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"1": "<span data-prooftexts='Genesis 2:24; Matthew 19:5-6; Proverbs 2:17' data-prooftexts-index='476'>Marriage is to be between one man and one woman: neither is it lawful for any man to have more than one wife, nor for any woman to have more than one husband, at the same time.</span>",
"3": "<span data-prooftexts='Hebrews 13:4; 1 Timothy 4:3; 1 Corinthians 7:36-38; Genesis 24:57' data-prooftexts-index='480'>It is lawful for all sorts of people to marry, who are able with judgment to give their consent.</span><span data-prooftexts='1 Corinthians 7:39' data-prooftexts-index='481'> Yet it is the duty of Christians to marry only in the Lord.</span><span data-prooftexts='Genesis 34:14; Exodus 34:16; Deuteronomy 7:3-4; 1 Kings 11:4; Nehemiah 13:25-27; Malachi 2:11-12; 2 Corinthians 6:14' data-prooftexts-index='482'> And therefore such as profess the true reformed religion should not marry with infidels, papists, or other idolaters: neither should such as are godly be unequally yoked, by marrying with such as are notoriously wicked in their life, or maintain damnable heresies.</span>",
"2": "<span data-prooftexts='Genesis 2:18' data-prooftexts-index='477'>Marriage was ordained for the mutual help of husband and wife,</span><span data-prooftexts='Malachi 2:15' data-prooftexts-index='478'> for the increase of mankind with legitimate issue, and of the church with an holy seed;</span><span data-prooftexts='1 Corinthians 7:2, 9' data-prooftexts-index='479'> and for preventing of uncleanness.</span>",
"5": "<span data-prooftexts='Matthew 1:18-20' data-prooftexts-index='485'>Adultery or fornication committed after a contract, being detected before marriage, giveth just occasion to the innocent party to dissolve that contract.</span><span data-prooftexts='Matthew 5:31-32' data-prooftexts-index='486'> In the case of adultery after marriage, it is lawful for the innocent party to sue out a divorce:</span><span data-prooftexts='Matthew 19:9; Romans 7:2-3' data-prooftexts-index='487'> and, after the divorce, to marry another, as if the offending party were dead.</span>",
"4": "<span data-prooftexts='Leviticus 18; 1 Corinthians 5:1; Amos 2:7' data-prooftexts-index='483'>Marriage ought not to be within the degrees of consanguinity or affinity forbidden by the Word.</span><span data-prooftexts='Mark 6:18; Leviticus 18:24-28' data-prooftexts-index='484'> Nor can such incestuous marriages ever be made lawful by any law of man or consent of parties, so as those persons may live together as man and wife.</span>",
"6": "<span data-prooftexts='Matthew 19:8-9; 1 Corinthians 7:15; Matthew 19:6' data-prooftexts-index='488'>Although the corruption of man be such as is apt to study arguments unduly to put asunder those whom God hath joined together in marriage: yet, nothing but adultery, or such willful desertion as can no way be remedied by the church, or civil magistrate, is cause sufficient of dissolving the bond of marriage:</span><span data-prooftexts='Deuteronomy 24:1-4' data-prooftexts-index='489'> wherein, a public and orderly course of proceeding is to be observed; and the persons concerned in it not left to their own wills, and discretion, in their own case.</span>"
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"prooftext_verses": {
"484": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Mark 6:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p41006018.01-1\">For John had been saying to Herod, “It is not lawful for you to have your brother's wife.”</p>\n</div><h5>Leviticus 18:24-28</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p03018024.01-2\">“Do not make yourselves unclean by any of these things, for by all these the nations I am driving out before you have become unclean, and the land became unclean, so that I punished its iniquity, and the land vomited out its inhabitants. But you shall keep my statutes and my rules and do none of these abominations, either the native or the stranger who sojourns among you (for the people of the land, who were before you, did all of these abominations, so that the land became unclean), lest the land vomit you out when you make it unclean, as it vomited out the nation that was before you. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"482": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Genesis 34:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p01034014.01-1\">They said to them, “We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one who is uncircumcised, for that would be a disgrace to us.</p>\n</div><h5>Exodus 34:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p02034016.01-2\">and you take of their daughters for your sons, and their daughters whore after their gods and make your sons whore after their gods.</p>\n</div><h5>Deuteronomy 7:3-4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p05007003.01-3\">You shall not intermarry with them, giving your daughters to their sons or taking their daughters for your sons, for they would turn away your sons from following me, to serve other gods. Then the anger of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> would be kindled against you, and he would destroy you quickly.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Kings 11:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p11011004.01-4\">For when Solomon was old his wives turned away his heart after other gods, and his heart was not wholly true to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> his God, as was the heart of David his father.</p>\n</div><h5>Nehemiah 13:25-27</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p16013025.01-5\">And I confronted them and cursed them and beat some of them and pulled out their hair. And I made them take oath in the name of God, saying, “You shall not give your daughters to their sons, or take their daughters for your sons or for yourselves. Did not Solomon king of Israel sin on account of such women? Among the many nations there was no king like him, and he was beloved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel. Nevertheless, foreign women made even him to sin. Shall we then listen to you and do all this great evil and act treacherously against our God by marrying foreign women?”</p>\n</div><h5>Malachi 2:11-12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p39002011.01-6\">Judah has been faithless, and abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem. For Judah has profaned the sanctuary of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, which he loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god. May the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> cut off from the tents of Jacob any descendant of the man who does this, who brings an offering to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> of hosts!</p>\n</div><h5>2 Corinthians 6:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p47006014.07-7\">Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"476": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Genesis 2:24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p class=\"same-paragraph\" id=\"p01002024.01-1\">Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.</p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 19:5-6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40019005.01-2\"><span class=\"woc\">and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’?</span> <span class=\"woc\">So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”</span></p>\n</div><h5>Proverbs 2:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20002017.01-3\">who forsakes the companion of her youth<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and forgets the covenant of her God; (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"477": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Genesis 2:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p01002018.01-1\">Then the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"489": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Deuteronomy 24:1-4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p05024001.04-1\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v05024001-1\">24:1 </span>“When a man takes a wife and marries her, if then she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some indecency in her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, and she departs out of his house, and if she goes and becomes another man's wife, and the latter man hates her and writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, or if the latter man dies, who took her to be his wife, then her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after she has been defiled, for that is an abomination before the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>. And you shall not bring sin upon the land that the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God is giving you for an inheritance. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"488": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 19:8-9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40019008.01-1\">He said to them, <span class=\"woc\">“Because of your hardness of heart Moses allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so.</span> <span class=\"woc\">And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery.”</span></p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 7:15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46007015.01-2\">But if the unbelieving partner separates, let it be so. In such cases the brother or sister is not enslaved. God has called you to peace.</p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 19:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40019006.01-3\"><span class=\"woc\">So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"487": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 19:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40019009.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery.”</span></p>\n</div><h5>Romans 7:2-3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45007002.01-2\">For a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if her husband dies she is released from the law of marriage. Accordingly, she will be called an adulteress if she lives with another man while her husband is alive. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she marries another man she is not an adulteress. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"486": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 5:31-32</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p40005031.02-1\"><span class=\"woc\">“It was also said, ‘Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce.’</span> <span class=\"woc\">But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"478": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Malachi 2:15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p39002015.01-1\">Did he not make them one, with a portion of the Spirit in their union? And what was the one God seeking? Godly offspring. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and let none of you be faithless to the wife of your youth. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"479": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Corinthians 7:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46007002.01-1\">But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 7:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46007009.01-2\">But if they cannot exercise self-control, they should marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"483": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Leviticus 18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p03018001.04-1\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v03018001-1\">18:1 </span>And the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> spoke to Moses, saying, “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, I am the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God. You shall not do as they do in the land of Egypt, where you lived, and you shall not do as they do in the land of Canaan, to which I am bringing you. You shall not walk in their statutes. You shall follow my rules and keep my statutes and walk in them. I am the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God. You shall therefore keep my statutes and my rules; if a person does them, he shall live by them: I am the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>.</p>\n <p id=\"p03018006.01-1\">“None of you shall approach any one of his close relatives to uncover nakedness. I am the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>. You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father, which is the nakedness of your mother; she is your mother, you shall not uncover her nakedness. You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's wife; it is your father's nakedness. You shall not uncover the nakedness of your sister, your father's daughter or your mother's daughter, whether brought up in the family or in another home. You shall not uncover the nakedness of your son's daughter or of your daughter's daughter, for their nakedness is your own nakedness. You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's wife's daughter, brought up in your father's family, since she is your sister. You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's sister; she is your father's relative. You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister, for she is your mother's relative. You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's brother, that is, you shall not approach his wife; she is your aunt. You shall not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law; she is your son's wife, you shall not uncover her nakedness. You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother's wife; it is your brother's nakedness. You shall not uncover the nakedness of a woman and of her daughter, and you shall not take her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter to uncover her nakedness; they are relatives; it is depravity. And you shall not take a woman as a rival wife to her sister, uncovering her nakedness while her sister is still alive.</p>\n <p id=\"p03018019.01-1\">“You shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness while she is in her menstrual uncleanness. And you shall not lie sexually with your neighbor's wife and so make yourself unclean with her. You shall not give any of your children to offer them to Molech, and so profane the name of your God: I am the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>. You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination. And you shall not lie with any animal and so make yourself unclean with it, neither shall any woman give herself to an animal to lie with it: it is perversion.</p>\n <p id=\"p03018024.01-1\">“Do not make yourselves unclean by any of these things, for by all these the nations I am driving out before you have become unclean, and the land became unclean, so that I punished its iniquity, and the land vomited out its inhabitants. But you shall keep my statutes and my rules and do none of these abominations, either the native or the stranger who sojourns among you (for the people of the land, who were before you, did all of these abominations, so that the land became unclean), lest the land vomit you out when you make it unclean, as it vomited out the nation that was before you. For everyone who does any of these abominations, the persons who do them shall be cut off from among their people. So keep my charge never to practice any of these abominable customs that were practiced before you, and never to make yourselves unclean by them: I am the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God.”</p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 5:1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p46005001.06-2\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v46005001-2\">5:1 </span>It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is not tolerated even among pagans, for a man has his father's wife.</p>\n</div><h5>Amos 2:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p30002007.01-3\">those who trample the head of the poor into the dust of the earth<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and turn aside the way of the afflicted;<br />\na man and his father go in to the same girl,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>so that my holy name is profaned; (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"485": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 1:18-20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p40001018.06-1\">Now the birth of Jesus Christ took place in this way. When his mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found to be with child from the Holy Spirit. And her husband Joseph, being a just man and unwilling to put her to shame, resolved to divorce her quietly. But as he considered these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, son of David, do not fear to take Mary as your wife, for that which is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"481": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Corinthians 7:39</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46007039.01-1\">A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"480": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Hebrews 13:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58013004.01-1\">Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Timothy 4:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p54004003.01-2\">who forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 7:36-38</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46007036.01-3\">If anyone thinks that he is not behaving properly toward his betrothed, if his passions are strong, and it has to be, let him do as he wishes: let them marry—it is no sin. But whoever is firmly established in his heart, being under no necessity but having his desire under control, and has determined this in his heart, to keep her as his betrothed, he will do well. So then he who marries his betrothed does well, and he who refrains from marriage will do even better.</p>\n</div><h5>Genesis 24:57</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p01024057.01-4\">They said, “Let us call the young woman and ask her.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"479": "1 Corinthians 7:2, 9",
"478": "Malachi 2:15",
"476": "Genesis 2:24; Matthew 19:5-6; Proverbs 2:17",
"477": "Genesis 2:18",
"489": "Deuteronomy 24:1-4",
"488": "Matthew 19:8-9; 1 Corinthians 7:15; Matthew 19:6",
"487": "Matthew 19:9; Romans 7:2-3",
"486": "Matthew 5:31-32",
"485": "Matthew 1:18-20",
"484": "Mark 6:18; Leviticus 18:24-28",
"483": "Leviticus 18; 1 Corinthians 5:1; Amos 2:7",
"482": "Genesis 34:14; Exodus 34:16; Deuteronomy 7:3-4; 1 Kings 11:4; Nehemiah 13:25-27; Malachi 2:11-12; 2 Corinthians 6:14",
"481": "1 Corinthians 7:39",
"480": "Hebrews 13:4; 1 Timothy 4:3; 1 Corinthians 7:36-38; Genesis 24:57"
},
"title": "Chapter 24: Of Marriage and Divorce"
},
"25": {
"body": {
"1": "<span data-prooftexts='Ephesians 1:10, 22-23; Ephesians 5:23, 27, 32; Colossians 1:18' data-prooftexts-index='490'>The catholic or universal church, which is invisible, consists of the whole number of the elect, that have been, are, or shall be gathered into one, under Christ the Head thereof; and is the spouse, the body, the fullness of him that filleth all in all.</span>",
"3": "<span data-prooftexts='1 Corinthians 12:28; Ephesians 4:11-13; Matthew 28:19-20; Isaiah 59:21' data-prooftexts-index='496'>Unto this catholic visible church Christ hath given the ministry, oracles, and ordinances of God, for the gathering and perfecting of the saints, in this life, to the end of the world: and doth, by his own presence and Spirit, according to his promise, make them effectual thereunto.</span>",
"2": "<span data-prooftexts='1 Corinthians 1:2; 1 Corinthians 12:12-13; Psalm 2:8; Revelation 7:9; Romans 15:9-12' data-prooftexts-index='491'>The visible church, which is also catholic or universal under the gospel (not confined to one nation, as before under the law), consists of all those throughout the world that profess the true religion;</span><span data-prooftexts='1 Corinthians 7:14; Acts 2:39; Ezekiel 16:20-21; Romans 11:16; Genesis 3:15; Genesis 17:7' data-prooftexts-index='492'> and of their children:</span><span data-prooftexts='Matthew 13:47; Isaiah 9:7' data-prooftexts-index='493'> and is the kingdom of the Lord Jesus Christ,</span><span data-prooftexts='Ephesians 2:19; Ephesians 3:15' data-prooftexts-index='494'> the house and family of God,</span><span data-prooftexts='Acts 2:47' data-prooftexts-index='495'> out of which there is no ordinary possibility of salvation.</span>",
"5": "<span data-prooftexts='1 Corinthians 13:12; Matthew 13:24-30, 47' data-prooftexts-index='499'>The purest churches under heaven are subject both to mixture and error;</span><span data-prooftexts='Revelation 18:2; Romans 11:18-22' data-prooftexts-index='500'> and some have so degenerated, as to become no churches of Christ, but synagogues of Satan.</span><span data-prooftexts='Matthew 16:18; Psalm 72:17; Psalm 102:28; Matthew 28:19-20' data-prooftexts-index='501'> Nevertheless, there shall be always a church on earth, to worship God according to his will.</span>",
"4": "<span data-prooftexts='Romans 11:3-4; Revelation 12:6, 14' data-prooftexts-index='497'>This catholic church hath been sometimes more, sometimes less visible.</span><span data-prooftexts='Revelation 2-3; 1 Corinthians 5:6-7' data-prooftexts-index='498'> And particular churches, which are members thereof, are more or less pure, according as the doctrine of the gospel is taught and embraced, ordinances administered, and public worship performed more or less purely in them.</span>",
"6": "<span data-prooftexts='Colossians 1:18; Ephesians 1:22' data-prooftexts-index='502'>There is no other head of the church but the Lord Jesus Christ.</span><span data-prooftexts='Matthew 23:8-10; 2 Thessalonians 2:3-4, 8-9; Revelation 13:6' data-prooftexts-index='503'> Nor can the pope of Rome, in any sense, be head thereof.</span>"
},
"prooftext_verses": {
"493": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 13:47</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p40013047.06-1\"><span class=\"woc\">“Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net that was thrown into the sea and gathered fish of every kind.</span></p>\n</div><h5>Isaiah 9:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23009007.01-2\">Of the increase of his government and of peace<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>there will be no end,<br />\non the throne of David and over his kingdom,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>to establish it and to uphold it<br />\nwith justice and with righteousness<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>from this time forth and forevermore.<br />\nThe zeal of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> of hosts will do this. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"492": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Corinthians 7:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46007014.01-1\">For the unbelieving husband is made holy because of his wife, and the unbelieving wife is made holy because of her husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but as it is, they are holy.</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 2:39</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44002039.01-2\">For the promise is for you and for your children and for all who are far off, everyone whom the Lord our God calls to himself.”</p>\n</div><h5>Ezekiel 16:20-21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p26016020.01-3\">And you took your sons and your daughters, whom you had borne to me, and these you sacrificed to them to be devoured. Were your whorings so small a matter that you slaughtered my children and delivered them up as an offering by fire to them?</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 11:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45011016.01-4\">If the dough offered as firstfruits is holy, so is the whole lump, and if the root is holy, so are the branches.</p>\n</div><h5>Genesis 3:15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p01003015.01-5\">I will put enmity between you and the woman,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and between your offspring and her offspring;<br />\nhe shall bruise your head,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and you shall bruise his heel.”</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Genesis 17:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p01017007.01-6\">And I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your offspring after you. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"490": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ephesians 1:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49001010.01-1\">as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth.</p>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 1:22-23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49001022.01-2\">And he put all things under his feet and gave him as head over all things to the church, which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.</p>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 5:23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49005023.01-3\">For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior.</p>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 5:27</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49005027.01-4\">so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish.</p>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 5:32</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49005032.01-5\">This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church.</p>\n</div><h5>Colossians 1:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p51001018.01-6\">And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"491": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Corinthians 1:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p class=\"chapter-first\" id=\"p46001002.01-1\">To the church of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints together with all those who in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours:</p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 12:12-13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p46012012.06-2\">For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit.</p>\n</div><h5>Psalm 2:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19002008.01-3\">Ask of me, and I will make the nations your heritage,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and the ends of the earth your possession.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Revelation 7:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p66007009.07-4\">After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands,</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 15:9-12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45015009.01-5\">and in order that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy. As it is written,</p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p45015009.17-5\">“Therefore I will praise you among the Gentiles,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and sing to your name.”</p>\n</div>\n <p class=\"same-paragraph\" id=\"p45015010.01-5\">And again it is said,</p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p45015010.06-5\">“Rejoice, O Gentiles, with his people.”</p>\n</div>\n <p class=\"same-paragraph\" id=\"p45015011.01-5\">And again,</p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p45015011.03-5\">“Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and let all the peoples extol him.”</p>\n</div>\n <p class=\"same-paragraph\" id=\"p45015012.01-5\">And again Isaiah says,</p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p45015012.05-5\">“The root of Jesse will come,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>even he who arises to rule the Gentiles;<br />\nin him will the Gentiles hope.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"498": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Revelation 2-3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p66002001.06-1\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v66002001-1\">2:1 </span><span class=\"woc\">“To the angel of the church in Ephesus write: ‘The words of him who holds the seven stars in his right hand, who walks among the seven golden lampstands.</span></p>\n <p class=\"chapter-first\" id=\"p66002002.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">“‘I know your works, your toil and your patient endurance, and how you cannot bear with those who are evil, but have tested those who call themselves apostles and are not, and found them to be false.</span> <span class=\"woc\">I know you are enduring patiently and bearing up for my name's sake, and you have not grown weary.</span> <span class=\"woc\">But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first.</span> <span class=\"woc\">Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent, and do the works you did at first. If not, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place, unless you repent.</span> <span class=\"woc\">Yet this you have: you hate the works of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.</span> <span class=\"woc\">He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers I will grant to eat of the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God.’</span></p>\n \n<p id=\"p66002008.06-1\"><span class=\"woc\">“And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write: ‘The words of the first and the last, who died and came to life.</span></p>\n <p id=\"p66002009.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">“‘I know your tribulation and your poverty (but you are rich) and the slander of those who say that they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.</span> <span class=\"woc\">Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested, and for ten days you will have tribulation. Be faithful unto death, and I will give you the crown of life.</span> <span class=\"woc\">He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. The one who conquers will not be hurt by the second death.’</span></p>\n \n<p id=\"p66002012.06-1\"><span class=\"woc\">“And to the angel of the church in Pergamum write: ‘The words of him who has the sharp two-edged sword.</span></p>\n <p id=\"p66002013.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">“‘I know where you dwell, where Satan's throne is. Yet you hold fast my name, and you did not deny my faith even in the days of Antipas my faithful witness, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells.</span> <span class=\"woc\">But I have a few things against you: you have some there who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the sons of Israel, so that they might eat food sacrificed to idols and practice sexual immorality.</span> <span class=\"woc\">So also you have some who hold the teaching of the Nicolaitans.</span> <span class=\"woc\">Therefore repent. If not, I will come to you soon and war against them with the sword of my mouth.</span> <span class=\"woc\">He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers I will give some of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, with a new name written on the stone that no one knows except the one who receives it.’</span></p>\n \n<p id=\"p66002018.06-1\"><span class=\"woc\">“And to the angel of the church in Thyatira write: ‘The words of the Son of God, who has eyes like a flame of fire, and whose feet are like burnished bronze.</span></p>\n <p id=\"p66002019.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">“‘I know your works, your love and faith and service and patient endurance, and that your latter works exceed the first.</span> <span class=\"woc\">But I have this against you, that you tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess and is teaching and seducing my servants to practice sexual immorality and to eat food sacrificed to idols.</span> <span class=\"woc\">I gave her time to repent, but she refuses to repent of her sexual immorality.</span> <span class=\"woc\">Behold, I will throw her onto a sickbed, and those who commit adultery with her I will throw into great tribulation, unless they repent of her works,</span> <span class=\"woc\">and I will strike her children dead. And all the churches will know that I am he who searches mind and heart, and I will give to each of you according to your works.</span> <span class=\"woc\">But to the rest of you in Thyatira, who do not hold this teaching, who have not learned what some call the deep things of Satan, to you I say, I do not lay on you any other burden.</span> <span class=\"woc\">Only hold fast what you have until I come.</span> <span class=\"woc\">The one who conquers and who keeps my works until the end, to him I will give authority over the nations,</span> <span class=\"woc\">and he will rule them with a rod of iron, as when earthen pots are broken in pieces, even as I myself have received authority from my Father.</span> <span class=\"woc\">And I will give him the morning star.</span> <span class=\"woc\">He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’</span></p>\n \n<p class=\"chapter-first\" id=\"p66003001.06-1\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v66003001-1\">3:1 </span><span class=\"woc\">“And to the angel of the church in Sardis write: ‘The words of him who has the seven spirits of God and the seven stars.</span></p>\n<p id=\"p66003001.31-1\"><span class=\"woc\">“‘I know your works. You have the reputation of being alive, but you are dead.</span> <span class=\"woc\">Wake up, and strengthen what remains and is about to die, for I have not found your works complete in the sight of my God.</span> <span class=\"woc\">Remember, then, what you received and heard. Keep it, and repent. If you will not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come against you.</span> <span class=\"woc\">Yet you have still a few names in Sardis, people who have not soiled their garments, and they will walk with me in white, for they are worthy.</span> <span class=\"woc\">The one who conquers will be clothed thus in white garments, and I will never blot his name out of the book of life. I will confess his name before my Father and before his angels.</span> <span class=\"woc\">He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’</span></p>\n \n<p id=\"p66003007.06-1\"><span class=\"woc\">“And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: ‘The words of the holy one, the true one, who has the key of David, who opens and no one will shut, who shuts and no one opens.</span></p>\n <p id=\"p66003008.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">“‘I know your works. Behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one is able to shut. I know that you have but little power, and yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name.</span> <span class=\"woc\">Behold, I will make those of the synagogue of Satan who say that they are Jews and are not, but lie—behold, I will make them come and bow down before your feet and they will learn that I have loved you.</span> <span class=\"woc\">Because you have kept my word about patient endurance, I will keep you from the hour of trial that is coming on the whole world, to try those who dwell on the earth.</span> <span class=\"woc\">I am coming soon. Hold fast what you have, so that no one may seize your crown.</span> <span class=\"woc\">The one who conquers, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God. Never shall he go out of it, and I will write on him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down from my God out of heaven, and my own new name.</span> <span class=\"woc\">He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’</span></p>\n \n<p id=\"p66003014.06-1\"><span class=\"woc\">“And to the angel of the church in Laodicea write: ‘The words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of God's creation.</span></p>\n <p id=\"p66003015.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">“‘I know your works: you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were either cold or hot!</span> <span class=\"woc\">So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth.</span> <span class=\"woc\">For you say, I am rich, I have prospered, and I need nothing, not realizing that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked.</span> <span class=\"woc\">I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, so that you may be rich, and white garments so that you may clothe yourself and the shame of your nakedness may not be seen, and salve to anoint your eyes, so that you may see.</span> <span class=\"woc\">Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline, so be zealous and repent.</span> <span class=\"woc\">Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.</span> <span class=\"woc\">The one who conquers, I will grant him to sit with me on my throne, as I also conquered and sat down with my Father on his throne.</span> <span class=\"woc\">He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’”</span></p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 5:6-7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46005006.01-2\">Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"499": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Corinthians 13:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46013012.01-1\">For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.</p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 13:24-30</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p40013024.06-2\">He put another parable before them, saying, <span class=\"woc\">“The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a man who sowed good seed in his field,</span> <span class=\"woc\">but while his men were sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat and went away.</span> <span class=\"woc\">So when the plants came up and bore grain, then the weeds appeared also.</span> <span class=\"woc\">And the servants of the master of the house came and said to him, ‘Master, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have weeds?’</span> <span class=\"woc\">He said to them, ‘An enemy has done this.’ So the servants said to him, ‘Then do you want us to go and gather them?’</span> <span class=\"woc\">But he said, ‘No, lest in gathering the weeds you root up the wheat along with them.</span> <span class=\"woc\">Let both grow together until the harvest, and at harvest time I will tell the reapers, Gather the weeds first and bind them in bundles to be burned, but gather the wheat into my barn.’”</span></p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 13:47</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p40013047.06-3\"><span class=\"woc\">“Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net that was thrown into the sea and gathered fish of every kind.</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"494": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ephesians 2:19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49002019.01-1\">So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God,</p>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 3:15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49003015.01-2\">from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"495": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Acts 2:47</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44002047.01-1\">praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to their number day by day those who were being saved. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"496": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Corinthians 12:28</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46012028.01-1\">And God has appointed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healing, helping, administrating, and various kinds of tongues.</p>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 4:11-13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49004011.01-2\">And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ,</p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 28:19-20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40028019.01-3\"><span class=\"woc\">Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,</span> <span class=\"woc\">teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”</span></p>\n</div><h5>Isaiah 59:21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p class=\"same-paragraph\" id=\"p23059021.01-4\">“And as for me, this is my covenant with them,” says the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>: “My Spirit that is upon you, and my words that I have put in your mouth, shall not depart out of your mouth, or out of the mouth of your offspring, or out of the mouth of your children's offspring,” says the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, “from this time forth and forevermore.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"497": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 11:3-4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45011003.01-1\">“Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have demolished your altars, and I alone am left, and they seek my life.” But what is God's reply to him? “I have kept for myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.”</p>\n</div><h5>Revelation 12:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p66012006.01-2\">and the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, in which she is to be nourished for 1,260 days.</p>\n</div><h5>Revelation 12:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p66012014.01-3\">But the woman was given the two wings of the great eagle so that she might fly from the serpent into the wilderness, to the place where she is to be nourished for a time, and times, and half a time. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"502": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Colossians 1:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p51001018.01-1\">And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent.</p>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 1:22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49001022.01-2\">And he put all things under his feet and gave him as head over all things to the church, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"503": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 23:8-10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40023008.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">But you are not to be called rabbi, for you have one teacher, and you are all brothers.</span> <span class=\"woc\">And call no man your father on earth, for you have one Father, who is in heaven.</span> <span class=\"woc\">Neither be called instructors, for you have one instructor, the Christ.</span></p>\n</div><h5>2 Thessalonians 2:3-4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p53002003.01-2\">Let no one deceive you in any way. For that day will not come, unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction, who opposes and exalts himself against every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God.</p>\n</div><h5>2 Thessalonians 2:8-9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p53002008.01-3\">And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will kill with the breath of his mouth and bring to nothing by the appearance of his coming. The coming of the lawless one is by the activity of Satan with all power and false signs and wonders,</p>\n</div><h5>Revelation 13:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p66013006.01-4\">It opened its mouth to utter blasphemies against God, blaspheming his name and his dwelling, that is, those who dwell in heaven. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"500": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Revelation 18:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p66018002.01-1\">And he called out with a mighty voice,</p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p66018002.09-1\">“Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great!<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>She has become a dwelling place for demons,<br />\na haunt for every unclean spirit,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>a haunt for every unclean bird,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>a haunt for every unclean and detestable beast.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Romans 11:18-22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45011018.01-2\">do not be arrogant toward the branches. If you are, remember it is not you who support the root, but the root that supports you. Then you will say, “Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in.” That is true. They were broken off because of their unbelief, but you stand fast through faith. So do not become proud, but fear. For if God did not spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you. Note then the kindness and the severity of God: severity toward those who have fallen, but God's kindness to you, provided you continue in his kindness. Otherwise you too will be cut off. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"501": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 16:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40016018.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.</span></p>\n</div><h5>Psalm 72:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19072017.01-2\">May his name endure forever,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>his fame continue as long as the sun!<br />\nMay people be blessed in him,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>all nations call him blessed!</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 102:28</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19102028.01-3\">The children of your servants shall dwell secure;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>their offspring shall be established before you.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Matthew 28:19-20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40028019.01-4\"><span class=\"woc\">Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,</span> <span class=\"woc\">teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"502": "Colossians 1:18; Ephesians 1:22",
"503": "Matthew 23:8-10; 2 Thessalonians 2:3-4, 8-9; Revelation 13:6",
"501": "Matthew 16:18; Psalm 72:17; Psalm 102:28; Matthew 28:19-20",
"500": "Revelation 18:2; Romans 11:18-22",
"498": "Revelation 2-3; 1 Corinthians 5:6-7",
"499": "1 Corinthians 13:12; Matthew 13:24-30, 47",
"494": "Ephesians 2:19; Ephesians 3:15",
"495": "Acts 2:47",
"496": "1 Corinthians 12:28; Ephesians 4:11-13; Matthew 28:19-20; Isaiah 59:21",
"497": "Romans 11:3-4; Revelation 12:6, 14",
"490": "Ephesians 1:10, 22-23; Ephesians 5:23, 27, 32; Colossians 1:18",
"491": "1 Corinthians 1:2; 1 Corinthians 12:12-13; Psalm 2:8; Revelation 7:9; Romans 15:9-12",
"492": "1 Corinthians 7:14; Acts 2:39; Ezekiel 16:20-21; Romans 11:16; Genesis 3:15; Genesis 17:7",
"493": "Matthew 13:47; Isaiah 9:7"
},
"title": "Chapter 25: Of the Church"
},
"26": {
"body": {
"1": "<span data-prooftexts='1 John 1:3; Ephesians 3:16-19; John 1:16; Ephesians 2:5-6; Philippians 3:10; Romans 6:5-6; 2 Timothy 2:12' data-prooftexts-index='504'>All saints, that are united to Jesus Christ their Head, by his Spirit, and by faith, have fellowship with him in his graces, sufferings, death, resurrection, and glory:</span><span data-prooftexts='Ephesians 4:15-16; 1 Corinthians 12:7; 1 Corinthians 3:21-23; Colossians 2:19' data-prooftexts-index='505'> and, being united to one another in love, they have communion in each other's gifts and graces,</span><span data-prooftexts='1 Thessalonians 5:11, 14; Romans 1:11-12, 14; 1 John 3:16-18; Galatians 6:10' data-prooftexts-index='506'> and are obliged to the performance of such duties, public and private, as do conduce to their mutual good, both in the inward and outward man.</span>",
"3": "<span data-prooftexts='Colossians 1:18-19; 1 Corinthians 8:6; Isaiah 42:8; 1 Timothy 6:15-16; Psalm 45:7; Hebrews 1:8-9' data-prooftexts-index='509'>This communion which the saints have with Christ, doth not make them in any wise partakers of the substance of his Godhead; or to be equal with Christ in any respect: either of which to affirm is impious and blasphemous.</span><span data-prooftexts='Exodus 20:15; Ephesians 4:28; Acts 5:4' data-prooftexts-index='510'> Nor doth their communion one with another, as saints, take away, or infringe the title or propriety which each man hath in his goods and possessions.</span>",
"2": "<span data-prooftexts='Hebrews 10:24-25; Acts 2:42, 46; Isaiah 2:3; 1 Corinthians 11:20' data-prooftexts-index='507'>Saints by profession are bound to maintain an holy fellowship and communion in the worship of God, and in performing such other spiritual services as tend to their mutual edification;</span><span data-prooftexts='Acts 2:44-45; 1 John 3:17; 2 Corinthians 8-9; Acts 11:29-30' data-prooftexts-index='508'> as also in relieving each other in outward things, according to their several abilities and necessities. Which communion, as God offereth opportunity, is to be extended unto all those who, in every place, call upon the name of the Lord Jesus.</span>"
