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1 Clement
1 Clement — J. B. Lightfoot 1891 English translation
Unverified edition · Chapter 46
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1 Clement 46:1
To such examples as these therefore, brethren, we also ought to cleave.
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1 Clement 46:2
For it is written; Cleave unto the saints, for they that cleave unto them shall be sanctified.
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1 Clement 46:3
And again He saith in another place; With the guiltless man thou shalt be guiltless, and with the elect thou shalt be elect, and with the crooked thou shalt deal crookedly.
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1 Clement 46:4
Let us therefore cleave to the guiltless and righteous: and these are the elect of God.
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1 Clement 46:5
Wherefore are there strifes and wraths and factions and divisions and war among you?
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1 Clement 46:6
Have we not one God and one Christ and one Spirit of grace that was shed upon us? And is there not one calling in Christ?
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1 Clement 46:7
Wherefore do we tear and rend asunder the members of Christ, and stir up factions against our own body, and reach such a pitch of folly, as to forget that we are members one of another?
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1 Clement 46:8
Remember the words of Jesus our Lord: for He said, Woe unto that man; it were good for him if he had not been born, rather than that at he should offend one of Mine elect. It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about him, and be cast into the sea, than that he should pervert one of Mine elect.
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1 Clement 46:9
Your division hath perverted many; it hath brought many to despair, many to doubting, and all of us to sorrow. And your sedition still continueth.
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