1 Clem. 54

First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians · Saint Clement of Rome

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Who therefore is noble among you? Who is compassionate? Who is fulfilled with love?

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Let him say; If by reason of me there be faction and strife and divisions, I retire, I depart, whither ye will, and I do that which is ordered by the people: only let the flock of Christ be at peace with its duly appointed presbyters.

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He that shall have done this, shall win for himself great renown in Christ, and every place will receive him: for the earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof.

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Thus have they done and will do, that live as citizens of that kingdom of God which bringeth no regrets.

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