},
"prooftext_verses": {
"509": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Colossians 1:18-19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p51001018.01-1\">And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent. For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell,</p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 8:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46008006.01-2\">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.</p>\n</div><h5>Isaiah 42:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23042008.01-3\">I am the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>; that is my name;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>my glory I give to no other,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>nor my praise to carved idols.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>1 Timothy 6:15-16</h5>\n<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.</p>\n</div><h5>Psalm 45:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19045007.01-5\"><span class=\"indent\"></span>you have loved righteousness and hated wickedness.<br />\nTherefore God, your God, has anointed you<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>with the oil of gladness beyond your companions;</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 1:8-9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p class=\"same-paragraph\" id=\"p58001008.01-6\">But of the Son he says,</p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p58001008.07-6\">“Your throne, O God, is forever and ever,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>the scepter of uprightness is the scepter of your kingdom.<br />\n You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness;<br />\ntherefore God, your God, has anointed you<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>with the oil of gladness beyond your companions.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"508": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Acts 2:44-45</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44002044.01-1\">And all who believed were together and had all things in common. And they were selling their possessions and belongings and distributing the proceeds to all, as any had need.</p>\n</div><h5>1 John 3:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p62003017.01-2\">But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him?</p>\n</div><h5>2 Corinthians 8-9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p47008001.05-3\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v47008001-3\">8:1 </span>We want you to know, brothers, about the grace of God that has been given among the churches of Macedonia, for in a severe test of affliction, their abundance of joy and their extreme poverty have overflowed in a wealth of generosity on their part. For they gave according to their means, as I can testify, and beyond their means, of their own accord, begging us earnestly for the favor of taking part in the relief of the saints— and this, not as we expected, but they gave themselves first to the Lord and then by the will of God to us. Accordingly, we urged Titus that as he had started, so he should complete among you this act of grace. But as you excel in everything—in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in all earnestness, and in our love for you—see that you excel in this act of grace also.</p>\n <p id=\"p47008008.01-3\">I say this not as a command, but to prove by the earnestness of others that your love also is genuine. For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you by his poverty might become rich. And in this matter I give my judgment: this benefits you, who a year ago started not only to do this work but also to desire to do it. So now finish doing it as well, so that your readiness in desiring it may be matched by your completing it out of what you have. For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according to what a person has, not according to what he does not have. For I do not mean that others should be eased and you burdened, but that as a matter of fairness your abundance at the present time should supply their need, so that their abundance may supply your need, that there may be fairness. As it is written, “Whoever gathered much had nothing left over, and whoever gathered little had no lack.”</p>\n \n<p id=\"p47008016.04-3\">But thanks be to God, who put into the heart of Titus the same earnest care I have for you. For he not only accepted our appeal, but being himself very earnest he is going to you of his own accord. With him we are sending the brother who is famous among all the churches for his preaching of the gospel. And not only that, but he has been appointed by the churches to travel with us as we carry out this act of grace that is being ministered by us, for the glory of the Lord himself and to show our good will. We take this course so that no one should blame us about this generous gift that is being administered by us, for we aim at what is honorable not only in the Lord's sight but also in the sight of man. And with them we are sending our brother whom we have often tested and found earnest in many matters, but who is now more earnest than ever because of his great confidence in you. As for Titus, he is my partner and fellow worker for your benefit. And as for our brothers, they are messengers of the churches, the glory of Christ. So give proof before the churches of your love and of our boasting about you to these men.</p>\n \n<p id=\"p47009001.07-3\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v47009001-3\">9:1 </span>Now it is superfluous for me to write to you about the ministry for the saints, for I know your readiness, of which I boast about you to the people of Macedonia, saying that Achaia has been ready since last year. And your zeal has stirred up most of them. But I am sending the brothers so that our boasting about you may not prove empty in this matter, so that you may be ready, as I said you would be. Otherwise, if some Macedonians come with me and find that you are not ready, we would be humiliated—to say nothing of you—for being so confident. So I thought it necessary to urge the brothers to go on ahead to you and arrange in advance for the gift you have promised, so that it may be ready as a willing gift, not as an exaction.</p>\n \n<p id=\"p47009006.04-3\">The point is this: whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times, you may abound in every good work. As it is written,</p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p47009009.05-3\">“He has distributed freely, he has given to the poor;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>his righteousness endures forever.”</p>\n</div>\n <p class=\"same-paragraph\" id=\"p47009010.01-3\">He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing and increase the harvest of your righteousness. You will be enriched in every way to be generous in every way, which through us will produce thanksgiving to God. For the ministry of this service is not only supplying the needs of the saints but is also overflowing in many thanksgivings to God. By their approval of this service, they will glorify God because of your submission flowing from your confession of the gospel of Christ, and the generosity of your contribution for them and for all others, while they long for you and pray for you, because of the surpassing grace of God upon you. Thanks be to God for his inexpressible gift!</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 11:29-30</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44011029.01-4\">So the disciples determined, everyone according to his ability, to send relief to the brothers living in Judea. And they did so, sending it to the elders by the hand of Barnabas and Saul. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"507": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Hebrews 10:24-25</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58010024.01-1\">And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 2:42</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p44002042.06-2\">And they devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers.</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 2:46</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44002046.01-3\">And day by day, attending the temple together and breaking bread in their homes, they received their food with glad and generous hearts,</p>\n</div><h5>Isaiah 2:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23002003.01-4\"><span class=\"indent\"></span>and many peoples shall come, and say:<br />\n“Come, let us go up to the mountain of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>to the house of the God of Jacob,<br />\nthat he may teach us his ways<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and that we may walk in his paths.”<br />\nFor out of Zion shall go the law,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and the word of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> from Jerusalem.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 11:20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46011020.01-5\">When you come together, it is not the Lord's supper that you eat. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"506": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Thessalonians 5:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p52005011.01-1\">Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Thessalonians 5:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p52005014.01-2\">And we urge you, brothers, admonish the idle, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with them all.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 1:11-12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45001011.01-3\">For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to strengthen you— that is, that we may be mutually encouraged by each other's faith, both yours and mine.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 1:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45001014.01-4\">I am under obligation both to Greeks and to barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish.</p>\n</div><h5>1 John 3:16-18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p62003016.01-5\">By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him? Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.</p>\n</div><h5>Galatians 6:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p48006010.01-6\">So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone, and especially to those who are of the household of faith. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"510": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Exodus 20:15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p02020015.01-1\">“You shall not steal.</p>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 4:28</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49004028.01-2\">Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need.</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 5:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44005004.01-3\">While it remained unsold, did it not remain your own? And after it was sold, was it not at your disposal? Why is it that you have contrived this deed in your heart? You have not lied to men but to God.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"504": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 John 1:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p62001003.01-1\">that which we have seen and heard we proclaim also to you, so that you too may have fellowship with us; and indeed our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ.</p>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 3:16-19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49003016.01-2\">that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.</p>\n</div><h5>John 1:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43001016.01-3\">And from his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace.</p>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 2:5-6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49002005.01-4\">even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,</p>\n</div><h5>Philippians 3:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p50003010.01-5\">that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death,</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 6:5-6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45006005.01-6\">For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin.</p>\n</div><h5>2 Timothy 2:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p55002012.01-7\">if we endure, we will also reign with him;<br />\nif we deny him, he also will deny us; (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"505": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ephesians 4:15-16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49004015.01-1\">Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 12:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46012007.01-2\">To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 3:21-23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46003021.01-3\">So let no one boast in men. For all things are yours, whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future—all are yours, and you are Christ's, and Christ is God's.</p>\n</div><h5>Colossians 2:19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p51002019.01-4\">and not holding fast to the Head, from whom the whole body, nourished and knit together through its joints and ligaments, grows with a growth that is from God. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"510": "Exodus 20:15; Ephesians 4:28; Acts 5:4",
"508": "Acts 2:44-45; 1 John 3:17; 2 Corinthians 8-9; Acts 11:29-30",
"509": "Colossians 1:18-19; 1 Corinthians 8:6; Isaiah 42:8; 1 Timothy 6:15-16; Psalm 45:7; Hebrews 1:8-9",
"506": "1 Thessalonians 5:11, 14; Romans 1:11-12, 14; 1 John 3:16-18; Galatians 6:10",
"507": "Hebrews 10:24-25; Acts 2:42, 46; Isaiah 2:3; 1 Corinthians 11:20",
"504": "1 John 1:3; Ephesians 3:16-19; John 1:16; Ephesians 2:5-6; Philippians 3:10; Romans 6:5-6; 2 Timothy 2:12",
"505": "Ephesians 4:15-16; 1 Corinthians 12:7; 1 Corinthians 3:21-23; Colossians 2:19"
},
"title": "Chapter 26: Of the Communion of Saints"
},
"27": {
"body": {
"1": "<span data-prooftexts='Romans 4:11; Genesis 17:7, 10' data-prooftexts-index='511'>Sacraments are holy signs and seals of the covenant of grace,</span><span data-prooftexts='Matthew 28:19; 1 Corinthians 11:23' data-prooftexts-index='512'> immediately instituted by God,</span><span data-prooftexts='1 Corinthians 10:16; 1 Corinthians 11:25-26; Galatians 3:17' data-prooftexts-index='513'> to represent Christ, and his benefits; and to confirm our interest in him:</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 15:8; Exodus 12:48; Genesis 34:14' data-prooftexts-index='514'> as also, to put a visible difference between those that belong unto the church, and the rest of the world;</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 6:3-4; 1 Corinthians 10:16, 21' data-prooftexts-index='515'> and solemnly to engage them to the service of God in Christ, according to his Word.</span>",
"3": "<span data-prooftexts='Romans 2:28-29; 1 Peter 3:21' data-prooftexts-index='517'>The grace which is exhibited in or by the sacraments rightly used, is not conferred by any power in them; neither doth the efficacy of a sacrament depend upon the piety or intention of him that doth administer it:</span><span data-prooftexts='Matthew 3:11; 1 Corinthians 12:13' data-prooftexts-index='518'> but upon the work of the Spirit,</span><span data-prooftexts='Matthew 26:27-28; Matthew 28:19-20' data-prooftexts-index='519'> and the word of institution, which contains, together with a precept authorizing the use thereof, a promise of benefit to worthy receivers.</span>",
"2": "<span data-prooftexts='Genesis 17:10; Matthew 26:27-28; Titus 3:5' data-prooftexts-index='516'>There is, in every sacrament, a spiritual relation, or sacramental union, between the sign and the thing signified: whence it comes to pass, that the names and effects of the one are attributed to the other.</span>",
"5": "<span data-prooftexts='1 Corinthians 10:1-4' data-prooftexts-index='521'>The sacraments of the old testament, in regard of the spiritual things thereby signified and exhibited, were, for substance, the same with those of the new.</span>",
"4": "<span data-prooftexts='Matthew 28:19; 1 Corinthians 11:20, 23; 1 Corinthians 4:1; Hebrews 5:4' data-prooftexts-index='520'>There be only two sacraments ordained by Christ our Lord in the Gospel; that is to say, baptism, and the Supper of the Lord: neither of which may be dispensed by any, but by a minister of the Word lawfully ordained.</span>"
},
"prooftext_verses": {
"519": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 26:27-28</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40026027.01-1\">And he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he gave it to them, saying, <span class=\"woc\">“Drink of it, all of you,</span> <span class=\"woc\">for this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.</span></p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 28:19-20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40028019.01-2\"><span class=\"woc\">Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,</span> <span class=\"woc\">teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"518": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 3:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40003011.01-1\">“I baptize you with water for repentance, but he who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 12:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46012013.01-2\">For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"520": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 28:19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40028019.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,</span></p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 11:20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46011020.01-2\">When you come together, it is not the Lord's supper that you eat.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 11:23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46011023.01-3\">For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread,</p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 4:1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p46004001.05-4\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v46004001-4\">4:1 </span>This is how one should regard us, as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.</p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 5:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58005004.01-5\">And no one takes this honor for himself, but only when called by God, just as Aaron was. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"521": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Corinthians 10:1-4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p46010001.04-1\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v46010001-1\">10:1 </span>For I want you to know, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea, and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, and all ate the same spiritual food, and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spiritual Rock that followed them, and the Rock was Christ. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"511": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 4:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45004011.01-1\">He received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. The purpose was to make him the father of all who believe without being circumcised, so that righteousness would be counted to them as well,</p>\n</div><h5>Genesis 17:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p01017007.01-2\">And I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your offspring after you.</p>\n</div><h5>Genesis 17:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p01017010.01-3\">This is my covenant, which you shall keep, between me and you and your offspring after you: Every male among you shall be circumcised. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"513": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Corinthians 10:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46010016.01-1\">The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a participation in the blood of Christ? The bread that we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ?</p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 11:25-26</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46011025.01-2\">In the same way also he took the cup, after supper, saying, <span class=\"woc\">“This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.”</span> For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes.</p>\n</div><h5>Galatians 3:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p48003017.01-3\">This is what I mean: the law, which came 430 years afterward, does not annul a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to make the promise void. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"512": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 28:19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40028019.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,</span></p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 11:23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46011023.01-2\">For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"515": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 6:3-4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45006003.01-1\">Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 10:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46010016.01-2\">The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a participation in the blood of Christ? The bread that we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ?</p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 10:21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46010021.01-3\">You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot partake of the table of the Lord and the table of demons. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"514": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 15:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p45015008.08-1\">For I tell you that Christ became a servant to the circumcised to show God's truthfulness, in order to confirm the promises given to the patriarchs,</p>\n</div><h5>Exodus 12:48</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p02012048.01-2\">If a stranger shall sojourn with you and would keep the Passover to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, let all his males be circumcised. Then he may come near and keep it; he shall be as a native of the land. But no uncircumcised person shall eat of it.</p>\n</div><h5>Genesis 34:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p01034014.01-3\">They said to them, “We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one who is uncircumcised, for that would be a disgrace to us. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"517": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 2:28-29</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45002028.01-1\">For no one is a Jew who is merely one outwardly, nor is circumcision outward and physical. But a Jew is one inwardly, and circumcision is a matter of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the letter. His praise is not from man but from God.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Peter 3:21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p60003021.01-2\">Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"516": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Genesis 17:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p01017010.01-1\">This is my covenant, which you shall keep, between me and you and your offspring after you: Every male among you shall be circumcised.</p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 26:27-28</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40026027.01-2\">And he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he gave it to them, saying, <span class=\"woc\">“Drink of it, all of you,</span> <span class=\"woc\">for this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.</span></p>\n</div><h5>Titus 3:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p56003005.01-3\">he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"519": "Matthew 26:27-28; Matthew 28:19-20",
"518": "Matthew 3:11; 1 Corinthians 12:13",
"520": "Matthew 28:19; 1 Corinthians 11:20, 23; 1 Corinthians 4:1; Hebrews 5:4",
"521": "1 Corinthians 10:1-4",
"511": "Romans 4:11; Genesis 17:7, 10",
"513": "1 Corinthians 10:16; 1 Corinthians 11:25-26; Galatians 3:17",
"512": "Matthew 28:19; 1 Corinthians 11:23",
"515": "Romans 6:3-4; 1 Corinthians 10:16, 21",
"514": "Romans 15:8; Exodus 12:48; Genesis 34:14",
"517": "Romans 2:28-29; 1 Peter 3:21",
"516": "Genesis 17:10; Matthew 26:27-28; Titus 3:5"
},
"title": "Chapter 27: Of the Sacraments"
},
"20": {
"body": {
"1": "<span data-prooftexts='Titus 2:14; 1 Thessalonians 1:10; Galatians 3:13' data-prooftexts-index='388'>The liberty which Christ hath purchased for believers under the gospel consists in their freedom from the guilt of sin, the condemning wrath of God, the curse of the moral law;</span><span data-prooftexts='Galatians 1:4; Colossians 1:13; Acts 26:18; Romans 6:14' data-prooftexts-index='389'> and, in their being delivered from this present evil world, bondage to Satan, and dominion of sin;</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 8:28; Psalm 119:71; 1 Corinthians 15:54-57; Romans 8:1' data-prooftexts-index='390'> from the evil of afflictions, the sting of death, the victory of the grave, and everlasting damnation;</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 5:1-2' data-prooftexts-index='391'> as also, in their free access to God,</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 8:14-15; 1 John 4:18' data-prooftexts-index='392'> and their yielding obedience unto him, not out of slavish fear, but a childlike love and willing mind.</span><span data-prooftexts='Galatians 3:9, 14' data-prooftexts-index='393'> All which were common also to believers under the law.</span><span data-prooftexts='Galatians 4:1-3, 6-7; Galatians 5:1; Acts 15:10-11' data-prooftexts-index='394'> But, under the new testament, the liberty of Christians is further enlarged, in their freedom from the yoke of the ceremonial law, to which the Jewish church was subjected;</span><span data-prooftexts='Hebrews 4:14, 16; Hebrews 10:19-22' data-prooftexts-index='395'> and in greater boldness of access to the throne of grace,</span><span data-prooftexts='John 7:38-39; 2 Corinthians 3:13, 17-18' data-prooftexts-index='396'> and in fuller communications of the free Spirit of God, than believers under the law did ordinarily partake of.</span>",
"3": "<span data-prooftexts='Galatians 5:13; 1 Peter 2:16; 2 Peter 2:19; John 8:34; Luke 1:74-75' data-prooftexts-index='401'>They who, upon pretense of Christian liberty, do practice any sin, or cherish any lust, do thereby destroy the end of Christian liberty, which is, that being delivered out of the hands of our enemies, we might serve the Lord without fear, in holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our life.</span>",
"2": "<span data-prooftexts='James 4:12; Romans 14:4' data-prooftexts-index='397'>God alone is Lord of the conscience,</span><span data-prooftexts='Acts 4:19; Acts 5:29; 1 Corinthians 7:23; Matthew 23:8-10; 2 Corinthians 1:24; Matthew 15:9' data-prooftexts-index='398'> and hath left it free from the doctrines and commandments of men, which are, in anything, contrary to his Word; or beside it, if matters of faith, or worship.</span><span data-prooftexts='Colossians 2:20, 22-23; Galatians 1:10; Galatians 2:4-5; Galatians 5:1' data-prooftexts-index='399'> So that, to believe such doctrines, or to obey such commands, out of conscience, is to betray true liberty of conscience:</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 10:17; Romans 14:23; Isaiah 8:20; Acts 17:11; John 4:22; Hosea 5:11; Revelation 13:12, 16-17; Jeremiah 8:9' data-prooftexts-index='400'> and the requiring of an implicit faith, and an absolute and blind obedience, is to destroy liberty of conscience, and reason also.</span>",
"4": "<span data-prooftexts='Matthew 12:25; 1 Peter 2:13-14, 16; Romans 13:1-8; Hebrews 13:17' data-prooftexts-index='402'>And because the powers which God hath ordained, and the liberty which Christ hath purchased, are not intended by God to destroy, but mutually to uphold and preserve one another, they who, upon pretense of Christian liberty, shall oppose any lawful power, or the lawful exercise of it, whether it be civil or ecclesiastical, resist the ordinance of God.</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 1:32; 1 Corinthians 5:1, 5, 11, 13; 2 John 10-11; 2 Thessalonians 3:14; 1 Timothy 6:3-5; Titus 1:10-11, 13; Titus 3:10; Matthew 18:15-17; 1 Timothy 1:19-20; Revelation 2:2, 14-15, 20; Revelation 3:9' data-prooftexts-index='403'> And, for their publishing of such opinions, or maintaining of such practices, as are contrary to the light of nature, or to the known principles of Christianity (whether concerning faith, worship, or conversation), or to the power of godliness; or, such erroneous opinions or practices, as either in their own nature, or in the manner of publishing or maintaining them, are destructive to the external peace and order which Christ hath established in the church, they may lawfully be called to account, and proceeded against, by the censures of the church.</span>"
},
"prooftext_verses": {
"395": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Hebrews 4:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p58004014.06-1\">Since then we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession.</p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 4:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58004016.01-2\">Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.</p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 10:19-22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p58010019.06-3\">Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus, by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh, and since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"394": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Galatians 4:1-3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p48004001.04-1\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v48004001-1\">4:1 </span>I mean that the heir, as long as he is a child, is no different from a slave, though he is the owner of everything, but he is under guardians and managers until the date set by his father. In the same way we also, when we were children, were enslaved to the elementary principles of the world.</p>\n</div><h5>Galatians 4:6-7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p48004006.01-2\">And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!” So you are no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then an heir through God.</p>\n</div><h5>Galatians 5:1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p48005001.06-3\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v48005001-3\">5:1 </span>For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 15:10-11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44015010.01-4\">Now, therefore, why are you putting God to the test by placing a yoke on the neck of the disciples that neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear? But we believe that we will be saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, just as they will.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"393": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Galatians 3:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p48003009.01-1\">So then, those who are of faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith.</p>\n</div><h5>Galatians 3:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p48003014.01-2\">so that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles, so that we might receive the promised Spirit through faith. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"392": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 8:14-15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45008014.01-1\">For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”</p>\n</div><h5>1 John 4:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p62004018.01-2\">There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"391": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 5:1-2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p45005001.06-1\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v45005001-1\">5:1 </span>Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"390": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 8:28</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45008028.01-1\">And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.</p>\n</div><h5>Psalm 119:71</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119071.01-2\">It is good for me that I was afflicted,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that I might learn your statutes.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 15:54-57</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46015054.01-3\">When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written:</p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p46015054.24-3\">“Death is swallowed up in victory.”<br />\n “O death, where is your victory?<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>O death, where is your sting?”</p>\n</div>\n <p class=\"same-paragraph\" id=\"p46015056.01-3\">The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 8:1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p45008001.05-4\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v45008001-4\">8:1 </span>There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"403": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 1:32</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45001032.01-1\">Though they know God's decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 5:1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p46005001.06-2\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v46005001-2\">5:1 </span>It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is not tolerated even among pagans, for a man has his father's wife.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 5:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46005005.01-3\">you are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 5:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46005011.01-4\">But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who bears the name of brother if he is guilty of sexual immorality or greed, or is an idolater, reviler, drunkard, or swindler—not even to eat with such a one.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 5:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46005013.01-5\">God judges those outside. “Purge the evil person from among you.”</p>\n</div><h5>2 John 1:10-11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p63001010.01-6\">If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your house or give him any greeting, for whoever greets him takes part in his wicked works.</p>\n</div><h5>2 Thessalonians 3:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p53003014.01-7\">If anyone does not obey what we say in this letter, take note of that person, and have nothing to do with him, that he may be ashamed.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Timothy 6:3-5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p54006003.01-8\">If anyone teaches a different doctrine and does not agree with the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the teaching that accords with godliness, he is puffed up with conceit and understands nothing. He has an unhealthy craving for controversy and for quarrels about words, which produce envy, dissension, slander, evil suspicions, and constant friction among people who are depraved in mind and deprived of the truth, imagining that godliness is a means of gain.</p>\n</div><h5>Titus 1:10-11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p56001010.01-9\">For there are many who are insubordinate, empty talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision party. They must be silenced, since they are upsetting whole families by teaching for shameful gain what they ought not to teach.</p>\n</div><h5>Titus 1:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p56001013.01-10\">This testimony is true. Therefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,</p>\n</div><h5>Titus 3:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p56003010.01-11\">As for a person who stirs up division, after warning him once and then twice, have nothing more to do with him,</p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 18:15-17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p40018015.07-12\"><span class=\"woc\">“If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother.</span> <span class=\"woc\">But if he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, that every charge may be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses.</span> <span class=\"woc\">If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.</span></p>\n</div><h5>1 Timothy 1:19-20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p54001019.01-13\">holding faith and a good conscience. By rejecting this, some have made shipwreck of their faith, among whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have handed over to Satan that they may learn not to blaspheme.</p>\n</div><h5>Revelation 2:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p class=\"chapter-first\" id=\"p66002002.01-14\"><span class=\"woc\">“‘I know your works, your toil and your patient endurance, and how you cannot bear with those who are evil, but have tested those who call themselves apostles and are not, and found them to be false.</span></p>\n</div><h5>Revelation 2:14-15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p66002014.01-15\"><span class=\"woc\">But I have a few things against you: you have some there who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the sons of Israel, so that they might eat food sacrificed to idols and practice sexual immorality.</span> <span class=\"woc\">So also you have some who hold the teaching of the Nicolaitans.</span></p>\n</div><h5>Revelation 2:20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p66002020.01-16\"><span class=\"woc\">But I have this against you, that you tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess and is teaching and seducing my servants to practice sexual immorality and to eat food sacrificed to idols.</span></p>\n</div><h5>Revelation 3:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p66003009.01-17\"><span class=\"woc\">Behold, I will make those of the synagogue of Satan who say that they are Jews and are not, but lie—behold, I will make them come and bow down before your feet and they will learn that I have loved you.</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"396": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>John 7:38-39</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43007038.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.’”</span> Now this he said about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were to receive, for as yet the Spirit had not been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.</p>\n</div><h5>2 Corinthians 3:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p47003013.01-2\">not like Moses, who would put a veil over his face so that the Israelites might not gaze at the outcome of what was being brought to an end.</p>\n</div><h5>2 Corinthians 3:17-18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p47003017.01-3\">Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"401": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Galatians 5:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p48005013.01-1\">For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Peter 2:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p60002016.01-2\">Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but living as servants of God.</p>\n</div><h5>2 Peter 2:19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p61002019.01-3\">They promise them freedom, but they themselves are slaves of corruption. For whatever overcomes a person, to that he is enslaved.</p>\n</div><h5>John 8:34</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43008034.01-4\">Jesus answered them, <span class=\"woc\">“Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who commits sin is a slave to sin.</span></p>\n</div><h5>Luke 1:74-75</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p42001074.01-5\"><span class=\"indent\"></span>that we, being delivered from the hand of our enemies,<br />\nmight serve him without fear,<br />\n <span class=\"indent\"></span>in holiness and righteousness before him all our days. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"400": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 10:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45010017.01-1\">So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 14:23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45014023.01-2\">But whoever has doubts is condemned if he eats, because the eating is not from faith. For whatever does not proceed from faith is sin.</p>\n</div><h5>Isaiah 8:20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p23008020.01-3\">To the teaching and to the testimony! If they will not speak according to this word, it is because they have no dawn.</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 17:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44017011.01-4\">Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.</p>\n</div><h5>John 4:22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43004022.01-5\"><span class=\"woc\">You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews.</span></p>\n</div><h5>Hosea 5:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p28005011.01-6\">Ephraim is oppressed, crushed in judgment,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>because he was determined to go after filth.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Revelation 13:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p66013012.01-7\">It exercises all the authority of the first beast in its presence, and makes the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast, whose mortal wound was healed.</p>\n</div><h5>Revelation 13:16-17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p66013016.01-8\">Also it causes all, both small and great, both rich and poor, both free and slave, to be marked on the right hand or the forehead, so that no one can buy or sell unless he has the mark, that is, the name of the beast or the number of its name.</p>\n</div><h5>Jeremiah 8:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p24008009.01-9\">The wise men shall be put to shame;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>they shall be dismayed and taken;<br />\nbehold, they have rejected the word of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>so what wisdom is in them? (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"388": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Titus 2:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p56002014.01-1\">who gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Thessalonians 1:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p52001010.01-2\">and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, Jesus who delivers us from the wrath to come.</p>\n</div><h5>Galatians 3:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p48003013.01-3\">Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree”— (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"397": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>James 4:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p59004012.01-1\">There is only one lawgiver and judge, he who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 14:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45014004.01-2\">Who are you to pass judgment on the servant of another? It is before his own master that he stands or falls. And he will be upheld, for the Lord is able to make him stand. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"389": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Galatians 1:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p48001004.01-1\">who gave himself for our sins to deliver us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,</p>\n</div><h5>Colossians 1:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p51001013.01-2\">He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son,</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 26:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44026018.01-3\"><span class=\"woc\">to open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’</span></p>\n</div><h5>Romans 6:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45006014.01-4\">For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"398": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Acts 4:19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44004019.01-1\">But Peter and John answered them, “Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God, you must judge,</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 5:29</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44005029.01-2\">But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 7:23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46007023.01-3\">You were bought with a price; do not become slaves of men.</p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 23:8-10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40023008.01-4\"><span class=\"woc\">But you are not to be called rabbi, for you have one teacher, and you are all brothers.</span> <span class=\"woc\">And call no man your father on earth, for you have one Father, who is in heaven.</span> <span class=\"woc\">Neither be called instructors, for you have one instructor, the Christ.</span></p>\n</div><h5>2 Corinthians 1:24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p47001024.01-5\">Not that we lord it over your faith, but we work with you for your joy, for you stand firm in your faith.</p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 15:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p40015009.01-6\"><span class=\"woc\">in vain do they worship me,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’”</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"399": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Colossians 2:20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p51002020.01-1\">If with Christ you died to the elemental spirits of the world, why, as if you were still alive in the world, do you submit to regulations—</p>\n</div><h5>Colossians 2:22-23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p51002022.01-2\">(referring to things that all perish as they are used)—according to human precepts and teachings? These have indeed an appearance of wisdom in promoting self-made religion and asceticism and severity to the body, but they are of no value in stopping the indulgence of the flesh.</p>\n</div><h5>Galatians 1:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p48001010.01-3\">For am I now seeking the approval of man, or of God? Or am I trying to please man? If I were still trying to please man, I would not be a servant of Christ.</p>\n</div><h5>Galatians 2:4-5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p48002004.01-4\">Yet because of false brothers secretly brought in—who slipped in to spy out our freedom that we have in Christ Jesus, so that they might bring us into slavery— to them we did not yield in submission even for a moment, so that the truth of the gospel might be preserved for you.</p>\n</div><h5>Galatians 5:1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p48005001.06-5\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v48005001-5\">5:1 </span>For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"402": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 12:25</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40012025.01-1\">Knowing their thoughts, he said to them, <span class=\"woc\">“Every kingdom divided against itself is laid waste, and no city or house divided against itself will stand.</span></p>\n</div><h5>1 Peter 2:13-14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p60002013.04-2\">Be subject for the Lord's sake to every human institution, whether it be to the emperor as supreme, or to governors as sent by him to punish those who do evil and to praise those who do good.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Peter 2:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p60002016.01-3\">Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but living as servants of God.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 13:1-8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p45013001.05-4\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v45013001-4\">13:1 </span>Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of the one who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval, for he is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer. Therefore one must be in subjection, not only to avoid God's wrath but also for the sake of conscience. For because of this you also pay taxes, for the authorities are ministers of God, attending to this very thing. Pay to all what is owed to them: taxes to whom taxes are owed, revenue to whom revenue is owed, respect to whom respect is owed, honor to whom honor is owed.</p>\n \n<p id=\"p45013008.06-4\">Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.</p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 13:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58013017.01-5\">Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who will have to give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be of no advantage to you. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"401": "Galatians 5:13; 1 Peter 2:16; 2 Peter 2:19; John 8:34; Luke 1:74-75",
