The 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 His 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 Ghost 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 sitteth on the right hand of the Father.

And He shall come again in glory to judge both the quick and the dead:

Whose kingdom shall have no end.

 

And I believe in the Holy Ghost,

The Lord, and Giver of Life,

Who proceedeth from the Father and the Son,

Who with the Father and Son together is worshipped and glorified,

Who spake by the Prophets.

 

And I believe 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.

 

The foregoing Creed sets forth the true Faith of the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church, and is the Creed which is ordered in the Book of Common Prayer to be recited at every celebration of the Lord’s Supper, or Holy Communion.  The Nicene Creed was drawn up in the Year of Our Lord 325 by the Fathers of the Council of Nicaea to counter the errors of the Arian heresy by setting forth the true Faith of the undivided Church of Jesus Christ.