This document outlines the key chapters and contents of the Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation issued by Pope Paul VI in 1965. It discusses revelation itself, how divine revelation is handed down, sacred scripture and its inspiration/interpretation, the Old Testament, the New Testament, and the role of scripture in the life of the Church. The document establishes that both the Old and New Testaments in their entirety are sacred and canonical, having God as their author. It also addresses how revelation is interpreted and the relationship between sacred scripture and sacred tradition.

1. DOGMATIC CONSTITUTION ON DIVINE REVELATION
DEI VERBUM
SOLEMNLY PROMULGATED BY HIS HOLINESS POPE PAUL VI
ON NOVEMBER 18, 1965

2. DOGMATIC CONSTITUTION ON DIVINE REVELATION
DEI VERBUM
SOLEMNLY PROMULGATED BY HIS HOLINESS POPE PAUL VI
ON NOVEMBER 18, 1965
CHAPTER I - REVELATION ITSELF
CHAPTER II - HANDING ON DIVINE REVELATION
CHAPTER III - SACRED SCRIPTURE, ITS INSPIRATION AND DIVINE
INTERPRETATION
CHAPTER IV - THE OLD TESTAMENT
CHAPTER V - THE NEW TESTAMENT
CHAPTER VI - SACRED SCRIPTURE IN THE LIFE OF THE CHURCH

3. CHAPTER I - REVELATION ITSELF
"We announce to you the eternal life which dwelt with the Father and was made visible to us.
What we have seen and heard we announce to you, so that you may have fellowship with us
and our common fellowship be with the Father and His Son Jesus Christ" (1 John 1:2-3). DV 1

4. which through Christ, the Word made flesh, man might in the Holy Spirit have access
to the Father and come to share in the divine nature (see Eph. 2:18; 2 Peter 1:4). DV 2

5. Through this revelation, therefore,
the invisible God (see Col. 1;15, 1 Tim. 1:17)
out of the abundance of His love
speaks to men as friends
(see Ex. 33:11; John 15:14-15) DV 2

6. and lives among them (see Bar. 3:38), so that He may invite
and take them into fellowship with Himself. DV 2

7. the deeds wrought by God in the history of
salvation manifest and confirm the teaching
and realities signified by the words, while
the words proclaim the deeds and clarify
the mystery contained in them. DV 2

8. God, who through the Word creates all things (see John 1:3) and keeps them in existence,
gives men an enduring witness to Himself in created realities (see Rom. 1:19-20). DV 3

9. He ceaselessly kept the human race in His care, to give eternal life to those
who perseveringly do good in search of salvation (see Rom. 2:6-7). DV 3

10. He called Abraham
in order to make of
him a great nation
(see Gen. 12:2). DV 3

11. He taught this people to acknowledge Himself the one living and true God,
provident father and just judge, and to wait for the Savior promised by Him. DV 3

12. for He sent
His Son, the
eternal Word,
who enlightens
all men, so that
He might dwell
among men and
tell them of the
innermost being
of God
(see John 1:1-18). DV 4

13. Jesus Christ, therefore, the Word made flesh, was sent as "a man to men."
He "speaks the words of God" (John 3;34), and completes the work of
salvation which His Father gave Him to do (see John 5:36; John 17:4 DV 4

14. His signs and
wonders, but
especially
through His
death and
glorious
resurrection
from the dead
and final
sending of the
Spirit of truth.
DV 4
Jesus perfected
revelation by
fulfilling it
through his
whole work of
making Himself
present and
manifesting
Himself:
through His
words and
deeds,

15. "The obedience
of faith"
(Rom. 16:26; see 1:5; 2 Cor 10:5-6)
"is to be given to
God who reveals,
an obedience by
which man commits
his whole self freely
to God, offering the
full submission of
intellect and will to
God who reveals,"
DV 5

16. CHAPTER 2 - HANDING ON DIVINE REVELATION
This commission was faithfully fulfilled by the Apostles who, by their oral preaching,
by example, and by observances handed on what they had received from the lips of
Christ, from living with Him, and from what He did, or what they had learned
through the prompting of the Holy Spirit DV 7

