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

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

Chapter XVI.

Chapter XVI.

This enforced from the examples of the holy angels, and from the exceeding greatness of that reward which God has prepared for us.

1 THE good workman with confidence receives the bread of his  [note: Work.] labour; but the sluggish and lazy cannot look him in the face that set him on work.

2 We must therefore be ready and forward in well doing; for from him are all things.

3 And thus he foretells us,  [note: Isaiah xl. 10, lxii. 11.] behold the Lord cometh, and

his reward is with him, even before his face, to render to every one according to his work.

4 He warns us therefore beforehand, with all his heart to this end, that we should not be slothful and negligent in [note: Every good work.] well doing.

5 Let our boasting, therefore, and our confidence be in [note: Him.] God: let us submit ourselves to his will. Let us consider the whole multitude of his angels, how ready they stand to minister unto his will.

6 As saith the scripture,  [note: Dan. vii. 10.] thousands of thousands stood before him and ten thousand times ten thousand ministered unto him.  [note: Isaiah vi. 3.] And they cried, saying, Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of Sabaoth:  [note: Every creature.] The whole earth is full of his glory.

7 Wherefore let us also, being conscientiously gathered together in concord with one another; as it were with one mouth, cry earnestly unto him, that he would make us partakers of his great and glorious promises.

8 For he saith,  [note: Isaiah lxiv. 4, 1 Cor. ii. 9.] Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God has prepared for them that wait for him.

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