1 Corinthians 8:6 (WEB)
yet to us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we live through him.
Catechism · 1
“Praise embraces the other forms of prayer and carries them toward him who is its source and goal: the "one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist."” — Catechism footnote: 1 Cor 8:6.
Fathers and councils · 48
Origen
- Origen, Against Celsus IV.29Book IV
“We know, moreover, that “though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth (as there be gods many and lords many), but to us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in Him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by Him.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. viii. 5, 6.
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Gregory of Nyssa
“Now the Apostle says that all things are of the Father, and that all things are by the Son, and the prophetic spirit in a way agrees with the Apostolic teaching, which itself also is given through the Spirit.” — editor's note: Cf. 1 Cor. viii. 6.
Read the whole comment“I hear Paul cry aloud, “There is one Lord Jesus Christ.”” — editor's note: Cf. 1 Cor. viii. 6.
Read the whole comment““For there is one God,” he says, “and Father, of Whom are all things.”” — editor's note: Cf. 1 Cor. viii. 6.
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“And this Word is Christ; for ‘there is One God, the Father, from whom are all things, and we for Him; and One Lord Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we through Him.’” — editor's note: 1 Cor. viii. 6.
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“…instance, that He is God, ‘And the Word was God;’ Almighty, ‘Thus saith He which was and is and is to come, the Almighty;’ Lord, ‘One Lord Jesus Christ;’ that He is Light, ‘I am the Light;’ that He wipes out sins, ‘that ye may know,’ He says, ‘that the Son of man hath power upon earth to forgive sins;’ and so…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. viii. 6.
Read the whole comment - Athanasius of Alexandria, Against the Arians III.4Discourse III
“And after the resurrection, He says that He has received all power; but even before that He had said, ‘All things were delivered unto Me,’ He was Lord of all, for ‘all things were made by Him;’ and ‘there is One Lord by whom are all things.’” — editor's note: 1 Cor. viii. 6.
Read the whole comment “For He was made man that we might be made God; and He manifested Himself by a body that we might receive the idea of the unseen Father; and He endured the insolence of men that we might inherit immortality.” — editor's note: θεοποιηθῶμεν. See Orat. ii. 70, note 1, and many other passages in those Discourses, as well as Letters 60. 4, 61. 2. (Eucharistic reference), de Synodis 51,…
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Hippolytus of Rome
“For it is right, in the first place, to expound the truth that the Father is one God, “of whom is every family,” “by whom are all things, of whom are all things, and we in Him.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. viii. 6.
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“On the Clause, and in One Lord Jesus Christ, with a Reading from the First Epistle to the Corinthians” — the author cites it
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Augustine of Hippo
“It is true, that not only every created, and formed thing, but also whatever is capable of creation and of form, Thou hast made, “by whom are all things.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. viii. 6.
Read the whole comment“For one is our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we in Him, of whom we read that He is “the Virtue of God and the Wisdom of God.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. viii. 6.
Read the whole comment“…gods many and lords many; yet we have one God the Father, from whom are all, and we in Him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by Him.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. viii. 5, 6.
Read the whole comment“Meanwhile, while yet groaning in this life, “his hope is in the Lord his God.”…Who is this, “Lord his God”?…“To us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom are all things.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. viii. 6.
Read the whole comment“Also, when the same apostle says, “But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in Him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by Him,” who can doubt that he speaks of all things which are created; as does John, when he says, “All things were made by Him”?” — editor's note: 1 Cor. viii. 6
Read the whole comment“…many,) but to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in Him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by Him.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor viii. 5, 6
Read the whole comment“Hence the saying of the apostle, “Though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, as there be gods many and lords many, but to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in Him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by Him.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. viii. 5, 6.
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Theodoret of Cyrus
“Eran.—But the divine Scripture says that Jesus was weary, and Jesus is God; “And our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. viii. 6
Read the whole comment“And who is so distraught as, while hearing the words of the divine Paul “one Lord, one faith, one baptism,” and again “there is one Lord Jesus Christ by Whom are all things,” to lay down the law at variance with the teaching of the Spirit, and cut the one in two.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. viii. 6
Read the whole comment“So we may quote the divine Paul writing to the Corinthians, but teaching the world, that “There is one God the Father of whom are all things…and one Lord Jesus Christ by whom are all things.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. viii. 6
Read the whole comment“…sons or two Lords, for we have heard the very divine Paul saying “One Lord, one faith, one baptism” and again “One Lord Jesus Christ by Whom are all things” and again “Jesus Christ the same yesterday and to-day and for ever” and in another place—“He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. viii. 6
Read the whole comment“They ought to listen to those words of the Apostle which openly declare “one Lord Jesus Christ by whom are all things,” and again “one Lord, one faith, one baptism.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. viii. 6
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Ambrose of Milan
“…say that God is One, neither dividing His Son from Him, as do the heathen, nor denying, with the Jews, that He was begotten of the Father before all worlds, and afterwards born of the Virgin; nor yet, like Sabellius, confounding the Father with the Word, and so maintaining that Father and Son are one and the same…” — editor's note: The original is ante tempora—“before the ages”—“before time was.” Cf. 1 Cor. viii. 6; Phil. ii. 6–8; Col. i. 15 (πρωτότοκος πάσης κτίσεως—“first-born of all…
Read the whole comment“There is, therefore, God in God, but not two Gods; for it is written that there is one God, and there is Lord in Lord, but not two Lords, forasmuch as it is likewise written: “Serve not two lords.”” — editor's note: Isa. xlv. 18; 1 Cor. viii. 4, 6.
