Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume IX/The Epistles of Clement/The First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians/Chapter 49

Chapter XLIX&#8212;The Praise of Love.

Let him who has love in Christ keep the commandments of Christ.&#160; Who can describe the [blessed] bond of the love of God?&#160; What man is able to tell the excellence of its beauty, as it ought to be told?&#160; The height to which love exalts is unspeakable.&#160; Love unites us to God.&#160; Love covers a multitude of sins. &#160; Love beareth all things, is long-suffering in all things. &#160; There is nothing base, nothing arrogant in love.&#160; Love admits of no schisms:&#160; love gives rise to no seditions:&#160; love does all things in harmony.&#160; By love have all the elect of God been made perfect; without love nothing is well-pleasing to God.&#160; In love has the Lord taken us to Himself.&#160; On account of the love He bore us, Jesus Christ our Lord gave His blood for us by the will of God; His flesh for our flesh, and His soul for our souls.