1 Corinthians 12:3 (WEB)
Therefore I make known to you that no man speaking by God’s Spirit says, “Jesus is accursed.” No one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” but by the Holy Spirit.
Catechism · 4
I Believe
“For "no one can say "Jesus is Lord", except by the Holy Spirit",” — Catechism footnote: I Cor 12:3
The Way of Prayer
“"No one can say 'Jesus is Lord' except by the Holy Spirit."” — Catechism footnote: 1 Cor 12:3.
"And in Jesus Christ, His Only Son, Our Lord"
“…to Jesus, because "he was in the form of God", and the Father manifested the sovereignty of Jesus by raising him from the dead and exalting him into his glory.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Rom 10:9; I Cor 12:3; Phil 2:9-11.
I Believe in the Holy Spirit
“"No one can say 'Jesus is Lord' except by the Holy Spirit."” — Catechism footnote: 1 Cor 12:3.
Fathers and councils · 22
Tertullian
“This was her vision, and for her witness there was God; and the apostle most assuredly foretold that there were to be “spiritual gifts” in the church.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xii. 1–11. [A key to our author’s
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Gregory of Nyssa
“…in our hearts by means of the Holy Spirit; (for it is impossible, as the Apostle says, that the Lord Jesus can be truly known, “except by the Holy Spirit”); and then all the Cause beyond, which is God over all, is found through Our Lord, Who is the Cause of all things; nor, indeed, is it possible to gain an…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xii. 3.
Read the whole comment“It is God, then, Who by stablishing the voice of the Gospel makes the believer spirit: and he who is born of the Spirit and made spirit by such thunder, “declares” Christ; as the Apostle says, “No man can say that Jesus Christ is Lord but by the Holy Spirit.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xii. 3.
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Catena Aurea on Matthew
- Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on Matthew
“But it may fairly create a difficulty how this is to be reconciled with that of the Apostle, “No man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost.” [1 Cor 12:3] For we cannot say that those who are not to enter into the kingdom of heaven have the Holy Spirit.” — the author cites it
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“For it is impossible to testify as a martyr for Christ’s sake, except a man testify by the Holy Ghost; for if no man can say that Jesus Christ is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost, how shall any man give his own life for Jesus’ sake, but by the Holy Ghost?” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xii. 3. Μαρτυρῆσαι, “to bear witness by death.”
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Origen
“…and the saying of the angel to Mary, “The Holy Spirit will come upon thee;” the declaration by Paul, that no one can call Jesus Lord, save by the Holy Spirit.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xii. 3.
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John Chrysostom
“And observe that it belongeth to the Spirit also; for “No man can call Jesus Christ Lord, but by the Holy Ghost.” ( 1 Cor. xii. 3.)” — the author cites it
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Basil the Great
“For none “can say that Jesus is the Lord but by the Holy Ghost,” and “No man hath seen God at any time, but the only begotten God which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xii. 3.
Read the whole comment“For “No man can say that Jesus is the Lord but by the Holy Ghost, and no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed;” as might be said by wicked and hostile spirits, whose fall establishes our statement of the freedom of the will of the invisible powers; being, as they are, in…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xii. 3.
Read the whole comment“And so “no man can say that Jesus is the Lord but by the Holy Ghost.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xii. 3.
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Ambrose of Milan
“That you may know that the Spirit of God is the same as the Holy Spirit, as we read also in the Apostle: “No one speaking in the Spirit of God says Anathema to Jesus and no one can say, Lord Jesus, but in the Holy Spirit,” the Apostle calls Him the Spirit of God.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xii. 3.
Read the whole comment““For no one saith Lord Jesus, except in the Holy Spirit?”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xii. 3.
Read the whole comment“As, then, the Apostle says that we speak in Christ, so, too, is that which we speak in the Spirit; as the Apostle himself said: “No man saith Lord Jesus, except in the Holy Spirit.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xii. 3.
Read the whole comment““For into a malicious soul wisdom does not enter,” because “no one can call Jesus Lord but in the Holy Spirit.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xii. 3.
Read the whole comment“…in the Son, Who said, “He that seeth Me seeth the Father also,” and the Son is seen in the Spirit; for as “no man says Lord Jesus, except in the Holy Spirit,” so Christ is seen not by the eye of flesh, but by the grace of the Spirit.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xii. 3.
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Augustine of Hippo
“And that which the apostle says, must be taken according to this last kind of word, “No man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost;” since those also say this, but according to another meaning of the term “word,” of whom the Lord Himself says, “Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord,…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xii. 3
Read the whole comment“…be reconciled, where he says, “No man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed; and no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost:” for neither can we say that any who have the Holy Spirit will not enter into the kingdom of heaven, if they persevere onwards to the end; nor can we affirm…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xii. 3.
Read the whole comment“And besides, this is the apostolic declaration, “No one saith, Lord Jesus, but in the Holy Spirit:” and who is it that calleth Him Lord Jesus but he that loveth Him, if he so call Him in the way the apostle intended to be understood?” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xii. 3.
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Hilary of Poitiers
“…whereby we cry, Abba, Father; and again, For no man by the Spirit of God saith anathema to Jesus, and no man can say, Jesus is Lord, but in the Holy Spirit; and he adds, Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit, and diversities of ministrations, but the same Lord, and diversities of workings, but…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xii. 3.
Read the whole comment“Now the Apostle asserts that those words in the Gospel, I and the Father are one, imply unity of nature and not a solitary single Being, as he writes to the Corinthians, Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man in the Spirit of God calleth Jesus anathema.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xii. 3.
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Leo the Great
“…of the Father, from Him come the tears of penitents, from Him come the groans of suppliants, and “no one can call Jesus the Lord save in the Holy Ghost,” Whose Omnipotence as equal and Whose Godhead as one, with the Father and the Son, the Apostle most clearly proclaims, saying, “there are divisions of graces…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xii. 3–6.
Read the whole comment“…Son into our hearts, crying Abba, Father,” “And where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty,” and “no one can call Jesus Lord except in the Holy Spirit.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xii. 3.
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Cross-references · 29
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 10.
Cited together in Catechism §683 and 1 other place.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 10.
Cited together in Catechism §449.
Cited together in Catechism §449.
Cited together in Catechism §449.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit I.11.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 10.
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Matthew 7:21–23 (Catena Aurea) and 1 other place.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit I.11 and 1 other place.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit I.11 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Against Eunomius I.35.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit III.22.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit III.22.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit III.22.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit III.22.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit III.22.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit III.22.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit III.22 and 1 other place.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit I.11.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 75 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 75 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Catechism §449.
Cited together in Catechism §449.
Cited together in Catechism §449.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit III.22.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit III.22.
Cited together in Catechism §152.
Cited together in Catechism §152.