Galatians 5:6 (WEB)
For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision amounts to anything, but faith working through love.
Catechism · 3
I Believe
“To live, grow and persevere in the faith until the end we must nourish it with the word of God; we must beg the Lord to increase our faith; it must be "working through charity," abounding in hope, and rooted in the faith of the Church.” — Catechism footnote: Gal 5:6; Rom 15:13; cf. Jas 2:14-26
The Virtues
“Living faith "work(s) through charity."” — Catechism footnote: Rom 1:17; Gal 5:6.
The Moral Law
The New Law is called a law of love because it makes us act out of the love infused by the Holy Spirit, rather than from fear; a law of grace, because it confers the strength of grace to act, by means of faith and…
Fathers and councils · 33
Augustine of Hippo
“For what else is bending the bow and shooting, and turning back in the day of war, but heeding and purposing in the day of hearing, and deserting in the day of temptation; flourishing arms, so to speak, beforehand, and at the hour of the action refusing to fight?” — editor's note: Rom. i. 17; Gal. v. 6; Phil. ii. 13.
Read the whole comment“There is therefore one work, in which are all, “faith which worketh by love:” whence our Lord’s words in the Gospel, “This is the work of God, that ye believe in Him whom He hath sent.”” — editor's note: Gal. v. 6.
Read the whole comment“For there is no righteousness of man in this life except to live by faith, “which worketh by love.”” — editor's note: Gal. v. 6.
Read the whole comment“This is the law of faith, not a vain faith, but that which worketh through love.” — editor's note: Gal. v. 6.
Read the whole comment“Now the work of faith is Love, as Paul the apostle saith, “And faith which worketh by love.”” — editor's note: Gal. v. 6.
Read the whole comment“…yet are they workers together through this, wherein themselves also are virgins and mothers of Christ, that is to say, in “faith which worketh through love.”” — editor's note: Gal. v. 6
Read the whole comment“…Church of God, one, true, very-begotten, catholic, holding the godly faith; not the faith which works through elation or fear, but “which worketh by love;” nevertheless, even the sons of the concubines, when Abraham sent them away from his son Isaac, he did not omit to bestow upon them some gifts, that they might…” — editor's note: Gal. v. 6
Read the whole comment“Therefore every one sees his own faith in himself; but does not see, but believes, that it is in another; and believes this the more firmly, the more he knows the fruits of it, which faith is wont to work by love.” — editor's note: Gal. v. 6
Read the whole comment“And now we so conclude this book, that we admonish the just to live by faith, which faith worketh by love, so that the virtues also themselves, by which one lives prudently, boldly, temperately, and justly, be all referred to the same faith; for not otherwise can they be true virtues.” — editor's note: Gal. v. 6
Read the whole comment“And therefore also the Apostle Paul says, “In Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith that worketh by love:” so distinguishing it from that faith by which even “the devils believe and tremble.”” — editor's note: Gal. v. 6
Read the whole comment“But by what, and what kind of faith, save that which the Apostle Paul defines when he says, “Faith which worketh by love.”” — editor's note: Gal. v. 6.
Read the whole comment“…who believe and are baptized, but some only; those, to wit, who are settled in that faith, which, according to the Apostle’s distinction, “worketh by love:” so when he said, “He that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness,” he did not intend every kind, but a specific sin of blasphemy against…” — editor's note: Gal. v. 6.
Read the whole comment“But” because “the doers of the law shall be justified,” and, “faith worketh by love:” it saith, “Great peace have they who love Thy law, and nothing is an offence to them.”” — editor's note: Gal. v. 6.
Read the whole comment“Let the Apostle make the distinction, let him teach us; “neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith.”” — editor's note: Gal. v. 6.
Read the whole comment“…heart must be cleansed: and it is cleansed by a good conversation, by a pure life, by chastity, and sanctity, and love, and by “faith, which worketh by love” (now all this that I am speaking of, is, as it were, the tree which hath its root in the heart; for it is only from the root of the heart that actions proceed;…” — editor's note: Gal. v. 6.
Read the whole comment“And this prayer is efficacious not for those whose faith is “without works and dead,” but for those whose faith “worketh by love.”” — editor's note: Gal. v. 6.
Read the whole comment“And this faith, according to the apostle’s definition of it, “worketh by love.”” — editor's note: Gal. v. 6.
