Colossians 3:18

• §2204Article 4 · The Fourth CommandmentRead at vatican.va

  “It is a community of faith, hope, and charity; it assumes singular importance in the Church, as is evident in the New Testament.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Eph 5:21b: 4; Col 3:18-21; 1 Pet 3:1-7.

Origen

• Origen, Against Celsus V.5Book V

  “And it is enough to secure that the holy angels of God be propitious to us, and that they do all things on our behalf, that our disposition of mind towards God should imitate as far as it is within the power of human nature the example…” — editor's note: [Comp. Col. iii. 18 and cap. viii., infra.]

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Clement of Alexandria

• Clement of Alexandria, The Stromata, or Miscellanies IV.7Book IV

  “Masters, render to your servants justice and equity; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven, where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bond, free: but Christ is all, and in all.”” — editor's note: Col. iii. 18–25, iv. 1, iii. 11.

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• 1 Peter 3:1

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• 1 Peter 3:2

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• 1 Peter 3:3

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• 1 Peter 3:4

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• 1 Peter 3:5

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• 1 Peter 3:6

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• 1 Peter 3:7

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• Ephesians 5:21

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