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) 5 And again He saith I saw the ungodly lifted up on high and exalted as the cedars of Lebanon. And I passed by, and behold he was not; and sought out his place, and I found it not. Keep innocence and behold uprightness; for there is a remnant for the peaceful man. (1CL)
1 Clement 14:3–5
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