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#### Shorter Catechism
<span class="q">Q 4.</span> What is God?
<span class="q">A.</span> God is a Spirit,[^fnref:wsc1] infinite,[^fnref:wsc2] eternal,[^fnref:wsc3] and unchangeable,[^fnref:wsc4] in his being,[^fnref:wsc5] wisdom,[^fnref:wsc6] power,[^fnref:wsc7] holiness,[^fnref:wsc8] justice,[^fnref:wsc9] goodness,[^fnref:wsc10] and truth.[^fnref:wsc11]
[^fnref:wsc1]: <div class="esv"><h5>Deuteronomy 4:15-19</h5> <div class="esv-text"> <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, the likeness of any animal that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the air, the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth. And beware lest you raise your eyes to heaven, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, all the host of heaven, you be drawn away and bow down to them and serve them, things that the <span class="small-caps">Lord</span> your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole heaven.</p> </div><h5>Luke 24:39</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p42024039.01-2"><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></p> </div><h5>John 1:18</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p43001018.01-3">No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father's side, he has made him known.</p> </div><h5>John 4:24</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p43004024.01-4"><span class="woc">God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”</span></p> </div><h5>Acts 17:29</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p class="same-paragraph" id="p44017029.01-5">Being then God's offspring, we ought not to think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of man. (<a href="http://www.esv.org" class="copyright">ESV</a>)</p> </div> </div>
[^fnref:wsc2]: <div class="esv"><h5>1 Kings 8:27</h5> <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> </div><h5>Psalm 139:7-10</h5> <div class="esv-text"><div class="block-indent"> <p class="line-group" id="p19139007.01-2">Where shall I go from your Spirit?<br /> <span class="indent"></span>Or where shall I flee from your presence?<br /> If I ascend to heaven, you are there!<br /> <span class="indent"></span>If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there!<br /> If I take the wings of the morning<br /> <span class="indent"></span>and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,<br /> even there your hand shall lead me,<br /> <span class="indent"></span>and your right hand shall hold me.</p> </div> </div><h5>Psalm 145:3</h5> <div class="esv-text"><div class="block-indent"> <p class="line-group" id="p19145003.01-3">Great is the <span class="small-caps">Lord</span>, and greatly to be praised,<br /> <span class="indent"></span>and his greatness is unsearchable.</p> </div> </div><h5>Psalm 147:5</h5> <div class="esv-text"><div class="block-indent"> <p class="line-group" id="p19147005.01-4">Great is our Lord, and abundant in power;<br /> <span class="indent"></span>his understanding is beyond measure.</p> </div> </div><h5>Jeremiah 23:24</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p24023024.01-5">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>.</p> </div><h5>Romans 11:33-36</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p45011033.01-6">Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!</p> <div class="block-indent"> <p class="line-group" id="p45011034.01-6">“For who has known the mind of the Lord,<br /> <span class="indent"></span>or who has been his counselor?”<br /> “Or who has given a gift to him<br /> <span class="indent"></span>that he might be repaid?”</p> </div> <p class="same-paragraph" id="p45011036.01-6">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> </div> </div>
[^fnref:wsc3]: <div class="esv"><h5>Deuteronomy 33:27</h5> <div class="esv-text"><div class="block-indent"> <p class="line-group" id="p05033027.01-1">The eternal God is your dwelling place,<br /> <span class="indent"></span>and underneath are the everlasting arms.<br /> And he thrust out the enemy before you<br /> <span class="indent"></span>and said, Destroy.</p> </div> </div><h5>Psalm 90:2</h5> <div class="esv-text"><div class="block-indent"> <p class="line-group" id="p19090002.01-2">Before the mountains were brought forth,<br /> <span class="indent"></span>or ever you had formed the earth and the world,<br /> <span class="indent"></span>from everlasting to everlasting you are God.</p> </div> </div><h5>Psalm 102:12</h5> <div class="esv-text"><div class="block-indent"> <p class="line-group" id="p19102012.01-3">But you, O <span class="small-caps">Lord</span>, are enthroned forever;<br /> <span class="indent"></span>you are remembered throughout all generations.