"400": "Romans 10:17; Romans 14:23; Isaiah 8:20; Acts 17:11; John 4:22; Hosea 5:11; Revelation 13:12, 16-17; Jeremiah 8:9",
"403": "Romans 1:32; 1 Corinthians 5:1, 5, 11, 13; 2 John 1:10-11; 2 Thessalonians 3:14; 1 Timothy 6:3-5; Titus 1:10-11, 13; Titus 3:10; Matthew 18:15-17; 1 Timothy 1:19-20; Revelation 2:2, 14-15, 20; Revelation 3:9",
"393": "Galatians 3:9, 14",
"392": "Romans 8:14-15; 1 John 4:18",
"391": "Romans 5:1-2",
"390": "Romans 8:28; Psalm 119:71; 1 Corinthians 15:54-57; Romans 8:1",
"397": "James 4:12; Romans 14:4",
"396": "John 7:38-39; 2 Corinthians 3:13, 17-18",
"395": "Hebrews 4:14, 16; Hebrews 10:19-22",
"394": "Galatians 4:1-3, 6-7; Galatians 5:1; Acts 15:10-11",
"388": "Titus 2:14; 1 Thessalonians 1:10; Galatians 3:13",
"389": "Galatians 1:4; Colossians 1:13; Acts 26:18; Romans 6:14",
"399": "Colossians 2:20, 22-23; Galatians 1:10; Galatians 2:4-5; Galatians 5:1",
"398": "Acts 4:19; Acts 5:29; 1 Corinthians 7:23; Matthew 23:8-10; 2 Corinthians 1:24; Matthew 15:9",
"402": "Matthew 12:25; 1 Peter 2:13-14, 16; Romans 13:1-8; Hebrews 13:17"
},
"title": "Chapter 20: Of Christian Liberty, and Liberty of Conscience"
},
"21": {
"body": {
"1": "<span data-prooftexts='Romans 1:20; Acts 17:24; Psalm 119:68; Jeremiah 10:7; Psalm 31:23; Psalm 18:3; Romans 10:12; Psalm 62:8; Joshua 24:14; Mark 12:33' data-prooftexts-index='404'>The light of nature showeth that there is a God, who hath lordship and sovereignty over all, is good, and doth good unto all, and is therefore to be feared, loved, praised, called upon, trusted in, and served, with all the heart, and with all the soul, and with all the might.</span><span data-prooftexts='Deuteronomy 12:32; Matthew 15:9; Acts 17:25; Matthew 4:9-10; Deuteronomy 4:15-20; Exodus 20:4-6; Colossians 2:23' data-prooftexts-index='405'> But the acceptable way of worshiping the true God is instituted by himself, and so limited by his own revealed will, that he may not be worshiped according to the imaginations and devices of men, or the suggestions of Satan, under any visible representation, or any other way not prescribed in the Holy Scripture.</span>",
"3": "<span data-prooftexts='Philippians 4:6' data-prooftexts-index='409'>Prayer, with thanksgiving, being one special part of religious worship,</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalm 65:6' data-prooftexts-index='410'> is by God required of all men:</span><span data-prooftexts='John 14:13-14; 1 Peter 2:5' data-prooftexts-index='411'> and, that it may be accepted, it is to be made in the name of the Son,</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 8:26' data-prooftexts-index='412'> by the help of his Spirit,</span><span data-prooftexts='1 John 5:14' data-prooftexts-index='413'> according to his will,</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalm 47:7; Ecclesiastes 5:1-2; Hebrews 12:28; Genesis 17:27; James 5:16; James 1:6-7; Mark 11:24; Matthew 6:12, 14-15; Colossians 4:2; Ephesians 6:18' data-prooftexts-index='414'> with understanding, reverence, humility, fervency, faith, love, and perseverance;</span><span data-prooftexts='1 Corinthians 14:14' data-prooftexts-index='415'> and, if vocal, in a known tongue.</span>",
"2": "<span data-prooftexts='Matthew 4:10; John 5:23; 2 Corinthians 13:14' data-prooftexts-index='406'>Religious worship is to be given to God, the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost; and to him alone;</span><span data-prooftexts='Colossians 2:18; Revelation 19:10; Romans 1:25' data-prooftexts-index='407'> not to angels, saints, or any other creature:</span><span data-prooftexts='John 14:6; 1 Timothy 2:5; Ephesians 2:18; Colossians 3:17' data-prooftexts-index='408'> and, since the fall, not without a Mediator; nor in the mediation of any other but of Christ alone.</span>",
"5": "<span data-prooftexts='Acts 15:21; Revelation 1:3' data-prooftexts-index='420'>The reading of the Scriptures with godly fear,</span><span data-prooftexts='2 Timothy 4:2' data-prooftexts-index='421'> the sound preaching</span><span data-prooftexts='James 1:22; Acts 10:33; Matthew 13:19; Hebrews 4:2; Isaiah 66:2' data-prooftexts-index='422'> and conscionable hearing of the Word, in obedience unto God, with understanding, faith, and reverence,</span><span data-prooftexts='Colossians 3:16; Ephesians 5:19; James 5:13' data-prooftexts-index='423'> singing of psalms with grace in the heart;</span><span data-prooftexts='Matthew 28:19; 1 Corinthians 11:23-28; Acts 2:42' data-prooftexts-index='424'> as also, the due administration and worthy receiving of the sacraments instituted by Christ, are all parts of the ordinary religious worship of God:</span><span data-prooftexts='Deuteronomy 6:13; Nehemiah 10:29' data-prooftexts-index='425'> beside religious oaths,</span><span data-prooftexts='Isaiah 19:21; Ecclesiastes 5:4-5' data-prooftexts-index='426'> vows,</span><span data-prooftexts='Joel 2:12; Esther 4:16; Matthew 9:15; 1 Corinthians 7:5' data-prooftexts-index='427'> solemn fastings,</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalm 107; Esther 9:22' data-prooftexts-index='428'> and thanksgivings upon special occasions,</span><span data-prooftexts='Hebrews 12:28' data-prooftexts-index='429'> which are, in their several times and seasons, to be used in an holy and religious manner.</span>",
"4": "<span data-prooftexts='1 John 5:14' data-prooftexts-index='416'>Prayer is to be made for things lawful;</span><span data-prooftexts='1 Timothy 2:1-2; John 17:20; 2 Samuel 7:29; Ruth 4:12' data-prooftexts-index='417'> and for all sorts of men living, or that shall live hereafter:</span><span data-prooftexts='2 Samuel 12:21-23; Luke 16:25-26; Revelation 14:13' data-prooftexts-index='418'> but not for the dead,</span><span data-prooftexts='1 John 5:16' data-prooftexts-index='419'> nor for those of whom it may be known that they have sinned the sin unto death.</span>",
"7": "<span data-prooftexts='Exodus 20:8, 10-11; Isaiah 56:2, 4, 6-7' data-prooftexts-index='437'>As it is the law of nature, that, in general, a due proportion of time be set apart for the worship of God; so, in his Word, by a positive, moral, and perpetual commandment binding all men in all ages, he hath particularly appointed one day in seven, for a Sabbath, to be kept holy unto him:</span><span data-prooftexts='Genesis 2:2-3; 1 Corinthians 16:1-2; Acts 20:7' data-prooftexts-index='438'> which, from the beginning of the world to the resurrection of Christ, was the last day of the week; and, from the resurrection of Christ, was changed into the first day of the week,</span><span data-prooftexts='Revelation 1:10' data-prooftexts-index='439'> which, in Scripture, is called the Lord's day,</span><span data-prooftexts='Exodus 20:8, 10; Matthew 5:17-18' data-prooftexts-index='440'> and is to be continued to the end of the world, as the Christian Sabbath.</span>",
"6": "<span data-prooftexts='John 4:21' data-prooftexts-index='430'>Neither prayer, nor any other part of religious worship, is now, under the gospel, either tied unto, or made more acceptable by any place in which it is performed, or towards which it is directed:</span><span data-prooftexts='Malachi 1:11; 1 Timothy 2:8' data-prooftexts-index='431'> but God is to be worshiped everywhere,</span><span data-prooftexts='John 4:23-24' data-prooftexts-index='432'> in spirit and truth;</span><span data-prooftexts='Jeremiah 10:25; Deuteronomy 6:6-7; Job 1:5; 2 Samuel 6:18, 20; 1 Peter 3:7; Acts 10:2' data-prooftexts-index='433'> as, in private families</span><span data-prooftexts='Matthew 6:11' data-prooftexts-index='434'> daily,</span><span data-prooftexts='Matthew 6:6; Ephesians 6:18' data-prooftexts-index='435'> and in secret, each one by himself;</span><span data-prooftexts='Isaiah 56:6-7; Hebrews 10:25; Proverbs 1:20-21, 24; Proverbs 8:34; Acts 13:42; Luke 4:16; Acts 2:42' data-prooftexts-index='436'> so, more solemnly in the public assemblies, which are not carelessly or willfully to be neglected, or forsaken, when God, by his Word or providence, calleth thereunto.</span>",
"8": "<span data-prooftexts='Exodus 20:8; Exodus 16:23, 25-26, 29-30; Exodus 31:15-17; Isaiah 58:13; Nehemiah 13:15-19; Nehemiah 13:21-22' data-prooftexts-index='441'>This Sabbath is then kept holy unto the Lord, when men, after a due preparing of their hearts, and ordering of their common affairs beforehand, do not only observe an holy rest, all the day, from their own works, words, and thoughts about their worldly employments and recreations,</span><span data-prooftexts='Isaiah 58:13; Matthew 12:1-13' data-prooftexts-index='442'> but also are taken up, the whole time, in the public and private exercises of his worship, and in the duties of necessity and mercy.</span>"
},
"prooftext_verses": {
"413": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 John 5:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p62005014.01-1\">And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"426": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Isaiah 19:21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p23019021.01-1\">And the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> will make himself known to the Egyptians, and the Egyptians will know the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> in that day and worship with sacrifice and offering, and they will make vows to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> and perform them.</p>\n</div><h5>Ecclesiastes 5:4-5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p21005004.01-2\">When you vow a vow to God, do not delay paying it, for he has no pleasure in fools. Pay what you vow. It is better that you should not vow than that you should vow and not pay. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"429": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Hebrews 12:28</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58012028.01-1\">Therefore let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and thus let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"428": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 107</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19107001.11-1\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v19107001-1\">107:1 </span>Oh give thanks to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, for he is good,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for his steadfast love endures forever!<br />\n Let the redeemed of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> say so,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>whom he has redeemed from trouble<br />\n and gathered in from the lands,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>from the east and from the west,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>from the north and from the south.</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19107004.01-1\">Some wandered in desert wastes,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>finding no way to a city to dwell in;<br />\n hungry and thirsty,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>their soul fainted within them.<br />\n Then they cried to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> in their trouble,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and he delivered them from their distress.<br />\n He led them by a straight way<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>till they reached a city to dwell in.<br />\n Let them thank the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> for his steadfast love,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for his wondrous works to the children of man!<br />\n For he satisfies the longing soul,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and the hungry soul he fills with good things.</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19107010.01-1\">Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>prisoners in affliction and in irons,<br />\n for they had rebelled against the words of God,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and spurned the counsel of the Most High.<br />\n So he bowed their hearts down with hard labor;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>they fell down, with none to help.<br />\n Then they cried to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> in their trouble,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and he delivered them from their distress.<br />\n He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and burst their bonds apart.<br />\n Let them thank the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> for his steadfast love,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for his wondrous works to the children of man!<br />\n For he shatters the doors of bronze<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and cuts in two the bars of iron.</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19107017.01-1\">Some were fools through their sinful ways,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and because of their iniquities suffered affliction;<br />\n they loathed any kind of food,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and they drew near to the gates of death.<br />\n Then they cried to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> in their trouble,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and he delivered them from their distress.<br />\n He sent out his word and healed them,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and delivered them from their destruction.<br />\n Let them thank the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> for his steadfast love,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for his wondrous works to the children of man!<br />\n And let them offer sacrifices of thanksgiving,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and tell of his deeds in songs of joy!</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19107023.01-1\">Some went down to the sea in ships,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>doing business on the great waters;<br />\n they saw the deeds of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>his wondrous works in the deep.<br />\n For he commanded and raised the stormy wind,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>which lifted up the waves of the sea.<br />\n They mounted up to heaven; they went down to the depths;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>their courage melted away in their evil plight;<br />\n they reeled and staggered like drunken men<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and were at their wits' end.<br />\n Then they cried to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> in their trouble,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and he delivered them from their distress.<br />\n He made the storm be still,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and the waves of the sea were hushed.<br />\n Then they were glad that the waters were quiet,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and he brought them to their desired haven.<br />\n Let them thank the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> for his steadfast love,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for his wondrous works to the children of man!<br />\n Let them extol him in the congregation of the people,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and praise him in the assembly of the elders.</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19107033.01-1\">He turns rivers into a desert,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>springs of water into thirsty ground,<br />\n a fruitful land into a salty waste,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>because of the evil of its inhabitants.<br />\n He turns a desert into pools of water,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>a parched land into springs of water.<br />\n And there he lets the hungry dwell,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and they establish a city to live in;<br />\n they sow fields and plant vineyards<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and get a fruitful yield.<br />\n By his blessing they multiply greatly,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and he does not let their livestock diminish.</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19107039.01-1\">When they are diminished and brought low<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>through oppression, evil, and sorrow,<br />\n he pours contempt on princes<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and makes them wander in trackless wastes;<br />\n but he raises up the needy out of affliction<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and makes their families like flocks.<br />\n The upright see it and are glad,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and all wickedness shuts its mouth.</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19107043.01-1\">Whoever is wise, let him attend to these things;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>let them consider the steadfast love of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Esther 9:22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p17009022.01-2\">as the days on which the Jews got relief from their enemies, and as the month that had been turned for them from sorrow into gladness and from mourning into a holiday; that they should make them days of feasting and gladness, days for sending gifts of food to one another and gifts to the poor. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"407": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Colossians 2:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p51002018.01-1\">Let no one disqualify you, insisting on asceticism and worship of angels, going on in detail about visions, puffed up without reason by his sensuous mind,</p>\n</div><h5>Revelation 19:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p66019010.01-2\">Then I fell down at his feet to worship him, but he said to me, “You must not do that! I am a fellow servant with you and your brothers who hold to the testimony of Jesus. Worship God.” For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 1:25</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45001025.01-3\">because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"406": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 4:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40004010.01-1\">Then Jesus said to him, <span class=\"woc\">“Be gone, Satan! For it is written,</span></p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p40004010.13-1\"><span class=\"woc\">“‘You shall worship the Lord your God<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and him only shall you serve.’”</span></p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>John 5:23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43005023.01-2\"><span class=\"woc\">that all may honor the Son, just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.</span></p>\n</div><h5>2 Corinthians 13:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p47013014.01-3\">The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"405": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Deuteronomy 12:32</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p05012032.01-1\"> “Everything that I command you, you shall be careful to do. You shall not add to it or take from it.</p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 15:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p40015009.01-2\"><span class=\"woc\">in vain do they worship me,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’”</span></p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Acts 17:25</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44017025.01-3\">nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything.</p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 4:9-10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40004009.01-4\">And he said to him, “All these I will give you, if you will fall down and worship me.” Then Jesus said to him, <span class=\"woc\">“Be gone, Satan! For it is written,</span></p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p40004010.13-4\"><span class=\"woc\">“‘You shall worship the Lord your God<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and him only shall you serve.’”</span></p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Deuteronomy 4:15-20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p05004015.03-5\">“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. But the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> has taken you and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be a people of his own inheritance, as you are this day.</p>\n</div><h5>Exodus 20:4-6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p02020004.01-6\">“You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.</p>\n</div><h5>Colossians 2:23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p51002023.01-7\">These have indeed an appearance of wisdom in promoting self-made religion and asceticism and severity to the body, but they are of no value in stopping the indulgence of the flesh. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"404": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 1:20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45001020.01-1\">For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 17:24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44017024.01-2\">The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by man,</p>\n</div><h5>Psalm 119:68</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119068.01-3\">You are good and do good;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>teach me your statutes.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Jeremiah 10:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p24010007.01-4\">Who would not fear you, O King of the nations?<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>For this is your due;<br />\nfor among all the wise ones of the nations<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and in all their kingdoms<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>there is none like you.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 31:23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19031023.01-5\">Love the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, all you his saints!<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> preserves the faithful<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but abundantly repays the one who acts in pride.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 18:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19018003.01-6\">I call upon the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, who is worthy to be praised,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and I am saved from my enemies.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Romans 10:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45010012.01-7\">For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, bestowing his riches on all who call on him.</p>\n</div><h5>Psalm 62:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19062008.01-8\">Trust in him at all times, O people;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>pour out your heart before him;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>God is a refuge for us. <span class=\"selah\">Selah</span></p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Joshua 24:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p06024014.06-9\">“Now therefore fear the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> and serve him in sincerity and in faithfulness. Put away the gods that your fathers served beyond the River and in Egypt, and serve the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>.</p>\n</div><h5>Mark 12:33</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p41012033.01-10\">And to love him with all the heart and with all the understanding and with all the strength, and to love one's neighbor as oneself, is much more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"427": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Joel 2:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p29002012.05-1\">“Yet even now,” declares the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>“return to me with all your heart,<br />\nwith fasting, with weeping, and with mourning;</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Esther 4:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p17004016.01-2\">“Go, gather all the Jews to be found in Susa, and hold a fast on my behalf, and do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my young women will also fast as you do. Then I will go to the king, though it is against the law, and if I perish, I perish.”</p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 9:15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40009015.01-3\">And Jesus said to them, <span class=\"woc\">“Can the wedding guests mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast.</span></p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 7:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46007005.01-4\">Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"421": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>2 Timothy 4:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p55004002.01-1\">preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"420": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Acts 15:21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44015021.01-1\">For from ancient generations Moses has had in every city those who proclaim him, for he is read every Sabbath in the synagogues.”</p>\n</div><h5>Revelation 1:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p66001003.01-2\">Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"423": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Colossians 3:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p51003016.01-1\">Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.</p>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 5:19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49005019.01-2\">addressing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with your heart,</p>\n</div><h5>James 5:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p59005013.05-3\">Is anyone among you suffering? Let him pray. Is anyone cheerful? Let him sing praise. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"422": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>James 1:22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p59001022.01-1\">But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 10:33</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44010033.01-2\">So I sent for you at once, and you have been kind enough to come. Now therefore we are all here in the presence of God to hear all that you have been commanded by the Lord.”</p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 13:19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40013019.01-3\"><span class=\"woc\">When anyone hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what has been sown in his heart. This is what was sown along the path.</span></p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 4:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58004002.01-4\">For good news came to us just as to them, but the message they heard did not benefit them, because they were not united by faith with those who listened.</p>\n</div><h5>Isaiah 66:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23066002.01-5\">All these things my hand has made,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and so all these things came to be,<br />\n<span class=\"declares-line\"></span>\ndeclares the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>.<br />\nBut this is the one to whom I will look:<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>he who is humble and contrite in spirit<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and trembles at my word. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"425": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Deuteronomy 6:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p05006013.01-1\">It is the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God you shall fear. Him you shall serve and by his name you shall swear.</p>\n</div><h5>Nehemiah 10:29</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p16010029.01-2\">join with their brothers, their nobles, and enter into a curse and an oath to walk in God's Law that was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> our Lord and his rules and his statutes. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"424": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 28:19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40028019.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,</span></p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 11:23-28</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46011023.01-2\">For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, <span class=\"woc\">“This is my body which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.”</span> In the same way also he took the cup, after supper, saying, <span class=\"woc\">“This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.”</span> For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes.</p>\n <p id=\"p46011027.01-2\">Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty concerning the body and blood of the Lord. Let a person examine himself, then, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup.</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 2:42</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p44002042.06-3\">And they devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"409": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Philippians 4:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p50004006.01-1\">do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"408": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>John 14:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43014006.01-1\">Jesus said to him, <span class=\"woc\">“I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.</span></p>\n</div><h5>1 Timothy 2:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p54002005.01-2\">For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,</p>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 2:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49002018.01-3\">For through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father.</p>\n</div><h5>Colossians 3:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p51003017.01-4\">And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"412": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 8:26</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45008026.01-1\">Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"442": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Isaiah 58:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23058013.01-1\">“If you turn back your foot from the Sabbath,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>from doing your pleasure on my holy day,<br />\nand call the Sabbath a delight<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and the holy day of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> honorable;<br />\nif you honor it, not going your own ways,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>or seeking your own pleasure, or talking idly;</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Matthew 12:1-13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p40012001.07-2\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v40012001-2\">12:1 </span>At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath. His disciples were hungry, and they began to pluck heads of grain and to eat. But when the Pharisees saw it, they said to him, “Look, your disciples are doing what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath.” He said to them, <span class=\"woc\">“Have you not read what David did when he was hungry, and those who were with him:</span> <span class=\"woc\">how he entered the house of God and ate the bread of the Presence, which it was not lawful for him to eat nor for those who were with him, but only for the priests?</span> <span class=\"woc\">Or have you not read in the Law how on the Sabbath the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath and are guiltless?</span> <span class=\"woc\">I tell you, something greater than the temple is here.</span> <span class=\"woc\">And if you had known what this means, ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the guiltless.</span> <span class=\"woc\">For the Son of Man is lord of the Sabbath.”</span></p>\n \n<p id=\"p40012009.07-2\">He went on from there and entered their synagogue. And a man was there with a withered hand. And they asked him, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?”—so that they might accuse him. He said to them, <span class=\"woc\">“Which one of you who has a sheep, if it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will not take hold of it and lift it out?</span> <span class=\"woc\">Of how much more value is a man than a sheep! So it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath.”</span> Then he said to the man, <span class=\"woc\">“Stretch out your hand.”</span> And the man stretched it out, and it was restored, healthy like the other. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"441": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Exodus 20:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p02020008.01-1\">“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.</p>\n</div><h5>Exodus 16:23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p02016023.01-2\">he said to them, “This is what the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> has commanded: ‘Tomorrow is a day of solemn rest, a holy Sabbath to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>; bake what you will bake and boil what you will boil, and all that is left over lay aside to be kept till the morning.’”</p>\n</div><h5>Exodus 16:25-26</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p02016025.01-3\">Moses said, “Eat it today, for today is a Sabbath to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>; today you will not find it in the field. Six days you shall gather it, but on the seventh day, which is a Sabbath, there will be none.”</p>\n</div><h5>Exodus 16:29-30</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p02016029.01-4\">See! The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> has given you the Sabbath; therefore on the sixth day he gives you bread for two days. Remain each of you in his place; let no one go out of his place on the seventh day.” So the people rested on the seventh day.</p>\n</div><h5>Exodus 31:15-17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p02031015.01-5\">Six days shall work be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, holy to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day shall be put to death. Therefore the people of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, observing the Sabbath throughout their generations, as a covenant forever. It is a sign forever between me and the people of Israel that in six days the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested and was refreshed.’”</p>\n</div><h5>Isaiah 58:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23058013.01-6\">“If you turn back your foot from the Sabbath,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>from doing your pleasure on my holy day,<br />\nand call the Sabbath a delight<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and the holy day of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> honorable;<br />\nif you honor it, not going your own ways,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>or seeking your own pleasure, or talking idly;</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Nehemiah 13:15-19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p16013015.01-7\">In those days I saw in Judah people treading winepresses on the Sabbath, and bringing in heaps of grain and loading them on donkeys, and also wine, grapes, figs, and all kinds of loads, which they brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. And I warned them on the day when they sold food. Tyrians also, who lived in the city, brought in fish and all kinds of goods and sold them on the Sabbath to the people of Judah, in Jerusalem itself! Then I confronted the nobles of Judah and said to them, “What is this evil thing that you are doing, profaning the Sabbath day? Did not your fathers act in this way, and did not our God bring all this disaster on us and on this city? Now you are bringing more wrath on Israel by profaning the Sabbath.”</p>\n <p id=\"p16013019.01-7\">As soon as it began to grow dark at the gates of Jerusalem before the Sabbath, I commanded that the doors should be shut and gave orders that they should not be opened until after the Sabbath. And I stationed some of my servants at the gates, that no load might be brought in on the Sabbath day.</p>\n</div><h5>Nehemiah 13:21-22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p16013021.01-8\">But I warned them and said to them, “Why do you lodge outside the wall? If you do so again, I will lay hands on you.” From that time on they did not come on the Sabbath. Then I commanded the Levites that they should purify themselves and come and guard the gates, to keep the Sabbath day holy. Remember this also in my favor, O my God, and spare me according to the greatness of your steadfast love. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"440": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Exodus 20:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p02020008.01-1\">“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.</p>\n</div><h5>Exodus 20:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p02020010.01-2\">but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God. On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates.</p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 5:17-18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p40005017.07-3\"><span class=\"woc\">“Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.</span> <span class=\"woc\">For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished.</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"418": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>2 Samuel 12:21-23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p10012021.01-1\">Then his servants said to him, “What is this thing that you have done? You fasted and wept for the child while he was alive; but when the child died, you arose and ate food.” He said, “While the child was still alive, I fasted and wept, for I said, ‘Who knows whether the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> will be gracious to me, that the child may live?’ But now he is dead. Why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he will not return to me.”</p>\n</div><h5>Luke 16:25-26</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42016025.01-2\"><span class=\"woc\">But Abraham said, ‘Child, remember that you in your lifetime received your good things, and Lazarus in like manner bad things; but now he is comforted here, and you are in anguish.</span> <span class=\"woc\">And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been fixed, in order that those who would pass from here to you may not be able, and none may cross from there to us.’</span></p>\n</div><h5>Revelation 14:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p66014013.01-3\">And I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write this: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.” “Blessed indeed,” says the Spirit, “that they may rest from their labors, for their deeds follow them!” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"419": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 John 5:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p62005016.01-1\">If anyone sees his brother committing a sin not leading to death, he shall ask, and God will give him life—to those who commit sins that do not lead to death. There is sin that leads to death; I do not say that one should pray for that. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"414": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 47:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19047007.01-1\">For God is the King of all the earth;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>sing praises with a psalm!</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Ecclesiastes 5:1-2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p21005001.03-2\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v21005001-2\">5:1 </span> Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. To draw near to listen is better than to offer the sacrifice of fools, for they do not know that they are doing evil. Be not rash with your mouth, nor let your heart be hasty to utter a word before God, for God is in heaven and you are on earth. Therefore let your words be few.</p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 12:28</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58012028.01-3\">Therefore let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and thus let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe,</p>\n</div><h5>Genesis 17:27</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p01017027.01-4\">And all the men of his house, those born in the house and those bought with money from a foreigner, were circumcised with him.</p>\n</div><h5>James 5:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p59005016.01-5\">Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.</p>\n</div><h5>James 1:6-7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p59001006.01-6\">But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind. For that person must not suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord;</p>\n</div><h5>Mark 11:24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p41011024.01-7\"><span class=\"woc\">Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.</span></p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 6:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p40006012.01-8\"><span class=\"woc\">and forgive us our debts,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>as we also have forgiven our debtors.</span></p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Matthew 6:14-15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p class=\"same-paragraph\" id=\"p40006014.01-9\"><span class=\"woc\">For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you,</span> <span class=\"woc\">but if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.</span></p>\n</div><h5>Colossians 4:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p class=\"chapter-first\" id=\"p51004002.03-10\">Continue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving.</p>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 6:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49006018.01-11\">praying at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication. To that end keep alert with all perseverance, making supplication for all the saints, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"415": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Corinthians 14:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46014014.01-1\">For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays but my mind is unfruitful. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"416": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 John 5:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p62005014.01-1\">And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"417": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Timothy 2:1-2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p54002001.05-1\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v54002001-1\">2:1 </span>First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people, for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way.</p>\n</div><h5>John 17:20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43017020.01-2\"><span class=\"woc\">“I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word,</span></p>\n</div><h5>2 Samuel 7:29</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p10007029.01-3\">Now therefore may it please you to bless the house of your servant, so that it may continue forever before you. For you, O Lord <span class=\"small-caps\">God</span>, have spoken, and with your blessing shall the house of your servant be blessed forever.”</p>\n</div><h5>Ruth 4:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p08004012.01-4\">and may your house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, because of the offspring that the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> will give you by this young woman.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"410": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 65:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19065006.01-1\">the one who by his strength established the mountains,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>being girded with might; (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"411": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>John 14:13-14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43014013.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.</span> <span class=\"woc\">If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it.</span></p>\n</div><h5>1 Peter 2:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p60002005.01-2\">you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"438": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Genesis 2:2-3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p01002002.01-1\">And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done. So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 16:1-2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p46016001.06-2\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v46016001-2\">16:1 </span>Now concerning the collection for the saints: as I directed the churches of Galatia, so you also are to do. On the first day of every week, each of you is to put something aside and store it up, as he may prosper, so that there will be no collecting when I come.</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 20:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p44020007.06-3\">On the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to break bread, Paul talked with them, intending to depart on the next day, and he prolonged his speech until midnight. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"439": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Revelation 1:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p66001010.01-1\">I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"436": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Isaiah 56:6-7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23056006.01-1\">“And the foreigners who join themselves to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>to minister to him, to love the name of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and to be his servants,<br />\neveryone who keeps the Sabbath and does not profane it,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and holds fast my covenant—<br />\n these I will bring to my holy mountain,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and make them joyful in my house of prayer;<br />\ntheir burnt offerings and their sacrifices<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>will be accepted on my altar;<br />\nfor my house shall be called a house of prayer<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for all peoples.”</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 10:25</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58010025.01-2\">not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.</p>\n</div><h5>Proverbs 1:20-21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20001020.05-3\">Wisdom cries aloud in the street,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>in the markets she raises her voice;<br />\n at the head of the noisy streets she cries out;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>at the entrance of the city gates she speaks:</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Proverbs 1:24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20001024.01-4\">Because I have called and you refused to listen,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>have stretched out my hand and no one has heeded,</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Proverbs 8:34</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20008034.01-5\">Blessed is the one who listens to me,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>watching daily at my gates,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>waiting beside my doors.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Acts 13:42</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44013042.01-6\">As they went out, the people begged that these things might be told them the next Sabbath.</p>\n</div><h5>Luke 4:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p42004016.05-7\">And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. And as was his custom, he went to the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and he stood up to read.</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 2:42</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p44002042.06-8\">And they devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"437": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Exodus 20:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p02020008.01-1\">“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.</p>\n</div><h5>Exodus 20:10-11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p02020010.01-2\">but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God. On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates. For in six days the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.</p>\n</div><h5>Isaiah 56:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23056002.01-3\">Blessed is the man who does this,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and the son of man who holds it fast,<br />\nwho keeps the Sabbath, not profaning it,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and keeps his hand from doing any evil.”</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Isaiah 56:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23056004.01-4\">For thus says the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>:<br />\n“To the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>who choose the things that please me<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and hold fast my covenant,</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Isaiah 56:6-7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23056006.01-5\">“And the foreigners who join themselves to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>to minister to him, to love the name of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and to be his servants,<br />\neveryone who keeps the Sabbath and does not profane it,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and holds fast my covenant—<br />\n these I will bring to my holy mountain,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and make them joyful in my house of prayer;<br />\ntheir burnt offerings and their sacrifices<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>will be accepted on my altar;<br />\nfor my house shall be called a house of prayer<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for all peoples.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"434": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 6:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p40006011.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">Give us this day our daily bread,</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"435": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 6:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40006006.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.</span></p>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 6:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49006018.01-2\">praying at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication. To that end keep alert with all perseverance, making supplication for all the saints, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"432": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>John 4:23-24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43004023.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him.</span> <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>",
