Galatians 5:19 (WEB)
Now the deeds of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,
Catechism · 4
The Sacrament of Penance and Reconciliation
“For it is now, in this life, that we are offered the choice between life and death, and it is only by the road of conversion that we can enter the Kingdom, from which one is excluded by grave sin.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. 1 Cor 5:11; Gal 5:19-21; Rev 22:15.
Sin
“I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things shall not inherit the Kingdom of God."” — Catechism footnote: Gal 5:19-21; CE Rom 1:28-32; 1 Cor 9-10; Eph 5:3-5; Col 3:5-8; 1 Tim 9-10; 2 Tim 2-5.
The Battle of Prayer
“Proof from the contrary is no less convincing: if we do not allow the Spirit to lead us, we fall back into the slavery of sin.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Gal 5:16-25.
The Seven Petitions
“Ever since Pentecost, a decisive battle has been joined between "the flesh" and the Spirit.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Gal 5:16-25.
Fathers and councils · 20
Irenaeus of Lyons
“…drunkenness, carousings, and such like; of which I warn you, as also I have warned you, that they who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.”” — editor's note: Gal. v. 19, etc.
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Jerome
“You had a wife, he says, when you believed: do not think the faith of Christ a reason for disagreement, because God called us in peace.“Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing; but the keeping of the commandments of God.”” — editor's note: Gal. v. 19.
Read the whole comment“And the same writer tells us that the works of the flesh and the works of the spirit are manifest, and these are contrary the one to the other, so that we do not the things that we would.” — editor's note: Gal. v. 19.
Read the whole comment“It is clear from the testimony of another book that “the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth,” and that the soul wavers between the works of the flesh and of the spirit enumerated by the apostle, desiring now the former and now the latter.” — editor's note: Gal. v. 19–23.
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Catena Aurea on John
- Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on John
“(Gal. 5:19. et seq.)” — the author cites it
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Catena Aurea on Matthew
- Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on Matthew
“The Apostle says, “The works of the flesh are manifest, which are, fornication, uncleanness, &c.” [Gal 5:19] And which are they by which we may know a good tree?” — the author cites it
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John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences I–X V.4Conference V
“And although the blessed Apostle says generally that all faults are carnal, since he enumerates enmities and anger and heresies among other works of the flesh, yet in order to cure them and to discover their nature more exactly we make a twofold division of them: for we call some of them carnal, and some spiritual.” — editor's note: Cf. Gal. v. 19.
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Origen
- Origen, De Principiis III.5Book III
“…idolatry, poisonings, hatred, contentions, emulations, wrath, quarrelling, dissensions, heresies, sects, envyings, drunkenness, revellings, and the like;” asserting that all these do not derive their origin from the habits or pleasures of the flesh, so that all such movements are to be regarded as inherent in…” — editor's note: Gal. v. 19–21.
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Basil the Great
“Our ways may be wicked, and the movements of our mind wicked; such as adulteries, thefts, idolatries, slanders, strife, passion, sedition, vain-glory, and all that the apostle Paul enumerates among the works of the flesh.” — editor's note: cf. Gal. v. 19, 20, 21.
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Augustine of Hippo
“…drunkennesses, revellings, and such like; of which I foretell to you, as I have foretold, that they who do such things shall not possess the kingdom of God.”” — editor's note: Gal. v. 19–21
Read the whole comment“Yet the Apostle called all these “works of the flesh,” whether what pertained to the soul, or what pertained properly to the flesh, calling forsooth the man himself by the name of the flesh.” — editor's note: Gal. v. 19, 20, 21
Read the whole comment“And what the fruits are by which we may know a good tree, the very same apostle goes on to tell us: “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance.”” — editor's note: Gal. v. 19–23.
Read the whole comment“…and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.”” — editor's note: Gal. v. 19–21.
Read the whole comment“…and the like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, for they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.”” — editor's note: Gal. v. 19–21.
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Tertullian
“Among the first he has set “fornication, impurity, lasciviousness:” “(concerning) which I foretell you, as I have foretold, that whoever do such acts are not to attain by inheritance the kingdom of God.”” — editor's note: Gal. v. 19–21.
Read the whole comment“It is not indeed the flesh which he bids us to put off, but the works which he in another passage shows to be “works of the flesh.”” — editor's note: Gal. v. 19.
Read the whole comment“He means the works of the flesh and blood, which, in his Epistle to the Galatians, deprive men of the kingdom of God.” — editor's note: Gal. v. 19–21.
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Cyprian of Carthage
“But the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, magnanimity, goodness, faith, gentleness, continence, chastity.”” — editor's note: Gal. v. 17–22.
Read the whole comment“For they who are Christ’s have crucified their flesh, with its vices and lusts.”” — editor's note: Gal. v. 17–24.
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Clement of Alexandria
“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, temperance, goodness, faith, meekness.”” — editor's note: [Gal. v. 16, 17, 19–23. S.]
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Cross-references · 45
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 45.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 45.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 45.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 45.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 45.
Cited together in Catechism §1852.
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Cited together in Catechism §1470.
Cited together in De Principiis III.5.
Cited together in Conferences I–X V.4.
Cited together in On Continence Chapter 28.
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount II.24.
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Matthew 7:15–20 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount II.24.
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount II.24.
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount II.24.
Cited together in Catechism §1470.
Cited together in The City of God XXI.25.
Cited together in The City of God XXI.25.
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on John 6:52–54 (4) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in The City of God XXI.25.
Cited together in The City of God XIV.2.
Cited together in De Principiis III.5.
Cited together in Catechism §1852.
Cited together in Catechism §1852.
Cited together in Catechism §1852.
Cited together in Catechism §1852.
Cited together in Catechism §1852.
Cited together in The City of God XIV.2.
Cited together in Catechism §2819.
Cited together in De Principiis III.5.
Cited together in Catechism §2819.
Cited together in De Principiis III.5.
Cited together in Catechism §1470.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.11.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.11.
Cited together in The City of God XXI.25.
Cited together in The City of God XIV.2.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.11.
Cited together in The City of God XIV.2.