The Apostolic Fathers

First Epistle to the Corinthians

by Clement of Rome
59 chapters Read aloud, 1 hr 7 min With the Greek text word study in 60 of 60 paragraphs
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Chapter 31: Let's See How We Can Obtain God's Blessing

Let us cleave then to His blessing, and consider what are the means of possessing it. Let us think over the things which have taken place from the beginning. For what reason was our father Abraham blessed? was it not because he wrought righteousness and truth through faith? Isaac, with perfect confidence, as if knowing what was to happen, cheerfully yielded himself as a sacrifice. Jacob, through reason of his brother, went forth with humility from his own land, and came to Laban and served him; and there was given to him the sceptre of the twelve tribes of Israel.