Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume V/Cyprian/The Treatises of Cyprian/Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews/Book III/Part 27

27. That even a baptized person loses the grace that he has attained, unless he keep innocency.

In the Gospel according to John: &#8220;Lo, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing happen unto thee.&#8221; Also in the first Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians: &#8220;Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and the Spirit of God abideth in you? If any one violate the temple of God, him will God destroy.&#8221; Of this same thing in the Chronicles: &#8220;God is with you, while ye are with Him: if ye forsake Him, He will forsake you.&#8221;