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John 3:18

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John 3:18 (WEB)

He who believes in him is not judged. He who doesn’t believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only born Son of God.

Catechism · 3

"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,” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Jn 3:18; Acts 2:21; 5:41; 3 Jn 7; Rom 10:6-13.

  • §444Article 2 · "And in Jesus Christ, His Only Son, Our Lord"Read at vatican.va

    “He asks for faith in "the name of the only Son of God".” — Catechism footnote: Jn 3:18.

"From Thence He Will Come Agaln to Judge the Living and the Dead"

  • §679Article 7 · "From Thence He Will Come Agaln to Judge the Living and the Dead"Read at vatican.va

    “By rejecting grace in this life, one already judges oneself, receives according to one's works, and can even condemn oneself for all eternity by rejecting the Spirit of love.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Jn 3:18; 12:48; Mt 12:32; I Cor 3:12-15; Heb 6:4-6; 10:26-31.

Fathers and councils · 30

Irenaeus of Lyons

  • “It is not, [however], that the light has inflicted upon them the penalty of blindness, but it is that the blindness itself has brought calamity upon them: and therefore the Lord declared, “He that believeth in Me is not condemned,” that is, is not separated from God, for he is united to God through faith.” — editor's note: John iii. 18–21.

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Athanasius of Alexandria

  • “For He who here says, ‘I came not to judge the world but to save,’ is shewn to be no other than the Only-begotten Son of God, by the same John’s saying before, ‘For God so loved the world that He gave His Only-begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” — editor's note: Ib. iii. 16–19.

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Cyril of Jerusalem

Ambrose of Milan

Augustine of Hippo

John Chrysostom

Hilary of Poitiers

Gregory of Nazianzus

Clement of Alexandria

Cyprian of Carthage

Catena Aurea on John

  • John ChrysostomCatena Aurea on John

    Having said, Even so must the Son of man be lifted up, alluding to His death; lest His hearer should be cast down by His words, forming some human notion of Him, and thinking of His death as an evil1, He corrects…

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  • Hilary of PoitiersCatena Aurea on John

    If it were only a creature given up for the sake of a creature, such a poor and insignificant loss were no great evidence of love. They must be precious things which prove our love, great things must evidence its…

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  • Theophylact of OhridCatena Aurea on John

    As He said above, that the Son of man came down from heaven, not meaning that His flesh did come down from heaven, on account of the unity of person in Christ, attributing to man what belonged to God: so now…

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  • BedeCatena Aurea on John

    1; Note here, that the same which he before said of the Son of man, lifted up on the cross, he repeats of the only begotten Son of God: viz. That whosoever believeth in Him, &c. For the same our Maker and Redeemer,…

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  • Alcuin of YorkCatena Aurea on John

    Truly through the Son of God shall the world have life; for for no other cause came He into the world, except to save the world. God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through…

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  • Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on John

    For why is He called the Saviour of the world, but because Ho saves the world? The physician, so far as his will is concerned, heals the sick. If the sick despises or will not observe the directions of the physician,…

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  • John ChrysostomCatena Aurea on John

    Because however He says this, slothful men in the multitude of their sins, and excess of carelessness, abuse God’s mercy, and say, There is no hell, no punishment; God remits us all our sins. But let us remember,…

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  • Alcuin of YorkCatena Aurea on John

    He who believes on Him, and cleaves to Him as a member to the head, will not be condemned.

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  • Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on John

    What didst thou expect Him to say of him who believed not, except that he is condemned. Yet mark His words: He that believeth not is condemned already. The Judgment hath not appeared, bat it is already given. For the…

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  • John ChrysostomCatena Aurea on John

    Or the meaning is, that disbelief itself is the punishment of the impenitent: inasmuch as that is to be without light, and to be without light is of itself the greatest punishment. Or He is announcing what is to be.…

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  • Gregory the GreatCatena Aurea on John

    Or thus: In the last judgment some perish without being judged, of whom it is here said, He that believeth not is condemned already. For the day of judgment does not try those who for unbelief are already banished…

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  • Alcuin of YorkCatena Aurea on John

    He then gives the reason why he who believeth not is condemned, viz. because he believeth not in the name of the only begotten Son of God. For in this name alone is there salvation. God hath not many sons who can…

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  • Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on John

    Where then do we place baptized children? Amongst those who believe? This is acquired for them by the virtue of the Sacrament, and the pledges of the sponsors. And by this same rule we reckon those who are not…

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  • John 3:18 and 1 John 5:10 share the same wording (16 words).

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