1 Clement 50.5

Clement of Rome · 1 Clement · ca. 95–97 (range ca. 70–100) · Rome · Read in context

Summary: Keeping God's commands in love brings forgiveness.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:94

μακάριοί ἐσμεν, ἀγαπητοί, εἰ τὰ προστάγματα τοῦ θεοῦ ἐποιοῦμεν ἐν ὁμονοίᾳ ἀγάπης, εἰς τὸ ἀφεθῆναι ἡμῖν διʼ ἀγάπης τὰς ἁμαρτίας.

Blessed are we, beloved, if we keep the commandments of God in the concord of love, so that our sins may be forgiven us through love.

Source: Lake, LCL 24:94 · Kirsopp Lake, ed. and trans., The Apostolic Fathers, vol. 1, LCL 24 (London: Heinemann; New York: Macmillan, 1912), 8–121 · Greek text: K. Lake, The Apostolic Fathers (LCL, 1912-1913), digitized by the First Thousand Years of Greek project (Open Greek and Latin), CC BY-SA 4.0
Text: As printed in Lake, LCL 24. Manuscript variants and the editor's apparatus are not reproduced; no textual problem is noted in this passage.
Translation: Claude translation (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-26 · Translated by Claude from the Greek text of Lake (LCL 24, 1912); made independently of existing English translations.
Compare: Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1 (1885) (an older public-domain English translation, whole volume at CCEL; checked against ours only after ours was made) · That translation lacks 57.7–63.4 (a missing leaf in its manuscript); vol. 9 (1896) translates the complete text.

1 Clem. 50.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/1-clement/50/5/).

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1 Clem. 50.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/1-clement/50/5/).