"433": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Jeremiah 10:25</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p24010025.01-1\">Pour out your wrath on the nations that know you not,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and on the peoples that call not on your name,<br />\nfor they have devoured Jacob;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>they have devoured him and consumed him,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and have laid waste his habitation.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Deuteronomy 6:6-7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p05006006.01-2\">And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.</p>\n</div><h5>Job 1:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p18001005.01-3\">And when the days of the feast had run their course, Job would send and consecrate them, and he would rise early in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, “It may be that my children have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts.” Thus Job did continually.</p>\n</div><h5>2 Samuel 6:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p10006018.01-4\">And when David had finished offering the burnt offerings and the peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> of hosts</p>\n</div><h5>2 Samuel 6:20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p10006020.01-5\">And David returned to bless his household. But Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David and said, “How the king of Israel honored himself today, uncovering himself today before the eyes of his servants' female servants, as one of the vulgar fellows shamelessly uncovers himself!”</p>\n</div><h5>1 Peter 3:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p60003007.01-6\">Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 10:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44010002.01-7\">a devout man who feared God with all his household, gave alms generously to the people, and prayed continually to God. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"430": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>John 4:21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43004021.01-1\">Jesus said to her, <span class=\"woc\">“Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father.</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"431": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Malachi 1:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p39001011.01-1\">For from the rising of the sun to its setting my name will be great among the nations, and in every place incense will be offered to my name, and a pure offering. For my name will be great among the nations, says the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> of hosts.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Timothy 2:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p54002008.01-2\">I desire then that in every place the men should pray, lifting holy hands without anger or quarreling; (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"429": "Hebrews 12:28",
"428": "Psalm 107; Esther 9:22",
"431": "Malachi 1:11; 1 Timothy 2:8",
"407": "Colossians 2:18; Revelation 19:10; Romans 1:25",
"406": "Matthew 4:10; John 5:23; 2 Corinthians 13:14",
"405": "Deuteronomy 12:32; Matthew 15:9; Acts 17:25; Matthew 4:9-10; Deuteronomy 4:15-20; Exodus 20:4-6; Colossians 2:23",
"404": "Romans 1:20; Acts 17:24; Psalm 119:68; Jeremiah 10:7; Psalm 31:23; Psalm 18:3; Romans 10:12; Psalm 62:8; Joshua 24:14; Mark 12:33",
"421": "2 Timothy 4:2",
"420": "Acts 15:21; Revelation 1:3",
"423": "Colossians 3:16; Ephesians 5:19; James 5:13",
"422": "James 1:22; Acts 10:33; Matthew 13:19; Hebrews 4:2; Isaiah 66:2",
"425": "Deuteronomy 6:13; Nehemiah 10:29",
"424": "Matthew 28:19; 1 Corinthians 11:23-28; Acts 2:42",
"409": "Philippians 4:6",
"408": "John 14:6; 1 Timothy 2:5; Ephesians 2:18; Colossians 3:17",
"440": "Exodus 20:8, 10; Matthew 5:17-18",
"438": "Genesis 2:2-3; 1 Corinthians 16:1-2; Acts 20:7",
"442": "Isaiah 58:13; Matthew 12:1-13",
"441": "Exodus 20:8; Exodus 16:23, 25-26, 29-30; Exodus 31:15-17; Isaiah 58:13; Nehemiah 13:15-19; Nehemiah 13:21-22",
"439": "Revelation 1:10",
"435": "Matthew 6:6; Ephesians 6:18",
"432": "John 4:23-24",
"433": "Jeremiah 10:25; Deuteronomy 6:6-7; Job 1:5; 2 Samuel 6:18, 20; 1 Peter 3:7; Acts 10:2",
"414": "Psalm 47:7; Ecclesiastes 5:1-2; Hebrews 12:28; Genesis 17:27; James 5:16; James 1:6-7; Mark 11:24; Matthew 6:12, 14-15; Colossians 4:2; Ephesians 6:18",
"415": "1 Corinthians 14:14",
"416": "1 John 5:14",
"417": "1 Timothy 2:1-2; John 17:20; 2 Samuel 7:29; Ruth 4:12",
"410": "Psalm 65:6",
"411": "John 14:13-14; 1 Peter 2:5",
"412": "Romans 8:26",
"413": "1 John 5:14",
"436": "Isaiah 56:6-7; Hebrews 10:25; Proverbs 1:20-21, 24; Proverbs 8:34; Acts 13:42; Luke 4:16; Acts 2:42",
"437": "Exodus 20:8, 10-11; Isaiah 56:2, 4, 6-7",
"434": "Matthew 6:11",
"426": "Isaiah 19:21; Ecclesiastes 5:4-5",
"418": "2 Samuel 12:21-23; Luke 16:25-26; Revelation 14:13",
"419": "1 John 5:16",
"430": "John 4:21",
"427": "Joel 2:12; Esther 4:16; Matthew 9:15; 1 Corinthians 7:5"
},
"title": "Chapter 21: Of Religious Worship, and the Sabbath Day"
},
"22": {
"body": {
"1": "<span data-prooftexts='Deuteronomy 10:20' data-prooftexts-index='443'>A lawful oath is a part of religious worship,</span><span data-prooftexts='Exodus 20:7; Leviticus 19:12; 2 Corinthians 1:23; 2 Chronicles 6:22-23' data-prooftexts-index='444'> wherein, upon just occasion, the person swearing solemnly calleth God to witness what he asserteth, or promiseth, and to judge him according to the truth or falsehood of what he sweareth.</span>",
"3": "<span data-prooftexts='Exodus 20:7; Jeremiah 4:2' data-prooftexts-index='449'>Whosoever taketh an oath ought duly to consider the weightiness of so solemn an act, and therein to avouch nothing but what he is fully persuaded is the truth:</span><span data-prooftexts='Genesis 24:2-3, 5-6, 8-9' data-prooftexts-index='450'> neither may any man bind himself by oath to anything but what is good and just, and what he believeth so to be, and what he is able and resolved to perform.</span>",
"2": "<span data-prooftexts='Deuteronomy 6:13' data-prooftexts-index='445'>The name of God only is that by which men ought to swear, and therein it is to be used with all holy fear and reverence.</span><span data-prooftexts='Exodus 20:7; Jeremiah 5:7; Matthew 5:34, 37; James 5:12' data-prooftexts-index='446'> Therefore, to swear vainly, or rashly, by that glorious and dreadful Name; or, to swear at all by any other thing, is sinful, and to be abhorred.</span><span data-prooftexts='Hebrews 6:16; 2 Corinthians 1:23; Isaiah 65:16' data-prooftexts-index='447'> Yet, as in matters of weight and moment, an oath is warranted by the Word of God, under the new testament as well as under the old;</span><span data-prooftexts='1 Kings 8:31; Nehemiah 13:25; Ezra 10:5' data-prooftexts-index='448'> so a lawful oath, being imposed by lawful authority, in such matters, ought to be taken.</span>",
"5": "<span data-prooftexts='Isaiah 19:21; Ecclesiastes 5:4-6; Psalm 61:8; Psalm 66:13-14' data-prooftexts-index='454'>A vow is of the like nature with a promissory oath, and ought to be made with the like religious care, and to be performed with the like faithfulness.</span>",
"4": "<span data-prooftexts='Jeremiah 4:2; Psalm 24:4' data-prooftexts-index='451'>An oath is to be taken in the plain and common sense of the words, without equivocation, or mental reservation.</span><span data-prooftexts='1 Samuel 25:22, 32-34; Psalm 15:4' data-prooftexts-index='452'> It cannot oblige to sin; but in anything not sinful, being taken, it binds to performance, although to a man's own hurt.</span><span data-prooftexts='Ezekiel 17:16, 18-19; Joshua 9:18-19; 2 Samuel 21:1' data-prooftexts-index='453'> Nor is it to be violated, although made to heretics, or infidels.</span>",
"7": "<span data-prooftexts='Acts 23:12, 14; Mark 6:26; Numbers 30:5, 8, 12-13' data-prooftexts-index='457'>No man may vow to do anything forbidden in the Word of God, or what would hinder any duty therein commanded, or which is not in his own power, and for the performance whereof he hath no promise of ability from God.</span><span data-prooftexts='Matthew 19:11-12; 1 Corinthians 7:2, 9; Ephesians 4:28; 1 Peter 4:2; 1 Corinthians 7:23' data-prooftexts-index='458'> In which respects, popish monastical vows of perpetual single life, professed poverty, and regular obedience, are so far from being degrees of higher perfection, that they are superstitious and sinful snares, in which no Christian may entangle himself.</span>",
"6": "<span data-prooftexts='Psalm 76:11; Jeremiah 44:25-26' data-prooftexts-index='455'>It is not to be made to any creature, but to God alone:</span><span data-prooftexts='Deuteronomy 23:21-23; Psalm 50:14; Genesis 28:20-22; 1 Samuel 1:11; Psalm 66:13-14; Psalm 132:2-5' data-prooftexts-index='456'> and, that it may be accepted, it is to be made voluntarily, out of faith, and conscience of duty, in way of thankfulness for mercy received, or for the obtaining of what we want, whereby we more strictly bind ourselves to necessary duties; or, to other things, so far and so long as they may fitly conduce thereunto.</span>"
},
"prooftext_verses": {
"458": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 19:11-12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40019011.01-1\">But he said to them, <span class=\"woc\">“Not everyone can receive this saying, but only those to whom it is given.</span> <span class=\"woc\">For there are eunuchs who have been so from birth, and there are eunuchs who have been made eunuchs by men, and there are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. Let the one who is able to receive this receive it.”</span></p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 7:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46007002.01-2\">But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 7:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46007009.01-3\">But if they cannot exercise self-control, they should marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion.</p>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 4:28</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49004028.01-4\">Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Peter 4:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p60004002.01-5\">so as to live for the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for human passions but for the will of God.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 7:23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46007023.01-6\">You were bought with a price; do not become slaves of men. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"449": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Exodus 20:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p02020007.01-1\">“You shall not take the name of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God in vain, for the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.</p>\n</div><h5>Jeremiah 4:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p24004002.01-2\">and if you swear, ‘As the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> lives,’<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>in truth, in justice, and in righteousness,<br />\nthen nations shall bless themselves in him,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and in him shall they glory.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"448": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Kings 8:31</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p11008031.01-1\">“If a man sins against his neighbor and is made to take an oath and comes and swears his oath before your altar in this house,</p>\n</div><h5>Nehemiah 13:25</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p16013025.01-2\">And I confronted them and cursed them and beat some of them and pulled out their hair. And I made them take oath in the name of God, saying, “You shall not give your daughters to their sons, or take their daughters for your sons or for yourselves.</p>\n</div><h5>Ezra 10:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p15010005.01-3\">Then Ezra arose and made the leading priests and Levites and all Israel take oath that they would do as had been said. So they took the oath. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"450": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Genesis 24:2-3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p01024002.01-1\">And Abraham said to his servant, the oldest of his household, who had charge of all that he had, “Put your hand under my thigh, that I may make you swear by the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, the God of heaven and God of the earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell,</p>\n</div><h5>Genesis 24:5-6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p01024005.01-2\">The servant said to him, “Perhaps the woman may not be willing to follow me to this land. Must I then take your son back to the land from which you came?” Abraham said to him, “See to it that you do not take my son back there.</p>\n</div><h5>Genesis 24:8-9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p01024008.01-3\">But if the woman is not willing to follow you, then you will be free from this oath of mine; only you must not take my son back there.” So the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master and swore to him concerning this matter. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"451": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Jeremiah 4:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p24004002.01-1\">and if you swear, ‘As the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> lives,’<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>in truth, in justice, and in righteousness,<br />\nthen nations shall bless themselves in him,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and in him shall they glory.”</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 24:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19024004.01-2\">He who has clean hands and a pure heart,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>who does not lift up his soul to what is false<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and does not swear deceitfully. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"452": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Samuel 25:22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p09025022.01-1\">God do so to the enemies of David and more also, if by morning I leave so much as one male of all who belong to him.”</p>\n</div><h5>1 Samuel 25:32-34</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p09025032.01-2\">And David said to Abigail, “Blessed be the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, the God of Israel, who sent you this day to meet me! Blessed be your discretion, and blessed be you, who have kept me this day from bloodguilt and from avenging myself with my own hand! For as surely as the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, the God of Israel, lives, who has restrained me from hurting you, unless you had hurried and come to meet me, truly by morning there had not been left to Nabal so much as one male.”</p>\n</div><h5>Psalm 15:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19015004.01-3\">in whose eyes a vile person is despised,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but who honors those who fear the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>;<br />\nwho swears to his own hurt and does not change; (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"453": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ezekiel 17:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p26017016.01-1\">“As I live, declares the Lord <span class=\"small-caps\">God</span>, surely in the place where the king dwells who made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant with him he broke, in Babylon he shall die.</p>\n</div><h5>Ezekiel 17:18-19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p26017018.01-2\">He despised the oath in breaking the covenant, and behold, he gave his hand and did all these things; he shall not escape. Therefore thus says the Lord <span class=\"small-caps\">God</span>: As I live, surely it is my oath that he despised, and my covenant that he broke. I will return it upon his head.</p>\n</div><h5>Joshua 9:18-19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p06009018.01-3\">But the people of Israel did not attack them, because the leaders of the congregation had sworn to them by the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, the God of Israel. Then all the congregation murmured against the leaders. But all the leaders said to all the congregation, “We have sworn to them by the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, the God of Israel, and now we may not touch them.</p>\n</div><h5>2 Samuel 21:1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p10021001.05-4\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v10021001-4\">21:1 </span>Now there was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year. And David sought the face of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>. And the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> said, “There is bloodguilt on Saul and on his house, because he put the Gibeonites to death.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"454": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Isaiah 19:21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p23019021.01-1\">And the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> will make himself known to the Egyptians, and the Egyptians will know the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> in that day and worship with sacrifice and offering, and they will make vows to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> and perform them.</p>\n</div><h5>Ecclesiastes 5:4-6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p21005004.01-2\">When you vow a vow to God, do not delay paying it, for he has no pleasure in fools. Pay what you vow. It is better that you should not vow than that you should vow and not pay. Let not your mouth lead you into sin, and do not say before the messenger that it was a mistake. Why should God be angry at your voice and destroy the work of your hands?</p>\n</div><h5>Psalm 61:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19061008.01-3\">So will I ever sing praises to your name,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>as I perform my vows day after day.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 66:13-14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19066013.01-4\">I will come into your house with burnt offerings;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I will perform my vows to you,<br />\n that which my lips uttered<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and my mouth promised when I was in trouble. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"455": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 76:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19076011.01-1\">Make your vows to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God and perform them;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>let all around him bring gifts<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>to him who is to be feared,</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Jeremiah 44:25-26</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p24044025.01-2\">Thus says the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> of hosts, the God of Israel: You and your wives have declared with your mouths, and have fulfilled it with your hands, saying, ‘We will surely perform our vows that we have made, to make offerings to the queen of heaven and to pour out drink offerings to her.’ Then confirm your vows and perform your vows! Therefore hear the word of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, all you of Judah who dwell in the land of Egypt: Behold, I have sworn by my great name, says the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, that my name shall no more be invoked by the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, ‘As the Lord <span class=\"small-caps\">God</span> lives.’ (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"456": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Deuteronomy 23:21-23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p05023021.01-1\">“If you make a vow to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God, you shall not delay fulfilling it, for the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God will surely require it of you, and you will be guilty of sin. But if you refrain from vowing, you will not be guilty of sin. You shall be careful to do what has passed your lips, for you have voluntarily vowed to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God what you have promised with your mouth.</p>\n</div><h5>Psalm 50:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19050014.01-2\">Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and perform your vows to the Most High,</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Genesis 28:20-22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p01028020.01-3\">Then Jacob made a vow, saying, “If God will be with me and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat and clothing to wear, so that I come again to my father's house in peace, then the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> shall be my God, and this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, shall be God's house. And of all that you give me I will give a full tenth to you.”</p>\n</div><h5>1 Samuel 1:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p09001011.01-4\">And she vowed a vow and said, “O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> of hosts, if you will indeed look on the affliction of your servant and remember me and not forget your servant, but will give to your servant a son, then I will give him to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> all the days of his life, and no razor shall touch his head.”</p>\n</div><h5>Psalm 66:13-14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19066013.01-5\">I will come into your house with burnt offerings;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I will perform my vows to you,<br />\n that which my lips uttered<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and my mouth promised when I was in trouble.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 132:2-5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19132002.01-6\">how he swore to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span><br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and vowed to the Mighty One of Jacob,<br />\n “I will not enter my house<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>or get into my bed,<br />\n I will not give sleep to my eyes<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>or slumber to my eyelids,<br />\n until I find a place for the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>a dwelling place for the Mighty One of Jacob.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"457": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Acts 23:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p44023012.06-1\">When it was day, the Jews made a plot and bound themselves by an oath neither to eat nor drink till they had killed Paul.</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 23:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44023014.01-2\">They went to the chief priests and elders and said, “We have strictly bound ourselves by an oath to taste no food till we have killed Paul.</p>\n</div><h5>Mark 6:26</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p41006026.01-3\">And the king was exceedingly sorry, but because of his oaths and his guests he did not want to break his word to her.</p>\n</div><h5>Numbers 30:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p04030005.01-4\">But if her father opposes her on the day that he hears of it, no vow of hers, no pledge by which she has bound herself shall stand. And the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> will forgive her, because her father opposed her.</p>\n</div><h5>Numbers 30:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p04030008.01-5\">But if, on the day that her husband comes to hear of it, he opposes her, then he makes void her vow that was on her, and the thoughtless utterance of her lips by which she bound herself. And the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> will forgive her.</p>\n</div><h5>Numbers 30:12-13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p04030012.01-6\">But if her husband makes them null and void on the day that he hears them, then whatever proceeds out of her lips concerning her vows or concerning her pledge of herself shall not stand. Her husband has made them void, and the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> will forgive her. Any vow and any binding oath to afflict herself, her husband may establish, or her husband may make void. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"443": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Deuteronomy 10:20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p05010020.01-1\">You shall fear the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God. You shall serve him and hold fast to him, and by his name you shall swear. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"446": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Exodus 20:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p02020007.01-1\">“You shall not take the name of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God in vain, for the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.</p>\n</div><h5>Jeremiah 5:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p24005007.01-2\">“How can I pardon you?<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Your children have forsaken me<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and have sworn by those who are no gods.<br />\nWhen I fed them to the full,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>they committed adultery<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and trooped to the houses of whores.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Matthew 5:34</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40005034.01-3\"><span class=\"woc\">But I say to you, Do not take an oath at all, either by heaven, for it is the throne of God,</span></p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 5:37</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40005037.01-4\"><span class=\"woc\">Let what you say be simply ‘Yes’ or ‘No’; anything more than this comes from evil.</span></p>\n</div><h5>James 5:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p59005012.01-5\">But above all, my brothers, do not swear, either by heaven or by earth or by any other oath, but let your “yes” be yes and your “no” be no, so that you may not fall under condemnation. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"447": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Hebrews 6:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58006016.01-1\">For people swear by something greater than themselves, and in all their disputes an oath is final for confirmation.</p>\n</div><h5>2 Corinthians 1:23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p47001023.01-2\">But I call God to witness against me—it was to spare you that I refrained from coming again to Corinth.</p>\n</div><h5>Isaiah 65:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23065016.01-3\">So that he who blesses himself in the land<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>shall bless himself by the God of truth,<br />\nand he who takes an oath in the land<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>shall swear by the God of truth;<br />\nbecause the former troubles are forgotten<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and are hidden from my eyes. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"445": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Deuteronomy 6:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p05006013.01-1\">It is the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God you shall fear. Him you shall serve and by his name you shall swear. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"444": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Exodus 20:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p02020007.01-1\">“You shall not take the name of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God in vain, for the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.</p>\n</div><h5>Leviticus 19:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p03019012.01-2\">You shall not swear by my name falsely, and so profane the name of your God: I am the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>.</p>\n</div><h5>2 Corinthians 1:23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p47001023.01-3\">But I call God to witness against me—it was to spare you that I refrained from coming again to Corinth.</p>\n</div><h5>2 Chronicles 6:22-23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p14006022.01-4\">“If a man sins against his neighbor and is made to take an oath and comes and swears his oath before your altar in this house, then hear from heaven and act and judge your servants, repaying the guilty by bringing his conduct on his own head, and vindicating the righteous by rewarding him according to his righteousness. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"458": "Matthew 19:11-12; 1 Corinthians 7:2, 9; Ephesians 4:28; 1 Peter 4:2; 1 Corinthians 7:23",
"449": "Exodus 20:7; Jeremiah 4:2",
"448": "1 Kings 8:31; Nehemiah 13:25; Ezra 10:5",
"450": "Genesis 24:2-3, 5-6, 8-9",
"451": "Jeremiah 4:2; Psalm 24:4",
"452": "1 Samuel 25:22, 32-34; Psalm 15:4",
"453": "Ezekiel 17:16, 18-19; Joshua 9:18-19; 2 Samuel 21:1",
"454": "Isaiah 19:21; Ecclesiastes 5:4-6; Psalm 61:8; Psalm 66:13-14",
"455": "Psalm 76:11; Jeremiah 44:25-26",
"456": "Deuteronomy 23:21-23; Psalm 50:14; Genesis 28:20-22; 1 Samuel 1:11; Psalm 66:13-14; Psalm 132:2-5",
"457": "Acts 23:12, 14; Mark 6:26; Numbers 30:5, 8, 12-13",
"443": "Deuteronomy 10:20",
"446": "Exodus 20:7; Jeremiah 5:7; Matthew 5:34, 37; James 5:12",
"447": "Hebrews 6:16; 2 Corinthians 1:23; Isaiah 65:16",
"445": "Deuteronomy 6:13",
"444": "Exodus 20:7; Leviticus 19:12; 2 Corinthians 1:23; 2 Chronicles 6:22-23"
},
"title": "Chapter 22: Of Lawful Oaths and Vows"
},
"23": {
"body": {
"1": "<span data-prooftexts='Romans 13:1-4; 1 Peter 2:13-14' data-prooftexts-index='459'>God, the supreme Lord and King of all the world, hath ordained civil magistrates, to be, under him, over the people, for his own glory, and the public good: and, to this end, hath armed them with the power of the sword, for the defense and encouragement of them that are good, and for the punishment of evildoers.</span>",
"3": "<span data-prooftexts='2 Chronicles 26:18' data-prooftexts-index='463'>Civil magistrates may not assume to themselves the administration of the Word and sacraments;</span><span data-prooftexts='Matthew 18:17; Matthew 16:19; 1 Corinthians 12:28-29; Ephesians 4:11; 1 Corinthians 4:1-2; Romans 10:15; Hebrews 5:4' data-prooftexts-index='464'> or the power of the keys of the kingdom of heaven;</span><span data-prooftexts='John 18:36; Acts 5:29; Ephesians 4:11-12' data-prooftexts-index='465'> or, in the least, interfere in matters of faith.</span><span data-prooftexts='Isaiah 49:23; Romans 13:1-6' data-prooftexts-index='466'> Yet, as nursing fathers, it is the duty of civil magistrates to protect the church of our common Lord, without giving the preference to any denomination of Christians above the rest, in such a manner that all ecclesiastical persons whatever shall enjoy the full, free, and unquestioned liberty of discharging every part of their sacred functions, without violence or danger.</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalm 105:15; Acts 18:14-15' data-prooftexts-index='467'> And, as Jesus Christ hath appointed a regular government and discipline in his church, no law of any commonwealth should interfere with, let, or hinder, the due exercise thereof, among the voluntary members of any denomination of Christians, according to their own profession and belief.</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 13:4; 1 Timothy 2:2' data-prooftexts-index='468'> It is the duty of civil magistrates to protect the person and good name of all their people, in such an effectual manner as that no person be suffered, either upon pretense of religion or of infidelity, to offer any indignity, violence, abuse, or injury to any other person whatsoever: and to take order, that all religious and ecclesiastical assemblies be held without molestation or disturbance.</span>",
"2": "<span data-prooftexts='Proverbs 8:15-16; Romans 13:1-2, 4' data-prooftexts-index='460'>It is lawful for Christians to accept and execute the office of a magistrate, when called thereunto:</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalm 2:10, 12; 1 Timothy 2:2; Psalm 82:3-4; 2 Samuel 23:3; 1 Peter 2:13' data-prooftexts-index='461'> in the managing whereof, as they ought especially to maintain piety, justice, and peace, according to the wholesome laws of each commonwealth;</span><span data-prooftexts='Luke 3:14; Romans 13:4; Matthew 8:9-10; Acts 10:1-2; Revelation 17:14, 16' data-prooftexts-index='462'> so, for that end, they may lawfully, now under the new testament, wage war, upon just and necessary occasion.</span>",
"4": "<span data-prooftexts='1 Timothy 2:1-2' data-prooftexts-index='469'>It is the duty of people to pray for magistrates,</span><span data-prooftexts='1 Peter 2:17' data-prooftexts-index='470'> to honor their persons,</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 13:6-7' data-prooftexts-index='471'> to pay them tribute or other dues,</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 13:5; Titus 3:1' data-prooftexts-index='472'> to obey their lawful commands, and to be subject to their authority, for conscience' sake.</span><span data-prooftexts='1 Peter 2:13-14, 16' data-prooftexts-index='473'> Infidelity, or difference in religion, doth not make void the magistrates' just and legal authority, nor free the people from their due obedience to them:</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 13:1; 1 Kings 2:35; Acts 25:9-11; 2 Peter 2:1, 10-11; Jude 8-11' data-prooftexts-index='474'> from which ecclesiastical persons are not exempted,</span><span data-prooftexts='2 Thessalonians 2:4; Revelation 13:15-17' data-prooftexts-index='475'> much less hath the pope any power and jurisdiction over them in their dominions, or over any of their people; and, least of all, to deprive them of their dominions, or lives, if he shall judge them to be heretics, or upon any other pretense whatsoever.</span>"
},
"prooftext_verses": {
"459": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 13:1-4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p45013001.05-1\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v45013001-1\">13:1 </span>Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of the one who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval, for he is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Peter 2:13-14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p60002013.04-2\">Be subject for the Lord's sake to every human institution, whether it be to the emperor as supreme, or to governors as sent by him to punish those who do evil and to praise those who do good. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"469": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Timothy 2:1-2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p54002001.05-1\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v54002001-1\">2:1 </span>First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people, for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"468": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 13:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45013004.01-1\">for he is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Timothy 2:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p54002002.01-2\">for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"465": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>John 18:36</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43018036.01-1\">Jesus answered, <span class=\"woc\">“My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would have been fighting, that I might not be delivered over to the Jews. But my kingdom is not from the world.”</span></p>\n</div><h5>Acts 5:29</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44005029.01-2\">But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.</p>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 4:11-12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49004011.01-3\">And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"464": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 18:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40018017.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.</span></p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 16:19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40016019.01-2\"><span class=\"woc\">I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.”</span></p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 12:28-29</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46012028.01-3\">And God has appointed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healing, helping, administrating, and various kinds of tongues. Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work miracles?</p>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 4:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49004011.01-4\">And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers,</p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 4:1-2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p46004001.05-5\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v46004001-5\">4:1 </span>This is how one should regard us, as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God. Moreover, it is required of stewards that they be found trustworthy.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 10:15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45010015.01-6\">And how are they to preach unless they are sent? As it is written, “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news!”</p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 5:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58005004.01-7\">And no one takes this honor for himself, but only when called by God, just as Aaron was. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"467": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 105:15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19105015.01-1\">saying, “Touch not my anointed ones,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>do my prophets no harm!”</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Acts 18:14-15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44018014.01-2\">But when Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, “If it were a matter of wrongdoing or vicious crime, O Jews, I would have reason to accept your complaint. But since it is a matter of questions about words and names and your own law, see to it yourselves. I refuse to be a judge of these things.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"466": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Isaiah 49:23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23049023.01-1\">Kings shall be your foster fathers,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and their queens your nursing mothers.<br />\nWith their faces to the ground they shall bow down to you,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and lick the dust of your feet.<br />\nThen you will know that I am the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>those who wait for me shall not be put to shame.”</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Romans 13:1-6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p45013001.05-2\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v45013001-2\">13:1 </span>Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of the one who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval, for he is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer. Therefore one must be in subjection, not only to avoid God's wrath but also for the sake of conscience. For because of this you also pay taxes, for the authorities are ministers of God, attending to this very thing. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"461": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 2:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19002010.01-1\">Now therefore, O kings, be wise;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>be warned, O rulers of the earth.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 2:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19002012.01-2\">Kiss the Son,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>lest he be angry, and you perish in the way,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for his wrath is quickly kindled.<br />\nBlessed are all who take refuge in him.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>1 Timothy 2:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p54002002.01-3\">for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way.</p>\n</div><h5>Psalm 82:3-4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19082003.01-4\">Give justice to the weak and the fatherless;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute.<br />\n Rescue the weak and the needy;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>deliver them from the hand of the wicked.”</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>2 Samuel 23:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p10023003.01-5\">The God of Israel has spoken;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>the Rock of Israel has said to me:<br />\nWhen one rules justly over men,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>ruling in the fear of God,</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>1 Peter 2:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p60002013.04-6\">Be subject for the Lord's sake to every human institution, whether it be to the emperor as supreme, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"460": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Proverbs 8:15-16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20008015.01-1\">By me kings reign,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and rulers decree what is just;<br />\n by me princes rule,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and nobles, all who govern justly.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Romans 13:1-2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p45013001.05-2\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v45013001-2\">13:1 </span>Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 13:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45013004.01-3\">for he is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"463": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>2 Chronicles 26:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p14026018.01-1\">and they withstood King Uzziah and said to him, “It is not for you, Uzziah, to burn incense to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, but for the priests, the sons of Aaron, who are consecrated to burn incense. Go out of the sanctuary, for you have done wrong, and it will bring you no honor from the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> God.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"462": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Luke 3:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42003014.01-1\">Soldiers also asked him, “And we, what shall we do?” And he said to them, “Do not extort money from anyone by threats or by false accusation, and be content with your wages.”</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 13:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45013004.01-2\">for he is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer.</p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 8:9-10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40008009.01-3\">For I too am a man under authority, with soldiers under me. And I say to one, ‘Go,’ and he goes, and to another, ‘Come,’ and he comes, and to my servant, ‘Do this,’ and he does it.” When Jesus heard this, he marveled and said to those who followed him, <span class=\"woc\">“Truly, I tell you, with no one in Israel have I found such faith.</span></p>\n</div><h5>Acts 10:1-2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p44010001.04-4\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v44010001-4\">10:1 </span>At Caesarea there was a man named Cornelius, a centurion of what was known as the Italian Cohort, a devout man who feared God with all his household, gave alms generously to the people, and prayed continually to God.</p>\n</div><h5>Revelation 17:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p66017014.01-5\">They will make war on the Lamb, and the Lamb will conquer them, for he is Lord of lords and King of kings, and those with him are called and chosen and faithful.”</p>\n</div><h5>Revelation 17:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p66017016.01-6\">And the ten horns that you saw, they and the beast will hate the prostitute. They will make her desolate and naked, and devour her flesh and burn her up with fire, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"472": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 13:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45013005.01-1\">Therefore one must be in subjection, not only to avoid God's wrath but also for the sake of conscience.</p>\n</div><h5>Titus 3:1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p56003001.07-2\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v56003001-2\">3:1 </span>Remind them to be submissive to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"473": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Peter 2:13-14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p60002013.04-1\">Be subject for the Lord's sake to every human institution, whether it be to the emperor as supreme, or to governors as sent by him to punish those who do evil and to praise those who do good.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Peter 2:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p60002016.01-2\">Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but living as servants of God. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"470": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Peter 2:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p60002017.01-1\">Honor everyone. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the emperor. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"471": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 13:6-7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45013006.01-1\">For because of this you also pay taxes, for the authorities are ministers of God, attending to this very thing. Pay to all what is owed to them: taxes to whom taxes are owed, revenue to whom revenue is owed, respect to whom respect is owed, honor to whom honor is owed. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"474": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 13:1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p45013001.05-1\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v45013001-1\">13:1 </span>Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Kings 2:35</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p11002035.01-2\">The king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada over the army in place of Joab, and the king put Zadok the priest in the place of Abiathar.</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 25:9-11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44025009.01-3\">But Festus, wishing to do the Jews a favor, said to Paul, “Do you wish to go up to Jerusalem and there be tried on these charges before me?” But Paul said, “I am standing before Caesar's tribunal, where I ought to be tried. To the Jews I have done no wrong, as you yourself know very well. If then I am a wrongdoer and have committed anything for which I deserve to die, I do not seek to escape death. But if there is nothing to their charges against me, no one can give me up to them. I appeal to Caesar.”</p>\n</div><h5>2 Peter 2:1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p61002001.05-4\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v61002001-4\">2:1 </span>But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction.</p>\n</div><h5>2 Peter 2:10-11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p61002010.01-5\">and especially those who indulge in the lust of defiling passion and despise authority.</p>\n<p id=\"p61002010.15-5\">Bold and willful, they do not tremble as they blaspheme the glorious ones, whereas angels, though greater in might and power, do not pronounce a blasphemous judgment against them before the Lord.</p>\n</div><h5>Jude 1:8-11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p65001008.01-6\">Yet in like manner these people also, relying on their dreams, defile the flesh, reject authority, and blaspheme the glorious ones. But when the archangel Michael, contending with the devil, was disputing about the body of Moses, he did not presume to pronounce a blasphemous judgment, but said, “The Lord rebuke you.” But these people blaspheme all that they do not understand, and they are destroyed by all that they, like unreasoning animals, understand instinctively. Woe to them! For they walked in the way of Cain and abandoned themselves for the sake of gain to Balaam's error and perished in Korah's rebellion. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"475": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>2 Thessalonians 2:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p53002004.01-1\">who opposes and exalts himself against every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God.</p>\n</div><h5>Revelation 13:15-17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p66013015.01-2\">And it was allowed to give breath to the image of the beast, so that the image of the beast might even speak and might cause those who would not worship the image of the beast to be slain. Also it causes all, both small and great, both rich and poor, both free and slave, to be marked on the right hand or the forehead, so that no one can buy or sell unless he has the mark, that is, the name of the beast or the number of its name. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"459": "Romans 13:1-4; 1 Peter 2:13-14",
