Romans 5

This chapter in the Catechism and the early Church

Where the Catechism of the Catholic Church cites these verses (from its footnotes on vatican.va), and where the earliest Church Fathers quote them (Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1, public domain). Short quotes only; follow the links for the full text.

1. Verse 3CCC 2734 CCC 2847
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   • CCC 2734 “Filial trust is tested - it proves itself - in tribulation. The principal difficulty concerns the prayer of petition, for oneself or…”
   • CCC 2847 “The Holy Spirit makes us discern between trials, which are necessary for the growth of the inner man, and temptation, which leads…”
2. Verse 4CCC 2734 CCC 2847
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   • CCC 2734 “Filial trust is tested - it proves itself - in tribulation. The principal difficulty concerns the prayer of petition, for oneself or…”
   • CCC 2847 “The Holy Spirit makes us discern between trials, which are necessary for the growth of the inner man, and temptation, which leads…”
3. Verse 5CCC 368 CCC 733 CCC 1820 CCC 1964 CCC 2658 CCC 2734 CCC 2847
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   • CCC 368 “The spiritual tradition of the Church also emphasizes the heart, in the biblical sense of the depths of one's being, where the…”
   • CCC 733 “God is Love" and love is his first gift, containing all others. "God's love has been poured into our hearts through the…”
   • CCC 1820 “Christian hope unfolds from the beginning of Jesus' preaching in the proclamation of the beatitudes. the beatitudes raise our hope toward heaven…”
   • CCC 1964 “The Old Law is a preparation for the Gospel. "The Law is a pedagogy and a prophecy of things to come." It…”
   • CCC 2658 “Hope does not disappoint us, because God's love has been poured into our hearts by the Holy Spirit who has been given…”
   • CCC 2734 “Filial trust is tested - it proves itself - in tribulation. The principal difficulty concerns the prayer of petition, for oneself or…”
4. Verse 6
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   • “For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of His Son; much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.”

     Quoted in Against Heresies, Book III, St. Irenaeus of Lyons (c. AD 180), Chapter XVI. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1

5. Verse 8CCC 604
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   • CCC 604 “By giving up his own Son for our sins, God manifests that his plan for us is one of benevolent love, prior…”
6. Verse 10CCC 603 CCC 1825
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   • CCC 603 “Jesus did not experience reprobation as if he himself had sinned. But in the redeeming love that always united him to the…”
   • CCC 1825 “Christ died out of love for us, while we were still "enemies." The Lord asks us to love as he does, even…”
7. Verse 12CCC 388 CCC 400 CCC 402 CCC 602 CCC 612 CCC 1008
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   • CCC 388 “With the progress of Revelation, the reality of sin is also illuminated. Although to some extent the People of God in the…”
   • CCC 400 “The harmony in which they had found themselves, thanks to original justice, is now destroyed: the control of the soul's spiritual faculties…”
   • CCC 402 “All men are implicated in Adam's sin, as St. Paul affirms: "By one man's disobedience many (that is, all men) were made…”
   • CCC 602 “Consequently, St. Peter can formulate the apostolic faith in the divine plan of salvation in this way: "You were ransomed from the…”
   • CCC 612 “The cup of the New Covenant, which Jesus anticipated when he offered himself at the Last Supper, is afterwards accepted by him…”
   • CCC 1008 “Death is a consequence of sin. the Church's Magisterium, as authentic interpreter of the affirmations of Scripture and Tradition, teaches that death…”
8. Verse 14
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   • “… flesh nor truly made man, are as yet under the old condemnation, holding out patronage to sin; for, by their showing, death has not been vanquished, which "reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression.”

     Quoted in Against Heresies, Book III, St. Irenaeus of Lyons (c. AD 180), Chapter XVIII. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1

   • “Hence also was Adam himself termed by Paul "the figure of Him that was to come,”

     Quoted in Against Heresies, Book III, St. Irenaeus of Lyons (c. AD 180), Chapter XXII. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1

9. Verse 18CCC 402 CCC 605
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   • CCC 402 “All men are implicated in Adam's sin, as St. Paul affirms: "By one man's disobedience many (that is, all men) were made…”
   • CCC 605 “At the end of the parable of the lost sheep Jesus recalled that God's love excludes no one: "So it is not…”
10. Verse 19CCC 397 CCC 402 CCC 411 CCC 532 CCC 605 CCC 615 CCC 1009
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    • CCC 397 “Man, tempted by the devil, let his trust in his Creator die in his heart and, abusing his freedom, disobeyed God's command.…”
    • CCC 402 “All men are implicated in Adam's sin, as St. Paul affirms: "By one man's disobedience many (that is, all men) were made…”
    • CCC 411 “The Christian tradition sees in this passage an announcement of the "New Adam" who, because he "became obedient unto death, even death…”
    • CCC 532 “Jesus' obedience to his mother and legal father fulfils the fourth commandment perfectly and was the temporal image of his filial obedience…”
    • CCC 605 “At the end of the parable of the lost sheep Jesus recalled that God's love excludes no one: "So it is not…”
    • CCC 615 “For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by one man's obedience many will be made righteous." By his…”

    • “For as by the disobedience of the one man who was originally moulded from virgin soil, the many were made sinners,”

      Quoted in Against Heresies, Book III, St. Irenaeus of Lyons (c. AD 180), Chapter XVIII. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1

    • “For as by one man's disobedience sin entered, and death obtained [a place] through sin; so also by the obedience of one man, righteousness having been introduced, shall cause life to fructify in those persons who in times past were dead.”

      Quoted in Against Heresies, Book III, St. Irenaeus of Lyons (c. AD 180), Chapter XXI. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1

11. Verse 20CCC 312 CCC 385 CCC 411 CCC 412 CCC 1009 CCC 1848
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    • CCC 312 “In time we can discover that God in his almighty providence can bring a good from the consequences of an evil, even…”
    • CCC 385 “God is infinitely good and all his works are good. Yet no one can escape the experience of suffering or the evils…”
    • CCC 411 “The Christian tradition sees in this passage an announcement of the "New Adam" who, because he "became obedient unto death, even death…”
    • CCC 412 “But why did God not prevent the first man from sinning? St. Leo the Great responds, "Christ's inexpressible grace gave us blessings…”
    • CCC 1009 “Death is transformed by Christ. Jesus, the Son of God, also himself suffered the death that is part of the human condition.…”
    • CCC 1848 “As St. Paul affirms, "Where sin increased, grace abounded all the more." But to do its work grace must uncover sin so…”

    • “… himself hearers void of faith, affecting to be esteemed a teacher, and endeavouring from time to time to employ sayings of this kind often [made use of] by Paul: "In Adam we all die;" ignorant, however, that "where sin abounded, grace did much more abound.”

      Quoted in Against Heresies, Book III, St. Irenaeus of Lyons (c. AD 180), Chapter XXIII. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1

12. Verse 21CCC 1009 CCC 1848
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    • CCC 1009 “Death is transformed by Christ. Jesus, the Son of God, also himself suffered the death that is part of the human condition.…”
    • CCC 1848 “As St. Paul affirms, "Where sin increased, grace abounded all the more." But to do its work grace must uncover sin so…”