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{"content":[{"abbv":"wcf","body":"Nevertheless, they may, through the temptations of Satan and of the world, the prevalency of corruption remaining in them, and the neglect of the means of their preservation, fall into grievous sins; and, for a time, continue therein: whereby they incur God's displeasure, and grieve his Holy Spirit, come to be deprived of some measure of their graces and comforts, have their hearts hardened, and their consciences wounded; hurt and scandalize others, and bring temporal judgments upon themselves.","chapter":"17","citation":"WCF 17.3","long_citation":"Confession of Faith 17.3","name":"Confession of Faith","paragraph":"3","prooftexts":{},"section_title":"","title":"Chapter 17: Of the Perseverance of the Saints","type":"confession"}],"content_with_prooftexts":[{"abbv":"wcf","body":"Nevertheless, they may, through the temptations of Satan and of the world, the prevalency of corruption remaining in them, and the neglect of the means of their preservation, fall into grievous sins;<sup id='fnref:wcf1'><a href='#fn:wcf1' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>1</a></sup> and, for a time, continue therein:<sup id='fnref:wcf2'><a href='#fn:wcf2' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>2</a></sup> whereby they incur God's displeasure,<sup id='fnref:wcf3'><a href='#fn:wcf3' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>3</a></sup> and grieve his Holy Spirit,<sup id='fnref:wcf4'><a href='#fn:wcf4' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>4</a></sup> come to be deprived of some measure of their graces and comforts,<sup id='fnref:wcf5'><a href='#fn:wcf5' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>5</a></sup> have their hearts hardened,<sup id='fnref:wcf6'><a href='#fn:wcf6' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>6</a></sup> and their consciences wounded;<sup id='fnref:wcf7'><a href='#fn:wcf7' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>7</a></sup> hurt and scandalize others,<sup id='fnref:wcf8'><a href='#fn:wcf8' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>8</a></sup> and bring temporal judgments upon themselves.<sup id='fnref:wcf9'><a href='#fn:wcf9' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>9</a></sup>","chapter":"17","citation":"WCF 17.3","long_citation":"Confession of Faith 17.3","name":"Confession of Faith","paragraph":"3","prooftexts":{"1":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 26:70</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40026070.01-1\">But he denied it before them all, saying, “I do not know what you mean.”</p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 26:72</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40026072.01-2\">And again he denied it with an oath: “I do not know the man.”</p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 26:74</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40026074.01-3\">Then he began to invoke a curse on himself and to swear, “I do not know the man.” And immediately the rooster crowed. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>","2":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 51</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19051001.30-1\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v19051001-1\">51:1 </span>Have mercy on me, O God,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>according to your steadfast love;<br />\naccording to your abundant mercy<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>blot out my transgressions.<br />\n Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and cleanse me from my sin!</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19051003.01-1\">For I know my transgressions,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and my sin is ever before me.<br />\n Against you, you only, have I sinned<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and done what is evil in your sight,<br />\nso that you may be justified in your words<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and blameless in your judgment.<br />\n Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and in sin did my mother conceive me.<br />\n Behold, you delight in truth in the inward being,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and you teach me wisdom in the secret heart.</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19051007.01-1\">Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.<br />\n Let me hear joy and gladness;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>let the bones that you have broken rejoice.<br />\n Hide your face from my sins,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and blot out all my iniquities.<br />\n Create in me a clean heart, O God,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and renew a right spirit within me.<br />\n Cast me not away from your presence,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and take not your Holy Spirit from me.<br />\n Restore to me the joy of your salvation,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and uphold me with a willing spirit.</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19051013.01-1\">Then I will teach transgressors your ways,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and sinners will return to you.<br />\n Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>O God of my salvation,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and my tongue will sing aloud of your righteousness.<br />\n O Lord, open my lips,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and my mouth will declare your praise.<br />\n For you will not delight in sacrifice, or I would give it;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>you will not be pleased with a burnt offering.<br />\n The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19051018.01-1\">Do good to Zion in your good pleasure;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>build up the walls of Jerusalem;<br />\n then will you delight in right sacrifices,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>in burnt offerings and whole burnt offerings;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>then bulls will be offered on your altar.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 51:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19051014.01-2\">Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>O God of my salvation,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and my tongue will sing aloud of your righteousness. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>","3":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Isaiah 64:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23064005.01-1\">You meet him who joyfully works righteousness,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>those who remember you in your ways.<br />\nBehold, you were angry, and we sinned;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>in our sins we have been a long time, and shall we be saved?</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Isaiah 64:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23064007.01-2\">There is no one who calls upon your name,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>who rouses himself to take hold of you;<br />\nfor you have hidden your face from us,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and have made us melt in the hand of our iniquities.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Isaiah 64:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23064009.01-3\">Be not so terribly angry, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and remember not iniquity forever.<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Behold, please look, we are all your people.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>2 Samuel 11:27</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p10011027.01-4\">And when the mourning was over, David sent and brought her to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>","4":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ephesians 4:30</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49004030.01-1\">And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>","5":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 51:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19051008.01-1\">Let me hear joy and gladness;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>let the bones that you have broken rejoice.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 51:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19051010.01-2\">Create in me a clean heart, O God,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and renew a right spirit within me.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 51:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19051012.01-3\">Restore to me the joy of your salvation,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and uphold me with a willing spirit.