"469": "1 Timothy 2:1-2",
"468": "Romans 13:4; 1 Timothy 2:2",
"465": "John 18:36; Acts 5:29; Ephesians 4:11-12",
"464": "Matthew 18:17; Matthew 16:19; 1 Corinthians 12:28-29; Ephesians 4:11; 1 Corinthians 4:1-2; Romans 10:15; Hebrews 5:4",
"467": "Psalm 105:15; Acts 18:14-15",
"466": "Isaiah 49:23; Romans 13:1-6",
"461": "Psalm 2:10, 12; 1 Timothy 2:2; Psalm 82:3-4; 2 Samuel 23:3; 1 Peter 2:13",
"460": "Proverbs 8:15-16; Romans 13:1-2, 4",
"463": "2 Chronicles 26:18",
"462": "Luke 3:14; Romans 13:4; Matthew 8:9-10; Acts 10:1-2; Revelation 17:14, 16",
"472": "Romans 13:5; Titus 3:1",
"473": "1 Peter 2:13-14, 16",
"470": "1 Peter 2:17",
"471": "Romans 13:6-7",
"474": "Romans 13:1; 1 Kings 2:35; Acts 25:9-11; 2 Peter 2:1, 10-11; Jude 8-11",
"475": "2 Thessalonians 2:4; Revelation 13:15-17"
},
"title": "Chapter 23: Of the Civil Magistrate"
},
"28": {
"body": {
"1": "<span data-prooftexts='Matthew 28:19' data-prooftexts-index='522'>Baptism is a sacrament of the new testament, ordained by Jesus Christ,</span><span data-prooftexts='1 Corinthians 12:13' data-prooftexts-index='523'> not only for the solemn admission of the party baptized into the visible church;</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 4:11; Colossians 2:11-12' data-prooftexts-index='524'> but also, to be unto him a sign and seal of the covenant of grace,</span><span data-prooftexts='Galatians 3:27; Romans 6:5' data-prooftexts-index='525'> of his ingrafting into Christ,</span><span data-prooftexts='Titus 3:5' data-prooftexts-index='526'> of regeneration,</span><span data-prooftexts='Mark 1:4' data-prooftexts-index='527'> of remission of sins,</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 6:3-4' data-prooftexts-index='528'> and of his giving up unto God, through Jesus Christ, to walk in newness of life.</span><span data-prooftexts='Matthew 28:19-20' data-prooftexts-index='529'> Which sacrament is, by Christ's own appointment, to be continued in his church until the end of the world.</span>",
"3": "<span data-prooftexts='Hebrews 9:10, 19-22; Acts 2:41; Acts 16:33; Mark 7:4' data-prooftexts-index='531'>Dipping of the person into the water is not necessary; but baptism is rightly administered by pouring, or sprinkling water upon the person.</span>",
"2": "<span data-prooftexts='Matthew 3:11; John 1:33; Matthew 28:19-20' data-prooftexts-index='530'>The outward element to be used in this sacrament is water, wherewith the party is to be baptized, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, by a minister of the gospel, lawfully called thereunto.</span>",
"5": "<span data-prooftexts='Luke 7:30; Exodus 4:24-26' data-prooftexts-index='534'>Although it be a great sin to contemn or neglect this ordinance,</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 4:11; Acts 10:2, 4, 22, 31, 45, 47' data-prooftexts-index='535'> yet grace and salvation are not so inseparably annexed unto it, as that no person can be regenerated, or saved, without it;</span><span data-prooftexts='Acts 8:13, 23' data-prooftexts-index='536'> or, that all that are baptized are undoubtedly regenerated.</span>",
"4": "<span data-prooftexts='Mark 16:15-16; Acts 8:37-38' data-prooftexts-index='532'>Not only those that do actually profess faith in and obedience unto Christ,</span><span data-prooftexts='Genesis 17:7, 9; Galatians 3:9, 14; Colossians 2:11-12; Acts 2:38-39; Romans 4:11-12; 1 Corinthians 7:14; Matthew 28:19; Mark 10:13-16; Luke 18:15' data-prooftexts-index='533'> but also the infants of one, or both, believing parents, are to be baptized.</span>",
"7": "<span data-prooftexts='Titus 3:5' data-prooftexts-index='539'>The sacrament of baptism is but once to be administered unto any person.</span>",
"6": "<span data-prooftexts='John 3:5, 8' data-prooftexts-index='537'>The efficacy of baptism is not tied to that moment of time wherein it is administered;</span><span data-prooftexts='Galatians 3:27; Titus 3:5; Ephesians 5:25-26; Acts 2:38, 41' data-prooftexts-index='538'> yet, notwithstanding, by the right use of this ordinance, the grace promised is not only offered, but really exhibited, and conferred, by the Holy Ghost, to such (whether of age or infants) as that grace belongeth unto, according to the counsel of God's own will, in his appointed time.</span>"
},
"prooftext_verses": {
"524": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 4:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45004011.01-1\">He received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. The purpose was to make him the father of all who believe without being circumcised, so that righteousness would be counted to them as well,</p>\n</div><h5>Colossians 2:11-12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p51002011.01-2\">In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"527": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Mark 1:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p class=\"same-paragraph\" id=\"p41001004.01-1\">John appeared, baptizing in the wilderness and proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"525": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Galatians 3:27</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p48003027.01-1\">For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 6:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45006005.01-2\">For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"523": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Corinthians 12:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46012013.01-1\">For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"526": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Titus 3:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p56003005.01-1\">he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"537": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>John 3:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43003005.01-1\">Jesus answered, <span class=\"woc\">“Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.</span></p>\n</div><h5>John 3:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43003008.01-2\"><span class=\"woc\">The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.”</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"536": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Acts 8:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44008013.01-1\">Even Simon himself believed, and after being baptized he continued with Philip. And seeing signs and great miracles performed, he was amazed.</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 8:23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44008023.01-2\">For I see that you are in the gall of bitterness and in the bond of iniquity.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"535": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 4:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45004011.01-1\">He received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. The purpose was to make him the father of all who believe without being circumcised, so that righteousness would be counted to them as well,</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 10:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44010002.01-2\">a devout man who feared God with all his household, gave alms generously to the people, and prayed continually to God.</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 10:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44010004.01-3\">And he stared at him in terror and said, “What is it, Lord?” And he said to him, “Your prayers and your alms have ascended as a memorial before God.</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 10:22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44010022.01-4\">And they said, “Cornelius, a centurion, an upright and God-fearing man, who is well spoken of by the whole Jewish nation, was directed by a holy angel to send for you to come to his house and to hear what you have to say.”</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 10:31</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44010031.01-5\">and said, ‘Cornelius, your prayer has been heard and your alms have been remembered before God.</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 10:45</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44010045.01-6\">And the believers from among the circumcised who had come with Peter were amazed, because the gift of the Holy Spirit was poured out even on the Gentiles.</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 10:47</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44010047.01-7\">“Can anyone withhold water for baptizing these people, who have received the Holy Spirit just as we have?” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"534": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Luke 7:30</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42007030.01-1\">but the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected the purpose of God for themselves, not having been baptized by him.)</p>\n</div><h5>Exodus 4:24-26</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p02004024.01-2\">At a lodging place on the way the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> met him and sought to put him to death. Then Zipporah took a flint and cut off her son's foreskin and touched Moses' feet with it and said, “Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me!” So he let him alone. It was then that she said, “A bridegroom of blood,” because of the circumcision. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"533": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Genesis 17:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p01017007.01-1\">And I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your offspring after you.</p>\n</div><h5>Genesis 17:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p01017009.01-2\">And God said to Abraham, “As for you, you shall keep my covenant, you and your offspring after you throughout their generations.</p>\n</div><h5>Galatians 3:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p48003009.01-3\">So then, those who are of faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith.</p>\n</div><h5>Galatians 3:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p48003014.01-4\">so that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles, so that we might receive the promised Spirit through faith.</p>\n</div><h5>Colossians 2:11-12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p51002011.01-5\">In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead.</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 2:38-39</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44002038.01-6\">And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. For the promise is for you and for your children and for all who are far off, everyone whom the Lord our God calls to himself.”</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 4:11-12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45004011.01-7\">He received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. The purpose was to make him the father of all who believe without being circumcised, so that righteousness would be counted to them as well, and to make him the father of the circumcised who are not merely circumcised but who also walk in the footsteps of the faith that our father Abraham had before he was circumcised.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 7:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46007014.01-8\">For the unbelieving husband is made holy because of his wife, and the unbelieving wife is made holy because of her husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but as it is, they are holy.</p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 28:19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40028019.01-9\"><span class=\"woc\">Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,</span></p>\n</div><h5>Mark 10:13-16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p41010013.07-10\">And they were bringing children to him that he might touch them, and the disciples rebuked them. But when Jesus saw it, he was indignant and said to them, <span class=\"woc\">“Let the children come to me; do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of God.</span> <span class=\"woc\">Truly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child shall not enter it.”</span> And he took them in his arms and blessed them, laying his hands on them.</p>\n</div><h5>Luke 18:15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p42018015.07-11\">Now they were bringing even infants to him that he might touch them. And when the disciples saw it, they rebuked them. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"532": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Mark 16:15-16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p41016015.01-1\">And he said to them, <span class=\"woc\">“Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation.</span> <span class=\"woc\">Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.</span></p>\n</div><h5>Acts 8:36-38</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44008036.01-2\">And as they were going along the road they came to some water, and the eunuch said, “See, here is water! What prevents me from being baptized?” And he commanded the chariot to stop, and they both went down into the water, Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"531": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Hebrews 9:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58009010.01-1\">but deal only with food and drink and various washings, regulations for the body imposed until the time of reformation.</p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 9:19-22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58009019.01-2\">For when every commandment of the law had been declared by Moses to all the people, he took the blood of calves and goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people, saying, “This is the blood of the covenant that God commanded for you.” And in the same way he sprinkled with the blood both the tent and all the vessels used in worship. Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins.</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 2:41</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44002041.01-3\">So those who received his word were baptized, and there were added that day about three thousand souls.</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 16:33</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44016033.01-4\">And he took them the same hour of the night and washed their wounds; and he was baptized at once, he and all his family.</p>\n</div><h5>Mark 7:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p41007004.01-5\">and when they come from the marketplace, they do not eat unless they wash. And there are many other traditions that they observe, such as the washing of cups and pots and copper vessels and dining couches.) (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"530": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 3:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40003011.01-1\">“I baptize you with water for repentance, but he who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.</p>\n</div><h5>John 1:33</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43001033.01-2\">I myself did not know him, but he who sent me to baptize with water said to me, ‘He on whom you see the Spirit descend and remain, this is he who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.’</p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 28:19-20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40028019.01-3\"><span class=\"woc\">Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,</span> <span class=\"woc\">teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"538": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Galatians 3:27</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p48003027.01-1\">For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.</p>\n</div><h5>Titus 3:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p56003005.01-2\">he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,</p>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 5:25-26</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49005025.01-3\">Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word,</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 2:38</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44002038.01-4\">And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 2:41</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44002041.01-5\">So those who received his word were baptized, and there were added that day about three thousand souls. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"528": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 6:3-4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45006003.01-1\">Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"529": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 28:19-20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40028019.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,</span> <span class=\"woc\">teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"539": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Titus 3:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p56003005.01-1\">he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"522": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 28:19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40028019.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"537": "John 3:5, 8",
"531": "Hebrews 9:10, 19-22; Acts 2:41; Acts 16:33; Mark 7:4",
"536": "Acts 8:13, 23",
"534": "Luke 7:30; Exodus 4:24-26",
"530": "Matthew 3:11; John 1:33; Matthew 28:19-20",
"535": "Romans 4:11; Acts 10:2, 4, 22, 31, 45, 47",
"524": "Romans 4:11; Colossians 2:11-12",
"525": "Galatians 3:27; Romans 6:5",
"526": "Titus 3:5",
"527": "Mark 1:4",
"533": "Genesis 17:7, 9; Galatians 3:9, 14; Colossians 2:11-12; Acts 2:38-39; Romans 4:11-12; 1 Corinthians 7:14; Matthew 28:19; Mark 10:13-16; Luke 18:15",
"532": "Mark 16:15-16; Acts 8:37-38",
"522": "Matthew 28:19",
"523": "1 Corinthians 12:13",
"528": "Romans 6:3-4",
"529": "Matthew 28:19-20",
"539": "Titus 3:5",
"538": "Galatians 3:27; Titus 3:5; Ephesians 5:25-26; Acts 2:38, 41"
},
"title": "Chapter 28: Of Baptism"
},
"29": {
"body": {
"1": "<span data-prooftexts='1 Corinthians 11:23-26; 1 Corinthians 10:16-17, 21; 1 Corinthians 12:13' data-prooftexts-index='540'>Our Lord Jesus, in the night wherein he was betrayed, instituted the sacrament of his body and blood, called the Lord's Supper, to be observed in his church, unto the end of the world, for the perpetual remembrance of the sacrifice of himself in his death; the sealing all benefits thereof unto true believers, their spiritual nourishment and growth in him, their further engagement in and to all duties which they owe unto him; and, to be a bond and pledge of their communion with him, and with each other, as members of his mystical body.</span>",
"3": "<span data-prooftexts='Matthew 26:26-28; Mark 14:22-24; Luke 22:19-20; 1 Corinthians 11:23-26' data-prooftexts-index='544'>The Lord Jesus hath, in this ordinance, appointed his ministers to declare his word of institution to the people; to pray, and bless the elements of bread and wine, and thereby to set them apart from a common to an holy use; and to take and break the bread, to take the cup, and (they communicating also themselves) to give both to the communicants;</span><span data-prooftexts='Acts 20:7; 1 Corinthians 11:20' data-prooftexts-index='545'> but to none who are not then present in the congregation.</span>",
"2": "<span data-prooftexts='Hebrews 9:22, 25-26, 28' data-prooftexts-index='541'>In this sacrament, Christ is not offered up to his Father; nor any real sacrifice made at all, for remission of sins of the quick or dead;</span><span data-prooftexts='1 Corinthians 11:24-26; Matthew 26:26-27' data-prooftexts-index='542'> but only a commemoration of that one offering up of himself, by himself, upon the cross, once for all: and a spiritual oblation of all possible praise unto God, for the same:</span><span data-prooftexts='Hebrews 7:23-24, 27; Hebrews 10:11-12, 14, 18' data-prooftexts-index='543'> so that the popish sacrifice of the mass (as they call it) is most abominably injurious to Christ's one, only sacrifice, the alone propitiation for all the sins of his elect.</span>",
"5": "<span data-prooftexts='Matthew 26:26-28' data-prooftexts-index='549'>The outward elements in this sacrament, duly set apart to the uses ordained by Christ, have such relation to him crucified, as that, truly, yet sacramentally only, they are sometimes called by the name of the things they represent, to wit, the body and blood of Christ;</span><span data-prooftexts='1 Corinthians 11:26-28; Matthew 26:29' data-prooftexts-index='550'> albeit, in substance and nature, they still remain truly and only bread and wine, as they were before.</span>",
"4": "<span data-prooftexts='1 Corinthians 10:6' data-prooftexts-index='546'>Private masses, or receiving this sacrament by a priest, or any other, alone;</span><span data-prooftexts='Mark 14:23; 1 Corinthians 11:25-29' data-prooftexts-index='547'> as likewise, the denial of the cup to the people,</span><span data-prooftexts='Matthew 15:9' data-prooftexts-index='548'> worshiping the elements, the lifting them up, or carrying them about, for adoration, and the reserving them for any pretended religious use; are all contrary to the nature of this sacrament, and to the institution of Christ.</span>",
"7": "<span data-prooftexts='1 Corinthians 11:28' data-prooftexts-index='552'>Worthy receivers, outwardly partaking of the visible elements, in this sacrament,</span><span data-prooftexts='1 Corinthians 10:16' data-prooftexts-index='553'> do then also, inwardly by faith, really and indeed, yet not carnally and corporally but spiritually, receive, and feed upon, Christ crucified, and all benefits of his death: the body and blood of Christ being then, not corporally or carnally, in, with, or under the bread and wine; yet, as really, but spiritually, present to the faith of believers in that ordinance, as the elements themselves are to their outward senses.</span>",
"6": "<span data-prooftexts='Acts 3:21; 1 Corinthians 11:24-26; Luke 24:6, 39' data-prooftexts-index='551'>That doctrine which maintains a change of the substance of bread and wine, into the substance of Christ's body and blood (commonly called transubstantiation) by consecration of a priest, or by any other way, is repugnant, not to Scripture alone, but even to common sense, and reason; overthroweth the nature of the sacrament, and hath been, and is, the cause of manifold superstitions; yea, of gross idolatries.</span>",
"8": "<span data-prooftexts='1 Corinthians 11:27-29; 2 Corinthians 6:14-16' data-prooftexts-index='554'>Although ignorant and wicked men receive the outward elements in this sacrament; yet, they receive not the thing signified thereby; but, by their unworthy coming thereunto, are guilty of the body and blood of the Lord, to their own damnation. Wherefore, all ignorant and ungodly persons, as they are unfit to enjoy communion with him, so are they unworthy of the Lord's table; and cannot, without great sin against Christ, while they remain such, partake of these holy mysteries,</span><span data-prooftexts='1 Corinthians 5:6-7, 13; 2 Thessalonians 3:6, 14-15; Matthew 7:6' data-prooftexts-index='555'> or be admitted thereunto.</span>"
},
"prooftext_verses": {
"555": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Corinthians 5:6-7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46005006.01-1\">Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 5:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46005013.01-2\">God judges those outside. “Purge the evil person from among you.”</p>\n</div><h5>2 Thessalonians 3:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p53003006.04-3\">Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you keep away from any brother who is walking in idleness and not in accord with the tradition that you received from us.</p>\n</div><h5>2 Thessalonians 3:14-15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p53003014.01-4\">If anyone does not obey what we say in this letter, take note of that person, and have nothing to do with him, that he may be ashamed. Do not regard him as an enemy, but warn him as a brother.</p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 7:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40007006.01-5\"><span class=\"woc\">“Do not give dogs what is holy, and do not throw your pearls before pigs, lest they trample them underfoot and turn to attack you.</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"554": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Corinthians 11:27-29</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46011027.01-1\">Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty concerning the body and blood of the Lord. Let a person examine himself, then, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup. For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment on himself.</p>\n</div><h5>2 Corinthians 6:14-16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p47006014.07-2\">Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? What accord has Christ with Belial? Or what portion does a believer share with an unbeliever? What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; as God said,</p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p47006016.22-2\">“I will make my dwelling among them and walk among them,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and I will be their God,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and they shall be my people. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"551": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Acts 3:21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44003021.01-1\">whom heaven must receive until the time for restoring all the things about which God spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets long ago.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 11:24-26</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46011024.01-2\">and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, <span class=\"woc\">“This is my body which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.”</span> In the same way also he took the cup, after supper, saying, <span class=\"woc\">“This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.”</span> For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes.</p>\n</div><h5>Luke 24:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42024006.01-3\">He is not here, but has risen. Remember how he told you, while he was still in Galilee,</p>\n</div><h5>Luke 24:39</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42024039.01-4\"><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>",
"550": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Corinthians 11:26-28</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46011026.01-1\">For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes.</p>\n <p id=\"p46011027.01-1\">Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty concerning the body and blood of the Lord. Let a person examine himself, then, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup.</p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 26:29</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40026029.01-2\"><span class=\"woc\">I tell you I will not drink again of this fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father's kingdom.”</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"553": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Corinthians 10:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46010016.01-1\">The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a participation in the blood of Christ? The bread that we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ? (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"552": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Corinthians 11:28</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46011028.01-1\">Let a person examine himself, then, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"542": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Corinthians 11:24-26</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46011024.01-1\">and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, <span class=\"woc\">“This is my body which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.”</span> In the same way also he took the cup, after supper, saying, <span class=\"woc\">“This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.”</span> For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes.</p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 26:26-27</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p40026026.06-2\">Now as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and after blessing it broke it and gave it to the disciples, and said, <span class=\"woc\">“Take, eat; this is my body.”</span> And he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he gave it to them, saying, <span class=\"woc\">“Drink of it, all of you,</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"543": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Hebrews 7:23-24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58007023.01-1\">The former priests were many in number, because they were prevented by death from continuing in office, but he holds his priesthood permanently, because he continues forever.</p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 7:27</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58007027.01-2\">He has no need, like those high priests, to offer sacrifices daily, first for his own sins and then for those of the people, since he did this once for all when he offered up himself.</p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 10:11-12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58010011.01-3\">And every priest stands daily at his service, offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God,</p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 10:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58010014.01-4\">For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified.</p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 10:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p class=\"same-paragraph\" id=\"p58010018.01-5\">Where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer any offering for sin. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"540": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Corinthians 11:23-26</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46011023.01-1\">For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, <span class=\"woc\">“This is my body which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.”</span> In the same way also he took the cup, after supper, saying, <span class=\"woc\">“This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.”</span> For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 10:16-17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46010016.01-2\">The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a participation in the blood of Christ? The bread that we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ? Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 10:21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46010021.01-3\">You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot partake of the table of the Lord and the table of demons.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 12:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46012013.01-4\">For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"541": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Hebrews 9:22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58009022.01-1\">Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins.</p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 9:25-26</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58009025.01-2\">Nor was it to offer himself repeatedly, as the high priest enters the holy places every year with blood not his own, for then he would have had to suffer repeatedly since the foundation of the world. But as it is, he has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.</p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 9:28</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58009028.01-3\">so Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"546": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Corinthians 10:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46010006.01-1\">Now these things took place as examples for us, that we might not desire evil as they did. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"547": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Mark 14:23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p41014023.01-1\">And he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he gave it to them, and they all drank of it.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 11:25-29</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46011025.01-2\">In the same way also he took the cup, after supper, saying, <span class=\"woc\">“This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.”</span> For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes.</p>\n <p id=\"p46011027.01-2\">Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty concerning the body and blood of the Lord. Let a person examine himself, then, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup. For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment on himself. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"544": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 26:26-28</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p40026026.06-1\">Now as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and after blessing it broke it and gave it to the disciples, and said, <span class=\"woc\">“Take, eat; this is my body.”</span> And he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he gave it to them, saying, <span class=\"woc\">“Drink of it, all of you,</span> <span class=\"woc\">for this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.</span></p>\n</div><h5>Mark 14:22-24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p41014022.06-2\">And as they were eating, he took bread, and after blessing it broke it and gave it to them, and said, <span class=\"woc\">“Take; this is my body.”</span> And he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he gave it to them, and they all drank of it. And he said to them, <span class=\"woc\">“This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many.</span></p>\n</div><h5>Luke 22:19-20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42022019.01-3\">And he took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to them, saying, <span class=\"woc\">“This is my body, which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.”</span> And likewise the cup after they had eaten, saying, <span class=\"woc\">“This cup that is poured out for you is the new covenant in my blood.</span></p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 11:23-26</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46011023.01-4\">For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, <span class=\"woc\">“This is my body which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.”</span> In the same way also he took the cup, after supper, saying, <span class=\"woc\">“This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.”</span> For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"545": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Acts 20:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p44020007.06-1\">On the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to break bread, Paul talked with them, intending to depart on the next day, and he prolonged his speech until midnight.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 11:20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46011020.01-2\">When you come together, it is not the Lord's supper that you eat. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"548": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 15:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p40015009.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">in vain do they worship me,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’”</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"549": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 26:26-28</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p40026026.06-1\">Now as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and after blessing it broke it and gave it to the disciples, and said, <span class=\"woc\">“Take, eat; this is my body.”</span> And he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he gave it to them, saying, <span class=\"woc\">“Drink of it, all of you,</span> <span class=\"woc\">for this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"555": "1 Corinthians 5:6-7, 13; 2 Thessalonians 3:6, 14-15; Matthew 7:6",
"554": "1 Corinthians 11:27-29; 2 Corinthians 6:14-16",
"551": "Acts 3:21; 1 Corinthians 11:24-26; Luke 24:6, 39",
"550": "1 Corinthians 11:26-28; Matthew 26:29",
"553": "1 Corinthians 10:16",
"552": "1 Corinthians 11:28",
"542": "1 Corinthians 11:24-26; Matthew 26:26-27",
"543": "Hebrews 7:23-24, 27; Hebrews 10:11-12, 14, 18",
"540": "1 Corinthians 11:23-26; 1 Corinthians 10:16-17, 21; 1 Corinthians 12:13",
"541": "Hebrews 9:22, 25-26, 28",
"546": "1 Corinthians 10:6",
"547": "Mark 14:23; 1 Corinthians 11:25-29",
"544": "Matthew 26:26-28; Mark 14:22-24; Luke 22:19-20; 1 Corinthians 11:23-26",
"545": "Acts 20:7; 1 Corinthians 11:20",
"548": "Matthew 15:9",
"549": "Matthew 26:26-28"
},
"title": "Chapter 29: Of the Lord's Supper"
},
"1": {
"body": {
"10": "<span data-prooftexts='Matthew 22:29, 31; Ephesians 2:20; Acts 28:25' data-prooftexts-index='24'>The supreme judge by which all controversies of religion are to be determined, and all decrees of councils, opinions of ancient writers, doctrines of men, and private spirits, are to be examined, and in whose sentence we are to rest, can be no other but the Holy Spirit speaking in the Scripture.</span>",
"1": "<span data-prooftexts='Romans 2:14-15; Romans 1:19-20; Psalm 19:1-3; Romans 1:32; Romans 2:1' data-prooftexts-index='1'>Although the light of nature, and the works of creation and providence do so far manifest the goodness, wisdom, and power of God, as to leave men unexcusable;</span><span data-prooftexts='1 Corinthians 1:21; 1 Corinthians 2:13-14' data-prooftexts-index='2'> yet are they not sufficient to give that knowledge of God, and of his will, which is necessary unto salvation.</span><span data-prooftexts='Hebrews 1:1' data-prooftexts-index='3'> Therefore it pleased the Lord, at sundry times, and in divers manners, to reveal himself, and to declare that his will unto his church;</span><span data-prooftexts='Proverbs 22:19-21; Luke 1:3-4; Romans 15:4; Matthew 4:4, 7, 10; Isaiah 8:19, 20' data-prooftexts-index='4'> and afterwards, for the better preserving and propagating of the truth, and for the more sure establishment and comfort of the church against the corruption of the flesh, and the malice of Satan and of the world, to commit the same wholly unto writing:</span><span data-prooftexts='2 Timothy 3:15; 2 Peter 1:19' data-prooftexts-index='5'> which maketh the Holy Scripture to be most necessary;</span><span data-prooftexts='Hebrews 1:1-2' data-prooftexts-index='6'> those former ways of God's revealing his will unto his people being now ceased.</span>",
"3": "<span data-prooftexts='Luke 24:27, 44; Romans 3:2; 2 Peter 1:21' data-prooftexts-index='8'>The books commonly called Apocrypha, not being of divine inspiration, are no part of the canon of the Scripture, and therefore are of no authority in the church of God, nor to be any otherwise approved, or made use of, than other human writings.</span>",
"2": "<span data-prooftexts='Luke 16:29, 31; Ephesians 2:20; Revelation 22:18-19; 2 Timothy 3:16' data-prooftexts-index='7'>Under the name of Holy Scripture, or the Word of God written, are now contained all the books of the Old and New Testaments, which are these: <p><b>Of the Old Testament:</b></p><center><table class=\"wcf\" cellspacing=\"1\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"90%\" border=\"0\"><tbody><tr><td valign=top width=\"33%\">Genesis</td><td valign=top width=\"33%\">II Chronicles</td><td valign=top width=\"33%\">Daniel</td></tr><tr><td valign=top width=\"33%\">Exodus</td><td valign=top width=\"33%\">Ezra</td><td valign=top width=\"33%\">Hosea</td></tr><tr><td valign=top width=\"33%\">Leviticus</td><td valign=top width=\"33%\">Nehemiah</td><td valign=top width=\"33%\">Joel</td></tr><tr><td valign=top width=\"33%\">Numbers</td><td valign=top width=\"33%\">Esther</td><td valign=top width=\"33%\">Amos</td></tr><tr><td valign=top width=\"33%\">Deuteronomy</td><td valign=top width=\"33%\">Job</td><td valign=top width=\"33%\">Obadiah</td></tr><tr><td valign=top width=\"33%\">Joshua</td><td valign=top width=\"33%\">Psalms</td><td valign=top width=\"33%\">Jonah</td></tr><tr><td valign=top width=\"33%\">Judges</td><td valign=top width=\"33%\">Proverbs</td><td valign=top width=\"33%\">Micah</td></tr><tr><td valign=top width=\"33%\">Ruth</td><td valign=top width=\"33%\">Ecclesiastes</td><td valign=top width=\"33%\">Nahum</td></tr><tr><td valign=top width=\"33%\">I Samuel</td><td valign=top width=\"33%\">The Song of Songs</td><td valign=top width=\"33%\">Habakkuk</td></tr><tr><td valign=top width=\"33%\">II Samuel</td><td valign=top width=\"33%\">Isaiah</td><td valign=top width=\"33%\">Zephaniah</td></tr><tr><td valign=top width=\"33%\">I Kings</td><td valign=top width=\"33%\">Jeremiah</td><td valign=top width=\"33%\">Haggai</td></tr><tr><td valign=top width=\"33%\">II Kings</td><td valign=top width=\"33%\">Lamentations</td><td valign=top width=\"33%\">Zechariah</td></tr><tr><td valign=top width=\"33%\">I Chronicles</td><td valign=top width=\"33%\">Ezekiel</td><td valign=top width=\"33%\">Malachi</td></tr></tbody></table></center></p><p><b>Of the New Testament:</b></p><center><table class=\"wcf\" cellspacing=\"1\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"90%\" border=\"0\"><tbody><tr><td valign=top width=\"33%\">The Gospels</td><td valign=top width=\"33%\"> Galatians</td><td valign=top width=\"33%\">The Epistle</td></tr><tr><td valign=top width=\"33%\"> according to</td><td valign=top width=\"33%\"> Ephesians</td><td valign=top width=\"33%\"> of James</td></tr><tr><td valign=top width=\"33%\"> Matthew</td><td valign=top width=\"33%\"> Philippians</td><td valign=top width=\"33%\">The first and</td></tr><tr><td valign=top width=\"33%\"> Mark</td><td valign=top width=\"33%\"> Colossians</td><td valign=top width=\"33%\"> second Epistles</td></tr><tr><td valign=top width=\"33%\"> Luke</td><td valign=top width=\"33%\"> Thessalonians I</td><td valign=top width=\"33%\"> of Peter</td></tr><tr><td valign=top width=\"33%\"> John</td><td valign=top width=\"33%\"> Thessalonians II</td><td valign=top width=\"33%\">The first, second,</td></tr><tr><td valign=top width=\"33%\">The Acts of the</td><td valign=top width=\"33%\"> to Timothy I</td><td valign=top width=\"33%\"> and third Epistles</td></tr><tr><td valign=top width=\"33%\"> Apostles</td><td valign=top width=\"33%\"> to Timothy II</td><td valign=top width=\"33%\"> of John</td></tr><tr><td valign=top width=\"33%\">Paul's Epistles</td><td valign=top width=\"33%\"> to Titus</td><td valign=top width=\"33%\">The Epistle</td></tr><tr><td valign=top width=\"33%\"> to the Romans</td><td valign=top width=\"33%\"> to Philemon</td><td valign=top width=\"33%\"> of Jude</td></tr><tr><td valign=top width=\"33%\"> Corinthians I</td><td valign=top width=\"33%\">The Epistle to</td><td valign=top width=\"33%\">The Revelation</td></tr><tr><td valign=top width=\"33%\"> Corinthians II</td><td valign=top width=\"33%\"> the Hebrews</td><td valign=top width=\"33%\"> of John</td></tr></tbody></table></center></p> All which are given by inspiration of God to be the rule of faith and life.</span>",
