Nicene Creed
The Nicene Creed is one of the earliest and most widely affirmed summaries of the Christian faith. First adopted at the Council of Nicaea in AD 325 and expanded at the Council of Constantinople in AD 381, it was written to clearly express the church’s biblical teaching about God and salvation.
The Creed confesses the Triune God—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit—and affirms that Jesus Christ is fully God and fully man, eternally begotten of the Father and of the same essence as Him. It proclaims the core events of the gospel, the work of the Holy Spirit, the one holy catholic church, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and life everlasting.
For centuries, Christians have confessed the Nicene Creed in worship as a declaration of unity and faithfulness to the apostolic gospel. It continues to ground the church today in the unchanging truth of who God is and what He has done for our salvation.
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Nicene Creed
I believe in one God, the Father Almighty,
Maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible.
And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God,
begotten of the Father before all worlds;
God of God, Light of Light, very God of very God;
begotten, not made, being of one substance with the Father,
by whom all things were made.
Who, for us men and for our salvation,
came down from heaven
and was incarnate by the Holy Spirit of the virgin Mary,
and was made man;
and was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate;
he suffered and was buried;
and the third day he rose again, according to the Scriptures;
and ascended into heaven, and sits on the right hand of the Father;
and he shall come again, with glory, to judge the living and the dead;
whose kingdom shall have no end.
And I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord and Giver of life;
who proceeds from the Father and the Son;
who with the Father and the Son together is worshipped and glorified;
who spoke by the prophets.
And I believe in one holy catholic and apostolic church.
I acknowledge one baptism for the remission of sins;
and I look for the resurrection of the dead,
and the life of the world to come. Amen.