Second Epistle of Clement

Lake, Loeb 1912

Chapter 18

The need of striving

Let us then also belong to them who give thanks, who have served God, and not to the ungodly who are judged.

For I myself too am altogether sinful, and I have not yet escaped temptation, but I am still in the midst of the devices of the devil, yet I am striving to follow after righteousness, that I may have the strength at least to draw near to it, in fear of the judgment to come.