# 1 Clement 49.5

- Author: [Clement of Rome](https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/authors/clement-of-rome/)
- Work: [1 Clement](https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/1-clement/) (*Epistula I ad Corinthios*)
- Date: ca. 95–97 (range ca. 70–100) (disputed)
- Source: Lake, LCL 24:92; Kirsopp Lake, ed. and trans., The Apostolic Fathers, vol. 1, LCL 24 (London: Heinemann; New York: Macmillan, 1912), 8–121 (Greek text: K. Lake, The Apostolic Fathers (LCL, 1912-1913), digitized by the First Thousand Years of Greek project (Open Greek and Latin), CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-26
- Canonical URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/1-clement/49/5/

Summary: A hymn to love, which unites, forgives, and makes perfect.

## Greek text

ἀγάπη κολλᾷ ἡμᾶς τῷ θεῷ, ἀγάπη καλύπτει πλῆθος ἁμαρτιῶν, ἀγάπη πάντα ἀνέχεται, πάντα μακροθυμεῖ· οὐδὲν βάναυσον ἐν ἀγάπῃ, οὐδὲν ὑπερήφανον· ἀγάπη σχίσμα οὐκ ἔχει, ἀγάπη οὐ στασιάζει, ἀγάπη πάντα ποιεῖ ἐν ὁμονοίᾳ· ἐν τῇ ἀγάπῃ ἐτελειώθησαν πάντες οἱ ἐκλεκτοὶ τοῦ θεοῦ, δίχα ἀγάπης οὐδὲν εὐάρεστόν ἐστιν τῷ θεῷ.

## English translation (Claude)

Love unites us to God; “love covers a multitude of sins”; love bears all things, is patient in all things. There is nothing vulgar in love, nothing arrogant. Love does not cause schism, love does not rebel, love does all things in concord. In love all the elect of God were made perfect; without love nothing is pleasing to God.

## Scripture references

- 1 Pet 4:8: quotation, high confidence
- Prov 10:12: allusion, medium confidence
- 1 Cor 13:4–7: allusion, high confidence

## Citation (SBL)

1 Clem. 49.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/1-clement/49/5/).