The First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians

For the holy word[*](The teaching of the Scriptures) says thus: With chastisement did the Lord chastise me, and he delivered me not over unto death;

for whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.

For, he says, the righteous shall chasten me with mercy, and reprove me, but let not the oil of sinners anoint my head.

And again he says Blessed is the man whom the Lord did reprove; and reject not thou the admonition of the Almighty, for he maketh to suffer pain and again he restoreth;

he wounded, and his hands healed.

Six times shall he deliver thee from troubles, and the seventh time evil shall not touch thee.

In famine he shall rescue thee from death, and in war he shall free thee from the hand of the sword.