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of the Nicaean Creed
We believe:
Acts 15:11 - But we believe that we shall be saved through
the grace of the Lord Jesus, just as they will John 16:30 -
Now we know that you know all things, and need none to question
you; by this we believe that you came from God.
In one God:
Malachi 2:10
- Have we not all one father? Has not one God created
us? Why then are we faithless to one another, profaning
the covenant of our fathers?Ephesians 4:6
- one God and Father of us all, who is above all and through
all and in all.
The Father Almighty:
Ephesians 6:23
- Peace be to the brethren, and love with faith, from
God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.Genesis 35:11
- And God said to him, "I am God Almighty: be fruitful
and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall come
from you, and kings shall spring from you.
Maker
of all things:
Genesis 14:22
- But Abram said to the king of Sodom, "I have sworn
to the LORD God Most High, maker of heaven and earth.Hebrews 11:10
- For he looked forward to the city which has foundations,
whose builder and maker is God.Isaiah 44:24
- Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, who formed you from
the womb: "I am the LORD, who made all things, who
stretched out the heavens alone, who spread out the earth--Who
was with me?Ephesians 3:9
- and to make all men see what is the plan of the mystery
hidden for ages in God who created all things.
Visible
and Invisible:
Colossians 1:16
- for in him all things were created, in heaven and on
earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions
or principalities or authorities--all things were created
through him and for him.
And (we believe) in one Lord Jesus Christ:
Acts
11:17 - If then God gave the same gift to them as he gave
to us when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was
I that I could withstand God?"2 Corinthians
1:3 - Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
the Father of mercies and God of all comfort.
The Son
of God:
Matthew 14:33 - And those in the boat worshiped him, saying,
"Truly you are the Son of God.1 John 4:15 -
Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides
in him, and he in God.
The Only Begotten:
Psalms 2:7 -
I will tell of the decree of the LORD: He said to me, "You
are my son, today I have begotten you.Hebrews 1:5 -
For to what angel did God ever say, "Thou art my Son,
today I have begotten thee"? Or again, "I will
be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son"?
The First Born of all created:
Colossians
1:15 - He is the image of the invisible God, the first-born
of all creation.Hebrews 1:6 -
And again, when he brings the first-born into the world,
he says, "Let all God's angels worship him.
"Begotten
of His Father before all worlds and not made:
Hebrews
5:5 - So also Christ did not exalt himself to be made
a high priest, but was appointed by him who said to him, "Thou
art my Son, today I have begotten thee.”Matthew
16:27 - For the Son of man is to come with his angels
in the glory of his Father, and then he will repay every
man for what he has done.John 1:10 - He
was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet
the world knew him not.Mark 14:58 –
“I will destroy this temple that is made with hands,
and in three days I will build another, not made with hands.”
Very God of Very God:
John 1:1 - In
the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God,
and the Word was God.1 John 5:20 -
And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us
understanding, to know him who is true; and we are in him
who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God
and eternal life.John 20:28 -
Thomas answered him, "My Lord and my God!
"Of one
essence with His Father:
Revelation 1:8
- "I am the Alpha and the Omega," says the
Lord God, who is and who was and who is to come, the
Almighty.Isaiah 44:6 -
Thus says the LORD, the King of Israel and his Redeemer,
the LORD of hosts: "I am the first and I am the
last; besides me there is no god.Revelation 1:17
- When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. But
he laid his right hand upon me, saying, "Fear
not, I am the first and the last, Philippians 2:6 -
who, though he (Jesus) was in the form of God, did
not count equality with God a thing to be grasped.Colossians
2:9 - For in him (Jesus) the whole fullness of deity dwells
bodily.John 10:38 -
but if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe
the works, that you may know and understand that the Father
is in me and I am in the Father.
By whose
hands the worlds were was established and everything
was created:
John
1:3 - all things were made through him, and without him
was not anything made that was made.John 1:10 - He
was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet
the world knew him not.Revelation 4:11
- "Worthy art thou, our Lord and God, to receive glory
and honour and power, for thou didst create all things,
and by thy will they existed and were created.
Who for us men and for our salvation came down form
heaven:
John 6:38 -
For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will,
but the will of him who sent me.John 6:41 - The
Jews then murmured at him, because he said, "I am
the bread which came down from heaven.John 3:13 - No
one has ascended into heaven but he who descended from
heaven, the Son of man. John 6:42 - They said, "Is
not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother
we know? How does he now say, 'I have come down from heaven'?Titus
2:11 - For the grace of God has appeared for the salvation
of all menLuke 1:77 - to give knowledge of salvation to
his people in the forgiveness of their sins.2 Timothy 2:10
- Therefore I endure everything for the sake of the elect,
that they also may obtain salvation in Christ Jesus with
its eternal glory.
And was incarnated by the Holy Spirit:
Matthew
1:18 - Now the birth of Jesus Christ took place in this
way. When his mother Mary had been betrothed toJoseph,
before they came together she was found to be with child
of the Holy Spirit.Matthew 1:20
- But as he considered this, behold, an angel of the Lord
appeared to him in a dream, saying, "Joseph, son of
David, do not fear to take Mary your wife, for that which
is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit.