</p> </div> </div><h5>Psalm 102:24-27</h5> <div class="esv-text"><div class="block-indent"> <p class="line-group" id="p19102024.01-4">“O my God,” I say, “take me not away<br /> <span class="indent"></span>in the midst of my days—<br /> you whose years endure<br /> <span class="indent"></span>throughout all generations!”</p> <p class="line-group" id="p19102025.01-4">Of old you laid the foundation of the earth,<br /> <span class="indent"></span>and the heavens are the work of your hands.<br /> They will perish, but you will remain;<br /> <span class="indent"></span>they will all wear out like a garment.<br /> You will change them like a robe, and they will pass away,<br /> <span class="indent"></span>but you are the same, and your years have no end.</p> </div> </div><h5>Revelation 1:4</h5> <div class="esv-text"> <p id="p66001004.06-5">John to the seven churches that are in Asia:</p> <p id="p66001004.15-5">Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne,</p> </div><h5>Revelation 1:8</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p66001008.01-6">“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.” (<a href="http://www.esv.org" class="copyright">ESV</a>)</p> </div> </div>
[^fnref:wsc4]: <div class="esv"><h5>Psalm 33:11</h5> <div class="esv-text"><div class="block-indent"> <p class="line-group" id="p19033011.01-1">The counsel of the <span class="small-caps">Lord</span> stands forever,<br /> <span class="indent"></span>the plans of his heart to all generations.</p> </div> </div><h5>Malachi 3:6</h5> <div class="esv-text"> <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.</p> </div><h5>Hebrews 1:12</h5> <div class="esv-text"><div class="block-indent"> <p class="line-group" id="p58001012.01-3">like a robe you will roll them up,<br /> <span class="indent"></span>like a garment they will be changed.<br /> But you are the same,<br /> <span class="indent"></span>and your years will have no end.”</p> </div> </div><h5>Hebrews 6:17-18</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p58006017.01-4">So when God desired to show more convincingly to the heirs of the promise the unchangeable character of his purpose, he guaranteed it with an oath, so that by two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled for refuge might have strong encouragement to hold fast to the hope set before us.</p> </div><h5>Hebrews 13:8</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p58013008.01-5">Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.</p> </div><h5>James 1:17</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p59001017.01-6">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. (<a href="http://www.esv.org" class="copyright">ESV</a>)</p> </div> </div>
[^fnref:wsc5]: <div class="esv"><h5>Exodus 3:14</h5> <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.’”</p> </div><h5>Psalm 115:2-3</h5> <div class="esv-text"><div class="block-indent"> <p class="line-group" id="p19115002.01-2">Why should the nations say,<br /> <span class="indent"></span>“Where is their God?”<br /> Our God is in the heavens;<br /> <span class="indent"></span>he does all that he pleases.</p> </div> </div><h5>1 Timothy 1:17</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p54001017.01-3">To the King of ages, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.</p> </div><h5>1 Timothy 6:15-16</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p54006015.01-4">which he will display at the proper time—he who is the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords, who alone has immortality, who dwells in unapproachable light, whom no one has ever seen or can see. To him be honor and eternal dominion. Amen. (<a href="http://www.esv.org" class="copyright">ESV</a>)</p> </div> </div>
[^fnref:wsc6]: <div class="esv"><h5>Psalm 104:24</h5> <div class="esv-text"><div class="block-indent"> <p class="line-group" id="p19104024.01-1">O <span class="small-caps">Lord</span>, how manifold are your works!<br /> <span class="indent"></span>In wisdom have you made them all;<br /> <span class="indent"></span>the earth is full of your creatures.</p> </div> </div><h5>Romans 11:33-34</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p45011033.01-2">Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!</p> <div class="block-indent"> <p class="line-group" id="p45011034.01-2">“For who has known the mind of the Lord,<br /> <span class="indent"></span>or who has been his counselor?”</p> </div> </div><h5>Hebrews 4:13</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p58004013.01-3">And no creature is hidden from his sight, but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give account.</p> </div><h5>1 John 3:20</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p62003020.01-4">for whenever our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and he knows everything. (<a href="http://www.esv.org" class="copyright">ESV</a>)</p> </div> </div>
