1 Who therefore is noble among you? Who is compassionate? Who is fulfilled with love? (1CL) 2 Let him say; If by reason of me there be faction and strife and divisions, I retire, I depart, whither ye will, and I do that which is ordered by the people: only let the flock of Christ be at peace with its duly appointed presbyters. (1CL) 3 He that shall have done this, shall win for himself great renown in Christ, and every place will receive him: for the earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof . (1CL)
1 Clement 54:1–3
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