Romans 1:17 (WEB)
For in it is revealed God’s righteousness from faith to faith. As it is written, “But the righteous shall live by faith.”
Catechism · 1
“Living faith "work(s) through charity."” — Catechism footnote: Rom 1:17; Gal 5:6.
Fathers and councils · 32
Augustine of Hippo
“Inasmuch as it is a position, written and established on the most solid foundation of apostolic teaching, “that the just lives of faith;” and inasmuch also as this faith demands of us the duty at once of heart and tongue,—for an apostle says, “With the heart man believeth unto righteousness, and…” — editor's note: Hab. ii. 4; Rom. i. 17; Gal. iii. 11; Heb. x. 38
Read the whole comment“Finally, “The just shall live by faith,” and “Christ justifieth the ungodly.”” — editor's note: Rom. i. 17. [P. 78, supra.—C.]
Read the whole comment“For, “the just shall live by faith.”” — editor's note: Hab. ii. 4; Rom. i. 17.
Read the whole comment“For if just he is that of faith liveth, unjust he is that hath not faith.” — editor's note: Rom. i. 17.
Read the whole comment““But the just man of faith shall live.”” — editor's note: Rom. i. 17.
Read the whole comment“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“Let therefore the righteous bear with the ungodly; let the temporal suffering of the righteous bear with the temporal impunity of the wicked; for “the just shall live by faith.”” — editor's note: Rom. i. 17.
Read the whole comment“What meaneth “commanded”?…The command then was faith, that the righteous should live by faith; and an eternal inheritance is set before this faith.” — editor's note: Rom. i. 17.
Read the whole comment“When Thou risest from the dead, and goest unto Thy Father, let that royal Priesthood be clothed with faith, since “the righteous liveth by faith;” and, receiving the pledge of the Holy Spirit, let the members rejoice in the hope of resurrection, which went before in the Head: for to them the Apostle…” — editor's note: Rom. i. 17.
Read the whole comment“Only, in the meanwhile, let us not leave that righteousness which is of faith, since “the just doth live by faith,” as saith the apostle.” — editor's note: Rom. i. 17.
Read the whole comment“Now this life is wrought by faith, “since the just shall live by faith.”” — editor's note: Rom. i. 17
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: Rom. i. 17
Read the whole comment“…is written, “While we are in the body, we are absent from the Lord; for we walk by faith, not by sight;” undoubtedly, so long as the just man lives by faith, howsoever he lives according to the inner man, although he aims at truth and reaches on to things eternal by this same temporal faith, nevertheless in the…” — editor's note: Rom. i. 17
Read the whole comment“Neither let schismatics promise themselves anything of that reward; for similarly, where there is no love, there cannot be righteousness, for “love worketh no ill to his neighbour;” and if they had it, they would not tear in pieces Christ’s body, which is the Church.” — editor's note: Hab. ii. 4 and Rom. i. 17.
Read the whole comment“Whether it be then that as rising again in Him, and in Him coming to the Father, we are invisibly and in justification perfected; or that as not seeing and yet…” — editor's note: Hab. ii. 4; Rom. i. 17.
Read the whole comment“But if it be replied that those who offer in faith may be said to offer in righteousness, because the righteous lives by faith,—he deceives himself, however, if he says that he has no sin, and therefore he does not say so, because he lives by faith,—will any man say this time of faith…” — editor's note: Rom. i. 17.
Read the whole comment“But with us, “the just shall live by faith.”” — editor's note: Rom. i. 17
Read the whole comment“Faith, for “the just doth live by faith.”” — editor's note: Hab. ii. 4; Rom. i. 17.
Read the whole comment“But having obtained that grace of faith, thou shalt be just by faith (for the just lives by faith); and thou shalt obtain favor of God by living by faith.” — editor's note: Hab. ii. 4; Rom. i. 17.
Read the whole comment“Faith: “The just doth live by faith.”” — editor's note: Hab. ii. 14; Rom. i. 17.
Read the whole comment“…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, pass out by this same door, that is, by the faith of Christ; for as true believers…” — editor's note: Rom. i. 17.
Read the whole comment“Thou wert seeking to work righteousness: the just shall live by faith.” — editor's note: Rom. i. 17.
Read the whole comment“I explain it, Lord, as I can: it was surely this Thou didst signify by the preparation of those mansions, that the just ought to live by faith.” — editor's note: Rom. i. 17.
Read the whole comment“But after His servant-form was itself also withdrawn from their view, then in every respect was the word truly fulfilled, “The just liveth by faith.”” — editor's note: Rom. i. 17; Hab. ii. 4; and Heb. xi. 1.
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Gregory of Nyssa
“For “Christ,” as the Apostle says, “is the Righteousness of God,” which is revealed by the Gospel; and whether you look at the world as a whole, or at the parts of the world which make up that complete whole, all these are…” — editor's note: Rom. i. 17.
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Irenaeus of Lyons
“To this effect also Paul, His apostle, says in the Epistle to the Romans, “But now, without the law, has the righteousness of God been manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; for the just shall live by faith.”” — editor's note: Rom. i. 17.
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John Chrysostom
“There was a faith, there is a faith. (“From faith to faith.”) ( Rom. i. 17.)” — the author cites it
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Tertullian
“For each individual lives by his own faith, nor is there exception of persons with God; since it is not hearers of the law who are justified by the Lord, but doers, according to what the apostle withal says.” — editor's note: See Hab. ii. 4; Rom. i. 17; Gal. iii. 11; Heb. x. 38.
Read the whole comment“…unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek; for therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith,” he undoubtedly ascribes both the gospel and salvation to Him whom (in accordance with our heretic’s own distinction) I have called the just God, not the good…” — editor's note: Rom. i. 16, 17.
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Clement of Alexandria
““Now the just shall live by faith,” which is according to the covenant and the commandments; since these, which are two in name and time, given in accordance with the [divine] economy—being in power one—the old and the new, are dispensed through the Son by one God.” — editor's note: Rom. i. 17, etc.
Read the whole comment“And further on again he adds, “The righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith.”” — editor's note: Rom. i. 17.
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Hippolytus of Rome
“And Paul in like manner: “For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth of God in unrighteousness.”” — editor's note: Rom. i. 17.
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Cross-references · 29
Cross-reference given by the World English Bible's translators.
Cited together in The City of God XX.26.
Cited together in The City of God XX.26.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.34.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies II.6.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies II.6.
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity XIII.20 and 1 other place.
Cited together in A Treatise on Faith and the Creed Chapter 1.
Cited together in Catechism §1814 and 1 other place.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies II.6.
Cited together in A Treatise on Faith and the Creed Chapter 1.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.34.
Cited together in The City of God XX.26.
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount I.5.
Cited together in Against Eunomius VI.3.
Cited together in The City of God XX.26.
Cited together in The City of God XX.26.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.34.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.34.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.34.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.34.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.34.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.34 and 2 other places.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.34.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.34.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.34.
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount I.5.
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount I.5.
Cited together in The Enchiridion Chapter 20.