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The Bible does not teach that we have to be sinless to enter heaven. The Bible says: 1Jn 1:8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. Every person has some area that they are likely to fall in, be it anger, or some other sin. The cross was given so...

The law has certainly not passed away. Note what Jesus said: Mat 5:17-20 "Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill. For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the...

Papias As the presbyters say, then15 those who are deemed worthy of an abode in heaven shall go there, others shah enjoy the delights of Paradise, and others shall possess the splendour of the city;16 for everywhere the Saviour will be seen, according as they shall be worthy who see Him. But...

Barabas - Epistle It therefore behoves us, who inquire much concerning events at hand,22 to search diligently into those things which are able to save us. Let us then utterly flee from all the works of iniquity, lest these should take hold of us; and let us hate the error of the present time...

Mathetes - Epistle to Diognetus For God, the Lord and Fashioner of all things, who made all things, and assigned them their several positions, proved Himself not merely a friend of mankind, but also long-suffering [in His dealings with them.] Yea, He was always of such a character, and still...

Polycarp If we please Him in this present world, we shall receive also the future world, according as He has promised to us that He will raise us again from the dead, and that if we live9 worthily of Him, “we shall also reign together with Him,” (2Ti_2:12) provided only we believe. And let the...

Ignatius various Epistles Ignatius, who is also called Theophorus, to the Church which is at Ephesus, in Asia, deservedly most happy, being blessed in the greatness and fulness of God the Father, and predestinated before the beginning1 of time, that it should be always for an enduring and...

St. Clement - Corinthians - Ch 1-30 For ye did all things without respect of persons, and walked in the command-merits of God that the number of God’s elect might be saved with mercy and a good conscience Let us look stedfastly to the blood of Christ, and see how precious that blood is to...

Justin Martyr - Discourse to the Greeks Nothing to report. Justin Martyr - Hortatory Address Ch 1-18 Nothing to report. Justin Martyr - Hortatory Address Ch 19-End Nothing to report. Justin Martyr - Sole Government of God Nothing to report. Justin Martyr - Resurrection Fragments But...

Justin Martyr - Dialoque with Trypho Ch 103-121 Nothing to report. Justin Martyr - Dialoque with Trypho Ch 122-End And besides, they beguile themselves and you, supposing that the everlasting kingdom will be assuredly given to those of the dispersion who are of Abraham after the flesh...

Justin Martyr - Dialoque with Trypho Ch 84-102 For God, wishing both angels and men, who were endowed with freewill, and at their own disposal, to do whatever He had strengthened each to do, made them so, that if they chose the things acceptable to Himself, He would keep them free from death...

Justin Martyr - Dialoque with Trypho Ch 53-66 Justin Martyr - Dialoque with Trypho Ch 67-83 Nothing to report.

Justin Martyr - Dialoque with Trypho Ch 36-52 For the goodness and the loving-kindness of God, and His boundless riches, hold righteous and sinless the man who, as Ezekiel (Eze_33:11-20) tells, repents of sins; and reckons sinful, unrighteous, and impious the man who fails away from piety and...

Justin Martyr - Dialoque with Trypho Ch 17-35 nor have our eyes seen a God besides Thee: and Thy works, the mercy which Thou shall show to those who repent. He shall meet those who do righteousness, and they shall remember Thy ways.

Justin Martyr - Dialoque with Trypho Ch 1-16 Nothing to report.

Justin Martyr - Second Apology We have been taught that God did not make the world aimlessly, but for the sake of the human race; and we have before stated that He takes pleasure in those who imitate His properties, and is displeased with those that embrace what is worthless either in word or...

Justin Martyr - First Apology - Ch 26-50 For the reason why God has delayed to do this, is His regard for the human race. For He fore-knows that some are to be saved by repentance, some even that are perhaps not yet born.38 In the beginning He made the human race with the power of thought and...

Justin Martyr - First Apology - Ch 1-25 Chap. X. — How God Is to Be Served. But we have received by tradition that God does not need the material offerings which men can give, seeing, indeed, that He Himself is the provider of all things. And we have been taught, and are convinced, and do...

Iranaeus - Against Heresies - Book 5 Chapter 29 -End 1. In the previous books I have set forth the causes for which God permitted these things to be made, and have pointed out that all such have been created for the benefit of that human nature which is saved, ripening for immortality that...

Iranaeus - Against Heresies - Book 5 Chapter 20 -28 — namely, those men whom he held in bondage, and whom he unjustly used for his own purposes. And justly indeed is he led captive, who had led men unjustly into bondage; while man, who had been led captive in times past, was rescued from the...