Therefore we labor, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him.
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Tertullian of Carthage
AD 220
Then he says even to all: "We therefore earnestly desire to be acceptable unto God, whether absent or present; for we must all appear before the judgment-seat of Christ Jesus."
