The Bible

and the
Catholic Church

Sola Fide:
Salvation By Faith Alone?

If I have all faith so as to move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. So, faith,
hope, love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
- 1 Corinthians 13:2 & 13

We are therefore said to be justified by faith, because faith is the beginning of human
salvation, the foundation and root of all justification, without which it is impossible to
please God…we are therefore said to be justified gratuitously, because none of those
things that precede justification, whether faith or works, merit the grace of justification.
 - The Council of Trent
The Protestant Case for Sola Fide
Catholic Response
Galatians 3:11 Romans 2:13
Galatians 3:24 James 2:24
Romans 3:28 James 2:20
Romans 10:9-10 Matthew 7:21
Acts 16:30-31 Matthew 19:16-17
John 3:16 Hebrews 12:14
1 John 5:13 Philippians 2:12-13
Ephesians 2:8-9 Ephesians 2:10

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I write these things to you so that you may know that you have eternal life, you who
believe in the name of the son of God.
- 1 John 5:13
The Catholic Case Against Sola Fide

Faith Alone?
James 2:14, 2:17, 2:19-20, 2:21-23, 2:24, 2:25-26
(Compare James 2:23 with Romans 4:3)
1 Corinthians 13:2, 13:13

Faith & Works

Galatians 5:6 Matthew 25:14-30
1 John 3:23-24 James 2:21-23
1 Timothy 4:7-8, 10

How is One Saved?

Ephesians 2:5 Romans 2:7-8; 2:13
1 Timothy 2:15 James 1:22, 25
Hebrews 12:14 1 Peter 3:20-21
Matthew 5:3-11, 6:15,
7:21, 10:42, 19:16-17

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For it is not those who hear the law who are just in the sight of God; rather, those who
deserve the law will be justified.
- Romans 2:13
The Catholic Case Against Sola Fide, cont.

Works
Philippians 2:12-13 James 1:27
Luke 9:23 1 Corinthians 3:6-9
Ephesians 2:10 Hebrews 4:11; 10:36
1 Timothy 5:8, 6:17-19
Romans 1:5, 16:9, 21, 26
1 John 2:3-6, 9-10; 3:10,
15, 17-18; 4:12

Judgment & Works

Romans 2:6-8 1 Peter 1:17
James 2:12-13 2 Corinthians 5:10
Revelation 20:13; 22:12
Matthew 3:10; 7:1-2, 19;
12:36-37; 16:27; 25:31-46

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Then he said to all, “If anyone wishes to come after me, he must deny himself and take
up his cross daily and follow me.”
- Luke 9:23
The Sacraments

The Eucharist
John 6 Luke 22:19-20
Mark 14:22-24 Matthew 26:26-28
1 Corinthians 11:23-29

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For in one Spirit we are all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, slaves or free
persons, and we are all iven to drink of one Spirit.
- 1 Corinthians 12:13
“Call No Man Father” - Matthew 23:9

Luke 16:24-30
John 8:56
Philemon 1:10
1 John 2:13-14
Acts 7:1-2
1 Corinthians 4:14-15

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Is anyone among you sick? He should summon the presbyters of the church, and they
should pray over him and anoint [him] with oil in the name of the Lord.
- James 5:14
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