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Saint Paul Writing His Epistles, Valentin de Boulogne

1 Corinthians 6:11

Valentin de Boulogne, Saint Paul Writing His Epistles, c. 1618–1620 · Museum of Fine Arts, Houston · Public domainValentin de Boulogne, Saint Paul Writing His Epistles, c. 1618–1620, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

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1 Corinthians 6:11 (WEB)

Some of you were such, but you were washed. You were sanctified. You were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

Catechism · 3

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.

The Sacrament of Penance and Reconciliation

  • §1425Article 4 · The Sacrament of Penance and ReconciliationRead at vatican.va

    “"YOU were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God."” — Catechism footnote: 1 Cor 6:11.

"I Believe in the Holy Spirit"

  • §693Article 8 · "I Believe in the Holy Spirit"Read at vatican.va

    “Besides the proper name of "Holy Spirit," which is most frequently used in the Acts of the Apostles and in the Epistles, we also find in St. Paul the titles: the Spirit of the promise, The Spirit of adoption, The Spirit of Christ, The Spirit of the Lord, and the Spirit of God” — Catechism footnote: Rom 8:9, Rom 8:9 4; 15:19; 1 Cor 6:11; 7:40.

Fathers and councils · 17

Tertullian

  • “And if so, the apostle too was in error when he said in his epistle, “Ye were at one time darkness, (but now are ye light in the Lord:)” and, “We also were by nature children of wrath;” and, “Such were some of you, but ye are washed.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vi. 11.

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  • “…such indeed ye have been; but ye have received ablution, but ye have been sanctified, in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and in the Spirit of our God;” in as far as he puts on the paid side of the account such sins before baptism, in so far after baptism he determines them irremissible, if it is true, (as it…” — editor's note: Ver. 11, inexactly.

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Irenaeus of Lyons

Augustine of Hippo

John Chrysostom

Jerome

  • “The apostle says:—“And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vi. 11.

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Basil the Great

  • “Remission of sins was by the gift of the Spirit, for “ye were washed, ye were sanctified,…in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and in the holy Spirit of our God.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vi. 11, R.V.

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  • “…is confirmed by the fact that the Apostle uses either word indifferently,—saying at one time “in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God;” at another “when ye are gathered together, and my Spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus,” with no idea that it makes any difference to the connexion of the…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vi. 11.

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Ambrose of Milan

  • “And that you may know that distinction does not depend upon a syllable, he says also in another place: “And these indeed were you, but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and in the Spirit of our God.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vi. 11.

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  • “As the Apostle also set forth, saying: “But ye were washed, but ye were sanctified, but ye were justified in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ, and in the Spirit of our God.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vi. 11.

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John Cassian

Gregory the Great

Clement of Alexandria

  • “…nec masculorum concubitores, neque avari, neque fures, neque ebnosi, neque maledici, nec raptores, regnum Dei possidebunt; et nos quidem abluti sum us,” qui in his eramus; qui autem in hanc tingunt intemperantiam, ex temperantia in fornicationem baptizant, voluptatibus et affectibus esse indulgendum…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vi. 9, 10, 11.

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  • ““And such were some of you”—such manifestly as those still are whom you do not forgive; “but ye are washed,” not simply as the rest, but with knowledge; ye have cast off the passions of the soul, in order to become assimilated, as far as possible, to the goodness of…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vi. 11.

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Cyprian of Carthage

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