17. The
commission
was fulfilled,
too, by those
Apostles and
apostolic men
who under
the
inspiration
of the same
Holy Spirit
committed
the message
of salvation
to writing. DV 7

18. This sacred tradition,
therefore, and Sacred
Scripture of both the
Old and New
Testaments are like a
mirror in which the
pilgrim Church on
earth looks at God,
from whom she has
received everything,
until she is brought
finally to see Him as
He is, face to face
(1 Jn 3:2). DV 7

19. And so the apostolic preaching, which is expressed in a special way in the inspired books,
was to be preserved by an unending succession of preachers until the end of time. DV 8

20. This tradition which comes from the Apostles develop
in the Church with the help of the Holy Spirit. DV 8

21. God, who spoke of
old, uninterruptedly
converses with the
bride of His beloved
Son; and the
Holy Spirit, through
whom the living
voice of the Gospel
resounds in the
Church, and
through her, in the
world, leads unto
all truth those who
believe and makes
the word of Christ
dwell abundantly
in them
(see Col. 3:16). DV 8

22. Sacred Scripture is the word of God inasmuch as it is consigned to writing under the
inspiration of the divine Spirit, while sacred tradition takes the word of God entrusted
by Christ the Lord and the Holy Spirit to the Apostles, and hands it on to their successors
In its full purity, so that led by the light of the Spirit of truth, they may in proclaiming it
preserve this word of God faithfully, explain it, and make it more widely known. DV 9

23. Sacred tradition and
Sacred Scripture form
one sacred deposit of
the word of God,
committed to the
Church. DV 10

24. But the task of authentically interpreting the word of God,
whether written or handed on, has been entrusted
exclusively to the living teaching office of the Church, DV 10

25. CHAPTER 3 - SACRED SCRIPTURE, ITS INSPIRATION AND DIVINE INTERPRETATION
holy mother Church, relying on the belief of the Apostles (see John 20:31; 2 Tim. 3:16; 2 Peter
1:19-20, 3:15-16), holds that the books of both the Old and New Testaments in their entirety,
with all their parts, are sacred and canonical because written under the inspiration of the Holy
Spirit, they have God as their author and have been handed on as such to the Church herself. DV 11

26. The interpreter must investigate what meaning the sacred writer intended to express
and actually expressed in particular circumstances by using contemporary literary forms
in accordance with the situation of his own time and culture DV 12

27. The living tradition of the whole Church must be
taken into account along with the harmony which
exists between elements of the faith. DV 12

28. CHAPTER 4 - THE OLD TESTAMENT
God Himself spoke to them through the mouth of the prophets, Israel daily gained a deeper
and clearer understanding of His ways and made them more widely known among the nations
(see Ps. 21:29; 95:1-3; Is. 2:1-5; Jer. 3:17). DV 14

29. These same books, then,
give expression to a lively sense of God,
contain a store of sublime teachings
about God, sound wisdom about
human life, and a wonderful
treasury of prayers, and in them
the mystery of our salvation is
present in a hidden way. DV 15

30. For, though Christ established the new covenant in His blood (see Luke 22:20; 1 Cor. 11:25),
still the books of the Old Testament with all their parts, caught up into the proclamation of the
Gospel, (3) acquire and show forth their full meaning in the New Testament (see Matt. 5:17;
Luke 24:27; Rom. 16:25-26; 2 Cor. 14:16) and in turn shed light on it and explain it. DV 16

31. CHAPTER 5 - THE NEW TESTAMENT
Christ established the kingdom of God on
earth, manifested His Father and Himself
by deeds and words, and completed His work
by His death, resurrection and glorious
Ascension and by the sending of the Holy Spirit

32. The Church
has always
and
everywhere
held and
continues to
hold that the
four Gospels
are of
apostolic
origin. DV 18

33. the four Gospels just named, whose historical character the Church
unhesitatingly asserts, faithfully hand on what Jesus Christ, while
living among men, really did and taught for their eternal salvation DV 19

