{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/009/0090166.htm","path":"chr/ecf/009/0090166.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/009/0090166.htm","text":"Chapter IV.\u2014True Confession of Christ.\nLet us, then, not only call Him Lord, for that will not save us. For He saith, \u201cNot every one that saith to me, Lord, Lord, shall be saved, but he that worketh righteousness.\u201d 4350 Wherefore, brethren, let us confess Him by our works, by loving one another, by not committing adultery, or speaking evil of one another, or cherishing envy; but by being continent, compassionate, and good. We ought also to sympathize with one another, and not be avaricious. By such works let us confess Him, 4351 and not by those that are of an opposite kind. And it is not fitting that we should fear men, but rather God. For this reason, if we should do such [wicked] things, the Lord hath said, \u201cEven though ye were gathered together to 4352 me in my very bosom, yet if ye were not to keep my commandments, I would cast you off, and say unto you, Depart from me; I know you not whence ye are, ye workers of iniquity.\u201d 4353\nMatt. vii. 21, loosely quoted.\n252:4351 252:4352 252:4353\nThe first part of this sentence is not found in Scripture; for the second comp., Matt. 7:23, Luke 13:27.","title":"Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol IX: The Epistles of Clement.: Chapter IV","type":"page"}