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{"content":[{"abbv":"wcf","body":"There is but one only, living, and true God, who is infinite in being and perfection, a most pure spirit, invisible, without body, parts, or passions; immutable, immense, eternal, incomprehensible, almighty, most wise, most holy, most free, most absolute; working all things according to the counsel of his own immutable and most righteous will, for his own glory; most loving, gracious, merciful, long-suffering, abundant in goodness and truth, forgiving iniquity, transgression, and sin; the rewarder of them that diligently seek him; and withal, most just, and terrible in his judgments, hating all sin, and who will by no means clear the guilty.","chapter":"2","citation":"WCF 2.1","long_citation":"Confession of Faith 2.1","name":"Confession of Faith","paragraph":"1","prooftexts":{},"section_title":"","title":"Chapter 2: Of God, and of the Holy Trinity","type":"confession"}],"content_with_prooftexts":[{"abbv":"wcf","body":"There is but one only,<sup id='fnref:wcf1'><a href='#fn:wcf1' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>1</a></sup> living, and true God,<sup id='fnref:wcf2'><a href='#fn:wcf2' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>2</a></sup> who is infinite in being and perfection,<sup id='fnref:wcf3'><a href='#fn:wcf3' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>3</a></sup> a most pure spirit,<sup id='fnref:wcf4'><a href='#fn:wcf4' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>4</a></sup> invisible,<sup id='fnref:wcf5'><a href='#fn:wcf5' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>5</a></sup> without body, parts,<sup id='fnref:wcf6'><a href='#fn:wcf6' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>6</a></sup> or passions;<sup id='fnref:wcf7'><a href='#fn:wcf7' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>7</a></sup> immutable,<sup id='fnref:wcf8'><a href='#fn:wcf8' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>8</a></sup> immense,<sup id='fnref:wcf9'><a href='#fn:wcf9' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>9</a></sup> eternal,<sup id='fnref:wcf10'><a href='#fn:wcf10' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>10</a></sup> incomprehensible,<sup id='fnref:wcf11'><a href='#fn:wcf11' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>11</a></sup> almighty,<sup id='fnref:wcf12'><a href='#fn:wcf12' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>12</a></sup> most wise,<sup id='fnref:wcf13'><a href='#fn:wcf13' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>13</a></sup> most holy,<sup id='fnref:wcf14'><a href='#fn:wcf14' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>14</a></sup> most free,<sup id='fnref:wcf15'><a href='#fn:wcf15' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>15</a></sup> most absolute;<sup id='fnref:wcf16'><a href='#fn:wcf16' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>16</a></sup> working all things according to the counsel of his own immutable and most righteous will,<sup id='fnref:wcf17'><a href='#fn:wcf17' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>17</a></sup> for his own glory;<sup id='fnref:wcf18'><a href='#fn:wcf18' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>18</a></sup> most loving,<sup id='fnref:wcf19'><a href='#fn:wcf19' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>19</a></sup> gracious, merciful, long-suffering, abundant in goodness and truth, forgiving iniquity, transgression, and sin;<sup id='fnref:wcf20'><a href='#fn:wcf20' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>20</a></sup> the rewarder of them that diligently seek him;<sup id='fnref:wcf21'><a href='#fn:wcf21' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>21</a></sup> and withal, most just, and terrible in his judgments,<sup id='fnref:wcf22'><a href='#fn:wcf22' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>22</a></sup> hating all sin,<sup id='fnref:wcf23'><a href='#fn:wcf23' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>23</a></sup> and who will by no means clear the guilty.<sup id='fnref:wcf24'><a href='#fn:wcf24' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>24</a></sup>","chapter":"2","citation":"WCF 2.1","long_citation":"Confession of Faith 2.1","name":"Confession of Faith","paragraph":"1","prooftexts":{"1":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Deuteronomy 6:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p05006004.01-1\">“Hear, O Israel: The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> our God, the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> is one.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 8:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46008004.01-2\">Therefore, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that “an idol has no real existence,” and that “there is no God but one.”</p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 8:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46008006.01-3\">yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>","2":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Thessalonians 1:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p52001009.01-1\">For they themselves report concerning us the kind of reception we had among you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God,</p>\n</div><h5>Jeremiah 10:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p24010010.01-2\">But the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> is the true God;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>he is the living God and the everlasting King.<br />\nAt his wrath the earth quakes,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and the nations cannot endure his indignation. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>","3":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Job 11:7-9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p18011007.01-1\">“Can you find out the deep things of God?<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Can you find out the limit of the Almighty?<br />\n It is higher than heaven—what can you do?<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Deeper than Sheol—what can you know?<br />\n Its measure is longer than the earth<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and broader than the sea.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Job 26:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p18026014.01-2\">Behold, these are but the outskirts of his ways,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and how small a whisper do we hear of him!<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>But the thunder of his power who can understand?” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>","4":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>John 4:24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43004024.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>","5":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Timothy 1:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p54001017.01-1\">To the King of ages, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>","6":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Deuteronomy 4:15-16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p05004015.03-1\">“Therefore watch yourselves very carefully. Since you saw no form on the day that the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> spoke to you at Horeb out of the midst of the fire, beware lest you act corruptly by making a carved image for yourselves, in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female,</p>\n</div><h5>John 4:24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43004024.01-2\"><span class=\"woc\">God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”</span></p>\n</div><h5>Luke 24:39</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42024039.01-3\"><span class=\"woc\">See my hands and my feet, that it is I myself. Touch me, and see. For a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see that I have.”</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>","7":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Acts 14:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44014011.01-1\">And when the crowds saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices, saying in Lycaonian, “The gods have come down to us in the likeness of men!”</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 14:15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44014015.01-2\">“Men, why are you doing these things? We also are men, of like nature with you, and we bring you good news, that you should turn from these vain things to a living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all that is in them. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>","8":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>James 1:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p59001017.01-1\">Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.