Colossians 3:25
For he that doth wrong, shall receive for that which he hath done wrongfully: and there is no respect of persons with God.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Qui enim injuriam facit, recipiet id quod inique gessit : et non est personarum acceptio apud Deum.
- Greek New Testament (SBLGNT)
- ὁ γὰρ ἀδικῶν κομίσεται ὃ ἠδίκησεν, καὶ οὐκ ἔστιν προσωπολημψία.
The Fathers on this verse
Tertullian On Exhortation to Chastity, Chapter VII
Why, moreover, should we not rather recognise, from among (the store of) primitive precedents, those which communicate with the later (order of things) in respect of discipline, and transmit to novelty the typical form of antiquity? For look, in the old law I find the pruning-knife applied to the licence of repeated marriage. There is a caution in Leviticus: “My priests shall not pluralize marriages.” I may affirm even that that is plural which is not once for all. That which is not unity is number. In short, after unity begins number. Unity, moreover, is everything which is once for all. …
St Augustine Concerning the Nature of Good, Against the Manichæans, Neither Can God Suffer Hurt, Nor Any Other, Save by the Just Ordination of God
Since these things are so, according to the Catholic faith, and wholesome doctrine, and truth perspicuous to those of good understanding, neither can any one hurt the nature of God, nor can the nature of God unrighteously hurt any one, or suffer any one to do hurt with impunity. "For he that doeth hurt shall receive," says the apostle, "according to the hurt that he has done; and there is no accepting of persons with God."
St Augustine A Treatise Against Two Letters of the Pelagians, Why the Pelagians Falsely Accuse Catholics of Maintaining Fate Under the Name of Grace
But, as I was somewhat more attentively considering for what reason they should think it well to object this to us, that we assert fate under the name of grace, I first of all looked into those words of theirs which follow. For thus they have thought that this was to be objected to us: “Under the name,” say they, “of grace, they so assert fate as to say that unless God inspired unwilling and resisting man with the desire of good, and that good imperfect, he would neither be able to decline from evil nor to lay hold of good.” Then a little after, where they mention what they maintain, I gave heed to what was said by them about this matter. …
St John Chrysostom The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Philippians, Colossians, and Thessalonians, Colossians 3:18-25
Ver. 25 . “For he that doeth wrong,” he saith, “shall receive again for the wrong that he hath done.”