Romans 8:28 (WEB)
We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose.
Catechism · 5
The Virtues
“We can therefore hope in the glory of heaven promised by God to those who love him and do his will.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Rom 8:28-30; Mt 7:21.
Grace and Justification
“For those whom he fore knew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the first-born among many brethren. and those whom he predestined he also called; and those whom he called he also justified; and those whom he justified he also glorified."” — Catechism footnote: Rom 8:28-30.
The Battle of Prayer
“For St. Paul, this trust is bold, founded on the prayer of the Spirit in us and on the faithful love of the Father who has given us his only Son.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Rom 10:12-13; 8:26-39.
The Creator
“"We know that in everything God works for good for those who love him."” — Catechism footnote: Rom 8:28.
The Fall
“It is a great mystery that providence should permit diabolical activity, but "we know that in everything God works for good with those who love him."” — Catechism footnote: Rom 8:28.
Fathers and councils · 21
Catena Aurea on Matthew
- Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on Matthew
“…reason does Scripture put one for both; sometimes the love of God; as in that, “We know that all things work together for good to them that love God;” [Rom 8:28] and sometimes the love of our neighbour; as in that, “All the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.”…” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment
Cyril of Jerusalem
“God is lavish in beneficence, yet He waits for each man’s genuine will: therefore the Apostle added and said, to them that are called according to a purpose.” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 28. In S. Paul’s argument the “purpose” is God’s eternal purpose of salvation through Christ (Eph. i. 11; iii. 11): but Cyril applies it here to…
Read the whole comment
John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences I–X VI.9Conference VI
“…as the blessed Apostle confirms this opinion of ours in a verse of Scripture: “But we know that all things work together for good to them that love God.”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 28.
Read the whole comment - John Cassian, Conferences XVIII–XXIV XXIV.24Conference XXIV
“But whoever truly gives up this world and takes upon him Christ’s yoke and learns of Him, and is trained in the daily practice of suffering wrong, for He is “meek and lowly of heart,” will ever remain undisturbed by all temptations, and “all things will work together for good to him.”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 28.
Read the whole comment
Augustine of Hippo
“…is, that no man’s thoughts avail against those “who are called according to His purpose,” and of whom it is said, “If God is for us, who can be against us?”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 28, 31.
Read the whole comment“…or exercising, or crowning, or cleansing, or enlightening; as the Apostle saith, “We know that all things work together for good to them that love God.”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 28.
Read the whole comment“Thus is it brought about that all things come together for good to them that love God.” — editor's note: Concurrant in bonum Rom. viii. 28
Read the whole comment“…Scripture mostly puts one for both: whether it be of God only, as is that text, “For we know that all things work together for good to them that love God;” and again, “But if any man love God, the same is known of Him;” and that, “Because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is…” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 28
Read the whole comment“He that spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all; how has He not with Him also freely given us all things?”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 28–32
Read the whole comment“Or shall we say that the question is needless, and that the apostle is vaporing when he says, “We know that all things work together for good to them that love God?”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 28.
Read the whole comment“For whom He did foreknow, He also did pre destinate to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the first-born among many brethren.”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 28, 29.
Read the whole comment“For even thus they profit by their wickedness those true catholic members of Christ, since God makes a good use even of the wicked, and all things work together for good to them that love Him.” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 28.
Read the whole comment“For whom He did foreknow, He also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the first-born among many brethren: and whom He did predestinate, them He also called.”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 28–30.
Read the whole comment“…purpose the apostle says, “We know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to those who are called according to the purpose of God,” to wit, the purpose of Him that calleth, not of those who are called; which is put still more clearly in another place in this way, “Labor together in the…” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 28.
Read the whole comment
Basil the Great
“For I am convinced that by longer communication and mutual experience without strife, if anything more requires to be added by way of explanation, the Lord Who worketh all things together for good for them that love Him, will grant it.” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 28.
Read the whole comment
Leo the Great
“It is clearly apparent from the brightness of the sentiment quoted by the Apostle, that “all things work together for good to them that love God,” and by the dispensation of God’s pity, where adversities are received, there also prosperity is given.” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 28.
Read the whole comment
Jerome
“In the death of this noble lady we have seen a fulfilment of the apostle’s words:—“All things work together for good to them that fear God.”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 28: note that Jerome substitutes ‘fear’ for ‘love.’
Read the whole comment
Athanasius of Alexandria
“For in it the Lord is our fellow-worker, as it is written, “to all that choose the good, God worketh with them for good.”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 28, R.V. Marg.
Read the whole comment
Tertullian
Chapter XIV.—The Divine Power Shown in Christ’s Incarnation. Meaning of St. Paul’s Phrase. Likeness of Sinful Flesh. No Docetism in It. Resurrection of Our Real Bodies. A Wide Chasm Made in the Epistle by Marcion’s…
Read the whole comment
Clement of Alexandria
““For if God foreknew those who are called, according to His purpose, to be conformed to the image of His Son,” for whose sake, according to the blessed apostle, He has appointed “Him to be the first-born among many brethren,” are they not godless who treat with indignity the body which is of like form with the Lord?” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 28, 29.
Read the whole comment“And whom He did predestinate, them He also called; and whom He called, them He also justified; and whom He justified, them He also glorified.”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 7, 8, 10, 13, 17, 18, 28, 29, 30.
Read the whole comment
Cross-references · 32
Cited together in The City of God XVIII.51.
Cited together in Conferences I–X VI.9.
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Matthew 22:34–40 (6) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Catechism §1821.
Cited together in The City of God I.10.
Cited together in The City of God I.10.
Cited together in The City of God I.10.
Cited together in The City of God I.10.
Cited together in The City of God I.10.
Cited together in The City of God I.10.
Cited together in The City of God I.10.
Cited together in The City of God I.10.
Cited together in The City of God XVIII.51 and 1 other place.
Cited together in The City of God XVIII.51.
Cited together in The City of God I.10.
Cited together in The City of God XVIII.51.
Cited together in The City of God I.10.
Cited together in The City of God XVIII.51.
Cited together in Letters Letter 165.
Cited together in Conferences I–X VI.9.
Cited together in Conferences I–X VI.9.
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity XIII.16.
Cited together in Conferences I–X VI.9.
Cited together in Conferences XVIII–XXIV XXIV.24.
Cited together in The City of God I.10.
Cited together in The City of God I.10.
Cited together in Catechism §1821.
Cited together in Catechism §1821.
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Matthew 22:34–40 (6) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Matthew 22:34–40 (6) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in On the Catechising of the Uninstructed Chapter 11.
Cited together in On the Catechising of the Uninstructed Chapter 11.