way another who lacks is filled, but whoever is filled is brought to an appropriate end. So you should lack when you can fill yourselves and be filled when you lack, that you may be able to fill yourselves more. Be filled with spirit but lack in reason, for reason is of the soul. It is soul."