Die Apostoliese Geloofsbelydenis is 'n vroeë belydenis van Christelike geloof, heel moontlik vanuit die eerste of tweede eeu. Dit wil voorkom asof dit geskryf is om die kern van die vroeë Christelike geloof te verwoord, en is ook 'n antwoord op Gnostisisme wat liggaam en siel van mekaar wou skei. Christus se vleeswording en die liggaamlike opstanding was vir hulle onaanvaarbaar, daarom dat die belydenis spesifiek na Christus se maagdelike verwekking, en gelowiges se "liggaamlike" opstanding verwys. Die belydenis word deur meeste Protestantse kerke of denominasies gebruik tydens eredienste en teologiese opvoeding, en is meer prominent in die Lutherse en Anglikaanse kerke.
I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth:
And (or I believe) in Jesus Christ his only Son, our Lord; who was conceived by the (or by the power of the) Holy Ghost (or Holy Spirit), born of the virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and buried; he descended into hell (or into Hades or to the dead); the third day he rose again from the dead; he ascended into heaven, and sitteth on (or is seated at) the right hand of God the Father Almighty; from thence he shall come to judge the quick (or living) and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Ghost (or Holy Spirit); the holy catholic (or universal) church; the communion of saints; the forgiveness of sins; the resurrection of the body; and the life everlasting. Amen.
Credo in Deum, Patrem omnipotentem, Creatorem caeli et terrae.
Et in Iesum Christum, Filium eius unicum, Dominum nostrum: qui conceptus est de Spiritu Sancto, natus ex Maria Virgine, passus sub Pontio Pilato, crucifixus, mortuus, et sepultus, descendit ad inferos, tertia die resurrexit a mortuis, ascendit ad caelos, sedet ad dexteram Dei Patris omnipotentis, inde venturus est iudicare vivos et mortuos.
Credo in Spiritum Sanctum, sanctam Ecclesiam catholicam, sanctorum communionem, remissionem peccatorum, carnis resurrectionem, vitam aeternam. Amen.