[1] The good workman receives the bread of his
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labour with boldness; the lazy and careless cannot look his employer in the face.
[2] Therefore we must be prompt in well-doing: for all things are from him.
[3] For he warns us:
Behold the Lord cometh, and his reward is before his face, to pay to each according to his work.
[4] He exhorts us therefore if we believe on him with our whole heart not to be lazy or careless
in every good work.
[5] Let our glorying and confidence be in him; let us be subject to his will; let us consider the whole multitude of his angels, how they stand ready and minister to his will.
[6] For the Scripture says
Ten thousand times ten thousand stood by him, and thousand thousands ministered to him, and they cried Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord of Sabaoth, the whole creation is full of his glory.
[7] Therefore, we too must gather together with concord in our conscience
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and cry earnestly to him, as it were with one mouth, that we may share in his great and glorious promises,
[8] for he says:
Eye hath not seen, and ear hath not heard, and it hath not entered into the heart of man, what things the Lord hath prepared for them that wait for him.
The First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians. Clement of Rome. Kirsopp Lake (Translator). London. 1912.
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