Read the whole comment“For “there is one God, the Father, of Whom are all things, and we in Him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, by Whom are all things, and we by Him.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. viii. 6.
Read the whole comment“…“But for us there is One God, the Father, of Whom are all things, and we in Him, and One Lord, Jesus Christ, through Whom are all things, and we through Him.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. viii. 6.
Read the whole comment“But the Father and the Son, being of one substance, are not two Gods, but “One God, the Father, of Whom are all things, and one Lord Jesus Christ, through Whom are all things.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. viii. 6.
Read the whole comment“…does not except the Son of God in that passage where the Apostle says: “Yet to us there is one God the Father, of Whom are all things, and we by Him.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. viii. 6.
Read the whole comment“But perhaps some one may say that there was a reason why the writer said that all things were of the Father, and all things through the Son, but made no mention of the Holy Spirit, and would obtain the foundation of an argument from this.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. viii. 6.
Read the whole comment“But of the power, as in the passage: “One God the Father, of Whom are all things.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. viii. 6. The argument from the exact force of prepositions is often urged by the Fathers, as by St. Athanasius and St. Basil among the Greeks. The…
Read the whole comment“Another similar passage is that which they say implies difference, where it is written: “But to us there is one Father, of Whom are all things and we unto Him, and one Lord Jesus Christ, through Whom are all things, and we through Him.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. viii. 6.
Read the whole comment“And further he says in another place: “One Lord Jesus, through Whom are all things.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. viii. 6.
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John Chrysostom
“For there is one God, of whom are all things.” ( 1 Cor. viii. 6.)” — the author cites it
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Basil the Great
“And so St. Paul, “For as there be gods many and lords many, but to us there is but one god, the Father, of whom are all things; and one Lord Jesus Christ by Whom are all things.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. viii. 5, 6.
Read the whole comment“In proof of this statement he drags in the words of the Apostle, “One God and Father of whom are all things,…and one Lord Jesus Christ by whom are all things.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. viii. 6.
Read the whole comment“For instance, the phrase “of which” does not always and absolutely, as they suppose, indicate the material, but it is more in accordance with the usage of Scripture to apply this term in the case of the Supreme Cause, as in the words “One God, of whom are all things,” and again, “All things of God.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. viii. 6.
Read the whole comment““There is one God and Father of whom are all things, and one Lord Jesus Christ through whom are all things.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. viii. 6.
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John Cassian
““Our one Lord Jesus Christ,” he says, “by whom are all things.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. viii. 6.
Read the whole comment“As Paul says: “One Lord Jesus, through whom are all things.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. viii. 6.
Read the whole comment“For he says, “There is one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. viii. 6.
Read the whole comment“And: “One Lord Jesus Christ through whom are all things.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. viii. 6.
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Hilary of Poitiers
“Since, therefore, the words of the Apostle, One God the Father, from Whom are all things, and one Jesus Christ, our Lord, through Whom are all things, form an accurate and complete confession concerning God, let us see what Moses has to say of the beginning of the world.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. viii. 6.
Read the whole comment“For the same Apostle says, But for us there is one God, the Father, of Whom are all things, and we in Him, and one Lord Jesus Christ, through Whom are all things, and we through Him.” — editor's note: Ib. viii. 6.
Read the whole comment“It might be so, if, because there is one God the Father, Christ were not the one Lord.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. viii. 6: see above, c. 32.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“…at times he separates the Persons saying, “One God, of whom are all things, and we in Him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by Him;” at other times he brings together the one Godhead, “For of Him and through Him and in Him are all things;” that is, through the Holy Ghost, as is shown by many…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. viii. 6.
Read the whole comment“…perfect in all the dogmas of the truth.—For there is nothing worthy of Him Who made all things, of Him by Whom are all things, and for Whom are all things, so that it can be given or offered to God: not merely the handiwork or means of any individual, but even if we wished to honour Him, by uniting together all…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. viii. 6.
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Tertullian
“Marcion, however, does not say that the Creator is not God; so that the apostle can hardly be thought to have ranked the Creator amongst those who are called gods, without being so; since, even if they had been gods, “to us there is but one God, the Father.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. viii. 6.
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Clement of Alexandria
“But,” he says, “through thy knowledge thy weak brother perishes, for whom Christ died; and they that wound the conscience of the weak brethren sin against Christ.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. viii. 6, 11, 12.
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1 Corinthians 8:6 and Hebrews 2:10 share the same wording (11 words).
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