[^fnref:wsc7]: <div class="esv"><h5>Genesis 17:1</h5> <div class="esv-text"> <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> </div><h5>Psalm 62:11</h5> <div class="esv-text"><div class="block-indent"> <p class="line-group" id="p19062011.01-2">Once God has spoken;<br /> <span class="indent"></span>twice have I heard this:<br /> that power belongs to God,</p> </div> </div><h5>Jeremiah 32:17</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p24032017.01-3">‘Ah, Lord <span class="small-caps">God</span>! It is you who have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm! Nothing is too hard for you.</p> </div><h5>Matthew 19:26</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p40019026.01-4">But Jesus looked at them and said, <span class="woc">“With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”</span></p> </div><h5>Revelation 1:8</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p66001008.01-5">“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.” (<a href="http://www.esv.org" class="copyright">ESV</a>)</p> </div> </div>
[^fnref:wsc8]: <div class="esv"><h5>Habakkuk 1:13</h5> <div class="esv-text"><div class="block-indent"> <p class="line-group" id="p35001013.01-1">You who are of purer eyes than to see evil<br /> <span class="indent"></span>and cannot look at wrong,<br /> why do you idly look at traitors<br /> <span class="indent"></span>and remain silent when the wicked swallows up<br /> <span class="indent"></span>the man more righteous than he?</p> </div> </div><h5>1 Peter 1:15-16</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p60001015.01-2">but as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, since it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.”</p> </div><h5>1 John 3:3</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p62003003.01-3">And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure.</p> </div><h5>1 John 3:5</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p62003005.01-4">You know that he appeared to take away sins, and in him there is no sin.</p> </div><h5>Revelation 15:4</h5> <div class="esv-text"><div class="block-indent"> <p class="line-group" id="p66015004.01-5">Who will not fear, O Lord,<br /> <span class="indent"></span>and glorify your name?<br /> For you alone are holy.<br /> <span class="indent"></span>All nations will come<br /> <span class="indent"></span>and worship you,<br /> for your righteous acts have been revealed.” (<a href="http://www.esv.org" class="copyright">ESV</a>)</p> </div> </div> </div>
[^fnref:wsc9]: <div class="esv"><h5>Genesis 18:25</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p01018025.01-1">Far be it from you to do such a thing, to put the righteous to death with the wicked, so that the righteous fare as the wicked! Far be that from you! Shall not the Judge of all the earth do what is just?”</p> </div><h5>Exodus 34:6-7</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p02034006.01-2">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.”</p> </div><h5>Deuteronomy 32:4</h5> <div class="esv-text"><div class="block-indent"> <p class="line-group" id="p05032004.01-3">“The Rock, his work is perfect,<br /> <span class="indent"></span>for all his ways are justice.<br /> A God of faithfulness and without iniquity,<br /> <span class="indent"></span>just and upright is he.</p> </div> </div><h5>Psalm 96:13</h5> <div class="esv-text"><div class="block-indent"> <p class="line-group" id="p19096013.01-4"><span class="indent"></span>before the <span class="small-caps">Lord</span>, for he comes,<br /> <span class="indent"></span>for he comes to judge the earth.<br /> He will judge the world in righteousness,<br /> <span class="indent"></span>and the peoples in his faithfulness.</p> </div> </div><h5>Romans 3:5</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p class="same-paragraph" id="p45003005.01-5">But if our unrighteousness serves to show the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unrighteous to inflict wrath on us? (I speak in a human way.)</p> </div><h5>Romans 3:26</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p45003026.01-6">It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus. (<a href="http://www.esv.org" class="copyright">ESV</a>)</p> </div> </div>
