1Clem 16:1
For Christ is with them that are lowly of mind,
not with them that
exalt themselves over the flock.
Word of God:
11“I am the good
shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life
for the sheep. 12The hired hand is not
the shepherd and does not own the sheep. So when
he sees the wolf coming, he abandons the sheep
and runs away. Then the wolf attacks the flock
and scatters it. 13The man
runs away because he is a hired hand and cares
nothing for the sheep.
John 10:11-13 NIV
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1Clem 16:2
The scepter of the majesty of God,
even our Lord Jesus Christ, came
not in the pomp of arrogance or of pride, though
He might have done
so, but in lowliness of mind, according as the
Holy Spirit spake
concerning Him.
Word of God:
5In
your relationships with one another, have the same
mindset as Christ Jesus:
6Who,
being in very nature God,
did
not consider equality with God something to be used
to his own advantage;
7rather,
he made himself nothing
by
taking the very nature of a servant,
being
made in human likeness.
8And
being found in appearance as a man,
he
humbled himself
by
becoming obedient to death—
even
death on a cross!
Philippians 2:5-8 NIV
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1Clem 16:3
For He saith Lord,
who believed our report? and to whom was the arm
of the Lord revealed? We announced Him in His
presence. As a child was He, as a root in a
thirsty ground. There is no form in Him, neither
glory. And we beheld Him, and He had no form nor
comeliness, but His form was mean, lacking more
than the form of men. He was a man of stripes
and of toil, and knowing how to bear infirmity:
for His face is turned away. He was dishonored
and held of no account.
Word
of God:
1Who
has believed our message
and
to whom has the arm of the Lord
been revealed?
2He
grew up before him like a tender shoot,
and
like a root out of dry ground.
He
had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him,
nothing
in his appearance that we should desire him.
3He
was despised and rejected by mankind,
a man
of suffering, and familiar with pain.
Like
one from whom people hide their faces
he
was despised, and we held him in low esteem.
Isaiah 53:1-3 NIV
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1Clem 16:4
He beareth
our sins and suffereth pain for our sakes: and
we accounted Him to be in toil and in stripes
and in affliction.
Word
of God:
4Surely
he took up our pain
and
bore our suffering,
yet
we considered him punished by God,
stricken
by him, and afflicted.
Isaiah 53:4 NIV
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1Clem 16:5
And He was wounded for our sins
and hath been afflicted for our iniquities. The
chastisement of our peace is upon Him. With His
bruises we were healed.
Word of God:
5But
he was pierced for our transgressions,
he
was crushed for our iniquities;
the
punishment that brought us peace was on him,
and
by his wounds we are healed.
Isaiah 53:5 NIV
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1Clem 16:6
We all went
astray like sheep, each man went astray in his
own path:
Word of God:
6We
all, like sheep, have gone astray,
each
of us has turned to our own way;
Isaiah 53:6a NIV
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1Clem 16:7
and the Lord
delivered Him over for our sins. And He openeth
not His mouth, because He is afflicted. As a
sheep He was led to slaughter; and as a lamb
before his shearer is dumb, so openeth He not
His mouth. In His humiliation His judgment was
taken away.
Word
of God:
and
the Lord has laid on him
the
iniquity of us all.
7He
was oppressed and afflicted,
yet
he did not open his mouth;
he
was led like a lamb to the slaughter,
and
as a sheep before its shearers is silent,
so he
did not open his mouth.
8By
oppression and judgment he was taken away.
Isaiah 53:6b-8a NIV
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1Clem 16:8
His
generation who shall declare? For His life is
taken away from the earth.
Word
of God:
Yet
who of his generation protested?
For
he was cut off from the land of the living;
Isaiah 53:8 (middle
portion) NIV
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1Clem 16:9
For the
iniquities of my people He is come to death.
Word of God:
For
he was cut off from the land of the living;
for
the transgression of my people he was punished.
Isaiah 53:8 (last
portion) NIV
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1Clem 16:10
And I will give the wicked for His
burial, and the rich for His death; for He
wrought no iniquity, neither was guile found in
His mouth. And the Lord desireth to cleanse Him
from His stripes.
Word
of God:
9He
was assigned a grave with the wicked,
and
with the rich in his death,
though
he had done no violence,
nor
was any deceit in his mouth.
Isaiah 53:9
23When they hurled their insults at him, he
did not retaliate; when he suffered, he made no
threats. Instead, he entrusted himself to him who
judges justly.
1 Peter 2:23 NIV
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1Clem
16:11
If ye offer
for sin, your soul shall see a long-lived seed.
Word
of God:
10Yet
it was the Lord’s will
to crush him and cause him to suffer,
and
though the Lord makes his
life an offering for sin,
he
will see his offspring and prolong his days,
Isaiah 53:10a, 10b NIV
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1Clem
16:12
And the Lord
desireth to take away from the toil of His soul,
to show Him light and to mould Him with
understanding, to justify a Just One that is a
good servant unto many. And He shall bear their
sins.
Word
of God:
and
the will of the Lord
will prosper in his hand.
11After
he has suffered,
he
will see the light of life and be satisfied ;
by
his knowledge my righteous servant will justify
many,
and
he will bear their iniquities.
Isaiah 53:10c-11 NIV
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1Clem
16:13
Therefore He
shall inherit many, and shall divide the spoils
of the strong; because His soul was delivered
unto death, and He was reckoned unto the
transgressors;
Word
of God:
12Therefore
I will give him a portion among the great,
and
he will divide the spoils with the strong,
because
he poured out his life unto death,
and
was numbered with the transgressors.
Isaiah 12a, 12b NIV
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1Clem
16:14
and He bare
the sins of many, and for their sins was He
delivered up.
