Therefore they were all glorified and magnified, not through themselves or their own works or the righteous actions which they had produced, but through his will; and therefore we ourselves, who through his will have been called in Christ Jesus, are not justified through ourselves, nor through our own wisdom or understanding or piety or the works which we have produced in holiness of heart, but through faith, through which the Almighty God has justified all people from the beginning of the world; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
Clement of Rome