[^fnref:wsc10]: <div class="esv"><h5>Psalm 103:5</h5> <div class="esv-text"><div class="block-indent"> <p class="line-group" id="p19103005.01-1">who satisfies you with good<br /> <span class="indent"></span>so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's.</p> </div> </div><h5>Psalm 107:8</h5> <div class="esv-text"><div class="block-indent"> <p class="line-group" id="p19107008.01-2">Let them thank the <span class="small-caps">Lord</span> for his steadfast love,<br /> <span class="indent"></span>for his wondrous works to the children of man!</p> </div> </div><h5>Matthew 19:17</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p40019017.01-3">And he said to him, <span class="woc">“Why do you ask me about what is good? There is only one who is good. If you would enter life, keep the commandments.”</span></p> </div><h5>Romans 2:4</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p45002004.01-4">Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God's kindness is meant to lead you to repentance? (<a href="http://www.esv.org" class="copyright">ESV</a>)</p> </div> </div>
[^fnref:wsc11]: <div class="esv"><h5>Exodus 34:6</h5> <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,</p> </div><h5>Deuteronomy 32:4</h5> <div class="esv-text"><div class="block-indent"> <p class="line-group" id="p05032004.01-2">“The Rock, his work is perfect,<br /> <span class="indent"></span>for all his ways are justice.<br /> A God of faithfulness and without iniquity,<br /> <span class="indent"></span>just and upright is he.</p> </div> </div><h5>Psalm 86:15</h5> <div class="esv-text"><div class="block-indent"> <p class="line-group" id="p19086015.01-3">But you, O Lord, are a God merciful and gracious,<br /> <span class="indent"></span>slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness.</p> </div> </div><h5>Psalm 117:2</h5> <div class="esv-text"><div class="block-indent"> <p class="line-group" id="p19117002.01-4">For great is his steadfast love toward us,<br /> <span class="indent"></span>and the faithfulness of the <span class="small-caps">Lord</span> endures forever.<br /> Praise the <span class="small-caps">Lord</span>!</p> </div> </div><h5>Hebrews 6:18</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p58006018.01-5">so that by two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled for refuge might have strong encouragement to hold fast to the hope set before us. (<a href="http://www.esv.org" class="copyright">ESV</a>)</p> </div> </div>
#### Larger Catechism
<span class="q">Q 7.</span> What is God?
<span class="q">A.</span> God is a Spirit,[^fnref:wlc1] in and of himself infinite in being,[^fnref:wlc2] glory,[^fnref:wlc3] blessedness,[^fnref:wlc4] and perfection;[^fnref:wlc5] all-sufficient,[^fnref:wlc6] eternal,[^fnref:wlc7] unchangeable,[^fnref:wlc8] incomprehensible,[^fnref:wlc9] every where present,[^fnref:wlc10] almighty,[^fnref:wlc11] knowing all things,[^fnref:wlc12] most wise,[^fnref:wlc13] most holy,[^fnref:wlc14] most just,[^fnref:wlc15] most merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth.[^fnref:wlc16]
[^fnref:wlc1]: <div class="esv"><h5>John 4:24</h5> <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> </div> </div>
[^fnref:wlc2]: <div class="esv"><h5>Exodus 3:14</h5> <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.’”</p> </div><h5>Job 11:7-9</h5> <div class="esv-text"><div class="block-indent"> <p class="line-group" id="p18011007.01-2">“Can you find out the deep things of God?<br /> <span class="indent"></span>Can you find out the limit of the Almighty?<br /> It is higher than heaven—what can you do?<br /> <span class="indent"></span>Deeper than Sheol—what can you know?<br /> Its measure is longer than the earth<br /> <span class="indent"></span>and broader than the sea.</p> </div> </div><h5>Psalm 145:3</h5> <div class="esv-text"><div class="block-indent"> <p class="line-group" id="p19145003.01-3">Great is the <span class="small-caps">Lord</span>, and greatly to be praised,<br /> <span class="indent"></span>and his greatness is unsearchable.</p> </div> </div><h5>Psalm 147:5</h5> <div class="esv-text"><div class="block-indent"> <p class="line-group" id="p19147005.01-4">Great is our Lord, and abundant in power;<br /> <span class="indent"></span>his understanding is beyond measure. (<a href="http://www.esv.org" class="copyright">ESV</a>)</p> </div> </div> </div>
[^fnref:wlc3]: <div class="esv"><h5>Acts 7:2</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p44007002.01-1">And Stephen said:</p> <p id="p44007002.04-1">“Brothers and fathers, hear me. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran, (<a href="http://www.esv.org" class="copyright">ESV</a>)</p> </div> </div>
[^fnref:wlc4]: <div class="esv"><h5>1 Timothy 6:15</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p54006015.01-1">which he will display at the proper time—he who is the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords, (<a href="http://www.esv.org" class="copyright">ESV</a>)</p> </div> </div>