Word
of God:
For
he bore the sin of many,
and
made intercession for the transgressors.
Isaiah 53:12c NIV
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1Clem
16:15
And again He
Himself saith; But I am a worm and no man, a
reproach of men and an outcast of the people.
Word
of God:
But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by
everyone, despised by the people.
Psalm 22:6 NIV
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1Clem
16:16
All they
that beheld me mocked at me; they spake with
their lips; they wagged their heads, saying, He
hoped on the Lord; let Him deliver him, or let
Him save him, for He desireth him.
Word
of God:
7All
who see me mock me;
they
hurl insults, shaking their heads.
8“He
trusts in the Lord,”
they say,
“let
the Lord rescue him.
Let
him deliver him,
since
he delights in him.”
Psalm 22:7-8 NIV
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1Clem 16:17
Ye
see, dearly beloved, what is the pattern that hath
been given unto
us; for, if the Lord was thus lowly of mind, what
should we do, who
through Him have been brought under the yoke of
His grace?
Word of
God:
Submit Yourselves to God
1What
causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they
come from your desires that battle within you? 2You
desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but
you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and
fight. You do not have because you do not ask God.
3When
you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with
wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on
your pleasures.
4You
adulterous people, don’t
you know that friendship with the world means
enmity against God? Therefore, anyone who chooses
to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of
God. 5Or do
you think Scripture says without reason that he
jealously longs for the spirit he has caused to
dwell in us ? 6But he gives us more grace. That is why
Scripture says:
“God
opposes the proud
but shows favor to the humble.” (Proverbs
3:34)
7Submit
yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he
will flee from you. 8Come
near to God and he will come near to you. Wash
your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts,
you double-minded. 9Grieve,
mourn and wail. Change your laughter to mourning
and your joy to gloom. 10Humble
yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you
up.
James 4:1-10 NIV
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1Clem 17:1
Let us be imitators also of them which went about
in goatskins and
sheepskins, preaching the coming of Christ. We
mean Elijah and Elisha
and likewise Ezekiel, the prophets, and besides
them those men also
that obtained a good report.
Word of God:
32And
what more shall I say? I do not have time to tell
about Gideon, Barak, Samson and Jephthah, about
David and Samuel and the prophets, 33who
through faith conquered kingdoms, administered
justice, and gained what was promised; who shut the
mouths of lions, 34quenched
the fury of the flames, and escaped the edge of the
sword; whose weakness was turned to strength; and
who became powerful in battle and routed foreign
armies. 35Women
received back their dead, raised to life again.
There were others who were tortured, refusing to be
released so that they might gain an even better
resurrection. 36Some
faced jeers and flogging, and even chains and
imprisonment. 37They
were put to death by stoning; they
were sawed in two; they were killed by the sword.
They went about in sheepskins and goatskins,
destitute, persecuted and mistreated— 38the
world was not worthy of them. They wandered in
deserts and mountains, living in caves and in holes
in the ground.
39These
were all commended for their faith....
Hebrews 11:32-39a NIV
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1Clem 17:2
Abraham
obtained an exceeding good report and was called
the friend
of God; and looking steadfastly on the glory of
God, he saith in
lowliness of mind, But I am dust and ashes.
Word
of God:
And the scripture was fulfilled that says,
"Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him
as righteousness," and he was called God's friend.
James 2:23 NIV
Then Abraham spoke up again: "Now that I
have been so bold as to speak to the Lord, though
I am nothing but dust and ashes,
Genesis 18:27 NIV
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1Clem 17:3
Moreover
concerning Job also it is thus written; And
Job was righteous and unblamable, one that was
true and honored God and abstained from all evil.
Word of God:
1In the land of Uz there lived a man whose
name was Job. This man was blameless and upright;
he feared God and shunned evil.
Job 1:1
NIV
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1Clem 17:4
Yet he himself
accuseth himself saying, No man from filth;
no, not though his life be but for a day.
Word
of God:
Indeed, there is no one on earth who is
righteous, no one who does what is right and never
sins.
Ecclesiastes 7:20 NIV
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1Clem 17:5
Moses
was called faithful in all His house, and
through his
ministration God judged Egypt with the plagues and
the torments which
befell them. Howbeit he also, though greatly
glorified, yet spake no
proud words, but said, when an oracle was given to
him at the bush,
Who am I, that Thou sendest me?
Word
of God:
Exodus, chapter 3 NIV
Numbers, chapter 12 NIV
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1Clem 17:6
Nay, I am feeble of speech and slow
of tongue.
And again he saith,
But I am smoke from the pot.
Word
of God:
10Moses
said to the Lord,
“Pardon your servant, Lord. I have never been
eloquent, neither in the past nor since you have
spoken to your servant. I am slow of speech and
tongue.”
Exodus 4:10 NIV
For my days vanish like smoke; my bones burn
like glowing embers.
Psalm 102:3 NIV
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1Clem 18:1
But what must we say of David that obtained a good
report? of whom
God said, I have found a man after My heart,
David the son of Jesse: with eternal mercy have
I anointed him.
Word of God:
22After
removing Saul, he made David their king. God
testified concerning him: ‘I have found David son of
Jesse, a man after my own heart; he will do
everything I want him to do.’
23“From
this man’s descendants God has brought to Israel the
Savior Jesus, as he promised.
Acts 13:22-23 NIV
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1Clem 18:2
Yet he too saith unto God Have
mercy upon me, O God, according to Thy great
mercy; and according to the multitude of Thy
compassions, blot out mine iniquity.
Word
of God:
For the director of music. A psalm
of David. When the prophet Nathan came to him
after David had committed adultery with Bathsheba.
Have mercy on me, O God, according to your
unfailing love; according to your great compassion
blot out my transgressions.
Psalm 51:1 NIV