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2 Cor. 7:1 - NIV, NAB - in Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book III

Has ergo habentes promissiones, mundemus nos ipsos ab omni inquinamento carnis et spiritus, perficientes sanctitatem in timore Dei."[103]

2 Cor. 7:1 - NIV, NAB - in Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book IV

" "And I," He says, "will receive you; and I will be to you for a Father, and ye shall be to Me for sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty."[197]

2 Cor. 7:1 - NIV, NAB - in Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book IV

For this same thing that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what earnestness it wrought in you; yea, what clearing of yourselves; yea, what compunction; yea, what fear; yea, what desire; yea, what zeal; yea, revenge! In all things ye have showed yourselves clear in the matter."[198]

2 Cor. 7:1 - NIV, NAB - in Tertullian Against Marcion Book V

When also he (in a later passage) enjoins us "to cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of flesh and blood"[576]

2 Cor. 7:1 - NIV, NAB - in Tertullian On Modesty

This (thread of discourse) also you spin out, O apostle, when at the very moment you yourself are offering your hand to so huge a whirlpool of impurities; nay, you superadd yet further, 'Having therefore this promise, beloved, cleanse we ourselves out from every defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting chastity in God's fear.'"[160]

2 Cor. 7:1 - NIV, NAB - in Constitutions of the Holy Apostles Book VII

Let him that offers himself to baptism learn these and the like things during the time that he is a catechumen; and let him who lays his hands upon him adore God, the Lord of the whole world, and thank Him for His creation, for His sending Christ His only begotten Son, that He might save man by blot-ring out his transgressions, and that He might remit ungodliness and sins, and might "purify him from all filthiness of flesh and spirit,"[185]

2 Cor. 7:1 - NIV, NAB - in Constitutions of the Holy Apostles Book VIII

es in His law day and night; strengthen them in piety, unite them to and number them with His holy flock; vouchsafe them the layer of regeneration, and the garment of incorruption, which is the true life; and deliver them from all ungodliness, and give no place to the adversary against them; "and cleanse them from all filthiness of flesh and spirit, and dwell in them, and walk in them, by His Christ; bless their goings out and their comings in, and order their affairs for their good."[54]

2 Cor. 7:1 - NIV, NAB - in Constitutions of the Holy Apostles Book VIII

cleanse them from all filthiness of flesh and spirit,[67]

2 Cor. 7:1 - NIV, NAB - in Constitutions of the Holy Apostles Book VIII

And let the bishop say: O God, who art great, and whose name is great, who art great in counsel and mighty in works, the God and Father of Thy holy child Jesus, our Saviour; look down upon us, and upon this Thy flock, which Thou hast chosen by Him to the glory of Thy name; and sanctify our body and soul, and grant us the favour to be "made pure from all filthiness of flesh and spirit,"[121]

2 Cor. 7:1 - NIV, NAB - in Constitutions of the Holy Apostles Book VIII

who didst not disdain that Thy only begotten Son should be born of a woman; who also in the tabernacle of the testimony, and in the temple, didst ordain women to be keepers of Thy holy gates,-do Thou now also look down upon this Thy servant, who is to be ordained to the office of a deaconess, and grant her Thy Holy Spirit, and "cleanse her from all filthiness of flesh and spirit,"[139]

2 Cor. 7:2 - NIV, NAB - in Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV

"We have injured no man, corrupted no man, circumvented no man."[372]

2 Cor. 7:4 - NIV, NAB - in Methodius Oration Concerning Simeon and Anna

Let the earth also cause compassion to spring up to its inhabitants; for I am filled with comfort; I am exceeding joyful since I have seen Thee, the Saviour of men.[58]

2 Cor. 7:5 - NIV, NAB - in Tertullian On the Resurrection of the Flesh

Accordingly, when he is going to assign afflictions to the flesh as its especial liability-according to the statement he had already made-he says, "When we were come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest; "[267]

2 Cor. 7:10 - NIV, NAB - in Shepherd of Hermas Commandment Tenth

This grief, then, appears to be accompanied by salvation, because the man, after having done a wicked deed, repented.[3]

2 Cor. 7:10 - NIV, NAB - in Pseudo-Cyprian Exhortation to Repentance

Paul to the Corinthians: "For the sorrow which is according to God worketh a stedfast repentance unto salvation, but the sorrow of the world worketh death."[51]

2 Cor. 7:10 - NIV, NAB - in Archelaus Acts of the Disputation with the Heresiarch Manes

But, as we have said, when his womb was enlarged, and the time of his travail came on, he delivered himself only of an abortive burden in the conception of unrighteousness, and consequently he could not be called the father in perfection, except only at that very time when the conception was still in the womb; and afterwards, when he betook himself to the hangman's rope, he showed that he had not brought it to a complete birth, because remorse[321]

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