[^fnref:wlc5]: <div class="esv"><h5>Matthew 5:48</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p40005048.01-1"><span class="woc">You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.</span> (<a href="http://www.esv.org" class="copyright">ESV</a>)</p> </div> </div>
[^fnref:wlc6]: <div class="esv"><h5>Exodus 3:14</h5> <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.’”</p> </div><h5>Genesis 17:1</h5> <div class="esv-text"> <p id="p01017001.07-2"><span class="chapter-num" id="v01017001-2">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> </div><h5>Romans 11:35-36</h5> <div class="esv-text"><div class="block-indent"> <p class="line-group" id="p45011035.01-3">“Or who has given a gift to him<br /> <span class="indent"></span>that he might be repaid?”</p> </div> <p class="same-paragraph" id="p45011036.01-3">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> </div> </div>
[^fnref:wlc7]: <div class="esv"><h5>Psalm 90:2</h5> <div class="esv-text"><div class="block-indent"> <p class="line-group" id="p19090002.01-1">Before the mountains were brought forth,<br /> <span class="indent"></span>or ever you had formed the earth and the world,<br /> <span class="indent"></span>from everlasting to everlasting you are God.</p> </div> </div><h5>Deuteronomy 33:27</h5> <div class="esv-text"><div class="block-indent"> <p class="line-group" id="p05033027.01-2">The eternal God is your dwelling place,<br /> <span class="indent"></span>and underneath are the everlasting arms.<br /> And he thrust out the enemy before you<br /> <span class="indent"></span>and said, Destroy. (<a href="http://www.esv.org" class="copyright">ESV</a>)</p> </div> </div> </div>
[^fnref:wlc8]: <div class="esv"><h5>Malachi 3:6</h5> <div class="esv-text"> <p id="p39003006.03-1">“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> </div> </div>
[^fnref:wlc9]: <div class="esv"><h5>1 Kings 8:27</h5> <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> </div><h5>Psalm 145:3</h5> <div class="esv-text"><div class="block-indent"> <p class="line-group" id="p19145003.01-2">Great is the <span class="small-caps">Lord</span>, and greatly to be praised,<br /> <span class="indent"></span>and his greatness is unsearchable.</p> </div> </div><h5>Romans 11:34</h5> <div class="esv-text"><div class="block-indent"> <p class="line-group" id="p45011034.01-3">“For who has known the mind of the Lord,<br /> <span class="indent"></span>or who has been his counselor?” (<a href="http://www.esv.org" class="copyright">ESV</a>)</p> </div> </div> </div>
[^fnref:wlc10]: <div class="esv"><h5>Psalm 139:1-13</h5> <div class="esv-text"> <div class="block-indent"> <p class="line-group" id="p19139001.16-1"><span class="chapter-num" id="v19139001-1">139:1 </span>O <span class="small-caps">Lord</span>, you have searched me and known me!<br /> You know when I sit down and when I rise up;<br /> <span class="indent"></span>you discern my thoughts from afar.<br /> You search out my path and my lying down<br /> <span class="indent"></span>and are acquainted with all my ways.<br /> Even before a word is on my tongue,<br /> <span class="indent"></span>behold, O <span class="small-caps">Lord</span>, you know it altogether.<br /> You hem me in, behind and before,<br /> <span class="indent"></span>and lay your hand upon me.<br /> Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;<br /> <span class="indent"></span>it is high; I cannot attain it.</p> <p class="line-group" id="p19139007.01-1">Where shall I go from your Spirit?<br /> <span class="indent"></span>Or where shall I flee from your presence?<br /> If I ascend to heaven, you are there!<br /> <span class="indent"></span>If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there!<br /> If I take the wings of the morning<br /> <span class="indent"></span>and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,<br /> even there your hand shall lead me,<br /> <span class="indent"></span>and your right hand shall hold me.<br /> If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me,<br /> <span class="indent"></span>and the light about me be night,”<br /> even the darkness is not dark to you;<br /> <span class="indent"></span>the night is bright as the day,<br /> <span class="indent"></span>for darkness is as light with you.</p> <p class="line-group" id="p19139013.01-1">For you formed my inward parts;<br /> <span class="indent"></span>you knitted me together in my mother's womb. (<a href="http://www.esv.org" class="copyright">ESV</a>)</p> </div> </div> </div>