34. the Apostles handed on to their hearers what He had said and done. This they did with that
clearer understanding which they enjoyed after they had been instructed by the glorious
events of Christ's life and taught by the light of the Spirit of truth. DV 19

35. CHAPTER 6
SACRED SCRIPTURE
IN THE LIFE
OF THE CHURCH
"For the word of God is
living and active" (Heb.
4:12) and "it has power
to build you up and
give you your heritage
among all those who
are sanctified"
(Acts 20:32; see 1 Thess. 2:13). DV 21

36. The bride of
the incarnate Word,
the Church taught
by the Holy Spirit,
is concerned
to move ahead
toward a deeper
understanding of the
Sacred Scriptures
so that she may
increasingly feed her
sons with the
divine words.
DV 23

37. prayer should
accompany the
reading of Sacred
Scripture,
so that God and
man may talk
together; for "we
speak to Him when
we pray; we hear
Him when we read
the divine saying”
DV 25

38. It devolves on sacred bishops "who have
the apostolic teaching" to give the
faithful entrusted to them suitable
instruction in the right use of the divine
books, especially the New Testament
and above all the Gospels. DV 25

39. through the reading and study of the sacred books
"the word of God may spread rapidly and be
glorified" (2 Thess. 3:1) and the treasure of
revelation, entrusted to the Church, may more and
more fill the hearts of men. DV26

40. a new stimulus for the life of the Spirit from a growing reverence for
the word of God, which "lasts forever“ (Is. 40:8; see 1 Peter 1:23-25). DV26