"5": "<span data-prooftexts='1 Timothy 3:15' data-prooftexts-index='10'>We may be moved and induced by the testimony of the church to an high and reverent esteem of the Holy Scripture.</span><span data-prooftexts='1 John 2:20, 27; John 16:13-14; 1 Corinthians 2:10-12; Isaiah 59:21' data-prooftexts-index='11'> And the heavenliness of the matter, the efficacy of the doctrine, the majesty of the style, the consent of all the parts, the scope of the whole (which is, to give all glory to God), the full discovery it makes of the only way of man's salvation, the many other incomparable excellencies, and the entire perfection thereof, are arguments whereby it doth abundantly evidence itself to be the Word of God: yet notwithstanding, our full persuasion and assurance of the infallible truth and divine authority thereof, is from the inward work of the Holy Spirit bearing witness by and with the Word in our hearts.</span>",
"4": "<span data-prooftexts='2 Peter 1:19, 21; 2 Timothy 3:16; 1 John 5:9; 1 Thessalonians 2:13' data-prooftexts-index='9'>The authority of the Holy Scripture, for which it ought to be believed, and obeyed, dependeth not upon the testimony of any man, or church; but wholly upon God (who is truth itself) the author thereof: and therefore it is to be received, because it is the Word of God.</span>",
"7": "<span data-prooftexts='2 Peter 3:16' data-prooftexts-index='15'>All things in Scripture are not alike plain in themselves, nor alike clear unto all:</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalm 119:105, 130' data-prooftexts-index='16'> yet those things which are necessary to be known, believed, and observed for salvation, are so clearly propounded, and opened in some place of Scripture or other, that not only the learned, but the unlearned, in a due use of the ordinary means, may attain unto a sufficient understanding of them.</span>",
"6": "<span data-prooftexts='2 Timothy 3:15-17; Galatians 1:8-9; 2 Thessalonians 2:2' data-prooftexts-index='12'>The whole counsel of God concerning all things necessary for his own glory, man's salvation, faith and life, is either expressly set down in Scripture, or by good and necessary consequence may be deduced from Scripture: unto which nothing at any time is to be added, whether by new revelations of the Spirit, or traditions of men.</span><span data-prooftexts='John 6:45; 1 Corinthians 2:9-12' data-prooftexts-index='13'> Nevertheless, we acknowledge the inward illumination of the Spirit of God to be necessary for the saving understanding of such things as are revealed in the Word:</span><span data-prooftexts='1 Corinthians 11:13-14; 1 Corinthians 14:26, 40' data-prooftexts-index='14'> and that there are some circumstances concerning the worship of God, and government of the church, common to human actions and societies, which are to be ordered by the light of nature, and Christian prudence, according to the general rules of the Word, which are always to be observed.</span>",
"9": "<span data-prooftexts='2 Peter 1:20-21; Acts 15:15-16' data-prooftexts-index='23'>The infallible rule of interpretation of Scripture is the Scripture itself: and therefore, when there is a question about the true and full sense of any Scripture (which is not manifold, but one), it must be searched and known by other places that speak more clearly.</span>",
"8": "<span data-prooftexts='Matthew 5:18' data-prooftexts-index='17'>The Old Testament in Hebrew (which was the native language of the people of God of old), and the New Testament in Greek (which, at the time of the writing of it, was most generally known to the nations), being immediately inspired by God, and, by his singular care and providence, kept pure in all ages, are therefore authentical;</span><span data-prooftexts='Isaiah 8:20; Acts 15:15; John 5:39, 46' data-prooftexts-index='18'> so as, in all controversies of religion, the church is finally to appeal unto them.</span><span data-prooftexts='John 5:39' data-prooftexts-index='19'> But, because these original tongues are not known to all the people of God, who have right unto, and interest in the Scriptures, and are commanded, in the fear of God, to read and search them,</span><span data-prooftexts='1 Corinthians 14:6, 9, 11-12, 24, 27-28' data-prooftexts-index='20'> therefore they are to be translated into the vulgar language of every nation unto which they come,</span><span data-prooftexts='Colossians 3:16' data-prooftexts-index='21'> that, the Word of God dwelling plentifully in all, they may worship him in an acceptable manner;</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 15:4' data-prooftexts-index='22'> and, through patience and comfort of the Scriptures, may have hope.</span>"
},
"prooftext_verses": {
"24": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 22:29</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40022029.01-1\">But Jesus answered them, <span class=\"woc\">“You are wrong, because you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God.</span></p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 22:31</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40022031.01-2\"><span class=\"woc\">And as for the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was said to you by God:</span></p>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 2:20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49002020.01-3\">built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone,</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 28:25</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44028025.01-4\">And disagreeing among themselves, they departed after Paul had made one statement: “The Holy Spirit was right in saying to your fathers through Isaiah the prophet: (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"20": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Corinthians 14:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46014006.01-1\">Now, brothers, if I come to you speaking in tongues, how will I benefit you unless I bring you some revelation or knowledge or prophecy or teaching?</p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 14:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46014009.01-2\">So with yourselves, if with your tongue you utter speech that is not intelligible, how will anyone know what is said? For you will be speaking into the air.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 14:11-12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46014011.01-3\">but if I do not know the meaning of the language, I will be a foreigner to the speaker and the speaker a foreigner to me. So with yourselves, since you are eager for manifestations of the Spirit, strive to excel in building up the church.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 14:24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46014024.01-4\">But if all prophesy, and an unbeliever or outsider enters, he is convicted by all, he is called to account by all,</p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 14:27-28</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46014027.01-5\">If any speak in a tongue, let there be only two or at most three, and each in turn, and let someone interpret. But if there is no one to interpret, let each of them keep silent in church and speak to himself and to God. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"21": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Colossians 3:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p51003016.01-1\">Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"22": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 15:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45015004.01-1\">For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"23": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>2 Peter 1:20-21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p61001020.01-1\">knowing this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture comes from someone's own interpretation. For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 15:15-16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44015015.01-2\">And with this the words of the prophets agree, just as it is written,</p>\n <div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p44015016.01-2\">“‘After this I will return,<br />\nand I will rebuild the tent of David that has fallen;<br />\nI will rebuild its ruins,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span> and I will restore it, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 2:14-15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45002014.01-1\">For when Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law. They show that the work of the law is written on their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness, and their conflicting thoughts accuse or even excuse them</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 1:19-20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45001019.01-2\">For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.</p>\n</div><h5>Psalm 19:1-3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19019001.15-3\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v19019001-3\">19:1 </span>The heavens declare the glory of God,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and the sky above proclaims his handiwork.<br />\n Day to day pours out speech,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and night to night reveals knowledge.<br />\n There is no speech, nor are there words,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>whose voice is not heard.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Romans 1:32</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45001032.01-4\">Though they know God's decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 2:1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p45002001.04-5\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v45002001-5\">2:1 </span>Therefore you have no excuse, O man, every one of you who judges. For in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"3": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Hebrews 1:1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p class=\"chapter-first\" id=\"p58001001.06-1\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v58001001-1\">1:1 </span>Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"2": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Corinthians 1:21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46001021.01-1\">For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 2:13-14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46002013.01-2\">And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual.</p>\n <p id=\"p46002014.01-2\">The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"5": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>2 Timothy 3:15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p55003015.01-1\">and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.</p>\n</div><h5>2 Peter 1:19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p61001019.01-2\">And we have the prophetic word more fully confirmed, to which you will do well to pay attention as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"4": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Proverbs 22:19-21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20022019.01-1\">That your trust may be in the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I have made them known to you today, even to you.<br />\n Have I not written for you thirty sayings<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>of counsel and knowledge,<br />\n to make you know what is right and true,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that you may give a true answer to those who sent you?</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Luke 1:3-4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42001003.01-2\">it seemed good to me also, having followed all things closely for some time past, to write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus, that you may have certainty concerning the things you have been taught.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 15:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45015004.01-3\">For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.</p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 4:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40004004.01-4\">But he answered, <span class=\"woc\">“It is written,</span></p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p40004004.07-4\"><span class=\"woc\">“‘Man shall not live by bread alone,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”</span></p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Matthew 4:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p class=\"same-paragraph\" id=\"p40004007.01-5\">Jesus said to him, <span class=\"woc\">“Again it is written, ‘You shall not put the Lord your God to the test.’”</span></p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 4:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40004010.01-6\">Then Jesus said to him, <span class=\"woc\">“Be gone, Satan! For it is written,</span></p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p40004010.13-6\"><span class=\"woc\">“‘You shall worship the Lord your God<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and him only shall you serve.’”</span></p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Isaiah 8:19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p23008019.01-7\">And when they say to you, “Inquire of the mediums and the necromancers who chirp and mutter,” should not a people inquire of their God? Should they inquire of the dead on behalf of the living?</p>\n</div><h5>Isaiah 8:20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p23008020.01-8\">To the teaching and to the testimony! If they will not speak according to this word, it is because they have no dawn. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"7": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Luke 16:29</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42016029.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">But Abraham said, ‘They have Moses and the Prophets; let them hear them.’</span></p>\n</div><h5>Luke 16:31</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42016031.01-2\"><span class=\"woc\">He said to him, ‘If they do not hear Moses and the Prophets, neither will they be convinced if someone should rise from the dead.’”</span></p>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 2:20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49002020.01-3\">built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone,</p>\n</div><h5>Revelation 22:18-19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p66022018.01-4\">I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: if anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book, and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his share in the tree of life and in the holy city, which are described in this book.</p>\n</div><h5>2 Timothy 3:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p55003016.01-5\">All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"6": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Hebrews 1:1-2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p class=\"chapter-first\" id=\"p58001001.06-1\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v58001001-1\">1:1 </span>Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"9": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>2 Peter 1:19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p61001019.01-1\">And we have the prophetic word more fully confirmed, to which you will do well to pay attention as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts,</p>\n</div><h5>2 Peter 1:21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p61001021.01-2\">For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.</p>\n</div><h5>2 Timothy 3:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p55003016.01-3\">All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,</p>\n</div><h5>1 John 5:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p62005009.01-4\">If we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater, for this is the testimony of God that he has borne concerning his Son.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Thessalonians 2:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p52002013.01-5\">And we also thank God constantly for this, that when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men but as what it really is, the word of God, which is at work in you believers. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"8": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Luke 24:27</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42024027.01-1\">And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.</p>\n</div><h5>Luke 24:44</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42024044.01-2\">Then he said to them, <span class=\"woc\">“These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled.”</span></p>\n</div><h5>Romans 3:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45003002.01-3\">Much in every way. To begin with, the Jews were entrusted with the oracles of God.</p>\n</div><h5>2 Peter 1:21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p61001021.01-4\">For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"11": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 John 2:20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p62002020.01-1\">But you have been anointed by the Holy One, and you all have knowledge.</p>\n</div><h5>1 John 2:27</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p62002027.01-2\">But the anointing that you received from him abides in you, and you have no need that anyone should teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about everything, and is true, and is no lie—just as it has taught you, abide in him.</p>\n</div><h5>John 16:13-14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43016013.01-3\"><span class=\"woc\">When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.</span> <span class=\"woc\">He will glorify me, for he will take what is mine and declare it to you.</span></p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 2:10-12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p class=\"same-paragraph\" id=\"p46002010.01-4\">these things God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God. For who knows a person's thoughts except the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God.</p>\n</div><h5>Isaiah 59:21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p class=\"same-paragraph\" id=\"p23059021.01-5\">“And as for me, this is my covenant with them,” says the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>: “My Spirit that is upon you, and my words that I have put in your mouth, shall not depart out of your mouth, or out of the mouth of your offspring, or out of the mouth of your children's offspring,” says the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, “from this time forth and forevermore.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"10": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Timothy 3:15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p54003015.01-1\">if I delay, you may know how one ought to behave in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, a pillar and buttress of the truth. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"13": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>John 6:45</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43006045.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">It is written in the Prophets, ‘And they will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to me—</span></p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 2:9-12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46002009.01-2\">But, as it is written,</p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p46002009.06-2\">“What no eye has seen, nor ear heard,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>nor the heart of man imagined,<br />\nwhat God has prepared for those who love him”—</p>\n</div>\n <p class=\"same-paragraph\" id=\"p46002010.01-2\">these things God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God. For who knows a person's thoughts except the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"12": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>2 Timothy 3:15-17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p55003015.01-1\">and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work.</p>\n</div><h5>Galatians 1:8-9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p48001008.01-2\">But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be accursed. As we have said before, so now I say again: If anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to the one you received, let him be accursed.</p>\n</div><h5>2 Thessalonians 2:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p53002002.01-3\">not to be quickly shaken in mind or alarmed, either by a spirit or a spoken word, or a letter seeming to be from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord has come. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"15": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>2 Peter 3:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p61003016.01-1\">as he does in all his letters when he speaks in them of these matters. There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"14": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Corinthians 11:13-14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46011013.01-1\">Judge for yourselves: is it proper for a wife to pray to God with her head uncovered? Does not nature itself teach you that if a man wears long hair it is a disgrace for him,</p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 14:26</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p46014026.03-2\">What then, brothers? When you come together, each one has a hymn, a lesson, a revelation, a tongue, or an interpretation. Let all things be done for building up.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 14:40</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46014040.01-3\">But all things should be done decently and in order. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"17": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 5:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40005018.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished.</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"16": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 119:105</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119105.02-1\">Your word is a lamp to my feet<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and a light to my path.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 119:130</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119130.01-2\">The unfolding of your words gives light;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>it imparts understanding to the simple. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"19": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>John 5:39</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43005039.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me,</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"18": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Isaiah 8:20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p23008020.01-1\">To the teaching and to the testimony! If they will not speak according to this word, it is because they have no dawn.</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 15:15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44015015.01-2\">And with this the words of the prophets agree, just as it is written,</p>\n</div><h5>John 5:39</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43005039.01-3\"><span class=\"woc\">You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me,</span></p>\n</div><h5>John 5:46</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43005046.01-4\"><span class=\"woc\">For if you believed Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote of me.</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"24": "Matthew 22:29, 31; Ephesians 2:20; Acts 28:25",
"20": "1 Corinthians 14:6, 9, 11-12, 24, 27-28",
"21": "Colossians 3:16",
"22": "Romans 15:4",
"23": "2 Peter 1:20-21; Acts 15:15-16",
"1": "Romans 2:14-15; Romans 1:19-20; Psalm 19:1-3; Romans 1:32; Romans 2:1",
"3": "Hebrews 1:1",
"2": "1 Corinthians 1:21; 1 Corinthians 2:13-14",
"5": "2 Timothy 3:15; 2 Peter 1:19",
"4": "Proverbs 22:19-21; Luke 1:3-4; Romans 15:4; Matthew 4:4, 7, 10; Isaiah 8:19, 20",
"7": "Luke 16:29, 31; Ephesians 2:20; Revelation 22:18-19; 2 Timothy 3:16",
"6": "Hebrews 1:1-2",
"9": "2 Peter 1:19, 21; 2 Timothy 3:16; 1 John 5:9; 1 Thessalonians 2:13",
"8": "Luke 24:27, 44; Romans 3:2; 2 Peter 1:21",
"11": "1 John 2:20, 27; John 16:13-14; 1 Corinthians 2:10-12; Isaiah 59:21",
"10": "1 Timothy 3:15",
"13": "John 6:45; 1 Corinthians 2:9-12",
"12": "2 Timothy 3:15-17; Galatians 1:8-9; 2 Thessalonians 2:2",
"15": "2 Peter 3:16",
"14": "1 Corinthians 11:13-14; 1 Corinthians 14:26, 40",
"17": "Matthew 5:18",
"16": "Psalm 119:105, 130",
"19": "John 5:39",
"18": "Isaiah 8:20; Acts 15:15; John 5:39, 46"
},
"title": "Chapter 1: Of the Holy Scripture"
},
"3": {
"body": {
"1": "<span data-prooftexts='Ephesians 1:11; Romans 11:33; Hebrews 6:17; Romans 9:15, 18' data-prooftexts-index='65'>God, from all eternity, did, by the most wise and holy counsel of his own will, freely, and unchangeably ordain whatsoever comes to pass:</span><span data-prooftexts='James 1:13, 17; 1 John 1:5' data-prooftexts-index='66'> yet so, as thereby neither is God the author of sin,</span><span data-prooftexts='Acts 2:23; Matthew 17:12; Acts 4:27-28; John 19:11; Proverbs 16:33' data-prooftexts-index='67'> nor is violence offered to the will of the creatures; nor is the liberty or contingency of second causes taken away, but rather established.</span>",
"3": "<span data-prooftexts='1 Timothy 5:21; Matthew 25:41' data-prooftexts-index='70'>By the decree of God, for the manifestation of his glory, some men and angels</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 9:22-23; Ephesians 1:5-6; Proverbs 16:4' data-prooftexts-index='71'> are predestinated unto everlasting life; and others foreordained to everlasting death.</span>",
"2": "<span data-prooftexts='Acts 15:18; 1 Samuel 23:11-12; Matthew 11:21, 23' data-prooftexts-index='68'>Although God knows whatsoever may or can come to pass upon all supposed conditions,</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 9:11, 13, 16, 18' data-prooftexts-index='69'> yet hath he not decreed anything because he foresaw it as future, or as that which would come to pass upon such conditions.</span>",
"5": "<span data-prooftexts='Ephesians 1:4, 9, 11; Romans 8:30; 2 Timothy 1:9; 1 Thessalonians 5:9' data-prooftexts-index='73'>Those of mankind that are predestinated unto life, God, before the foundation of the world was laid, according to his eternal and immutable purpose, and the secret counsel and good pleasure of his will, hath chosen, in Christ, unto everlasting glory,</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 9:11, 13, 16; Ephesians 1:4, 9' data-prooftexts-index='74'> out of his mere free grace and love, without any foresight of faith, or good works, or perseverance in either of them, or any other thing in the creature, as conditions, or causes moving him thereunto;</span><span data-prooftexts='Ephesians 1:6, 12' data-prooftexts-index='75'> and all to the praise of his glorious grace.</span>",
"4": "<span data-prooftexts='2 Timothy 2:19; John 13:18' data-prooftexts-index='72'>These angels and men, thus predestinated, and foreordained, are particularly and unchangeably designed, and their number so certain and definite, that it cannot be either increased or diminished.</span>",
"7": "<span data-prooftexts='Matthew 11:25-26; Romans 9:17-18, 21-22; 2 Timothy 2:19-20; Jude 4; 1 Peter 2:8' data-prooftexts-index='81'>The rest of mankind God was pleased, according to the unsearchable counsel of his own will, whereby he extendeth or withholdeth mercy, as he pleaseth, for the glory of his sovereign power over his creatures, to pass by; and to ordain them to dishonor and wrath for their sin, to the praise of his glorious justice.</span>",
"6": "<span data-prooftexts='1 Peter 1:2; Ephesians 1:4, 5; Ephesians 2:10; 2 Thessalonians 2:13' data-prooftexts-index='76'>As God hath appointed the elect unto glory, so hath he, by the eternal and most free purpose of his will, foreordained all the means thereunto.</span><span data-prooftexts='1 Thessalonians 5:9-10; Titus 2:14' data-prooftexts-index='77'> Wherefore, they who are elected, being fallen in Adam, are redeemed by Christ,</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 8:30; Ephesians 1:5; 2 Thessalonians 2:13' data-prooftexts-index='78'> are effectually called unto faith in Christ by his Spirit working in due season, are justified, adopted, sanctified,</span><span data-prooftexts='1 Peter 1:5' data-prooftexts-index='79'> and kept by his power, through faith, unto salvation.</span><span data-prooftexts='John 17:9; Romans 8:28; John 6:64-65; John 10:26; John 8:47; 1 John 2:19' data-prooftexts-index='80'> Neither are any other redeemed by Christ, effectually called, justified, adopted, sanctified, and saved, but the elect only.</span>",
"8": "<span data-prooftexts='Romans 9:20; Romans 11:33; Deuteronomy 29:29' data-prooftexts-index='82'>The doctrine of this high mystery of predestination is to be handled with special prudence and care,</span><span data-prooftexts='2 Peter 1:10' data-prooftexts-index='83'> that men, attending the will of God revealed in his Word, and yielding obedience thereunto, may, from the certainty of their effectual vocation, be assured of their eternal election.</span><span data-prooftexts='Ephesians 1:6; Romans 11:33' data-prooftexts-index='84'> So shall this doctrine afford matter of praise, reverence, and admiration of God;</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 11:5-6, 20; 2 Peter 1:10; Romans 8:33; Luke 10:20' data-prooftexts-index='85'> and of humility, diligence, and abundant consolation to all that sincerely obey the gospel.</span>"
},
"prooftext_verses": {
"72": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>2 Timothy 2:19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p55002019.01-1\">But God's firm foundation stands, bearing this seal: “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Let everyone who names the name of the Lord depart from iniquity.”</p>\n</div><h5>John 13:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43013018.01-2\"><span class=\"woc\">I am not speaking of all of you; I know whom I have chosen. But the Scripture will be fulfilled, ‘He who ate my bread has lifted his heel against me.’</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"66": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>James 1:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p59001013.01-1\">Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am being tempted by God,” for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempts no one.</p>\n</div><h5>James 1:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p59001017.01-2\">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>1 John 1:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p62001005.05-3\">This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"79": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Peter 1:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p60001005.01-1\">who by God's power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"70": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Timothy 5:21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p54005021.01-1\">In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus and of the elect angels I charge you to keep these rules without prejudging, doing nothing from partiality.</p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 25:41</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40025041.01-2\"><span class=\"woc\">“Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"85": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 11:5-6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45011005.01-1\">So too at the present time there is a remnant, chosen by grace. But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works; otherwise grace would no longer be grace.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 11:20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45011020.01-2\">That is true. They were broken off because of their unbelief, but you stand fast through faith. So do not become proud, but fear.</p>\n</div><h5>2 Peter 1:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p61001010.01-3\">Therefore, brothers, be all the more diligent to make your calling and election sure, for if you practice these qualities you will never fall.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 8:33</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45008033.01-4\">Who shall bring any charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies.</p>\n</div><h5>Luke 10:20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42010020.01-5\"><span class=\"woc\">Nevertheless, do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.”</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"77": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Thessalonians 5:9-10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p52005009.01-1\">For God has not destined us for wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us so that whether we are awake or asleep we might live with him.</p>\n</div><h5>Titus 2:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p56002014.01-2\">who gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"76": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Peter 1:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p60001002.01-1\">according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in the sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience to Jesus Christ and for sprinkling with his blood:</p>\n<p id=\"p60001002.26-1\">May grace and peace be multiplied to you.</p>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 1:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49001004.01-2\">even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love</p>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 1:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49001005.01-3\">he predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will,</p>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 2:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49002010.01-4\">For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.</p>\n</div><h5>2 Thessalonians 2:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p53002013.03-5\">But we ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers beloved by the Lord, because God chose you as the firstfruits to be saved, through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"75": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ephesians 1:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49001006.01-1\">to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved.</p>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 1:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49001012.01-2\">so that we who were the first to hope in Christ might be to the praise of his glory. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"74": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 9:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45009011.01-1\">though they were not yet born and had done nothing either good or bad—in order that God's purpose of election might continue, not because of works but because of him who calls—</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 9:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45009013.01-2\">As it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 9:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45009016.01-3\">So then it depends not on human will or exertion, but on God, who has mercy.</p>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 1:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49001004.01-4\">even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love</p>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 1:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49001009.01-5\">making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his purpose, which he set forth in Christ (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"73": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ephesians 1:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49001004.01-1\">even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love</p>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 1:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49001009.01-2\">making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his purpose, which he set forth in Christ</p>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 1:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49001011.01-3\">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,</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 8:30</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45008030.01-4\">And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified.</p>\n</div><h5>2 Timothy 1:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p55001009.01-5\">who saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works but because of his own purpose and grace, which he gave us in Christ Jesus before the ages began,</p>\n</div><h5>1 Thessalonians 5:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p52005009.01-6\">For God has not destined us for wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"65": "<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,</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 11:33</h5>\n<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>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 6:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58006017.01-3\">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,</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 9:15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45009015.01-4\">For he says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 9:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45009018.01-5\">So then he has mercy on whomever he wills, and he hardens whomever he wills. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"71": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 9:22-23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45009022.01-1\">What if God, desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction, in order to make known the riches of his glory for vessels of mercy, which he has prepared beforehand for glory—</p>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 1:5-6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49001005.01-2\">he predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved.</p>\n</div><h5>Proverbs 16:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20016004.01-3\">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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"67": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Acts 2:23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44002023.01-1\">this Jesus, delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God, you crucified and killed by the hands of lawless men.</p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 17:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40017012.01-2\"><span class=\"woc\">But I tell you that Elijah has already come, and they did not recognize him, but did to him whatever they pleased. So also the Son of Man will certainly suffer at their hands.”</span></p>\n</div><h5>Acts 4:27-28</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p class=\"same-paragraph\" id=\"p44004027.01-3\">for truly in this city there were gathered together against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, along with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel, to do whatever your hand and your plan had predestined to take place.</p>\n</div><h5>John 19:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43019011.01-4\">Jesus answered him, <span class=\"woc\">“You would have no authority over me at all unless it had been given you from above. Therefore he who delivered me over to you has the greater sin.”</span></p>\n</div><h5>Proverbs 16:33</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20016033.01-5\">The lot is cast into the lap,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but its every decision is from the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>.<br />\n (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"82": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 9:20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45009020.01-1\">But who are you, O man, to answer back to God? Will what is molded say to its molder, “Why have you made me like this?”</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 11:33</h5>\n<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>\n</div><h5>Deuteronomy 29:29</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p05029029.01-3\">“The secret things belong to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> our God, but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"83": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>2 Peter 1:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p61001010.01-1\">Therefore, brothers, be all the more diligent to make your calling and election sure, for if you practice these qualities you will never fall. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"80": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>John 17:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43017009.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">I am praying for them. I am not praying for the world but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours.</span></p>\n</div><h5>Romans 8:28</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45008028.01-2\">And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.</p>\n</div><h5>John 6:64-65</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43006064.01-3\"><span class=\"woc\">But there are some of you who do not believe.”</span> (For Jesus knew from the beginning who those were who did not believe, and who it was who would betray him.) And he said, <span class=\"woc\">“This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted him by the Father.”</span></p>\n</div><h5>John 10:26</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43010026.01-4\"><span class=\"woc\">but you do not believe because you are not part of my flock.</span></p>\n</div><h5>John 8:47</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43008047.01-5\"><span class=\"woc\">Whoever is of God hears the words of God. The reason why you do not hear them is that you are not of God.”</span></p>\n</div><h5>1 John 2:19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p62002019.01-6\">They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us. But they went out, that it might become plain that they all are not of us. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"81": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 11:25-26</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p40011025.10-1\">At that time Jesus declared, <span class=\"woc\">“I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to little children;</span> <span class=\"woc\">yes, Father, for such was your gracious will.</span></p>\n</div><h5>Romans 9:17-18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45009017.01-2\">For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, “For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I might show my power in you, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.” So then he has mercy on whomever he wills, and he hardens whomever he wills.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 9:21-22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45009021.01-3\">Has the potter no right over the clay, to make out of the same lump one vessel for honorable use and another for dishonorable use? What if God, desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,</p>\n</div><h5>2 Timothy 2:19-20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p55002019.01-4\">But God's firm foundation stands, bearing this seal: “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Let everyone who names the name of the Lord depart from iniquity.”</p>\n <p id=\"p55002020.01-4\">Now in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver but also of wood and clay, some for honorable use, some for dishonorable.</p>\n</div><h5>Jude 1:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p65001004.01-5\">For certain people have crept in unnoticed who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into sensuality and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Peter 2:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p class=\"same-paragraph\" id=\"p60002008.01-6\">and</p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p60002008.02-6\">“A stone of stumbling,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and a rock of offense.”</p>\n</div>\n<p class=\"same-paragraph\" id=\"p60002008.11-6\">They stumble because they disobey the word, as they were destined to do. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"69": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 9:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45009011.01-1\">though they were not yet born and had done nothing either good or bad—in order that God's purpose of election might continue, not because of works but because of him who calls—</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 9:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45009013.01-2\">As it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 9:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45009016.01-3\">So then it depends not on human will or exertion, but on God, who has mercy.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 9:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45009018.01-4\">So then he has mercy on whomever he wills, and he hardens whomever he wills. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"68": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Acts 15:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p44015018.01-1\"><span class=\"verse-num inline\" id=\"v44015018-1\">18 </span>known from of old.’</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>1 Samuel 23:11-12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p09023011.01-2\">Will the men of Keilah surrender me into his hand? Will Saul come down, as your servant has heard? O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, the God of Israel, please tell your servant.” And the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> said, “He will come down.” Then David said, “Will the men of Keilah surrender me and my men into the hand of Saul?” And the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> said, “They will surrender you.”</p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 11:21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40011021.01-3\"><span class=\"woc\">“Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.</span></p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 11:23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40011023.01-4\"><span class=\"woc\">And you, Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? You will be brought down to Hades. For if the mighty works done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day.</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"84": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ephesians 1:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49001006.01-1\">to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 11:33</h5>\n<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! (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"78": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 8:30</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45008030.01-1\">And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified.</p>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 1:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49001005.01-2\">he predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will,</p>\n</div><h5>2 Thessalonians 2:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p53002013.03-3\">But we ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers beloved by the Lord, because God chose you as the firstfruits to be saved, through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"81": "Matthew 11:25-26; Romans 9:17-18, 21-22; 2 Timothy 2:19-20; Jude 4; 1 Peter 2:8",