And became
man and was conceived and born of Virgin Mary:
Isaiah
7:14 - Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign.
Behold, a virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall
call his name Imman'u-el. Matthew 1:16
- and Jacob the father of Joseph the husband of Mary, of
whom Jesus was born, who is called Christ.
Luke 1:27 - to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was
Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin's name was
Mary.
He suffered
and was crucified in the days of Pontius Pilate:
Acts
4:27 - for truly in this city there were gathered together
against thy holy servant Jesus, whom thou didst anoint,
both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and
the peoples of Israel, Matthew 16:21
- From that time Jesus began to show his disciples that
he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the
elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed,
and on the third day be raised.Matthew 27:26
- Then he released for them Barab'bas, and having scourged
Jesus, delivered him to be crucified.Acts 2:36 - Let
all the house of Israel therefore know assuredly that God
has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you
crucified.
He was
buried and He rose again on the third day (first day
of the week – Sunday):
Mark 15:46 -
And he bought a linen shroud, and taking him (Jesus) down,
wrapped him in the linen shroud, and laid him in a tomb
which had been hewn out of the rock; and he rolled a
stone against the door of the tomb.Mark 16:9 - Now
when he (Jesus) rose early on the first day of the week,
he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had
cast out seven demons.
Luke 24:5 - and as they were frightened and bowed their
faces to the ground, the men said to them, "Why do
you seek the living among the dead? 6 Remember how he told
you, while he was still in Galilee, 7 that the Son of man
must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified,
and on the third day rise." 8 And they remembered
his words, 9 and returning from the tomb they told all
this to the eleven and to all the rest.Matthew 16:21
- From that time Jesus began to show his disciples that
he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the
elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and
on the third day be raised. Matthew 28:1
- Now after the sabbath, toward the dawn of the first day
of the week, Mary Mag'dalene and the other Mary went to
see the sepulcher.
As it is written and ascended into Heaven and sat on the
right hand of His Father:
John 20:17 -
Jesus said to her, "Do not hold me, for I have not
yet ascended to the Father; but go to my brethren and
say to them, I am ascending to my Father and your Father,
to my God and your God."Mark 16:19 -
So then the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was
taken up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of
God.
And He
shall come again to judge the dead and the living:
John
5:22 - The Father judges no one, but has given all judgment
to the Son.Acts 10:42 -
And he commanded us to preach to the people, and to testify
that he (Jesus) is the one ordained by God to be judge
of the living and the dead.
And (we believe) in one Holy Spirit, the spirit
of truth:
Luke 12:12 -
for the Holy Spirit will teach you in that very hour
what you ought to say."Acts 1:5 - for
John baptized with water, but before many days you shall
be baptized with the Holy Spirit."Titus 3:5 - he
saved us, not because of deeds done by us in righteousness,
but in virtue of his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration
and renewal in the Holy Spirit.John 14:17 - even the
Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because
it neither sees him nor knows him; you know him, for
he dwells with you, and will be in you.
Who proceedeth from the Father, the life-giving
Spirit:
Luke 11:13 -
If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts
to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father
give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!"John
15:26 - But when the Counsellor comes, whom I shall send
to you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, who
proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness to me;1
Corinthians 15:45 - Thus it is written, "The first
man Adam became a living being"; the last Adam became
a life-giving spirit.
And (we
believe) in one Holy Apostolic and Catholic (universal)
Church:
Ephesians 2:20 - built upon the foundation of the apostles
and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone.
Ephesians 5:25 - Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved
the church and gave himself up for her, 26 that he might
sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water
with the word, 27 that he might present the church to himself
in splendour, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing,
that she might be holy and without blemish.Matthew 28:19
- Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing
them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the
Holy Spirit.
And we
confess one Baptism for the remission of sins:
Mark
1:4 - John the baptizer appeared in the wilderness, preaching
a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.Ephesians
4:5 - one Lord, one faith, one baptism.Peter 3:21 -
Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you, not
as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to
God for a clear conscience, through the resurrection
of Jesus Christ.Acts 2:38 - And
Peter said to them, "Repent, and be baptized every
one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness
of your sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy
Spirit.
And the
resurrection of our bodies and the life for ever and
ever:
Romans
6:3 - Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized
into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4 We
were buried therefore with him by baptism into death,
so that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory
of theFather, we too might walk in newness of life. 5
For if we have been united with him in a death like his,
we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection
like his.1 Corinthians
15:12 - Now if Christ is preached as raised from the dead,
how can some of you say that there is no resurrection
of the dead? 13 But if there is no resurrection of the
dead, then Christ has not been raised; 14 if Christ has
not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your
faith is in vain.1 Corinthians
15:21 - For as by a man (Adam) came death, by a man (Jesus)
has come also the resurrection of the dead.John 3:16
- For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son,
that whoever believes in him should not perish but have
eternal life.John 6:47 - Truly, truly, I say to you,
he who believes has eternal life.Romans 6:22 - But now
that you have been set free from sin and have become
slaves of God, the return you get is sanctification and
its end, eternal life. Jude 1:21 - keep yourselves in
the love of God; wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus
Christ unto eternal life.