</p>\n</div><h5>Malachi 3:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p39003006.03-2\">“For I the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> do not change; therefore you, O children of Jacob, are not consumed. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>","9":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Kings 8:27</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p11008027.01-1\">“But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain you; how much less this house that I have built!</p>\n</div><h5>Jeremiah 23:23-24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p24023023.01-2\">“Am I a God at hand, declares the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, and not a God far away? Can a man hide himself in secret places so that I cannot see him? declares the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>. Do I not fill heaven and earth? declares the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>","10":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 90:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19090002.01-1\">Before the mountains were brought forth,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>or ever you had formed the earth and the world,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>from everlasting to everlasting you are God.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>1 Timothy 1:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p54001017.01-2\">To the King of ages, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>","11":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 145:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19145003.01-1\">Great is the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, and greatly to be praised,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and his greatness is unsearchable. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>","12":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Genesis 17:1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p01017001.07-1\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v01017001-1\">17:1 </span>When Abram was ninety-nine years old the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be blameless,</p>\n</div><h5>Revelation 4:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p66004008.01-2\">And the four living creatures, each of them with six wings, are full of eyes all around and within, and day and night they never cease to say,</p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p66004008.29-2\">“Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>who was and is and is to come!” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>","13":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 16:27</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45016027.01-1\">to the only wise God be glory forevermore through Jesus Christ! Amen. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>","14":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Isaiah 6:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p23006003.01-1\">And one called to another and said:</p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23006003.08-1\">“Holy, holy, holy is the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> of hosts;<br />\nthe whole earth is full of his glory!”</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Revelation 4:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p66004008.01-2\">And the four living creatures, each of them with six wings, are full of eyes all around and within, and day and night they never cease to say,</p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p66004008.29-2\">“Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>who was and is and is to come!” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>","15":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 115:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19115003.01-1\">Our God is in the heavens;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>he does all that he pleases. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>","16":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Exodus 3:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p02003014.01-1\">God said to Moses, “<span class=\"small-caps\">I am who I am</span>.” And he said, “Say this to the people of Israel, ‘<span class=\"small-caps\">I am</span> has sent me to you.’” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>","17":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ephesians 1:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49001011.01-1\">In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>","18":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Proverbs 16:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20016004.01-1\">The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> has made everything for its purpose,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>even the wicked for the day of trouble.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Romans 11:36</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p class=\"same-paragraph\" id=\"p45011036.01-2\">For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>","19":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 John 4:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p62004008.01-1\">Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.</p>\n</div><h5>1 John 4:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p62004016.01-2\">So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>","20":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Exodus 34:6-7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p02034006.01-1\">The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> passed before him and proclaimed, “The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children's children, to the third and the fourth generation.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>","21":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Hebrews 11:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58011006.01-1\">And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>","22":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Nehemiah 9:32-33</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p16009032.01-1\">“Now, therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who keeps covenant and steadfast love, let not all the hardship seem little to you that has come upon us, upon our kings, our princes, our priests, our prophets, our fathers, and all your people, since the time of the kings of Assyria until this day. Yet you have been righteous in all that has come upon us, for you have dealt faithfully and we have acted wickedly. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>","23":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 5:5-6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19005005.01-1\">The boastful shall not stand before your eyes;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>you hate all evildoers.<br />\n You destroy those who speak lies;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>","24":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Nahum 1:2-3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p34001002.05-1\">The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> is a jealous and avenging God;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> is avenging and wrathful;<br />\nthe <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> takes vengeance on his adversaries<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and keeps wrath for his enemies.<br />\n The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> is slow to anger and great in power,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> will by no means clear the guilty.<br />\nHis way is in whirlwind and storm,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and the clouds are the dust of his feet.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Exodus 34:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p02034007.01-2\">keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children's children, to the third and the fourth generation.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"},"section_title":"","title":"Chapter 2: Of God, and of the Holy Trinity","type":"confession"}],"feed":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<title></title>\n\n</head>\n<body>\n<h5 class=\"mb-0 header\" style=\"display:block; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:18px\">Confession of Faith</h5>\n<h5 class=\"text-muted mb-1\" style=\"display:block; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:18px\">Chapter 2: Of God, and of the Holy Trinity</h5>\n<p class=\"paragraph\" style=\"display:block; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:16px\"><span class=\"q\">1.