"71": "Romans 9:22-23; Ephesians 1:5-6; Proverbs 16:4",
"83": "2 Peter 1:10",
"82": "Romans 9:20; Romans 11:33; Deuteronomy 29:29",
"67": "Acts 2:23; Matthew 17:12; Acts 4:27-28; John 19:11; Proverbs 16:33",
"84": "Ephesians 1:6; Romans 11:33",
"77": "1 Thessalonians 5:9-10; Titus 2:14",
"76": "1 Peter 1:2; Ephesians 1:4, 5; Ephesians 2:10; 2 Thessalonians 2:13",
"75": "Ephesians 1:6, 12",
"74": "Romans 9:11, 13, 16; Ephesians 1:4, 9",
"73": "Ephesians 1:4, 9, 11; Romans 8:30; 2 Timothy 1:9; 1 Thessalonians 5:9",
"65": "Ephesians 1:11; Romans 11:33; Hebrews 6:17; Romans 9:15, 18",
"66": "James 1:13, 17; 1 John 1:5",
"70": "1 Timothy 5:21; Matthew 25:41",
"68": "Acts 15:18; 1 Samuel 23:11-12; Matthew 11:21, 23",
"69": "Romans 9:11, 13, 16, 18",
"80": "John 17:9; Romans 8:28; John 6:64-65; John 10:26; John 8:47; 1 John 2:19",
"78": "Romans 8:30; Ephesians 1:5; 2 Thessalonians 2:13",
"85": "Romans 11:5-6, 20; 2 Peter 1:10; Romans 8:33; Luke 10:20",
"79": "1 Peter 1:5",
"72": "2 Timothy 2:19; John 13:18"
},
"title": "Chapter 3: Of God's Eternal Decree"
},
"2": {
"body": {
"1": "<span data-prooftexts='Deuteronomy 6:4; 1 Corinthians 8:4, 6' data-prooftexts-index='25'>There is but one only,</span><span data-prooftexts='1 Thessalonians 1:9; Jeremiah 10:10' data-prooftexts-index='26'> living, and true God,</span><span data-prooftexts='Job 11:7-9; Job 26:14' data-prooftexts-index='27'> who is infinite in being and perfection,</span><span data-prooftexts='John 4:24' data-prooftexts-index='28'> a most pure spirit,</span><span data-prooftexts='1 Timothy 1:17' data-prooftexts-index='29'> invisible,</span><span data-prooftexts='Deuteronomy 4:15-16; John 4:24; Luke 24:39' data-prooftexts-index='30'> without body, parts,</span><span data-prooftexts='Acts 14:11, 15' data-prooftexts-index='31'> or passions;</span><span data-prooftexts='James 1:17; Malachi 3:6' data-prooftexts-index='32'> immutable,</span><span data-prooftexts='1 Kings 8:27; Jeremiah 23:23-24' data-prooftexts-index='33'> immense,</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalm 90:2; 1 Timothy 1:17' data-prooftexts-index='34'> eternal,</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalm 145:3' data-prooftexts-index='35'> incomprehensible,</span><span data-prooftexts='Genesis 17:1; Revelation 4:8' data-prooftexts-index='36'> almighty,</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 16:27' data-prooftexts-index='37'> most wise,</span><span data-prooftexts='Isaiah 6:3; Revelation 4:8' data-prooftexts-index='38'> most holy,</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalm 115:3' data-prooftexts-index='39'> most free,</span><span data-prooftexts='Exodus 3:14' data-prooftexts-index='40'> most absolute;</span><span data-prooftexts='Ephesians 1:11' data-prooftexts-index='41'> working all things according to the counsel of his own immutable and most righteous will,</span><span data-prooftexts='Proverbs 16:4; Romans 11:36' data-prooftexts-index='42'> for his own glory;</span><span data-prooftexts='1 John 4:8, 16' data-prooftexts-index='43'> most loving,</span><span data-prooftexts='Exodus 34:6-7' data-prooftexts-index='44'> gracious, merciful, long-suffering, abundant in goodness and truth, forgiving iniquity, transgression, and sin;</span><span data-prooftexts='Hebrews 11:6' data-prooftexts-index='45'> the rewarder of them that diligently seek him;</span><span data-prooftexts='Nehemiah 9:32-33' data-prooftexts-index='46'> and withal, most just, and terrible in his judgments,</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalm 5:5-6' data-prooftexts-index='47'> hating all sin,</span><span data-prooftexts='Nahum 1:2-3; Exodus 34:7' data-prooftexts-index='48'> and who will by no means clear the guilty.</span>",
"3": "<span data-prooftexts='1 John 5:7; Matthew 3:16-17; Matthew 28:19; 2 Corinthians 13:14' data-prooftexts-index='62'>In the unity of the Godhead there be three persons, of one substance, power, and eternity: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost:</span><span data-prooftexts='John 1:14, 18' data-prooftexts-index='63'> the Father is of none, neither begotten, nor proceeding; the Son is eternally begotten of the Father;</span><span data-prooftexts='John 15:26; Galatians 4:6' data-prooftexts-index='64'> the Holy Ghost eternally proceeding from the Father and the Son.</span>",
"2": "<span data-prooftexts='John 5:26' data-prooftexts-index='49'>God hath all life,</span><span data-prooftexts='Acts 7:2' data-prooftexts-index='50'> glory,</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalm 119:68' data-prooftexts-index='51'> goodness,</span><span data-prooftexts='1 Timothy 6:15; Romans 9:5' data-prooftexts-index='52'> blessedness,</span><span data-prooftexts='Acts 17:24-25' data-prooftexts-index='53'> in and of himself; and is alone in and unto himself all-sufficient, not standing in need of any creatures which he hath made,</span><span data-prooftexts='Job 22:2-3' data-prooftexts-index='54'> nor deriving any glory from them,</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 11:36' data-prooftexts-index='55'> but only manifesting his own glory in, by, unto, and upon them. He is the alone fountain of all being, of whom, through whom, and to whom are all things;</span><span data-prooftexts='Revelation 4:11; 1 Timothy 6:15; Daniel 4:25, 35' data-prooftexts-index='56'> and hath most sovereign dominion over them, to do by them, for them, or upon them whatsoever himself pleaseth.</span><span data-prooftexts='Hebrews 4:13' data-prooftexts-index='57'> In his sight all things are open and manifest,</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 11:33-34; Psalm 147:5' data-prooftexts-index='58'> his knowledge is infinite, infallible, and independent upon the creature,</span><span data-prooftexts='Acts 15:18; Ezekiel 11:5' data-prooftexts-index='59'> so as nothing is to him contingent, or uncertain.</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalm 145:17; Romans 7:12' data-prooftexts-index='60'> He is most holy in all his counsels, in all his works, and in all his commands.</span><span data-prooftexts='Revelation 5:12-14' data-prooftexts-index='61'> To him is due from angels and men, and every other creature, whatsoever worship, service, or obedience he is pleased to require of them.</span>"
},
"prooftext_verses": {
"30": "<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>",
"28": "<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>",
"29": "<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>",
"60": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 145:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19145017.01-1\">The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> is righteous in all his ways<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and kind in all his works.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Romans 7:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45007012.01-2\">So the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"61": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Revelation 5:12-14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p66005012.01-1\">saying with a loud voice, “Worthy is the Lamb who was slain, to receive power and wealth and wisdom and might and honor and glory and blessing!” And I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and in the sea, and all that is in them, saying, “To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be blessing and honor and glory and might forever and ever!” And the four living creatures said, “Amen!” and the elders fell down and worshiped. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"62": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 John 5:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p62005007.01-1\">For there are three that testify:</p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 3:16-17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40003016.01-2\">And when Jesus was baptized, immediately he went up from the water, and behold, the heavens were opened to him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming to rest on him; and behold, a voice from heaven said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.”</p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 28:19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40028019.01-3\"><span class=\"woc\">Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,</span></p>\n</div><h5>2 Corinthians 13:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p47013014.01-4\">The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"63": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>John 1:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43001014.01-1\">And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.</p>\n</div><h5>John 1:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43001018.01-2\">No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father's side, he has made him known. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"64": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>John 15:26</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43015026.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">“But when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness about me.</span></p>\n</div><h5>Galatians 4:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p48004006.01-2\">And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"35": "<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>",
"34": "<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>",
"25": "<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>",
"26": "<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>",
"27": "<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>",
"48": "<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>",
"49": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>John 5:26</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43005026.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself.</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"46": "<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>",
"47": "<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>",
"44": "<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>",
"45": "<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>",
"42": "<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>",
"43": "<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>",
"40": "<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>",
"41": "<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>",
"39": "<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>",
"38": "<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>",
"59": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Acts 15:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p44015018.01-1\"><span class=\"verse-num inline\" id=\"v44015018-1\">18 </span>known from of old.’</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Ezekiel 11:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p26011005.01-2\">And the Spirit of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> fell upon me, and he said to me, “Say, Thus says the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>: So you think, O house of Israel. For I know the things that come into your mind. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"58": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 11:33-34</h5>\n<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>\n <div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p45011034.01-1\">“For who has known the mind of the Lord,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>or who has been his counselor?”</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 147:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19147005.01-2\">Great is our Lord, and abundant in power;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>his understanding is beyond measure. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"33": "<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>",
"32": "<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>",
"31": "<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>",
"56": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Revelation 4:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p66004011.01-1\">“Worthy are you, our Lord and God,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>to receive glory and honor and power,<br />\nfor you created all things,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and by your will they existed and were created.”</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>1 Timothy 6:15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p54006015.01-2\">which he will display at the proper time—he who is the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords,</p>\n</div><h5>Daniel 4:25</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p27004025.01-3\">that you shall be driven from among men, and your dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field. You shall be made to eat grass like an ox, and you shall be wet with the dew of heaven, and seven periods of time shall pass over you, till you know that the Most High rules the kingdom of men and gives it to whom he will.</p>\n</div><h5>Daniel 4:35</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p27004035.01-4\">all the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and he does according to his will among the host of heaven<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and among the inhabitants of the earth;<br />\nand none can stay his hand<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>or say to him, “What have you done?” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"51": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 119:68</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119068.01-1\">You are good and do good;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>teach me your statutes. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"36": "<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>",
"53": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Acts 17:24-25</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44017024.01-1\">The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by man, nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"52": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Timothy 6:15</h5>\n<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,</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 9:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45009005.01-2\">To them belong the patriarchs, and from their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ who is God over all, blessed forever. Amen. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"55": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 11:36</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p class=\"same-paragraph\" id=\"p45011036.01-1\">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>",
"37": "<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>",
"54": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Job 22:2-3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p18022002.01-1\">“Can a man be profitable to God?<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself.<br />\n Is it any pleasure to the Almighty if you are in the right,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>or is it gain to him if you make your ways blameless? (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"57": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Hebrews 4:13</h5>\n<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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"50": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Acts 7:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44007002.01-1\">And Stephen said:</p>\n<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>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"56": "Revelation 4:11; 1 Timothy 6:15; Daniel 4:25, 35",
"42": "Proverbs 16:4; Romans 11:36",
"43": "1 John 4:8, 16",
"60": "Psalm 145:17; Romans 7:12",
"61": "Revelation 5:12-14",
"62": "1 John 5:7; Matthew 3:16-17; Matthew 28:19; 2 Corinthians 13:14",
"63": "John 1:14, 18",
"64": "John 15:26; Galatians 4:6",
"53": "Acts 17:24-25",
"52": "1 Timothy 6:15; Romans 9:5",
"25": "Deuteronomy 6:4; 1 Corinthians 8:4, 6",
"26": "1 Thessalonians 1:9; Jeremiah 10:10",
"27": "Job 11:7-9; Job 26:14",
"48": "Nahum 1:2-3; Exodus 34:7",
"49": "John 5:26",
"46": "Nehemiah 9:32-33",
"47": "Psalm 5:5-6",
"44": "Exodus 34:6-7",
"45": "Hebrews 11:6",
"28": "John 4:24",
"29": "1 Timothy 1:17",
"40": "Exodus 3:14",
"41": "Ephesians 1:11",
"51": "Psalm 119:68",
"39": "Psalm 115:3",
"38": "Isaiah 6:3; Revelation 4:8",
"59": "Acts 15:18; Ezekiel 11:5",
"58": "Romans 11:33-34; Psalm 147:5",
"33": "1 Kings 8:27; Jeremiah 23:23-24",
"32": "James 1:17; Malachi 3:6",
"31": "Acts 14:11, 15",
"30": "Deuteronomy 4:15-16; John 4:24; Luke 24:39",
"37": "Romans 16:27",
"36": "Genesis 17:1; Revelation 4:8",
"35": "Psalm 145:3",
"34": "Psalm 90:2; 1 Timothy 1:17",
"55": "Romans 11:36",
"54": "Job 22:2-3",
"57": "Hebrews 4:13",
"50": "Acts 7:2"
},
"title": "Chapter 2: Of God, and of the Holy Trinity"
},
"5": {
"body": {
"1": "<span data-prooftexts='Hebrews 1:3' data-prooftexts-index='97'>God the great Creator of all things doth uphold,</span><span data-prooftexts='Daniel 4:34-35; Psalm 135:6; Acts 17:25-28; Job 38-41' data-prooftexts-index='98'> direct, dispose, and govern all creatures, actions, and things,</span><span data-prooftexts='Matthew 10:29-31' data-prooftexts-index='99'> from the greatest even to the least,</span><span data-prooftexts='Proverbs 15:3; Psalm 104:24; Psalm 145:17' data-prooftexts-index='100'> by his most wise and holy providence,</span><span data-prooftexts='Acts 15:18; Psalm 94:8-11' data-prooftexts-index='101'> according to his infallible foreknowledge,</span><span data-prooftexts='Ephesians 1:11; Psalm 33:10-11' data-prooftexts-index='102'> and the free and immutable counsel of his own will,</span><span data-prooftexts='Isaiah 63:14; Ephesians 3:10; Romans 9:17; Genesis 45:7; Psalm 145:7' data-prooftexts-index='103'> to the praise of the glory of his wisdom, power, justice, goodness, and mercy.</span>",
"3": "<span data-prooftexts='Acts 27:31, 44; Isaiah 55:10-11; Hosea 2:21-22' data-prooftexts-index='106'>God, in his ordinary providence, maketh use of means,</span><span data-prooftexts='Hosea 1:7; Matthew 4:4; Job 34:10' data-prooftexts-index='107'> yet is free to work without,</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 4:19-21' data-prooftexts-index='108'> above,</span><span data-prooftexts='2 Kings 6:6; Daniel 3:27' data-prooftexts-index='109'> and against them,</span> at his pleasure.",
"2": "<span data-prooftexts='Acts 2:23' data-prooftexts-index='104'>Although, in relation to the foreknowledge and decree of God, the first Cause, all things come to pass immutably, and infallibly;</span><span data-prooftexts='Genesis 8:22; Jeremiah 31:35; Exodus 21:13; Deuteronomy 19:5; 1 Kings 22:28, 34; Isaiah 10:6-7' data-prooftexts-index='105'> yet, by the same providence, he ordereth them to fall out, according to the nature of second causes, either necessarily, freely, or contingently.</span>",
"5": "<span data-prooftexts='2 Chronicles 32:25-26, 31; 2 Samuel 24:1' data-prooftexts-index='115'>The most wise, righteous, and gracious God doth oftentimes leave, for a season, his own children to manifold temptations, and the corruption of their own hearts, to chastise them for their former sins, or to discover unto them the hidden strength of corruption and deceitfulness of their hearts, that they may be humbled;</span><span data-prooftexts='2 Corinthians 12:7-9; Psalm 77:1, 10, 12; Mark 14:66-72; John 21:15-17' data-prooftexts-index='116'> and, to raise them to a more close and constant dependence for their support upon himself, and to make them more watchful against all future occasions of sin, and for sundry other just and holy ends.</span>",
"4": "<span data-prooftexts='Romans 11:32-34; 2 Samuel 24:1; 1 Chronicles 21:1; 1 Kings 22:22-23; 1 Chronicles 10:4; 2 Samuel 16:10; Acts 2:23; Acts 4:27-28' data-prooftexts-index='110'>The almighty power, unsearchable wisdom, and infinite goodness of God so far manifest themselves in his providence, that it extendeth itself even to the first fall, and all other sins of angels and men;</span><span data-prooftexts='Acts 14:16' data-prooftexts-index='111'> and that not by a bare permission,</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalm 76:10; 2 Kings 19:28' data-prooftexts-index='112'> but such as hath joined with it a most wise and powerful bounding,</span><span data-prooftexts='Genesis 50:20; Isaiah 10:6-7, 12' data-prooftexts-index='113'> and otherwise ordering, and governing of them, in a manifold dispensation, to his own holy ends;</span><span data-prooftexts='James 1:13-14, 17; 1 John 2:16; Psalm 50:21' data-prooftexts-index='114'> yet so, as the sinfulness thereof proceedeth only from the creature, and not from God, who, being most holy and righteous, neither is nor can be the author or approver of sin.</span>",
"7": "<span data-prooftexts='1 Timothy 4:10; Amos 9:8-9; Romans 8:28; Isaiah 43:3-5, 14' data-prooftexts-index='123'>As the providence of God doth, in general, reach to all creatures; so, after a most special manner, it taketh care of his church, and disposeth all things to the good thereof.</span>",
"6": "<span data-prooftexts='Romans 1:24, 26, 28; Romans 11:7-8' data-prooftexts-index='117'>As for those wicked and ungodly men whom God, as a righteous Judge, for former sins, doth blind and harden,</span><span data-prooftexts='Deuteronomy 29:4' data-prooftexts-index='118'> from them he not only withholdeth his grace whereby they might have been enlightened in their understandings, and wrought upon in their hearts;</span><span data-prooftexts='Matthew 13:12; Matthew 25:29' data-prooftexts-index='119'> but sometimes also withdraweth the gifts which they had,</span><span data-prooftexts='Deuteronomy 2:30; 2 Kings 8:12-13' data-prooftexts-index='120'> and exposeth them to such objects as their corruption makes occasions of sin;</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalm 81:11-12; 2 Thessalonians 2:10-12' data-prooftexts-index='121'> and, withal, gives them over to their own lusts, the temptations of the world, and the power of Satan,</span><span data-prooftexts='Exodus 7:3; Exodus 8:15, 32; 2 Corinthians 2:15-16; Isaiah 8:14; 1 Peter 2:7-8; Isaiah 6:9-10; Acts 28:26-27' data-prooftexts-index='122'> whereby it comes to pass that they harden themselves, even under those means which God useth for the softening of others.</span>"
},
"prooftext_verses": {
"115": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>2 Chronicles 32:25-26</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p14032025.01-1\">But Hezekiah did not make return according to the benefit done to him, for his heart was proud. Therefore wrath came upon him and Judah and Jerusalem. But Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> did not come upon them in the days of Hezekiah.</p>\n</div><h5>2 Chronicles 32:31</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p14032031.01-2\">And so in the matter of the envoys of the princes of Babylon, who had been sent to him to inquire about the sign that had been done in the land, God left him to himself, in order to test him and to know all that was in his heart.</p>\n</div><h5>2 Samuel 24:1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p10024001.03-3\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v10024001-3\">24:1 </span>Again the anger of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> was kindled against Israel, and he incited David against them, saying, “Go, number Israel and Judah.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"114": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>James 1:13-14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p59001013.01-1\">Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am being tempted by God,” for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempts no one. But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire.</p>\n</div><h5>James 1:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p59001017.01-2\">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>1 John 2:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p62002016.01-3\">For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride in possessions—is not from the Father but is from the world.</p>\n</div><h5>Psalm 50:21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19050021.01-4\">These things you have done, and I have been silent;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>you thought that I was one like yourself.<br />\nBut now I rebuke you and lay the charge before you. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"117": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 1:24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45001024.01-1\">Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves,</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 1:26</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45001026.01-2\">For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature;</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 1:28</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45001028.01-3\">And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 11:7-8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45011007.01-4\">What then? Israel failed to obtain what it was seeking. The elect obtained it, but the rest were hardened, as it is written,</p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p45011008.05-4\">“God gave them a spirit of stupor,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>eyes that would not see<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and ears that would not hear,<br />\ndown to this very day.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"116": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>2 Corinthians 12:7-9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p47012007.01-1\">So to keep me from becoming conceited because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to harass me, to keep me from becoming conceited. Three times I pleaded with the Lord about this, that it should leave me. But he said to me, <span class=\"woc\">“My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.”</span> Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.</p>\n</div><h5>Psalm 77:1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19077001.20-2\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v19077001-2\">77:1 </span>I cry aloud to God,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>aloud to God, and he will hear me.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 77:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19077010.01-3\">Then I said, “I will appeal to this,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>to the years of the right hand of the Most High.”</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 77:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19077012.01-4\">I will ponder all your work,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and meditate on your mighty deeds.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Mark 14:66-72</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p41014066.04-5\">And as Peter was below in the courtyard, one of the servant girls of the high priest came, and seeing Peter warming himself, she looked at him and said, “You also were with the Nazarene, Jesus.” But he denied it, saying, “I neither know nor understand what you mean.” And he went out into the gateway and the rooster crowed. And the servant girl saw him and began again to say to the bystanders, “This man is one of them.” But again he denied it. And after a little while the bystanders again said to Peter, “Certainly you are one of them, for you are a Galilean.” But he began to invoke a curse on himself and to swear, “I do not know this man of whom you speak.” And immediately the rooster crowed a second time. And Peter remembered how Jesus had said to him, <span class=\"woc\">“Before the rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times.”</span> And he broke down and wept.</p>\n</div><h5>John 21:15-17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p43021015.04-6\">When they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, <span class=\"woc\">“Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?”</span> He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I love you.” He said to him, <span class=\"woc\">“Feed my lambs.”</span> He said to him a second time, <span class=\"woc\">“Simon, son of John, do you love me?”</span> He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I love you.” He said to him, <span class=\"woc\">“Tend my sheep.”</span> He said to him the third time, <span class=\"woc\">“Simon, son of John, do you love me?”</span> Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time, <span class=\"woc\">“Do you love me?”</span> and he said to him, “Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you.” Jesus said to him, <span class=\"woc\">“Feed my sheep.</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"111": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Acts 14:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44014016.01-1\">In past generations he allowed all the nations to walk in their own ways. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"110": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 11:32-34</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45011032.01-1\">For God has consigned all to disobedience, that he may have mercy on all.</p>\n <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>\n <div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p45011034.01-1\">“For who has known the mind of the Lord,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>or who has been his counselor?”</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>2 Samuel 24:1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p10024001.03-2\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v10024001-2\">24:1 </span>Again the anger of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> was kindled against Israel, and he incited David against them, saying, “Go, number Israel and Judah.”</p>\n</div><h5>1 Chronicles 21:1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p13021001.05-3\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v13021001-3\">21:1 </span>Then Satan stood against Israel and incited David to number Israel.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Kings 22:22-23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p11022022.01-4\">And the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> said to him, ‘By what means?’ And he said, ‘I will go out, and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.’ And he said, ‘You are to entice him, and you shall succeed; go out and do so.’ Now therefore behold, the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> has put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these your prophets; the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> has declared disaster for you.”</p>\n</div><h5>1 Chronicles 10:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p13010004.01-5\">Then Saul said to his armor-bearer, “Draw your sword and thrust me through with it, lest these uncircumcised come and mistreat me.” But his armor-bearer would not, for he feared greatly. Therefore Saul took his own sword and fell upon it.</p>\n</div><h5>2 Samuel 16:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p10016010.01-6\">But the king said, “What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah? If he is cursing because the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> has said to him, ‘Curse David,’ who then shall say, ‘Why have you done so?’”</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 2:23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44002023.01-7\">this Jesus, delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God, you crucified and killed by the hands of lawless men.</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 4:27-28</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p class=\"same-paragraph\" id=\"p44004027.01-8\">for truly in this city there were gathered together against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, along with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel, to do whatever your hand and your plan had predestined to take place. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"113": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Genesis 50:20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p01050020.01-1\">As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today.</p>\n</div><h5>Isaiah 10:6-7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23010006.01-2\">Against a godless nation I send him,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and against the people of my wrath I command him,<br />\nto take spoil and seize plunder,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.<br />\n But he does not so intend,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and his heart does not so think;<br />\nbut it is in his heart to destroy,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and to cut off nations not a few;</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Isaiah 10:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p23010012.01-3\">When the Lord has finished all his work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, he will punish the speech of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria and the boastful look in his eyes. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"112": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 76:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19076010.01-1\">Surely the wrath of man shall praise you;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>the remnant of wrath you will put on like a belt.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>2 Kings 19:28</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p12019028.01-2\">Because you have raged against me<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and your complacency has come into my ears,<br />\nI will put my hook in your nose<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and my bit in your mouth,<br />\nand I will turn you back on the way<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>by which you came. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"119": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 13:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40013012.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">For to the one who has, more will be given, and he will have an abundance, but from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away.</span></p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 25:29</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40025029.01-2\"><span class=\"woc\">For to everyone who has will more be given, and he will have an abundance. But from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away.</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"118": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Deuteronomy 29:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p05029004.01-1\">But to this day the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> has not given you a heart to understand or eyes to see or ears to hear. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"97": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Hebrews 1:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58001003.01-1\">He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"99": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 10:29-31</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40010029.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? And not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father.</span> <span class=\"woc\">But even the hairs of your head are all numbered.</span> <span class=\"woc\">Fear not, therefore; you are of more value than many sparrows.</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"98": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Daniel 4:34-35</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p27004034.03-1\">At the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted my eyes to heaven, and my reason returned to me, and I blessed the Most High, and praised and honored him who lives forever,</p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p27004034.36-1\">for his dominion is an everlasting dominion,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and his kingdom endures from generation to generation;<br />\n all the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and he does according to his will among the host of heaven<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and among the inhabitants of the earth;<br />\nand none can stay his hand<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>or say to him, “What have you done?”</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 135:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19135006.01-2\">Whatever the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> pleases, he does,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>in heaven and on earth,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>in the seas and all deeps.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Acts 17:25-28</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44017025.01-3\">nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything. And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place, that they should seek God, in the hope that they might feel their way toward him and find him. Yet he is actually not far from each one of us, for</p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p44017028.02-3\">“‘In him we live and move and have our being’;</p>\n</div>\n<p class=\"same-paragraph\" id=\"p44017028.12-3\">as even some of your own poets have said,</p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p44017028.21-3\">“‘For we are indeed his offspring.’</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Job 38-41</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p18038001.05-4\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v18038001-4\">38:1 </span>Then the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> answered Job out of the whirlwind and said:</p>\n <div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p18038002.01-4\">“Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge?<br />\n Dress for action like a man;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I will question you, and you make it known to me.</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p18038004.01-4\">“Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth?<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Tell me, if you have understanding.<br />\n Who determined its measurements—surely you know!<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Or who stretched the line upon it?<br />\n On what were its bases sunk,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>or who laid its cornerstone,<br />\n when the morning stars sang together<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and all the sons of God shouted for joy?</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p18038008.01-4\">“Or who shut in the sea with doors<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>when it burst out from the womb,<br />\n when I made clouds its garment<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and thick darkness its swaddling band,<br />\n and prescribed limits for it<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and set bars and doors,<br />\n and said, ‘Thus far shall you come, and no farther,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and here shall your proud waves be stayed’?</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p18038012.01-4\">“Have you commanded the morning since your days began,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and caused the dawn to know its place,<br />\n that it might take hold of the skirts of the earth,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and the wicked be shaken out of it?<br />\n It is changed like clay under the seal,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and its features stand out like a garment.<br />\n From the wicked their light is withheld,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and their uplifted arm is broken.</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p18038016.01-4\">“Have you entered into the springs of the sea,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>or walked in the recesses of the deep?<br />\n Have the gates of death been revealed to you,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>or have you seen the gates of deep darkness?<br />\n Have you comprehended the expanse of the earth?<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Declare, if you know all this.</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p18038019.01-4\">“Where is the way to the dwelling of light,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and where is the place of darkness,<br />\n that you may take it to its territory<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and that you may discern the paths to its home?<br />\n You know, for you were born then,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and the number of your days is great!</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p18038022.01-4\">“Have you entered the storehouses of the snow,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>or have you seen the storehouses of the hail,<br />\n which I have reserved for the time of trouble,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for the day of battle and war?<br />\n What is the way to the place where the light is distributed,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>or where the east wind is scattered upon the earth?</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p18038025.01-4\">“Who has cleft a channel for the torrents of rain<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and a way for the thunderbolt,<br />\n to bring rain on a land where no man is,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>on the desert in which there is no man,<br />\n to satisfy the waste and desolate land,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and to make the ground sprout with grass?</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p18038028.01-4\">“Has the rain a father,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>or who has begotten the drops of dew?<br />\n From whose womb did the ice come forth,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and who has given birth to the frost of heaven?<br />\n The waters become hard like stone,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and the face of the deep is frozen.</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p18038031.01-4\">“Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>or loose the cords of Orion?<br />\n Can you lead forth the Mazzaroth in their season,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>or can you guide the Bear with its children?<br />\n Do you know the ordinances of the heavens?<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Can you establish their rule on the earth?</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p18038034.01-4\">“Can you lift up your voice to the clouds,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that a flood of waters may cover you?<br />\n Can you send forth lightnings, that they may go<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and say to you, ‘Here we are’?<br />\n Who has put wisdom in the inward parts<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>or given understanding to the mind?<br />\n Who can number the clouds by wisdom?<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Or who can tilt the waterskins of the heavens,<br />\n when the dust runs into a mass<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and the clods stick fast together?</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p18038039.01-4\">“Can you hunt the prey for the lion,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>or satisfy the appetite of the young lions,<br />\n when they crouch in their dens<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>or lie in wait in their thicket?<br />\n Who provides for the raven its prey,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>when its young ones cry to God for help,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and wander about for lack of food?</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p18039001.01-4\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v18039001-4\">39:1 </span>“Do you know when the mountain goats give birth?<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Do you observe the calving of the does?<br />\n Can you number the months that they fulfill,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and do you know the time when they give birth,<br />\n when they crouch, bring forth their offspring,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and are delivered of their young?<br />\n Their young ones become strong; they grow up in the open;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>they go out and do not return to them.</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p18039005.01-4\">“Who has let the wild donkey go free?<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Who has loosed the bonds of the swift donkey,<br />\n to whom I have given the arid plain for his home<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and the salt land for his dwelling place?<br />\n He scorns the tumult of the city;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>he hears not the shouts of the driver.<br />\n He ranges the mountains as his pasture,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and he searches after every green thing.</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p18039009.01-4\">“Is the wild ox willing to serve you?<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Will he spend the night at your manger?<br />\n Can you bind him in the furrow with ropes,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>or will he harrow the valleys after you?<br />\n Will you depend on him because his strength is great,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and will you leave to him your labor?<br />\n Do you have faith in him that he will return your grain<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and gather it to your threshing floor?</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p18039013.01-4\">“The wings of the ostrich wave proudly,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but are they the pinions and plumage of love?<br />\n For she leaves her eggs to the earth<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and lets them be warmed on the ground,<br />\n forgetting that a foot may crush them<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and that the wild beast may trample them.<br />\n She deals cruelly with her young, as if they were not hers;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>though her labor be in vain, yet she has no fear,<br />\n because God has made her forget wisdom<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and given her no share in understanding.<br />\n When she rouses herself to flee,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>she laughs at the horse and his rider.</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p18039019.01-4\">“Do you give the horse his might?<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Do you clothe his neck with a mane?<br />\n Do you make him leap like the locust?