James 2:7

The Second Commandment

• §2148Article 2 · The Second CommandmentRead at vatican.va

  “St. James condemns those "who blaspheme that honorable name [of Jesus] by which you are called."” — Catechism footnote: Jas 2:7.

"And in Jesus Christ, His Only Son, Our Lord"

• §432Article 2 · "And in Jesus Christ, His Only Son, Our Lord"Read at vatican.va

  “It is the divine name that alone brings salvation, and henceforth all can invoke his name, for Jesus united himself to all men through his Incarnation, so that "there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved."” — Catechism footnote: Acts 4:12; cf. 9:14; Jas 2:7.

• Clement of Alexandria, The Stromata, or Miscellanies IV.9Book IV

  “…destitute of inordinate affection, but that we may not by retaliating make our persecutors savage against ourselves, and stir them up to blaspheme the name.” — editor's note: [An excellent rendering, which the Latin translator misses (see ed. Migne, ad loc.), the reference being to Jas. ii. 7.]

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• Matthew 10:23

  Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies IV.9.

• John 3:18

  Cited together in Catechism §432.

• Acts 2:21

  Cited together in Catechism §432.

• Acts 4:12

  Cited together in Catechism §432.

• Acts 5:41

  Cited together in Catechism §432.

• Romans 10:6

  Cited together in Catechism §432.

• Romans 10:7

  Cited together in Catechism §432.

• Romans 10:8

  Cited together in Catechism §432.

• Romans 10:9

  Cited together in Catechism §432.

• Romans 10:10

  Cited together in Catechism §432.

• Romans 10:11

  Cited together in Catechism §432.

• Romans 10:12

  Cited together in Catechism §432.

• Romans 10:13

  Cited together in Catechism §432.