41. LIST OF PRESENTATIONS IN ENGLISH
Revised 29-10-2020
Advent and Christmas – time of hope and peace
Amoris Laetitia – ch 1 – In the Light of the Word
Amoris Laetitia – ch 2 – The Experiences and Challenges of Families
Amoris Laetitia – ch 3 - Looking to Jesus, the Vocation of the Family
Amoris Laetitia – ch 4 - Love in Marriage
Amoris Laetitia – ch 5 – Love made Fruitfuol
Amoris Laetitia – ch 6 – Some Pastoral Perspectives
Amoris Laetitia – ch 7 – Towards a better education of children
Amoris Laetitia – ch 8 – Accompanying, discerning and integrating weaknwss
Amoris Laetitia – ch 9 – The Spirituality of Marriage and the Family
Beloved Amazon 1ª – A Social Dream
Beloved Amazon 2 - A Cultural Dream
Beloved Amazon 3 – An Ecological Dream
Beloved Amazon 4 - An Ecclesiastical Dream
Carnival
Christ is Alive
Diwali, Festival of lights
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 1 – Church and Family today
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 2 - God’s plan for the family
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 3 – 1 – family as a Community
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 3 – 2 – serving life and education
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 3 – 3 – mission of the family in society
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 3 – 4 - Family in the Church
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 4 Pastoral familiar
Football in Spain
Haurietis aquas – devotion to the Sacred Heart by Pius XII
Holidays and Holy Days
Holy Spirit
Holy Week – drawings for children
Holy Week – glmjpses of the last hours of JC
Inauguration of President Donald Trump
Juno explores Jupiter
Laudato si 1 – care for the common home
Laudato si 2 – Gospel of creation
Laudato si 3 – Human roots of the ecological crisis
Laudato si 4 – integral ecology
Laudato si 5 – lines of approach and action
Laudato si 6 – Education y Ecological Spirituality
Love and Marriage 1 + 2 – growing up to sexual maturity
Love and Marriage 3 – psychological differences and complimentarity
Love and Marriage 4- causes of sexual attraction
Love and Marriage 5- freedom and intimacy
Love and Marriage 6 - human love
Love and Marriage 7 - destiny of human love
Love and Marriage 8- marriage between Christian believers
Love and Marriage 9 – sacrament of marriage
Lumen Fidei – ch 1,2,3,4
Medjugore Pilgrimage
Misericordiae Vultus in English
Mother Teresa of Calcuta – Saint
Pope Francis in America
Pope Francis in Egypt
Pope Francis in the European Union – Strasbourg
Pope Francis in Japan
Pope Francis in Sweden
Pope Franciss in Thailand
Pope Francis in the Holy Land – Jordan, Palestine, Israel
Pope Francis in the WYD Cologne, Germany
Pope Francis in the WYD in Poland, 2016
Pope Francis – Fratelli tutti Encyclical in English – All brothers
Pope Saitn John Paul in Poland, Auschwitz
Priestly Ministry – International Theological Commission 1970 Vatica
Querida Amazonia
Resurrection of Jesus Christ –according to the Gospels
Russian Revolution and Communismo 3 civil war 1918.1921
Russian Revolution and Communism 1
Russian Revolution and Communismo 2
Saint Joseph
Saint Patrick and Ireland
Sunday – day of the Lord
Thanksgiving – History and Customs
The Body, the cult – (Eucharist)
Valentine
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Way of the Cross – drawings for children
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42. LISTA DE PRESENTACIONES EN ESPAÑOL
Revisado 27-5-2020
Abuelos
Adviento y Navidad, tiempo de esperanza
Amor y Matrimonio 1 - 9
Amoris Laetitia – ch 1 – A la luz de la Palabre
Amoris Laetitia – ch 2 – Realidad y Desafíos de las Familias
Amoris Laetitia – ch 3 La mirada puesta en Jesús: Vocación de la Familia
Amoris Laetitia – ch 4 - El Amor en el Matrimonio
Amoris Laetitia – ch 5 – Amor que se vuelve fecundo
Amoris Laetitia – ch 6 – Algunas Perspectivas Pastorales
Amoris Laetitia – ch 7 – Fortalecer la educacion de los hijos
Amoris Laetitia – ch 8 – Acompañar, discernir e integrar la fragilidad
Amoris Laetitia – ch 9 – Espiritualidad Matrimonial y Familiar
Carnaval
Cristo Vive
Domingo – día del Señor
El camino de la cruz de JC en dibujos para niños
El Cuerpo, el culto – (eucarisía)
Espíritu Santo
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 1 – iglesia y familia hoy
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 2 - el plan de Dios para la familia
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 3 – 1 – familia como comunidad
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 3 – 2 – servicio a la vida y educación
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 3 – 3 – misión de la familia en la sociedad
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 3 – 4 - participación de la familia en la iglesia
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 4 Pastoral familiar
Fátima – Historia de las Apariciones de la Virgen
Feria de Sevilla
Haurietis aquas – el culto al Sagrado Corazón
Hermandades y cofradías
Hispanidad
Laudato si 1 – cuidado del hogar común
Laudato si 2 – evangelio de creación
Laudato si 3 – La raíz de la crisis ecológica
Laudato si 4 – ecología integral
Laudato si 5 – líneas de acción
Laudato si 6 – Educación y Espiritualidad Ecológica
Lumen Fidei – cap 1,2,3,4
Madre Teresa de Calcuta – Santa
María y la Biblia
Medjugore peregrinación
Misericordiae Vultus en Español
Papa Francisco en Bulgaria
Papa Francisco en Rumania
Papa Francisco en Marruecos
Papa Francisco en México
Papa Francisco – mensaje para la Jornada Mundial Juventud 2016
Papa Francisco – visita a Chile
Papa Francisco – visita a Perú
Papa Francisco en Colombia 1 + 2
Papa Francisco en Cuba
Papa Francisco en Fátima
Papa Francisco en la JMJ 2016 – Polonia
Queridas Amazoznia 1 un sueños social
Queridas Amazoznia 2 un suepo cultural
Queridas Amazoznia 3 un seuños ecologico
Queridas Amazoznia 4 un sueño eclesial
Resurrección de Jesucristo – según los Evangelios
Revolución Rusa y Comunismo 1
Revolución Rusa y comunismo 2
Revolución Rusa y Comunismo 3
San José
Santiago Apóstol
Semana santa – Vistas de las últimas horas de JC
Vacaciones Cristianas
Valentín
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