Galatians 5:21 (WEB)
envy, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit God’s Kingdom.
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 · 16
Irenaeus of Lyons
“Wherefore also it comes to pass, that the “most perfect” among them addict themselves without fear to all those kinds of forbidden deeds of which the Scriptures assure us that “they who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.”” — editor's note: Gal. v. 21.
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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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Augustine of Hippo
“If therefore all those works “shall not possess the kingdom of God” (yea not the works, but “they that do such things;” for such works there shall be none in the fire: for they shall not, while burning in that fire, be committing theft or adultery; but “they that do such things…” — editor's note: Gal. v. 21.
Read the whole comment“…mark of Christ, and so fall into such sins, that it can only be announced against them, “that they who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.”” — editor's note: Gal. v. 21.
Read the whole comment“…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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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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Jerome
“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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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“…that he professes to warn them beforehand, even as he had “told them in time past, that they which do such things should not inherit the kingdom of God,” even because they bore not the image of the heavenly, as they had borne the image of the earthy; and so, in consequence of their old conversation, they were to…” — editor's note: Gal. v. 21.
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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Cross-references · 38
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