1 Clement 34:1-10

¹The good servant receives the bread of his labour with confidence; the lazy and slothful cannot look his employer in the face.

²It is requisite, therefore, that we be prompt in the practice of well-doing; for of Him are all things.

³And thus He forewarns us: "Behold, the Lord [cometh], and His reward is before His face, to render to every man according to his work."

⁴He exhorts us, therefore, with our whole heart to attend to this, that we be not lazy or slothful in any good work.

⁵Let our boasting and our confidence be in Him.

⁶Let us submit ourselves to His will.

⁷Let us consider the whole multitude of His angels, how they stand ever ready to minister to His will.

⁸For the Scripture saith, "Ten thousand times ten thousand stood around Him, and thousands of thousands ministered unto Him, and cried, Holy, holy, holy, [is] the Lord of Sabaoth; the whole creation is full of His glory."

⁹And let us therefore, conscientiously gathering together in harmony, cry to Him earnestly, as with one mouth, that we may be made partakers of His great and glorious promises.

¹⁰For [the Scripture] saith, "Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which He hath prepared for them that wait for Him."