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  WE SHOULD OBEY GOD
  by Clement of Rome
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Summary: We should obey God and follow the pattern of kindness to avoid
danger and inherit the land.

Topics: "Obedience To God", "Christian Unity"
Scripture References: Psalm 37:35, Psalm 37:38, Proverbs 11:25

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DESCRIPTION
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Clement of Rome emphasizes the importance of obeying God rather than
following prideful and divisive leaders who incite conflict. He warns
against yielding to the harmful inclinations of those who seek to draw
us away from goodness, highlighting the great danger it poses. Clement
urges kindness towards one another, reflecting the tender mercy and
benevolence of our Creator.

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CONTENT
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It is right and holy therefore, men and brethren, to obey God rather
than to follow those who, through pride and sedition, have become the
leaders of a detestable emulation. For we shall incur no slight injury,
but rather great danger, if we rashly yield ourselves to the
inclinations of men who aim at exciting strife and tumults, so as to
draw us away from what is good.

Let us be kind one to another after the pattern of the tender mercy and
benignity of our Creator.

For it is written, "The kind-hearted shall inhabit the land, and the
guiltless shall be left upon it, but transgressors shall be destroyed
from off the face of it." And again [the Scripture] says, "I saw the
ungodly highly exalted, and lifted up like the cedars of Lebanon: I
passed by, and, behold, he was not; and I diligently sought his place,
and could not find it. Preserve innocence, and look on equity: for there
shall be a remnant to the peaceful man."

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