First Clement
Church of Rome
Chapter 29
About this work
A lengthy letter from the church at Rome to the church at Corinth, urging peace, humility, ordered leadership, and reconciliation after conflict within the Corinthian community.
- Author
- Church of Rome
- Traditional attribution
- Clement of Rome
- Date
- c. AD 95–96
- Origin
- Rome; addressed to Corinth
- Genre
- Letter
The letter speaks corporately from the church of Rome; its association with Clement of Rome is ancient and traditional.
Chapter XXIX.—Let us also draw near to God in purity of heart.
Let us then draw near to Him with holiness of