Read the whole comment“Moreover, when the mind has been imbued with the first elements of that faith which worketh by love, it endeavors by purity of life to attain unto sight, where the pure and perfect in heart know that unspeakable beauty, the full vision of which is supreme happiness.” — editor's note: Gal. v. 6
Read the whole comment“And so the Apostle Paul approves and commends the “faith that worketh by love;” and this certainly cannot exist without hope.” — editor's note: Gal. v. 6
Read the whole comment“In short, a mistake in matters of this kind, whatever its nature and magnitude, does not relate to the way of approach to God, which is the faith of Christ that “worketh by love.”” — editor's note: Gal. v. 6
Read the whole comment“…Paul clearly enough describes when he says: “For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith which worketh by love.”” — editor's note: Gal. v. 6
Read the whole comment“Now this is the true faith of Christ which the apostle speaks of, “which worketh by love;” and if there is anything that it does not yet embrace in its love, asks that it may receive, seeks that it may find, and knocks that it may be opened unto it.” — editor's note: Gal. v. 6
Read the whole comment“For it is that same faith that worketh by love.” — editor's note: Gal. v. 6.
Read the whole comment“Not any faith of what kind soever, but “faith that worketh by love:” let this faith be in thee, and thou shall understand concerning the doctrine.” — editor's note: Gal. v. 6.
Read the whole comment“Therefore, He saith, “I am come that they may have life,” that is, faith, which worketh by love; by which faith they enter the fold that they may live, for the just liveth by faith: “and that they may have it more abundantly,” who, enduring unto the end,…” — editor's note: Gal. v. 6.
Read the whole comment“It is this very faith that worketh by love, according to the measure thereof that the Lord hath given to every man; that he that glorieth may glory, not in himself, but in the Lord.” — editor's note: Gal. v. 6.
Read the whole comment“For whence should we have them, were it not that faith worketh by love?” — editor's note: Gal. v. 6.
Read the whole comment“If, then, it is now the season of faith, and faith’s reward is the salvation of our souls; who, in that faith which worketh by love, can doubt that the day must come to an end, and at its close the reward be received; not only the redemption of our body, whereof the Apostle Paul speaketh,…” — editor's note: Gal. v. 6.
Read the whole comment“Yea, verily, some even of those who saw, and still hated, He did convert, by this manifestation of Himself, to the faith that worketh by love.” — editor's note: Gal. v. 6.
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John Chrysostom
“And be not confounded when you hear Him say, “which are not of this fold” ( Gal. v. 6 ), for the difference relateth to the Law only, as also Paul saith, “Neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision.”” — the author cites it
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Tertullian
“He circumcised Timotheus alone, and yet did away with circumcision.” — editor's note: Comp. Acts xvi. 1–3 with Gal. v. 2–6, and similar passages.
Read the whole comment“If, now, he were for excluding circumcision, as the messenger of a new god, why does he say that “in Christ neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision?”” — editor's note: Gal. v. 6.
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Clement of Alexandria
“For in Christ neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith which worketh by love.”” — editor's note: Gal. v. 5, 6.
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Cross-references · 38
Cited together in The Enchiridion Chapter 67.
Cited together in The City of God XIX.27 and 1 other place.
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity XV.18 and 1 other place.
Cited together in The City of God XIX.27.
Cited together in The City of God XIX.27.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 82.
Cited together in On Patience Chapter 25.
Cited together in On Patience Chapter 25.
Cited together in On Patience Chapter 25.
Cited together in The Enchiridion Chapter 21.
Cited together in The City of God XIX.27.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 82.
Cited together in The City of God XIX.27.
Cited together in The City of God XIX.27.
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity XIII.2.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 92.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 92.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 92.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 92.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 92.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 92.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 29.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 29.
Cited together in The City of God XXI.25.
Cited together in The City of God XXI.25.
Cited together in The City of God XXI.25.
Cited together in The Enchiridion Chapter 21.
Cited together in The Enchiridion Chapter 21.
Cited together in The Enchiridion Chapter 21.
Cited together in Catechism §1814 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 82.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 29.
Cited together in The Enchiridion Chapter 117 and 1 other place.
Cited together in On Patience Chapter 25.
Cited together in On Patience Chapter 25.
Cited together in The City of God XXI.25.
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity XV.18.
Cited together in The Enchiridion Chapter 117.