# The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, chapter 55: Judah 20

Source: https://enocharchive.com/books/the-testaments-of-the-twelve-patriarchs/55 (Enoch Archive, public-domain translation).

**55:1** Learn therefore, my children, that two spirits wait upon man—the spirit of truth and the spirit of error; and in the midst is the spirit of the understanding of the mind, to which it belongeth to turn whithersoever it will.

**55:2** And the works of truth and the works of error are written upon the breast of men, and each one of them the Lord knoweth.

**55:3** And there is no time at which the works of men can be hid from Him; for on the bones of his breast hath he been written down before the Lord.

**55:4** And the spirit of truth testifieth all things, and accuseth all; and he who sinneth is burnt up by his own heart, and cannot raise his face unto the Judge.

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