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Revelation 2:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p66002004.01-4\"><span class=\"woc\">But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first.</span></p>\n</div><h5>Song of Solomon 5:2-4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p22005002.08-5\">I slept, but my heart was awake.<br />\nA sound! My beloved is knocking.<br />\n“Open to me, my sister, my love,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>my dove, my perfect one,<br />\nfor my head is wet with dew,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>my locks with the drops of the night.”<br />\n I had put off my garment;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>how could I put it on?<br />\nI had bathed my feet;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>how could I soil them?<br />\n My beloved put his hand to the latch,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and my heart was thrilled within me.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Song of Solomon 5:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p22005006.01-6\">I opened to my beloved,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but my beloved had turned and gone.<br />\nMy soul failed me when he spoke.<br />\nI sought him, but found him not;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I called him, but he gave no answer. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>","6":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Isaiah 63:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23063017.01-1\">O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, why do you make us wander from your ways<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and harden our heart, so that we fear you not?<br />\nReturn for the sake of your servants,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>the tribes of your heritage.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Mark 6:52</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p41006052.01-2\">for they did not understand about the loaves, but their hearts were hardened.</p>\n</div><h5>Mark 16:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p41016014.04-3\">Afterward he appeared to the eleven themselves as they were reclining at table, and he rebuked them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they had not believed those who saw him after he had risen. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>","7":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 32:3-4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19032003.01-1\">For when I kept silent, my bones wasted away<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>through my groaning all day long.<br />\n For day and night your hand was heavy upon me;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>my strength was dried up as by the heat of summer. <span class=\"selah\">Selah</span></p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 51:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19051008.01-2\">Let me hear joy and gladness;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>let the bones that you have broken rejoice. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>","8":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>2 Samuel 12:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p10012014.01-1\">Nevertheless, because by this deed you have utterly scorned the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, the child who is born to you shall die.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>","9":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 89:31-32</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19089031.01-1\">if they violate my statutes<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and do not keep my commandments,<br />\n then I will punish their transgression with the rod<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and their iniquity with stripes,</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 11:32</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46011032.01-2\">But when we are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined so that we may not be condemned along with the world. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"},"section_title":"","title":"Chapter 17: Of the Perseverance of the Saints","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 17: Of the Perseverance of the Saints</h5>\n<p class=\"paragraph\" style=\"display:block; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:16px\"><span class=\"q\">3.</span> Nevertheless, they may, through the temptations of Satan and of the world, the prevalency of corruption remaining in them, and the neglect of the means of their preservation, fall into grievous sins;<sup id=\"fnref:wcf1\"><a href=\"#fn:wcf1\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">1</a></sup> and, for a time, continue therein:<sup id=\"fnref:wcf2\"><a href=\"#fn:wcf2\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">2</a></sup> whereby they incur God's displeasure,<sup id=\"fnref:wcf3\"><a href=\"#fn:wcf3\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">3</a></sup> and grieve his Holy Spirit,<sup id=\"fnref:wcf4\"><a href=\"#fn:wcf4\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">4</a></sup> come to be deprived of some measure of their graces and comforts,<sup id=\"fnref:wcf5\"><a href=\"#fn:wcf5\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">5</a></sup> have their hearts hardened,<sup id=\"fnref:wcf6\"><a href=\"#fn:wcf6\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">6</a></sup> and their consciences wounded;<sup id=\"fnref:wcf7\"><a href=\"#fn:wcf7\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">7</a></sup> hurt and scandalize others,<sup id=\"fnref:wcf8\"><a href=\"#fn:wcf8\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">8</a></sup> and bring temporal judgments upon themselves.<sup id=\"fnref:wcf9\"><a href=\"#fn:wcf9\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">9</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\">Matthew 26:70</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p40026070.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">But he denied it before them all, saying, \u201cI do not know what you mean.\u201d</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Matthew 26:72</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p40026072.01-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">And again he denied it with an oath: \u201cI do not know the man.\u201d</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Matthew 26:74</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p40026074.01-3\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Then he began to invoke a curse on himself and to swear, \u201cI do not know the man.\u201d And immediately the rooster crowed. (<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\">Psalm 51</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n\n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19051001.30-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v19051001-1\">51:1\u00a0</span>Have mercy on me, O God,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>according to your steadfast love;\naccording to your abundant mercy\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>blot out my transgressions.\n Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and cleanse me from my sin!</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19051003.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">For I know my transgressions,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and my sin is ever before me.\n Against you, you only, have I sinned\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and done what is evil in your sight,\nso that you may be justified in your words\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and blameless in your judgment.\n Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and in sin did my mother conceive me.\n Behold, you delight in truth in the inward being,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and you teach me wisdom in the secret heart.</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19051007.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.\n Let me hear joy and gladness;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>let the bones that you have broken rejoice.\n Hide your face from my sins,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and blot out all my iniquities.\n Create in me a clean heart, O God,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and renew a right spirit within me.\n Cast me not away from your presence,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and take not your Holy Spirit from me.\n Restore to me the joy of your salvation,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and uphold me with a willing spirit.</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19051013.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Then I will teach transgressors your ways,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and sinners will return to you.