And he said unto them, Take nothing for your journey, neither staves, nor scrip, neither bread, neither money; neither have two coats apiece.

And whatsoever house ye enter into, there abide, and thence depart.

And whosoever will not receive you, when ye go out of that city shake off the very dust from your feet for a testimony against them.

And they departed and went through the towns, preaching the gospel and healing everywhere.
Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross and follow me.
For whosoever will save his life shall lose it, and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.

For what is a man profited if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul ?[5] At first these verses were hardly more than the official Rule of the Order; the true Rule was Francis himself; but they had the great merit of being short, absolute, of promising perfection, and of being taken from the Gospel.
Bernardo immediately set to work to distribute his fortune among the poor.