[^fnref:wlc11]: <div class="esv"><h5>Revelation 4:8</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p66004008.01-1">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> <div class="block-indent"> <p class="line-group" id="p66004008.29-1">“Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty,<br /> <span class="indent"></span>who was and is and is to come!”</p> </div> </div><h5>Genesis 17:1</h5> <div class="esv-text"> <p id="p01017001.07-2"><span class="chapter-num" id="v01017001-2">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> </div><h5>Matthew 19:26</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p40019026.01-3">But Jesus looked at them and said, <span class="woc">“With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”</span> (<a href="http://www.esv.org" class="copyright">ESV</a>)</p> </div> </div>
[^fnref:wlc12]: <div class="esv"><h5>Hebrews 4:13</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p58004013.01-1">And no creature is hidden from his sight, but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give account.</p> </div><h5>Psalm 147:5</h5> <div class="esv-text"><div class="block-indent"> <p class="line-group" id="p19147005.01-2">Great is our Lord, and abundant in power;<br /> <span class="indent"></span>his understanding is beyond measure. (<a href="http://www.esv.org" class="copyright">ESV</a>)</p> </div> </div> </div>
[^fnref:wlc13]: <div class="esv"><h5>Romans 11:33-34</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p45011033.01-1">Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!</p> <div class="block-indent"> <p class="line-group" id="p45011034.01-1">“For who has known the mind of the Lord,<br /> <span class="indent"></span>or who has been his counselor?”</p> </div> </div><h5>Romans 16:27</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p45016027.01-2">to the only wise God be glory forevermore through Jesus Christ! Amen. (<a href="http://www.esv.org" class="copyright">ESV</a>)</p> </div> </div>
[^fnref:wlc14]: <div class="esv"><h5>1 Peter 1:15-16</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p60001015.01-1">but as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, since it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.”</p> </div><h5>Revelation 15:4</h5> <div class="esv-text"><div class="block-indent"> <p class="line-group" id="p66015004.01-2">Who will not fear, O Lord,<br /> <span class="indent"></span>and glorify your name?<br /> For you alone are holy.<br /> <span class="indent"></span>All nations will come<br /> <span class="indent"></span>and worship you,<br /> for your righteous acts have been revealed.”</p> </div> </div><h5>Isaiah 6:3</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p23006003.01-3">And one called to another and said:</p> <div class="block-indent"> <p class="line-group" id="p23006003.08-3">“Holy, holy, holy is the <span class="small-caps">Lord</span> of hosts;<br /> the whole earth is full of his glory!” (<a href="http://www.esv.org" class="copyright">ESV</a>)</p> </div> </div> </div>
[^fnref:wlc15]: <div class="esv"><h5>Deuteronomy 32:4</h5> <div class="esv-text"><div class="block-indent"> <p class="line-group" id="p05032004.01-1">“The Rock, his work is perfect,<br /> <span class="indent"></span>for all his ways are justice.<br /> A God of faithfulness and without iniquity,<br /> <span class="indent"></span>just and upright is he.</p> </div> </div><h5>Romans 3:5</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p class="same-paragraph" id="p45003005.01-2">But if our unrighteousness serves to show the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unrighteous to inflict wrath on us? (I speak in a human way.)</p> </div><h5>Romans 3:26</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p45003026.01-3">It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus. (<a href="http://www.esv.org" class="copyright">ESV</a>)</p> </div> </div>
[^fnref:wlc16]: <div class="esv"><h5>Exodus 34:6</h5> <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,</p> </div><h5>Psalm 117:2</h5> <div class="esv-text"><div class="block-indent"> <p class="line-group" id="p19117002.01-2">For great is his steadfast love toward us,<br /> <span class="indent"></span>and the faithfulness of the <span class="small-caps">Lord</span> endures forever.<br /> Praise the <span class="small-caps">Lord</span>!</p> </div> </div><h5>Deuteronomy 32:4</h5> <div class="esv-text"><div class="block-indent"> <p class="line-group" id="p05032004.01-3">“The Rock, his work is perfect,<br /> <span class="indent"></span>for all his ways are justice.<br /> A God of faithfulness and without iniquity,<br /> <span class="indent"></span>just and upright is he. (<a href="http://www.esv.org" class="copyright">ESV</a>)</p> </div> </div> </div>