1 Corinthians 12:13

The Sacrament of Baptism

• §1227Article 1 · The Sacrament of BaptismRead at vatican.va

  “Through the Holy Spirit, Baptism is a bath that purifies, justifies, and sanctifies.” — Catechism footnote: CE 1 Cor 6:11; 12:13.

• §1267Article 1 · The Sacrament of BaptismRead at vatican.va

  “From the baptismal fonts is born the one People of God of the New Covenant, which transcends all the natural or human limits of nations, cultures, races, and sexes: "For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body."” — Catechism footnote: 1 Cor 12:13.

The Sacrament of the Eucharist

• §1396Article 3 · The Sacrament of the EucharistRead at vatican.va

  “In Baptism we have been called to form but one body.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. 1 Cor 12:13.

"I Believe in the Holy Spirit"

• §694Article 8 · "I Believe in the Holy Spirit"Read at vatican.va

  “As "by one Spirit we were all baptized," so we are also "made to drink of one Spirit."” — Catechism footnote: 1 Cor 12:13.

The Church - People of God, Body of Christ, Temple of the Holy Spirit

• §790Paragraph 2 · The Church - People of God, Body of Christ, Temple of the Holy SpiritRead at vatican.va

  “This is especially true of Baptism, which unites us to Christ's death and Resurrection, and the Eucharist, by which "really sharing in the body of the Lord, . . . we are taken up into communion with him and with one another."” — Catechism footnote: LG 7; cf. Rom 6:4-5; 1 Cor 12:13.

• §798Paragraph 2 · The Church - People of God, Body of Christ, Temple of the Holy SpiritRead at vatican.va

  “He works in many ways to build up the whole Body in charity: by God's Word "which is able to build you up"; by Baptism, through which he forms Christ's Body;” — Catechism footnote: Cf. 1 Cor 12:13.

John Chrysostom

• John Chrysostom, Homilies on John Homily 14

  ““We are all baptized into one body” ( 1 Cor. xii. 13 ), saith Paul.” — the author cites it

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Jerome

• Jerome, Letters Letter 52

  “Read Paul’s epistle to the Corinthians and learn how the one body is made up of different members.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xii. 12–27.

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Basil the Great

• Basil the Great, On the Holy Spirit Chapter 11

  ““For into one Spirit,” it says, “we were all baptized in one body.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xii. 13, loosely quoted.

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• Basil the Great, On the Holy Spirit Chapter 25

  “And as parts in the whole so are we individually in the Spirit, because we all “were baptized in one body into one spirit.”” — editor's note: An inversion of 1 Cor. xii. 13.

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Ambrose of Milan

• Ambrose of Milan, On the Holy Spirit I.3Book I

  “And in another place the Apostle says: “For we were all baptized in the body itself into one Spirit.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xii. 13.

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• Ambrose of Milan, On the Holy Spirit I.4Book I

  “Both apostles and prophets received that one Spirit, as the vessel of election, the Doctor of the Gentiles, says: “For we have all drunk of one Spirit;” Him, as it were, Who cannot be divided, but is poured into souls, and flows into the senses, that He may quench the burning of this world’s thirst.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xii. 13.

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Augustine of Hippo

• Augustine of Hippo, On the Holy Trinity XV.19Book XV

  “And hence Paul the apostle also says, “And we have all been made to drink into one Spirit.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xii. 13

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• Augustine of Hippo, Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 14

  “Do all interpret?”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xii. 8–30.

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Tertullian

• Tertullian, The Five Books Against Marcion V.7Book V

  “This, too, I may confidently say: he who has likened the unity of our body throughout its manifold and divers members to the compacting together of the various gifts of the Spirit, shows also that there is but one Lord of the human body and of the Holy Spirit.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xii. 12–30, compared with Eph. iv. 16.

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Clement of Alexandria

• Clement of Alexandria, The Instructor I.6Book I

  “And again he writes in another place: “For by one spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free, and we have all drunk of one cup.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xii. 13.

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• Galatians 3:27

  Cited together in Catechism §1227 and 1 other place.

• Ephesians 4:16

  Cited together in Catechism §798.

• Ephesians 4:25

  Cited together in Catechism §1267.

• Colossians 2:12

  Cited together in Catechism §1227.

• Revelation 21:18

  Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 11.

• Revelation 21:19

  Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 11.

• Deuteronomy 4:2

  Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 11.

• Psalm 3:4

  Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 11.

• Isaiah 60:1

  Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 11.

• Acts 1:5

  Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 11.

• Acts 10:38

  Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 11.

• Acts 20:32

  Cited together in Catechism §798.

• Romans 6:3

  Cited together in Catechism §1227 and 1 other place.

• Romans 6:4

  Cited together in Catechism §790 and 1 other place.

• Romans 6:5

  Cited together in Catechism §790.

• 1 Corinthians 6:11

  Cited together in Catechism §1227.

• 1 Corinthians 10:16

  Cited together in Catechism §1396.

• 1 Corinthians 10:17

  Cited together in Catechism §1396.