</span> There is but one only,<sup id=\"fnref:wcf1\"><a href=\"#fn:wcf1\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">1</a></sup> living, and true God,<sup id=\"fnref:wcf2\"><a href=\"#fn:wcf2\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">2</a></sup> who is infinite in being and perfection,<sup id=\"fnref:wcf3\"><a href=\"#fn:wcf3\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">3</a></sup> a most pure spirit,<sup id=\"fnref:wcf4\"><a href=\"#fn:wcf4\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">4</a></sup> invisible,<sup id=\"fnref:wcf5\"><a href=\"#fn:wcf5\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">5</a></sup> without body, parts,<sup id=\"fnref:wcf6\"><a href=\"#fn:wcf6\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">6</a></sup> or passions;<sup id=\"fnref:wcf7\"><a href=\"#fn:wcf7\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">7</a></sup> immutable,<sup id=\"fnref:wcf8\"><a href=\"#fn:wcf8\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">8</a></sup> immense,<sup id=\"fnref:wcf9\"><a href=\"#fn:wcf9\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">9</a></sup> eternal,<sup id=\"fnref:wcf10\"><a href=\"#fn:wcf10\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">10</a></sup> incomprehensible,<sup id=\"fnref:wcf11\"><a href=\"#fn:wcf11\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">11</a></sup> almighty,<sup id=\"fnref:wcf12\"><a href=\"#fn:wcf12\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">12</a></sup> most wise,<sup id=\"fnref:wcf13\"><a href=\"#fn:wcf13\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">13</a></sup> most holy,<sup id=\"fnref:wcf14\"><a href=\"#fn:wcf14\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">14</a></sup> most free,<sup id=\"fnref:wcf15\"><a href=\"#fn:wcf15\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">15</a></sup> most absolute;<sup id=\"fnref:wcf16\"><a href=\"#fn:wcf16\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">16</a></sup> working all things according to the counsel of his own immutable and most righteous will,<sup id=\"fnref:wcf17\"><a href=\"#fn:wcf17\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">17</a></sup> for his own glory;<sup id=\"fnref:wcf18\"><a href=\"#fn:wcf18\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">18</a></sup> most loving,<sup id=\"fnref:wcf19\"><a href=\"#fn:wcf19\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">19</a></sup> gracious, merciful, long-suffering, abundant in goodness and truth, forgiving iniquity, transgression, and sin;<sup id=\"fnref:wcf20\"><a href=\"#fn:wcf20\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">20</a></sup> the rewarder of them that diligently seek him;<sup id=\"fnref:wcf21\"><a href=\"#fn:wcf21\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">21</a></sup> and withal, most just, and terrible in his judgments,<sup id=\"fnref:wcf22\"><a href=\"#fn:wcf22\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">22</a></sup> hating all sin,<sup id=\"fnref:wcf23\"><a href=\"#fn:wcf23\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">23</a></sup> and who will by no means clear the guilty.<sup id=\"fnref:wcf24\"><a href=\"#fn:wcf24\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">24</a></sup></p>\n <div class=\"prooftexts\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">\n <ol class=\"disc\">\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:1\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Deuteronomy 6:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p05006004.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\u201cHear, O Israel: The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> our God, the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> is one.</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">1 Corinthians 8:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p46008004.01-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Therefore, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that \u201can idol has no real existence,\u201d and that \u201cthere is no God but one.\u201d</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">1 Corinthians 8:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p46008006.01-3\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:2\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">1 Thessalonians 1:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p52001009.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">For they themselves report concerning us the kind of reception we had among you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God,</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Jeremiah 10:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p24010010.01-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">But the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> is the true God;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>he is the living God and the everlasting King.\nAt his wrath the earth quakes,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and the nations cannot endure his indignation. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:3\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Job 11:7-9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p18011007.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\u201cCan you find out the deep things of God?\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Can you find out the limit of the Almighty?\n It is higher than heaven\u2014what can you do?\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Deeper than Sheol\u2014what can you know?\n Its measure is longer than the earth\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and broader than the sea.</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Job 26:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p18026014.01-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Behold, these are but the outskirts of his ways,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and how small a whisper do we hear of him!\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>But the thunder of his power who can understand?\u201d (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:4\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">John 4:24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p43004024.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\"><span class=\"woc\">God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.\u201d</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:5\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">1 Timothy 1:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p54001017.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">To the King of ages, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:6\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Deuteronomy 4:15-16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p05004015.03-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\u201cTherefore watch yourselves very carefully. Since you saw no form on the day that the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> spoke to you at Horeb out of the midst of the fire, beware lest you act corruptly by making a carved image for yourselves, in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female,</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">John 4:24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p43004024.01-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\"><span class=\"woc\">God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.\u201d</span></p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Luke 24:39</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p42024039.01-3\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\"><span class=\"woc\">See my hands and my feet, that it is I myself. Touch me, and see. For a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see that I have.\u201d</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:7\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Acts 14:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p44014011.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">And when the crowds saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices, saying in Lycaonian, \u201cThe gods have come down to us in the likeness of men!\u201d</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Acts 14:15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p44014015.01-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\u201cMen, why are you doing these things? We also are men, of like nature with you, and we bring you good news, that you should turn from these vain things to a living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all that is in them. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:8\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">James 1:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p59001017.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Malachi 3:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p39003006.03-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\u201cFor I the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> do not change; therefore you, O children of Jacob, are not consumed. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:9\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">1 Kings 8:27</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p11008027.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\u201cBut will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain you; how much less this house that I have built!</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Jeremiah 23:23-24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p24023023.01-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\u201cAm I a God at hand, declares the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, and not a God far away? Can a man hide himself in secret places so that I cannot see him? declares the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>. Do I not fill heaven and earth? declares the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:10\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Psalm 90:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19090002.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Before the mountains were brought forth,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>or ever you had formed the earth and the world,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>from everlasting to everlasting you are God.</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">1 Timothy 1:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p54001017.01-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">To the King of ages, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:11\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Psalm 145:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19145003.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Great is the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, and greatly to be praised,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and his greatness is unsearchable. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:12\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Genesis 17:1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p01017001.07-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v01017001-1\">17:1\u00a0</span>When Abram was ninety-nine years old the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> appeared to Abram and said to him, \u201cI am God Almighty; walk before me, and be blameless,</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Revelation 4:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p66004008.01-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">And the four living creatures, each of them with six wings, are full of eyes all around and within, and day and night they never cease to say,</p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p66004008.29-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\u201cHoly, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>who was and is and is to come!\u201d (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:13\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Romans 16:27</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p45016027.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">to the only wise God be glory forevermore through Jesus Christ! Amen. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:14\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Isaiah 6:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p23006003.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">And one called to another and said:</p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23006003.08-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\u201cHoly, holy, holy is the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> of hosts;\nthe whole earth is full of his glory!\u201d</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Revelation 4:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p66004008.01-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">And the four living creatures, each of them with six wings, are full of eyes all around and within, and day and night they never cease to say,</p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p66004008.29-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\u201cHoly, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>who was and is and is to come!\u201d (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:15\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Psalm 115:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19115003.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Our God is in the heavens;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>he does all that he pleases. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:16\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Exodus 3:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p02003014.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">God said to Moses, \u201c<span class=\"small-caps\">I am who I am</span>.\u201d And he said, \u201cSay this to the people of Israel, \u2018<span class=\"small-caps\">I am</span> has sent me to you.\u2019\u201d (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:17\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Ephesians 1:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p49001011.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:18\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Proverbs 16:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20016004.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> has made everything for its purpose,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>even the wicked for the day of trouble.</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Romans 11:36</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"same-paragraph\" id=\"p45011036.01-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:19\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">1 John 4:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p62004008.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">1 John 4:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p62004016.01-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:20\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Exodus 34:6-7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p02034006.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> passed before him and proclaimed, \u201cThe <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children's children, to the third and the fourth generation.\u201d (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:21\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Hebrews 11:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p58011006.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:22\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Nehemiah 9:32-33</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p16009032.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\u201cNow, therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who keeps covenant and steadfast love, let not all the hardship seem little to you that has come upon us, upon our kings, our princes, our priests, our prophets, our fathers, and all your people, since the time of the kings of Assyria until this day. Yet you have been righteous in all that has come upon us, for you have dealt faithfully and we have acted wickedly. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:23\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Psalm 5:5-6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19005005.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">The boastful shall not stand before your eyes;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>you hate all evildoers.\n You destroy those who speak lies;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:24\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Nahum 1:2-3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p34001002.05-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> is a jealous and avenging God;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> is avenging and wrathful;\nthe <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> takes vengeance on his adversaries\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and keeps wrath for his enemies.\n The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> is slow to anger and great in power,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> will by no means clear the guilty.\nHis way is in whirlwind and storm,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and the clouds are the dust of his feet.</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Exodus 34:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p02034007.01-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children's children, to the third and the fourth generation.\u201d (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n </ol>\n </div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","title":"Of God, and of the holy Trinity, part 1"}