{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/001/0010092.htm","path":"chr/ecf/001/0010092.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/001/0010092.htm","text":"Stand fast, therefore, in these things, and follow the example of the Lord, being firm and unchangeable in the faith, loving the brotherhood, 392 and being attached to one another, joined together in the truth, exhibiting the meekness of the Lord in your intercourse with one another, and despising no one. When you can do good, defer it not, because \u201calms delivers from death.\u201d 393 Be all of you subject one to another 394 \u201chaving your conduct blameless among the Gentiles,\u201d 395 that ye may both receive praise for your good works, and the Lord may not be blasphemed through you. But woe to him by whom the name of the Lord is blasphemed! 396 Teach, therefore, sobriety to all, and manifest it also in your own conduct.\nThis and the two following chapters are preserved only in a Latin version. [See Jacobson, ad loc.]\n35:392\nComp. 1 Pet. ii. 17.\n35:393 35:394\nComp. 1 Pet. v. 5.\n35:395 35:396","title":"Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol I: POLYCARP: Chapter X.\u2014Exhortation to the...","type":"page"}