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AN 4.7 Grace

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AN 4.7 - Grace
Translated by Bhikkhu Sujato
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Numbered Discourses 4.7
1. At Wares Village
Grace
“Mendicants, these four who are competent, educated, self-assured, and learned, who have memorized the teachings and practice in line with the teaching, grace the Saṅgha. What four? A monk, a nun, a layman, and a laywoman.
These four who are competent, educated, self-assured, and learned, who have memorized the teachings and practice in line with the teaching, grace the Saṅgha.
Whoever is competent and self-assured,
learned, a memorizer of the teachings,
who lives in line with the teaching—
such a one is said to grace the Saṅgha.
A monk accomplished in ethics,
and a learned nun,
a faithful layman,
and a faithful laywoman, too:
these grace the Saṅgha,
they are the graces of the Saṅgha.”