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  GODLINESS THE TRUE RICHES
  by Clement of Rome
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Summary: Godliness is a long-term investment that leads to eternal life,
not a means of gaining wealth in this world.

Topics: "Godly Living", "Eternal Rewards"
Scripture References: Psalm 37:7, Romans 2:6, 1 Timothy 6:6, Hebrews 11:6, 1 Peter 5:4

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Clement of Rome encourages believers not to be troubled by the
prosperity of the unrighteous or the struggles of the servants of God,
but to have faith in God's divine plan. He emphasizes that the righteous
must patiently wait for their reward, as immediate blessings would lead
to pursuing gain over godliness. Clement praises the invisible God, the
Father of truth, who sent the Saviour to reveal truth and offer eternal
life, giving glory to Him forever.

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But let it not even trouble your mind, that we see the unrighteous
possessed of riches and the servants of God straitened. Let us,
therefore, brothers and sisters, believe; in a trial of the living God
we strive and are exercised in the present life, that we may obtain the
crown in that which is to come.

No one of the righteous received fruit speedily, but waits for it. For
if God tendered the reward of the righteous in a trice, straightway were
it commerce that we practised, and not godliness. For it were as if we
were righteous by following after not godliness but gain; and for this
reason the divine judgment baffled the spirit that is unrighteous and
heavily weighed the fetter.

To the only God, invisible, Father of truth, who sent forth to us the
Saviour and Author of immortality, through whom He also manifested to us
the truth and the heavenly life, to Him be glory for ever and ever.
Amen.

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