Romans 12:5 (WEB)
so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another,
Catechism · 1
“Such is the sacrifice of Christians: "we who are many are one Body in Christ" the Church continues to reproduce this sacrifice in the sacrament of the altar so well-known to believers wherein it is evident to them that in what she offers she herself is offered.” — Catechism footnote: St. Augustine, De civ Dei, 10, 6: PL 41, 283; cf. Rom 12:5.
Fathers and councils · 8
John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences XI–XVII XIV.5Conference XIV
“…in doctrine, or he that exhorteth in exhortation, he that giveth, in simplicity, he that ruleth, with carefulness, he that showeth mercy, with cheerfulness.”” — editor's note: Rom. xii. 4–8.
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Augustine of Hippo
“For what we have believed in the Head, they that have seen, have themselves told us, and by themselves we have seen: “For we are” all “one body.”” — editor's note: Rom. xii. 5.
Read the whole comment““We being many,” saith the Apostle, “are one Body in Christ;” he saith also, “we being many are one Bread and one Body.”” — editor's note: Rom. xii. 5.
Read the whole comment“Forsooth the same Apostle says, “For, as in one body we have many members, but all members have not the same course of action; so being many we are one body in Christ, and each members one of another: having gifts diverse according unto the grace, which hath been given unto us.”” — editor's note: Rom. xii. 4–6
Read the whole comment“For, as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office, so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another, having gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us.”” — editor's note: Rom. xii. 3–6.
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John Chrysostom
“We partake of Him (he means); we were made One, we and He—since He is the Head and we the body, “fellow-heirs and of the same body; we are one body, of His flesh and of His bones.” ( Eph. iii. 6; Rom. xii. 5; Eph. v. 30.)” — the author cites it
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Leo the Great
“For the cementing of our unity cannot be firm unless we be bound by the bond of love into an inseparable solidity: because “as in one body we have many members, but all the members have not the same office; so we being many are one body in Christ, and all of us members one of another.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xii. 12, &c.: the quotation is loose, cf. Rom. xii. 5.
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Basil the Great
“For we all are “members one of another, having gifts differing according to the grace that is given us.”” — editor's note: Rom. xii. 5, 6.
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Cross-references · 13
Cited together in Letters Letter 14.
Cited together in Letters Letter 14.
Cited together in Letters Letter 14.
Cited together in Letters Letter 14.
Cited together in Letters Letter 14.
Cited together in Letters Letter 14.
Cited together in Letters Letter 14.
Cited together in The City of God X.5.
Cited together in The City of God X.5.
Cited together in Letters Letter 14.
Cited together in Letters Letter 14.
Cited together in Letters Letter 14.
Cited together in The City of God X.5.