We believe in one God, the Father almighty, creator of all things both invisible and visible; and in one Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, only-begotten, born of God the Father; born, that is, of the substance of the Father; God from God, light from light, true God from true God; begotten, not created, consubstantial with the Father. Through him all things were made, both those in heaven and those on earth, visible and invisible. He came down and was made flesh for us men and for our salvation; that is, he was in the full sense of the word born of the holy, ever-Virgin Mary by the power of the Holy Spirit. He was made man, that is, he assumed full humanity; soul, body, mind, and whatever constitutes man, excepting sin. He was not born of male seed nor was he within a man; but he fashioned human flesh into himself in a single holy unity -- not in the way he breathed upon the prophets and spoke and worked in them, but in the full sense of the word he became man (for "the Word was made flesh" without undergoing any change or turning his divinity into humanity). He united his divinity and his humanity in the single holy perfection of his divinity (for the Lord Jesus Christ is one and not two, the same person being God and lord and king). The same Christ also suffered in his flesh; and he arose and ascended into heaven in that very body, and took his seat in glory at the right hand of the Father. He is going to come in glory in that very body to judge the living and the dead. His reign will have no end. And we believe in the Holy Spirit who spoke by the Law, who preached through the prophets, and who descended on the Jordan; he speaks in the apostles and dwells in the saints. What we believe about him is this: that he is the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of God, a perfect spirit, a spirit of consolation, uncreated, who proceeds from the Father and receives from the Son; in him we believe.
We believe in the one catholic and apostolic Church, in one baptism of repentance, in the resurrection of the dead, in the just judgment of souls with their bodies, in the kingdom of heaven, and in life everlasting.
And the catholic and apostolic Church, your mother and our mother, condemns those who say that "there was a time when the Son did not exist, nor the Holy Spirit"; or that [either] was made out of nothing or out of a pre-existing substance or being; and who say that the Son of God or Holy Spirit is mutable or subject to change. Further, we condemn all those who do not admit the resurrection of the dead; and we condemn all heresies, which are alien to this orthodox faith.
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