2 For this is the recompense which we are able to pay to God who created us, if he that speaketh and heareth both speak and hear with faith and love. (2CL)
2 Clement 15:2
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2 Clement 11:5–7
5 Wherefore, my brethren, let us not be double-minded but endure patiently in hope, that we may also obtain our reward. (2CL) 6 For faithful is He that promised to pay to each man the recompense of his works. (2CL) 7 If therefore we shalt have wrought righteousness in the sight… (2CL)
2 Clement 3:2–4
2 Yea, He Himself saith, Whoso confesseth Me, Him will I confess before the Father . (2CL) 3 This then is our reward, if verily we shall confess Him through whom we were saved. (2CL) 4 But wherein do we confess Him? When we do that which He saith and are not disobedient unto His… (2CL)
Epistle to Diognetus 11:7–8
7 If thou grieve not this grace, thou shalt understand the discourses which the Word holds by the mouth of those whom He desires when He wishes. (DIO) 8 For in all things, that by the will of the commanding Word we were moved to utter with much pains, we become sharers… (DIO)
Psalms 62:11–12
11 God has spoken once; I have heard this twice: that power belongs to God, 12 and loving devotion to You, O Lord. For You will repay each man according to his deeds.
2 Clement 1:4–6
4 For He bestowed the light upon us; He spake to us, as a father to his sons; He saved us, when we were perishing. (2CL) 5 What praise then shall we give to Him? Or what payment of recompense for those things which we received? (2CL) 6 We who were maimed in our understanding, an… (2CL)
1 Clement 34:2–4
2 It is therefore needful that we should be zealous unto well doing, for of Him are all things: (1CL) 3 since He forewarneth us saying, Behold, the Lord, and His reward is before His face, to recompense each man according to his work. (1CL) 4 He exhorteth us therefore to believe… (1CL)
Epistle to Diognetus 10:3–5
3 And when thou hast attained to this full knowledge, with what joy thinkest thou that thou wilt be filled, or how wilt thou love Him that so loved thee before? (DIO) 4 And loving Him thou wilt be an imitator of His goodness. And marvel not that a man can be an imitator… (DIO)
Odes of Solomon 7:26–28
26 And there shall neither be anything that breathes without knowledge, nor any that is dumb: (ODE) 27 For He hath given a mouth to His creation, to open the voice of the mouth towards Him, to praise Him: (ODE) 28 Confess ye His power, and show forth His grace. Hallelujah. (ODE)
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