\n Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>O God of my salvation,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and my tongue will sing aloud of your righteousness.\n O Lord, open my lips,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and my mouth will declare your praise.\n For you will not delight in sacrifice, or I would give it;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>you will not be pleased with a burnt offering.\n The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19051018.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Do good to Zion in your good pleasure;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>build up the walls of Jerusalem;\n then will you delight in right sacrifices,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>in burnt offerings and whole burnt offerings;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>then bulls will be offered on your altar.</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Psalm 51:14</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=\"p19051014.01-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>O God of my salvation,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and my tongue will sing aloud of your righteousness. (<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\">Isaiah 64:5</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=\"p23064005.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">You meet him who joyfully works righteousness,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>those who remember you in your ways.\nBehold, you were angry, and we sinned;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>in our sins we have been a long time, and shall we be saved?</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Isaiah 64:7</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=\"p23064007.01-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">There is no one who calls upon your name,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>who rouses himself to take hold of you;\nfor you have hidden your face from us,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and have made us melt in the hand of our iniquities.</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Isaiah 64:9</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=\"p23064009.01-3\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Be not so terribly angry, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and remember not iniquity forever.\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Behold, please look, we are all your people.</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">2 Samuel 11:27</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p10011027.01-4\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">And when the mourning was over, David sent and brought her to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased 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: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\">Ephesians 4:30</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p49004030.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. (<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\">Psalm 51:8</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=\"p19051008.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Let me hear joy and gladness;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>let the bones that you have broken rejoice.</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Psalm 51:10</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=\"p19051010.01-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Create in me a clean heart, O God,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and renew a right spirit within me.</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Psalm 51:12</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=\"p19051012.01-3\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Restore to me the joy of your salvation,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and uphold me with a willing spirit.</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Revelation 2:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p66002004.01-4\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\"><span class=\"woc\">But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first.</span></p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Song of Solomon 5:2-4</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\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p22005002.08-5\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">I slept, but my heart was awake.\nA sound! My beloved is knocking.\n\u201cOpen to me, my sister, my love,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>my dove, my perfect one,\nfor my head is wet with dew,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>my locks with the drops of the night.\u201d\n I had put off my garment;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>how could I put it on?\nI had bathed my feet;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>how could I soil them?\n My beloved put his hand to the latch,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and my heart was thrilled within me.</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Song of Solomon 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=\"p22005006.01-6\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">I opened to my beloved,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but my beloved had turned and gone.\nMy soul failed me when he spoke.\nI sought him, but found him not;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I called him, but he gave no answer. (<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: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\">Isaiah 63:17</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=\"p23063017.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, why do you make us wander from your ways\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and harden our heart, so that we fear you not?\nReturn for the sake of your servants,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>the tribes of your heritage.</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Mark 6:52</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p41006052.01-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">for they did not understand about the loaves, but their hearts were hardened.</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Mark 16:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p41016014.04-3\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Afterward he appeared to the eleven themselves as they were reclining at table, and he rebuked them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they had not believed those who saw him after he had risen. (<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\">Psalm 32:3-4</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=\"p19032003.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">For when I kept silent, my bones wasted away\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>through my groaning all day long.\n For day and night your hand was heavy upon me;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>my strength was dried up as by the heat of summer. <span class=\"selah\">Selah</span></p>\n</div>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Psalm 51:8</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=\"p19051008.01-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Let me hear joy and gladness;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>let the bones that you have broken rejoice. (<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: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\">2 Samuel 12:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p10012014.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Nevertheless, because by this deed you have utterly scorned the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, the child who is born to you shall die.\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: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\">Psalm 89:31-32</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=\"p19089031.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">if they violate my statutes\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and do not keep my commandments,\n then I will punish their transgression with the rod\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and their iniquity with stripes,</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">1 Corinthians 11:32</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p46011032.01-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">But when we are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined so that we may not be condemned along with the world. (<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 the perseverance of the saints, part 3"}