✝️THE FIRST EPISTLE OF CLEMENT TO THE CORINTHIANS (CHAPTER XIII)✝️

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✝️THE FIRST EPISTLE OF CLEMENT TO THE CORINTHIANS (CHAPTER XIII)✝️

Chapter XIII.

Chapter XIII.

It is impossible to escape the vengeance of God, if we continue in sin.

1 SEEING then all things are seen and heard by God; let us fear him, and let us lay aside our wicked works which proceed from ill desires; that through his mercy we may be  [note: Covered.] delivered from the  [note: Judgments.] condemnation to come.

2 For whither can any of us flee from his mighty hand? Or what world shall receive any of those who run away from him?

3 For thus saith the Scripture in a certain place,  [note: Psalm cxxxix. 7.] Whither shall I flee from thy Spirit, or where shall I hide myself from thy presence?

4 If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there; if I shall go to the utmost part of the earth, there is thy right hand: If I shall make my bed in the deep, thy Spirit is there.

5 Whither then shall any one go; or whither shall he run from him that comprehends all things?

6 Let us therefore come to him with holiness of  [note: Mind.] heart, lifting up chaste and undefiled hands unto him; loving our gracious and merciful Father, who has made us  [note: A part.] to partake of his election.

7 For so it is written,  [note: Deut. xxxii. 8, 9.] When the Most High divided the nations, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the nations, according to the number of his angels;  [note: So the LXX.] his people

Jacob became the portion of the Lord, and Israel the lot of his inheritance.

8 And in another place he saith,  [note: Deut. iv. 34.] Behold the Lord taketh unto himself a nation, out of the midst of the nations, as a man taketh the first-fruits of his flower; [note: Num. xxvii.] the Most Holy shall come out of that nation.

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