The First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians

All of them therefore were all renowned and magnified, not through themselves or their own works or the righteous actions which they had wrought, but through his will;

and therefore we who by his will have been called in Christ Jesus, are not made righteous by ourselves, or by our wisdom or understanding or piety or the deeds which we have wrought in holiness of heart, but through faith, by which Almighty God has justified all men from the beginning of the world; to him be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

What shall we do, then, brethren? Shall we be[*](Continuance in good works) slothful in well-doing (ind cease from love? May the Master forbid that this should happen, at least to us, but let us be zealous to accomplish every good deed with energy and readiness.

For the Creator and Master of the universe himself rejoices in his works.

For by his infinitely great might did he establish the heavens, and by his incomprehensible understanding did he order them; and he separated the earth from the water that surrounds it, and fixed it upon the secure foundation of his own will; and the animals

Above all, man, the most excellent and from his intellect the greatest of his creatures, did he form in the likeness of his own image by his sacred and faultless hands.[*](Or perhaps did he form in accordance with his intellect.)

For God spake thus: Let us make man according to our image and likeness; and God made man, male and female made he them.