1 John 5:1

• §2780Article 2 · "Our Father Who Art in Heaven"Read at vatican.va

  “…dimly see: and yet, the Spirit of the Son grants a participation in that very relation to us who believe that Jesus is the Christ and that we are born of God.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Jn 1:1; 1 Jn 5:1.

• §2790Article 2 · "Our Father Who Art in Heaven"Read at vatican.va

  “There is only one God, and he is recognized as Father by those who, through faith in his only Son, are reborn of him by water and the Spirit.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. 1 Jn 5:1; Jn 3:5.

Irenaeus of Lyons

• Irenaeus of Lyons, Against Heresies III.16Book III

  “Wherefore he again exclaims in his Epistle, “Every one that believeth that Jesus is the Christ, has been born of God;” knowing Jesus Christ to be one and the same, to whom the gates of heaven were opened, because of His taking upon Him flesh: who shall also come in the same…” — editor's note: 1 John v. 1.

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Tertullian

• Tertullian, Against Praxeas Chapter 28

  “John, moreover, brands that man as “a liar” who “denieth that Jesus is the Christ;” whilst on the other hand he declares that “every one is born of God who believeth that Jesus is the Christ.”” — editor's note: See 1 John ii. 22, iv. 2, 3, and v. 1.

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Cyril of Jerusalem

• Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures Lecture 12

  “And he that loveth Him that begat, loveth Him also that is begotten of Him; but he that despiseth Him that is begotten casts back the insult upon Him who begat.” — editor's note: 1 John v. 1.

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Theodoret of Cyrus

• Theodoret of Cyrus, Dialogues (Eranistes) §3

  ““So again in his Epistle he says ‘Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God,’ recognising one and the same Jesus Christ to whom the gates of heaven were opened, on account of His assumption in the flesh.” — editor's note: 1 John v. 1

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• Theodoret of Cyrus, Ecclesiastical History I.4Book I

  “…of the self-existent Father, as the Lord Himself testified when He said, ‘Every one that loveth the Father, loveth also the Son that is begotten of Him.’” — editor's note: 1 John v. 1

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Hilary of Poitiers

• Hilary of Poitiers, On the Trinity Book 6

  “Let us hear Him speaking to us in the words of the Epistle;—Every one that loveth the Father loveth Him that is born from Him.” — editor's note: 1 John v. 1.

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• Hilary of Poitiers, On the Trinity Book 12

  “Moreover, the Father never bore witness to Him as being aught else but a Son, nor did the Son profess that God was aught else than His own true Father, assuredly affirming that He was born, not made nor created, as He says, Every one that loveth the Father, loveth also the Son Who is born of Him.” — editor's note: 1 St. John v. 1.

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• John 1:1

  Cited together in Catechism §2780.

• John 3:5

  Cited together in Catechism §2790.

• Acts 2:36

  Cited together in Against Praxeas Chapter 28.

• Acts 4:27

  Cited together in Against Praxeas Chapter 28.

• Acts 4:32

  Cited together in Catechism §2790.

• Romans 8:29

  Cited together in Catechism §2790.

• Ephesians 1:17

  Cited together in Against Praxeas Chapter 28.

• Ephesians 4:4

  Cited together in Catechism §2790.

• Ephesians 4:5

  Cited together in Catechism §2790.

• Ephesians 4:6

  Cited together in Catechism §2790.

• 1 John 2:22

  Cited together in Against Praxeas Chapter 28.

• 1 John 4:2

  Cited together in Against Praxeas Chapter 28.

• 1 John 4:3

  Cited together in Against Praxeas Chapter 28.