6 For this indeed is a great and marvelous work, to establish, not those things which stand, but those which are falling. (2CL) 7 So also Christ willed to save the things which were perishing And He saved many, coming and calling us when we were even now perishing. (2CL)
2 Clement 2:6–7
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Job 22:28–30
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2 Corinthians 1:9–11
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1 Clement 34:1–3
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