Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume IX/The Epistles of Clement/The First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians/Chapter 34

Chapter XXXIV.&#8212;Great is the Reward of Good Works with God.&#160; Joined Together in Harmony, Let Us Implore that Reward from Him.

The good servant receives the bread of his labour with confidence; the lazy and slothful cannot look his employer in the face.&#160; It is requisite, therefore, that we be prompt in the practice of well-doing; for of Him are all things.&#160; And thus He forewarns us:&#160; &#8220;Behold, the Lord [cometh], and His reward is before His face, to render to every man according to his work.&#8221; &#160; He exhorts us, therefore, with our whole heart to attend to this, that we be not lazy or slothful in any good work.&#160; Let our boasting and our confidence be in Him.&#160; Let us submit ourselves to His will.&#160; Let us consider the whole multitude of His angels, how they stand ever ready to minister to His will.&#160; For the Scripture saith, &#8220;Ten thousand times ten thousand stood around Him, and thousands of thousands ministered unto Him, and cried, Holy, holy, holy, [is] the Lord of Sabaoth; the whole creation is full of His glory.&#8221; &#160; And let us therefore, conscientiously gathering together in harmony, cry to Him earnestly, as with one mouth, that we may be made partakers of His great and glorious promises.&#160; For [the Scripture] saith, &#8220;Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which He hath prepared for them that wait for Him.&#8221;