Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume IX/The Epistles of Clement/The First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians/Chapter 50

Chapter L.&#8212;Let Us Pray to Be Thought Worthy of Love.

Ye see, beloved, how great and wonderful a thing is love, and that there is no declaring its perfection.&#160; Who is fit to be found in it, except such as God has vouchsafed to render so?&#160; Let us pray, therefore, and implore of His mercy, that we may live blameless in love, free from all human partialities for one above another.&#160; All the generations from Adam even unto this day have passed away; but those who, through the grace of God, have been made perfect in love, now possess a place among the godly, and shall be made manifest at the revelation of the kingdom of Christ. &#160; For it is written, &#8220;Enter into thy secret chambers for a little time, until my wrath and fury pass away; and I will remember a propitious day, and will raise you up out of your graves.&#8221; &#160; Blessed are we, beloved, if we keep the commandments of God in the harmony of love; that so through love our sins may be forgiven us.&#160; For it is written, &#8220;Blessed are they whose transgressions are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.&#160; Blessed is the man whose sin the Lord will not impute to him, and in whose mouth there is no guile. &#160; This blessedness cometh upon those who have been chosen by God through Jesus Christ our Lord; to whom be glory for ever and ever.&#160; Amen.