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54Who then among you is noble, who is compassionate, who is filled with love? 2Let him cry: “If sedition and strife and divisions have arisen on my account, I will depart, I will go away whithersoever you will, and I will obey the commands of the people; only let the flock of Christ have peace with the presbyters set over it.” 3He who does this will win for himself great glory in Christ, and every place will receive him, for “the earth is the Lord s, and the fullness of it.” 4This has been in the past, and will be in the future, the conduct of those who live without regrets as citizens in the city of God.
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