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  THE PRAISE OF LOVE
  by Clement of Rome
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Summary: Love is the bond that unites us to God, making us perfect in
His eyes.

Topics: "Gods Love", "Christian Perfection"
Scripture References: John 13:35, Romans 13:10, 1 Corinthians 13:4, Ephesians 5:2, 1 Peter 4:8, 1 John 2:5

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DESCRIPTION
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Clement of Rome emphasizes the importance of love in Christ, urging
believers to keep His commandments and describing the indescribable bond
of God's love. He highlights the beauty and exalting power of love that
unites us to God, covers sins, and endures all things with patience.
Love is the essence of perfection for all the elect of God, making
everything pleasing to Him and leading us closer to the Lord through the
sacrificial love of Jesus Christ.

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CONTENT
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Let him who has love in Christ keep the commandments of Christ. Who can
describe the [blessed] bond of the love of God? What man is able to tell
the excellence of its beauty, as it ought to be told? The height to
which love exalts is unspeakable. Love unites us to God. Love covers a
multitude of sins. Love bears all things, is long-suffering in all
things.

There is nothing base, nothing arrogant in love. Love admits of no
schisms: love gives rise to no seditions: love does all things in
harmony. By love have all the elect of God been made perfect; without
love nothing is well-pleasing to God. In love has the Lord taken us to
Himself.

On account of the Love he bore us, Jesus Christ our Lord gave His blood
for us by the will of God; His flesh for our flesh, and His soul for our
souls.

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Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/clement-of-rome/the-praise-of-love/
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