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We can have merit in God’s sight only because of God’s free plan to associate man with the work of his grace. Merit is to be ascribed in the first place to the grace of God, and secondly to man’s collaboration. Man’s merit is due to God.
Catechism of the Catholic Church [2025]
*Like living stones, let yourselves be built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
1 Peter 2, 5
All of us, gazing with unveiled faith on the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, as from the Lord who is the Spirit.
2 Corinthians 8, 13
So whoever is in Christ is a new creation: the old things have passed away; behold new things have come.
2 Corinthians 5, 17
Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of flesh and spirit, making holiness perfect in the fear of God.
2 Corinthians 7, 1
Examine yourselves to see that you are living in faith. Test yourselves. Do you not realize that Christ is in you? – unless, of course, you fail the test.
2 Corinthians 13, 5
You should put away the old self of your former way of life, corrupted through deceitful desires, and be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and put on the new self, created in God’s way in righteousness and holiness of truth.
Ephesians 4, 22-24
For God is the one who, for his good purpose, works in you both to desire and to work.
Philippians 2, 13*
The grace of the Holy Spirit can confer true merit on us, by virtue of our adoptive filiation, and in accordance with God’s gratuitous justice. Charity is the principal source of merit in us before God.
CCC [2026]
*Children, let no one deceive you. The person who acts in righteousness is righteous, just as he is righteous; no one who fails to act in righteousness belongs to God, nor anyone who does not love his brother.
1 John 3, 7,10
She was allowed to wear a bright, clean linen garment.
Revelation 19, 8
His divine power has bestowed on us everything that makes for life and devotion, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and power. Through these, he has bestowed on us the precious and very great promises, so that through them you may come to share in the divine nature, after escaping from the corruption that is in the world because of evil desire. For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, virtue with knowledge, knowledge with self-control, self-control with endurance, endurance with devotion, devotion with mutual affection, mutual affection with love.
2 Peter 1, 4-7
And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all the mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but I do not have love, I am nothing. If I give away all my possessions, and if I hand over my body so that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.
1 Corinthians 12, 2-3*
No one can merit the initial grace which is at the origin of conversion. Moved by the Holy Spirit, we can merit for ourselves and for others all the graces needed to attain eternal life, as well as necessary temporal goods.
CCC [2027]
*But to those who did accept him he gave power to become children of God, to those who believe in his name. From his fullness we have all received, grace in place of grace.
John 1, 12,16
Son though he was, he learned obedience from what he suffered; and when he was made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him.
Hebrews 5, 8-9
Therefore, we are not discouraged; rather, although our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day.
2 Corinthians 4, 16
You have taken off the old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed, for knowledge, in the image of its creator.
Colossians 3, 10
Grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and savior Jesus Christ.
2 Peter 3, 18*
Extra Ecclesiam, nulla salus.
PAX :harp:
