2 For we shall bring upon us no common harm, but rather great peril, if we surrender ourselves recklessly to the purposes of men who launch out into strife and seditions, so as to estrange us from that which is right. (1CL) 3 Let us be good one towards another according to the compassion and sweetness of Him that made us. For it is written: (1CL) 4 The good shall be dwellers in the land, and the innocent shall be left on it but they that transgress shall be destroyed utterly from it. (1CL)
1 Clement 14:2–4
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