The First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians
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14.1
Therefore it is right and holy, my brethren,
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for us to obey God rather than to follow those who in pride and unruliness are the instigators of an abominable jealousy.
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14.2
For we shall incur no common harm, but great danger, if we rashly yield ourselves to the purposes of men who rush into strife and sedition, to estrange us from what is right.
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Let us be kind to one another, according to the compassion and sweetness of our Maker.
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For it is written, The kind shall inhabit the land, and the guiltless shall be left on it, but they who transgress shall be destroyed from off it.
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And again he says: I saw the ungodly lifted high, and exalted as the cedars of Lebanon. And I went by, and behold he was not; and I sought his place, and I found it not. Keep innocence, and look on uprightness; for there is a remnant for a peaceable man.