Galatians 5:20

The Sacrament of Penance and Reconciliation

• §1470Article 4 · The Sacrament of Penance and ReconciliationRead at vatican.va

  “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

• §1852Article 8 · SinRead at vatican.va

  “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 First Commandment

• §2113Article 1 · The First CommandmentRead at vatican.va

  “Idolatry rejects the unique Lordship of God; it is therefore incompatible with communion with God.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Gal 5:20; Eph 5:5.

The Battle of Prayer

• §2744Article 2 · The Battle of PrayerRead at vatican.va

  “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

• §2819Article 3 · The Seven PetitionsRead at vatican.va

  “Ever since Pentecost, a decisive battle has been joined between "the flesh" and the Spirit.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Gal 5:16-25.

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

• Basil the Great, Letters Letter 233

  “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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Jerome

• Jerome, Letters Letter 79

  “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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Augustine of Hippo

• Augustine of Hippo, On Continence Chapter 9

  “…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

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• Augustine of Hippo, On Continence Chapter 28

  “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

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• Augustine of Hippo, On the Sermon on the Mount II.24Book II

  “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.

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• Augustine of Hippo, The City of God XIV.2Book XIV

  “…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.

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• Augustine of Hippo, The City of God XXI.25Book XXI

  “…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

• Tertullian, On Modesty Chapter 17

  “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.

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• Tertullian, The Five Books Against Marcion V.9Book V

  “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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• Tertullian, The Prescription Against Heretics Chapter 5

  “On this point, however, we dwell no longer, since it is the same Paul who, in his Epistle to the Galatians, counts “heresies” among “the sins of the flesh,” who also intimates to Titus, that “a man who is a heretic” must be “rejected after the first admonition,” on the ground that “he that is such is perverted,…” — editor's note: Gal. v. 20.

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Cyprian of Carthage

• Cyprian of Carthage, On the Lord's Prayer

  “But the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, magnanimity, goodness, faith, gentleness, continence, chastity.”” — editor's note: Gal. v. 17–22.

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• Cyprian of Carthage, Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.65Book III

  “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

• Clement of Alexandria, The Stromata, or Miscellanies VI.16Book VI

  “Wherefore the noble apostle calls one of the kinds of fornication, idolatry, in following the prophet, who says: “[My people] hath committed fornication with stock and stone.” — editor's note: In close conjunction with idolatry, fornication is mentioned, Col. iii. 5, Gal. v. 20, 1 Pet. iv. 3.

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• Ephesians 5:3

  Cited together in Catechism §1852.

• Ephesians 5:4

  Cited together in Catechism §1852.

• Ephesians 5:5

  Cited together in Catechism §1852 and 1 other place.

• Colossians 3:5

  Cited together in Catechism §1852.

• Colossians 3:6

  Cited together in Catechism §1852.

• Colossians 3:7

  Cited together in Catechism §1852.

• Colossians 3:8

  Cited together in Catechism §1852.

• Revelation 22:15

  Cited together in Catechism §1470.

• Leviticus 17:14

  Cited together in De Principiis III.5.

• Wisdom 8:21

  Cited together in On Continence Chapter 28.

• Jeremiah 12:13

  Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount II.24.

• Matthew 6:24

  Cited together in Catechism §2113.

• Matthew 12:33

  Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount II.24.

• Matthew 23:2

  Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount II.24.

• Matthew 23:3

  Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount II.24.

• John 5:24

  Cited together in Catechism §1470.

• John 6:50

  Cited together in The City of God XXI.25.

• John 6:51

  Cited together in The City of God XXI.25.

• John 6:56

  Cited together in The City of God XXI.25.

• John 20:13

  Cited together in The City of God XIV.2.

• Romans 1:4

  Cited together in De Principiis III.5.

• Romans 1:28

  Cited together in Catechism §1852.

• Romans 1:29

  Cited together in Catechism §1852.

• Romans 1:30

  Cited together in Catechism §1852.

• Romans 1:31

  Cited together in Catechism §1852.

• Romans 1:32

  Cited together in Catechism §1852.

• Romans 3:20

  Cited together in The City of God XIV.2.

• Romans 6:12

  Cited together in Catechism §2819.

• Romans 8:7

  Cited together in De Principiis III.5.

• Romans 14:17

  Cited together in Catechism §2819.

• 1 Corinthians 1:26

  Cited together in De Principiis III.5.

• 1 Corinthians 5:11

  Cited together in Catechism §1470.

• 1 Corinthians 10:17

  Cited together in The City of God XXI.25.

• 1 Corinthians 15:39

  Cited together in The City of God XIV.2.

• 2 Corinthians 11:14

  Cited together in The Prescription Against Heretics Chapter 5.

• Galatians 3:11

  Cited together in The City of God XIV.2.