<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>His majestic snorting is terrifying.<br />\n He paws in the valley and exults in his strength;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>he goes out to meet the weapons.<br />\n He laughs at fear and is not dismayed;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>he does not turn back from the sword.<br />\n Upon him rattle the quiver,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>the flashing spear, and the javelin.<br />\n With fierceness and rage he swallows the ground;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>he cannot stand still at the sound of the trumpet.<br />\n When the trumpet sounds, he says ‘Aha!’<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>He smells the battle from afar,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p18039026.01-4\">“Is it by your understanding that the hawk soars<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and spreads his wings toward the south?<br />\n Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and makes his nest on high?<br />\n On the rock he dwells and makes his home,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>on the rocky crag and stronghold.<br />\n From there he spies out the prey;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>his eyes behold it from far away.<br />\n His young ones suck up blood,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and where the slain are, there is he.”</p>\n</div>\n <p id=\"p18040001.01-4\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v18040001-4\">40:1 </span>And the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> said to Job:</p>\n <div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p18040002.01-4\">“Shall a faultfinder contend with the Almighty?<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>He who argues with God, let him answer it.”</p>\n</div>\n \n<p id=\"p18040003.04-4\">Then Job answered the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> and said:</p>\n <div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p18040004.01-4\">“Behold, I am of small account; what shall I answer you?<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I lay my hand on my mouth.<br />\n I have spoken once, and I will not answer;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>twice, but I will proceed no further.”</p>\n</div>\n \n<p id=\"p18040006.05-4\">Then the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> answered Job out of the whirlwind and said:</p>\n <div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p18040007.01-4\">“Dress for action like a man;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I will question you, and you make it known to me.<br />\n Will you even put me in the wrong?<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Will you condemn me that you may be in the right?<br />\n Have you an arm like God,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and can you thunder with a voice like his?</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p18040010.01-4\">“Adorn yourself with majesty and dignity;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>clothe yourself with glory and splendor.<br />\n Pour out the overflowings of your anger,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and look on everyone who is proud and abase him.<br />\n Look on everyone who is proud and bring him low<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and tread down the wicked where they stand.<br />\n Hide them all in the dust together;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>bind their faces in the world below.<br />\n Then will I also acknowledge to you<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that your own right hand can save you.</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p18040015.01-4\">“Behold, Behemoth,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>which I made as I made you;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>he eats grass like an ox.<br />\n Behold, his strength in his loins,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and his power in the muscles of his belly.<br />\n He makes his tail stiff like a cedar;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>the sinews of his thighs are knit together.<br />\n His bones are tubes of bronze,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>his limbs like bars of iron.</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p18040019.01-4\">“He is the first of the works of God;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>let him who made him bring near his sword!<br />\n For the mountains yield food for him<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>where all the wild beasts play.<br />\n Under the lotus plants he lies,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>in the shelter of the reeds and in the marsh.<br />\n For his shade the lotus trees cover him;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>the willows of the brook surround him.<br />\n Behold, if the river is turbulent he is not frightened;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>he is confident though Jordan rushes against his mouth.<br />\n Can one take him by his eyes,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>or pierce his nose with a snare?</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p18041001.01-4\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v18041001-4\">41:1 </span> “Can you draw out Leviathan with a fishhook<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>or press down his tongue with a cord?<br />\n Can you put a rope in his nose<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>or pierce his jaw with a hook?<br />\n Will he make many pleas to you?<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Will he speak to you soft words?<br />\n Will he make a covenant with you<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>to take him for your servant forever?<br />\n Will you play with him as with a bird,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>or will you put him on a leash for your girls?<br />\n Will traders bargain over him?<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Will they divide him up among the merchants?<br />\n Can you fill his skin with harpoons<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>or his head with fishing spears?<br />\n Lay your hands on him;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>remember the battle—you will not do it again!<br />\n Behold, the hope of a man is false;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>he is laid low even at the sight of him.<br />\n No one is so fierce that he dares to stir him up.<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Who then is he who can stand before me?<br />\n Who has first given to me, that I should repay him?<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Whatever is under the whole heaven is mine.</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p18041012.01-4\">“I will not keep silence concerning his limbs,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>or his mighty strength, or his goodly frame.<br />\n Who can strip off his outer garment?<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Who would come near him with a bridle?<br />\n Who can open the doors of his face?<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Around his teeth is terror.<br />\n His back is made of rows of shields,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>shut up closely as with a seal.<br />\n One is so near to another<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that no air can come between them.<br />\n They are joined one to another;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>they clasp each other and cannot be separated.<br />\n His sneezings flash forth light,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and his eyes are like the eyelids of the dawn.<br />\n Out of his mouth go flaming torches;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>sparks of fire leap forth.<br />\n Out of his nostrils comes forth smoke,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>as from a boiling pot and burning rushes.<br />\n His breath kindles coals,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and a flame comes forth from his mouth.<br />\n In his neck abides strength,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and terror dances before him.<br />\n The folds of his flesh stick together,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>firmly cast on him and immovable.<br />\n His heart is hard as a stone,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>hard as the lower millstone.<br />\n When he raises himself up the mighty are afraid;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>at the crashing they are beside themselves.<br />\n Though the sword reaches him, it does not avail,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>nor the spear, the dart, or the javelin.<br />\n He counts iron as straw,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and bronze as rotten wood.<br />\n The arrow cannot make him flee;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for him sling stones are turned to stubble.<br />\n Clubs are counted as stubble;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>he laughs at the rattle of javelins.<br />\n His underparts are like sharp potsherds;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>he spreads himself like a threshing sledge on the mire.<br />\n He makes the deep boil like a pot;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>he makes the sea like a pot of ointment.<br />\n Behind him he leaves a shining wake;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>one would think the deep to be white-haired.<br />\n On earth there is not his like,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>a creature without fear.<br />\n He sees everything that is high;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>he is king over all the sons of pride.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"108": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 4:19-21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45004019.01-1\">He did not weaken in faith when he considered his own body, which was as good as dead (since he was about a hundred years old), or when he considered the barrenness of Sarah's womb. No distrust made him waver concerning the promise of God, but he grew strong in his faith as he gave glory to God, fully convinced that God was able to do what he had promised. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"109": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>2 Kings 6:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p12006006.01-1\">Then the man of God said, “Where did it fall?” When he showed him the place, he cut off a stick and threw it in there and made the iron float.</p>\n</div><h5>Daniel 3:27</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p27003027.01-2\">And the satraps, the prefects, the governors, and the king's counselors gathered together and saw that the fire had not had any power over the bodies of those men. The hair of their heads was not singed, their cloaks were not harmed, and no smell of fire had come upon them. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"102": "<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,</p>\n</div><h5>Psalm 33:10-11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19033010.01-2\">The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> brings the counsel of the nations to nothing;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>he frustrates the plans of the peoples.<br />\n The counsel of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> stands forever,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>the plans of his heart to all generations. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"103": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Isaiah 63:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23063014.01-1\">Like livestock that go down into the valley,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>the Spirit of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> gave them rest.<br />\nSo you led your people,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>to make for yourself a glorious name.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 3:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49003010.01-2\">so that through the church the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly places.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 9:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45009017.01-3\">For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, “For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I might show my power in you, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.”</p>\n</div><h5>Genesis 45:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p01045007.01-4\">And God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant on earth, and to keep alive for you many survivors.</p>\n</div><h5>Psalm 145:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19145007.01-5\">They shall pour forth the fame of your abundant goodness<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and shall sing aloud of your righteousness. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"100": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Proverbs 15:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20015003.01-1\">The eyes of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> are in every place,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>keeping watch on the evil and the good.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 104:24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19104024.01-2\">O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, how manifold are your works!<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>In wisdom have you made them all;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>the earth is full of your creatures.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 145:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19145017.01-3\">The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> is righteous in all his ways<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and kind in all his works. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"101": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Acts 15:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p44015018.01-1\"><span class=\"verse-num inline\" id=\"v44015018-1\">18 </span>known from of old.’</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 94:8-11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19094008.01-2\">Understand, O dullest of the people!<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Fools, when will you be wise?<br />\n He who planted the ear, does he not hear?<br />\nHe who formed the eye, does he not see?<br />\n He who disciplines the nations, does he not rebuke?<br />\nHe who teaches man knowledge—<br />\n <span class=\"indent\"></span>the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>—knows the thoughts of man,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that they are but a breath. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"106": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Acts 27:31</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44027031.01-1\">Paul said to the centurion and the soldiers, “Unless these men stay in the ship, you cannot be saved.”</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 27:44</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44027044.01-2\">and the rest on planks or on pieces of the ship. And so it was that all were brought safely to land.</p>\n</div><h5>Isaiah 55:10-11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23055010.01-3\">“For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and do not return there but water the earth,<br />\nmaking it bring forth and sprout,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater,<br />\n so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>it shall not return to me empty,<br />\nbut it shall accomplish that which I purpose,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Hosea 2:21-22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p28002021.01-4\">“And in that day I will answer, declares the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I will answer the heavens,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and they shall answer the earth,<br />\n and the earth shall answer the grain, the wine, and the oil,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and they shall answer Jezreel, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"107": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Hosea 1:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p28001007.01-1\">But I will have mercy on the house of Judah, and I will save them by the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> their God. I will not save them by bow or by sword or by war or by horses or by horsemen.”</p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 4:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40004004.01-2\">But he answered, <span class=\"woc\">“It is written,</span></p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p40004004.07-2\"><span class=\"woc\">“‘Man shall not live by bread alone,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”</span></p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Job 34:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p18034010.01-3\">“Therefore, hear me, you men of understanding:<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>far be it from God that he should do wickedness,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and from the Almighty that he should do wrong. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"104": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Acts 2:23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44002023.01-1\">this Jesus, delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God, you crucified and killed by the hands of lawless men. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"105": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Genesis 8:22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p01008022.01-1\">While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.”</p>\n</div><h5>Jeremiah 31:35</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p24031035.01-2\">Thus says the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,<br />\nwho gives the sun for light by day<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and the fixed order of the moon and the stars for light by night,<br />\nwho stirs up the sea so that its waves roar—<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> of hosts is his name:</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Exodus 21:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p02021013.01-3\">But if he did not lie in wait for him, but God let him fall into his hand, then I will appoint for you a place to which he may flee.</p>\n</div><h5>Deuteronomy 19:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p05019005.01-4\">as when someone goes into the forest with his neighbor to cut wood, and his hand swings the axe to cut down a tree, and the head slips from the handle and strikes his neighbor so that he dies—he may flee to one of these cities and live,</p>\n</div><h5>1 Kings 22:28</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p11022028.01-5\">And Micaiah said, “If you return in peace, the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> has not spoken by me.” And he said, “Hear, all you peoples!”</p>\n</div><h5>1 Kings 22:34</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p11022034.01-6\">But a certain man drew his bow at random and struck the king of Israel between the scale armor and the breastplate. Therefore he said to the driver of his chariot, “Turn around and carry me out of the battle, for I am wounded.”</p>\n</div><h5>Isaiah 10:6-7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23010006.01-7\">Against a godless nation I send him,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and against the people of my wrath I command him,<br />\nto take spoil and seize plunder,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.<br />\n But he does not so intend,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and his heart does not so think;<br />\nbut it is in his heart to destroy,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and to cut off nations not a few; (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"120": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Deuteronomy 2:30</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p05002030.01-1\">But Sihon the king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him, for the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God hardened his spirit and made his heart obstinate, that he might give him into your hand, as he is this day.</p>\n</div><h5>2 Kings 8:12-13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p12008012.01-2\">And Hazael said, “Why does my lord weep?” He answered, “Because I know the evil that you will do to the people of Israel. You will set on fire their fortresses, and you will kill their young men with the sword and dash in pieces their little ones and rip open their pregnant women.” And Hazael said, “What is your servant, who is but a dog, that he should do this great thing?” Elisha answered, “The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> has shown me that you are to be king over Syria.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"121": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 81:11-12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19081011.01-1\">“But my people did not listen to my voice;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Israel would not submit to me.<br />\n So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>to follow their own counsels.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>2 Thessalonians 2:10-12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p53002010.01-2\">and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. Therefore God sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe what is false, in order that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"122": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Exodus 7:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p02007003.01-1\">But I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and though I multiply my signs and wonders in the land of Egypt,</p>\n</div><h5>Exodus 8:15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p02008015.01-2\">But when Pharaoh saw that there was a respite, he hardened his heart and would not listen to them, as the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> had said.</p>\n</div><h5>Exodus 8:32</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p02008032.01-3\">But Pharaoh hardened his heart this time also, and did not let the people go.</p>\n</div><h5>2 Corinthians 2:15-16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p47002015.01-4\">For we are the aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing, to one a fragrance from death to death, to the other a fragrance from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things?</p>\n</div><h5>Isaiah 8:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p23008014.01-5\">And he will become a sanctuary and a stone of offense and a rock of stumbling to both houses of Israel, a trap and a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Peter 2:7-8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p class=\"same-paragraph\" id=\"p60002007.01-6\">So the honor is for you who believe, but for those who do not believe,</p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p60002007.16-6\">“The stone that the builders rejected<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>has become the cornerstone,”</p>\n</div>\n <p class=\"same-paragraph\" id=\"p60002008.01-6\">and</p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p60002008.02-6\">“A stone of stumbling,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and a rock of offense.”</p>\n</div>\n<p class=\"same-paragraph\" id=\"p60002008.11-6\">They stumble because they disobey the word, as they were destined to do.</p>\n</div><h5>Isaiah 6:9-10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p23006009.01-7\">And he said, “Go, and say to this people:</p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23006009.10-7\">“‘Keep on hearing, but do not understand;<br />\nkeep on seeing, but do not perceive.’<br />\n Make the heart of this people dull,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and their ears heavy,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and blind their eyes;<br />\nlest they see with their eyes,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and hear with their ears,<br />\nand understand with their hearts,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and turn and be healed.”</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Acts 28:26-27</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p44028026.01-8\">“‘Go to this people, and say,<br />\nYou will indeed hear but never understand,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and you will indeed see but never perceive.<br />\n For this people's heart has grown dull,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and with their ears they can barely hear,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and their eyes they have closed;<br />\nlest they should see with their eyes<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and hear with their ears<br />\nand understand with their heart<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and turn, and I would heal them.’ (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"123": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Timothy 4:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p54004010.01-1\">For to this end we toil and strive, because we have our hope set on the living God, who is the Savior of all people, especially of those who believe.</p>\n</div><h5>Amos 9:8-9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p30009008.01-2\">Behold, the eyes of the Lord <span class=\"small-caps\">God</span> are upon the sinful kingdom,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and I will destroy it from the surface of the ground,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>except that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,”<br />\n<span class=\"declares-line\"></span>\ndeclares the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>.</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p30009009.01-2\">“For behold, I will command,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and shake the house of Israel among all the nations<br />\nas one shakes with a sieve,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but no pebble shall fall to the earth.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Romans 8:28</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45008028.01-3\">And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.</p>\n</div><h5>Isaiah 43:3-5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23043003.01-4\">For I am the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>the Holy One of Israel, your Savior.<br />\nI give Egypt as your ransom,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Cush and Seba in exchange for you.<br />\n Because you are precious in my eyes,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and honored, and I love you,<br />\nI give men in return for you,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>peoples in exchange for your life.<br />\n Fear not, for I am with you;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I will bring your offspring from the east,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and from the west I will gather you.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Isaiah 43:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23043014.01-5\">Thus says the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel:<br />\n“For your sake I send to Babylon<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and bring them all down as fugitives,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>even the Chaldeans, in the ships in which they rejoice. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"115": "2 Chronicles 32:25-26, 31; 2 Samuel 24:1",
"114": "James 1:13-14, 17; 1 John 2:16; Psalm 50:21",
"117": "Romans 1:24, 26, 28; Romans 11:7-8",
"116": "2 Corinthians 12:7-9; Psalm 77:1, 10, 12; Mark 14:66-72; John 21:15-17",
"111": "Acts 14:16",
"110": "Romans 11:32-34; 2 Samuel 24:1; 1 Chronicles 21:1; 1 Kings 22:22-23; 1 Chronicles 10:4; 2 Samuel 16:10; Acts 2:23; Acts 4:27-28",
"113": "Genesis 50:20; Isaiah 10:6-7, 12",
"112": "Psalm 76:10; 2 Kings 19:28",
"119": "Matthew 13:12; Matthew 25:29",
"118": "Deuteronomy 29:4",
"97": "Hebrews 1:3",
"99": "Matthew 10:29-31",
"98": "Daniel 4:34-35; Psalm 135:6; Acts 17:25-28; Job 38-41",
"108": "Romans 4:19-21",
"109": "2 Kings 6:6; Daniel 3:27",
"102": "Ephesians 1:11; Psalm 33:10-11",
"103": "Isaiah 63:14; Ephesians 3:10; Romans 9:17; Genesis 45:7; Psalm 145:7",
"100": "Proverbs 15:3; Psalm 104:24; Psalm 145:17",
"101": "Acts 15:18; Psalm 94:8-11",
"106": "Acts 27:31, 44; Isaiah 55:10-11; Hosea 2:21-22",
"107": "Hosea 1:7; Matthew 4:4; Job 34:10",
"104": "Acts 2:23",
"105": "Genesis 8:22; Jeremiah 31:35; Exodus 21:13; Deuteronomy 19:5; 1 Kings 22:28, 34; Isaiah 10:6-7",
"120": "Deuteronomy 2:30; 2 Kings 8:12-13",
"121": "Psalm 81:11-12; 2 Thessalonians 2:10-12",
"122": "Exodus 7:3; Exodus 8:15, 32; 2 Corinthians 2:15-16; Isaiah 8:14; 1 Peter 2:7-8; Isaiah 6:9-10; Acts 28:26-27",
"123": "1 Timothy 4:10; Amos 9:8-9; Romans 8:28; Isaiah 43:3-5, 14"
},
"title": "Chapter 5: Of Providence"
},
"4": {
"body": {
"1": "<span data-prooftexts='Hebrews 1:2; John 1:2-3; Genesis 1:2; Job 26:13; Job 33:4' data-prooftexts-index='86'>It pleased God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost,</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 1:20; Jeremiah 10:12; Psalm 104:24; Psalm 33:5-6' data-prooftexts-index='87'> for the manifestation of the glory of his eternal power, wisdom, and goodness,</span><span data-prooftexts='Genesis 1; Hebrews 11:3; Colossians 1:16; Acts 17:24' data-prooftexts-index='88'> in the beginning, to create, or make of nothing, the world, and all things therein whether visible or invisible, in the space of six days; and all very good.</span>",
"2": "<span data-prooftexts='Genesis 1:27' data-prooftexts-index='89'>After God had made all other creatures, he created man, male and female,</span><span data-prooftexts='Genesis 2:7; Ecclesiastes 12:7; Luke 23:43; Matthew 10:28' data-prooftexts-index='90'> with reasonable and immortal souls,</span><span data-prooftexts='Genesis 1:26; Colossians 3:10; Ephesians 4:24' data-prooftexts-index='91'> endued with knowledge, righteousness, and true holiness, after his own image;</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 2:14-15' data-prooftexts-index='92'> having the law of God written in their hearts,</span><span data-prooftexts='Ecclesiastes 7:29' data-prooftexts-index='93'> and power to fulfill it:</span><span data-prooftexts='Genesis 3:6; Ecclesiastes 7:29' data-prooftexts-index='94'> and yet under a possibility of transgressing, being left to the liberty of their own will, which was subject unto change.</span><span data-prooftexts='Genesis 2:17; Genesis 3:8-11, 23' data-prooftexts-index='95'> Beside this law written in their hearts, they received a command, not to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil;</span><span data-prooftexts='Genesis 1:26, 28' data-prooftexts-index='96'> which while they kept, they were happy in their communion with God, and had dominion over the creatures.</span>"
},
"prooftext_verses": {
"86": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Hebrews 1:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58001002.01-1\">but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world.</p>\n</div><h5>John 1:2-3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43001002.01-2\">He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.</p>\n</div><h5>Genesis 1:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p01001002.01-3\">The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.</p>\n</div><h5>Job 26:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p18026013.01-4\">By his wind the heavens were made fair;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>his hand pierced the fleeing serpent.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Job 33:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p18033004.01-5\">The Spirit of God has made me,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and the breath of the Almighty gives me life. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"87": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 1:20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45001020.01-1\">For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.</p>\n</div><h5>Jeremiah 10:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p24010012.01-2\">It is he who made the earth by his power,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>who established the world by his wisdom,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and by his understanding stretched out the heavens.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 104:24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19104024.01-3\">O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, how manifold are your works!<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>In wisdom have you made them all;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>the earth is full of your creatures.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 33:5-6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19033005.01-4\">He loves righteousness and justice;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>the earth is full of the steadfast love of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>.</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19033006.01-4\">By the word of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> the heavens were made,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and by the breath of his mouth all their host. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"88": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Genesis 1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p class=\"chapter-first\" id=\"p01001001.06-1\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v01001001-1\">1:1 </span>In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.</p>\n <p id=\"p01001003.01-1\">And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.</p>\n <p id=\"p01001006.01-1\">And God said, “Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters.” And God made the expanse and separated the waters that were under the expanse from the waters that were above the expanse. And it was so. And God called the expanse Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, the second day.</p>\n <p id=\"p01001009.01-1\">And God said, “Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear.” And it was so. God called the dry land Earth, and the waters that were gathered together he called Seas. And God saw that it was good.</p>\n <p id=\"p01001011.01-1\">And God said, “Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind, on the earth.” And it was so. The earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed according to their own kinds, and trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. And there was evening and there was morning, the third day.</p>\n <p id=\"p01001014.01-1\">And God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night. And let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days and years, and let them be lights in the expanse of the heavens to give light upon the earth.” And it was so. And God made the two great lights—the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night—and the stars. And God set them in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth, to rule over the day and over the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good. And there was evening and there was morning, the fourth day.</p>\n <p id=\"p01001020.01-1\">And God said, “Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the heavens.” So God created the great sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarm, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. And God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.” And there was evening and there was morning, the fifth day.</p>\n <p id=\"p01001024.01-1\">And God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds—livestock and creeping things and beasts of the earth according to their kinds.” And it was so. And God made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds and the livestock according to their kinds, and everything that creeps on the ground according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.</p>\n <p id=\"p01001026.01-1\">Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”</p>\n <div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p01001027.01-1\">So God created man in his own image,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>in the image of God he created him;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>male and female he created them.</p>\n</div>\n <p id=\"p01001028.01-1\">And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” And God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food. And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the heavens and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food.” And it was so. And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.</p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 11:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58011003.01-2\">By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible.</p>\n</div><h5>Colossians 1:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p51001016.01-3\">For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him.</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 17:24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44017024.01-4\">The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by man, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"89": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Genesis 1:27</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p01001027.01-1\">So God created man in his own image,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>in the image of God he created him;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>male and female he created them. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"91": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Genesis 1:26</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p01001026.01-1\">Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”</p>\n</div><h5>Colossians 3:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p51003010.01-2\">and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator.</p>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 4:24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49004024.01-3\">and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"90": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Genesis 2:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p01002007.01-1\">then the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.</p>\n</div><h5>Ecclesiastes 12:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p21012007.01-2\">and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.</p>\n</div><h5>Luke 23:43</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42023043.01-3\">And he said to him, <span class=\"woc\">“Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in Paradise.”</span></p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 10:28</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40010028.01-4\"><span class=\"woc\">And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"93": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ecclesiastes 7:29</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p21007029.01-1\">See, this alone I found, that God made man upright, but they have sought out many schemes. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"92": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 2:14-15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45002014.01-1\">For when Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law. They show that the work of the law is written on their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness, and their conflicting thoughts accuse or even excuse them (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"95": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Genesis 2:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p01002017.01-1\">but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”</p>\n</div><h5>Genesis 3:8-11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p01003008.01-2\">And they heard the sound of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> God among the trees of the garden. But the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> God called to the man and said to him, “Where are you?” And he said, “I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked, and I hid myself.” He said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten of the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?”</p>\n</div><h5>Genesis 3:23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p01003023.01-3\">therefore the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> God sent him out from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"94": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Genesis 3:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p01003006.01-1\">So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate.</p>\n</div><h5>Ecclesiastes 7:29</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p21007029.01-2\">See, this alone I found, that God made man upright, but they have sought out many schemes. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"96": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Genesis 1:26</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p01001026.01-1\">Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”</p>\n</div><h5>Genesis 1:28</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p01001028.01-2\">And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"95": "Genesis 2:17; Genesis 3:8-11, 23",
"94": "Genesis 3:6; Ecclesiastes 7:29",
"88": "Genesis 1; Hebrews 11:3; Colossians 1:16; Acts 17:24",
"89": "Genesis 1:27",
"91": "Genesis 1:26; Colossians 3:10; Ephesians 4:24",
"90": "Genesis 2:7; Ecclesiastes 12:7; Luke 23:43; Matthew 10:28",
"93": "Ecclesiastes 7:29",
"92": "Romans 2:14-15",
"86": "Hebrews 1:2; John 1:2-3; Genesis 1:2; Job 26:13; Job 33:4",
"87": "Romans 1:20; Jeremiah 10:12; Psalm 104:24; Psalm 33:5-6",
"96": "Genesis 1:26, 28"
},
"title": "Chapter 4: Of Creation"
},
"7": {
"body": {
"1": "<span data-prooftexts='Isaiah 40:13-17; Job 9:32-33; 1 Samuel 2:25; Psalm 113:5-6; Psalm 100:2-3; Job 22:2-3; Job 35:7-8; Luke 17:10; Acts 17:24-25' data-prooftexts-index='144'>The distance between God and the creature is so great, that although reasonable creatures do owe obedience unto him as their Creator, yet they could never have any fruition of him as their blessedness and reward, but by some voluntary condescension on God's part, which he hath been pleased to express by way of covenant.</span>",
"3": "<span data-prooftexts='Galatians 3:21; Romans 8:3; Romans 3:20-21; Genesis 3:15; Isaiah 42:6' data-prooftexts-index='148'>Man, by his fall, having made himself incapable of life by that covenant, the Lord was pleased to make a second,</span><span data-prooftexts='Mark 16:15-16; John 3:16; Romans 10:6, 9; Galatians 3:11' data-prooftexts-index='149'> commonly called the covenant of grace; wherein he freely offereth unto sinners life and salvation by Jesus Christ; requiring of them faith in him, that they may be saved,</span><span data-prooftexts='Ezekiel 36:26-27; John 6:44-45' data-prooftexts-index='150'> and promising to give unto all those that are ordained unto eternal life his Holy Spirit, to make them willing, and able to believe.</span>",
"2": "<span data-prooftexts='Galatians 3:12' data-prooftexts-index='145'>The first covenant made with man was a covenant of works,</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 10:5; Romans 5:12-20' data-prooftexts-index='146'> wherein life was promised to Adam; and in him to his posterity,</span><span data-prooftexts='Genesis 2:17; Galatians 3:10' data-prooftexts-index='147'> upon condition of perfect and personal obedience.</span>",
"5": "<span data-prooftexts='2 Corinthians 3:6-9' data-prooftexts-index='152'>This covenant was differently administered in the time of the law, and in the time of the gospel:</span><span data-prooftexts='Hebrews 8-10; Romans 4:11; Colossians 2:11-12; 1 Corinthians 5:7' data-prooftexts-index='153'> under the law, it was administered by promises, prophecies, sacrifices, circumcision, the paschal lamb, and other types and ordinances delivered to the people of the Jews, all foresignifying Christ to come;</span><span data-prooftexts='1 Corinthians 10:1-4; Hebrews 11:13; John 8:56' data-prooftexts-index='154'> which were, for that time, sufficient and efficacious, through the operation of the Spirit, to instruct and build up the elect in faith in the promised Messiah,</span><span data-prooftexts='Galatians 3:7-9, 14' data-prooftexts-index='155'> by whom they had full remission of sins, and eternal salvation; and is called the old testament.</span>",
"4": "<span data-prooftexts='Hebrews 9:15-17; Hebrews 7:22; Luke 22:20; 1 Corinthians 11:25' data-prooftexts-index='151'>This covenant of grace is frequently set forth in Scripture by the name of a testament, in reference to the death of Jesus Christ the Testator, and to the everlasting inheritance, with all things belonging to it, therein bequeathed.</span>",
"6": "<span data-prooftexts='Colossians 2:17' data-prooftexts-index='156'>Under the gospel, when Christ, the substance,</span><span data-prooftexts='Matthew 28:19-20; 1 Corinthians 11:23-25' data-prooftexts-index='157'> was exhibited, the ordinances in which this covenant is dispensed are the preaching of the Word, and the administration of the sacraments of baptism and the Lord's Supper:</span><span data-prooftexts='Hebrews 12:22-27; Jeremiah 31:33-34' data-prooftexts-index='158'> which, though fewer in number, and administered with more simplicity, and less outward glory, yet, in them, it is held forth in more fullness, evidence and spiritual efficacy,</span><span data-prooftexts='Matthew 28:19; Ephesians 2:15-19' data-prooftexts-index='159'> to all nations, both Jews and Gentiles;</span><span data-prooftexts='Luke 22:20' data-prooftexts-index='160'> and is called the new testament.</span><span data-prooftexts='Galatians 3:14, 16; Acts 15:11; Romans 3:21-23, 30; Psalm 32:1; Romans 4:3, 6, 16-17, 23-24; Hebrews 13:8' data-prooftexts-index='161'> There are not therefore two covenants of grace, differing in substance, but one and the same, under various dispensations.</span>"
},
"prooftext_verses": {
"146": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 10:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p45010005.07-1\">For Moses writes about the righteousness that is based on the law, that the person who does the commandments shall live by them.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 5:12-20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p45005012.07-2\">Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned— for sin indeed was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not counted where there is no law. Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sinning was not like the transgression of Adam, who was a type of the one who was to come.</p>\n <p id=\"p45005015.01-2\">But the free gift is not like the trespass. For if many died through one man's trespass, much more have the grace of God and the free gift by the grace of that one man Jesus Christ abounded for many. And the free gift is not like the result of that one man's sin. For the judgment following one trespass brought condemnation, but the free gift following many trespasses brought justification. For if, because of one man's trespass, death reigned through that one man, much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man Jesus Christ.</p>\n <p id=\"p45005018.01-2\">Therefore, as one trespass led to condemnation for all men, so one act of righteousness leads to justification and life for all men. For as by the one man's disobedience the many were made sinners, so by the one man's obedience the many will be made righteous. Now the law came in to increase the trespass, but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"147": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Genesis 2:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p01002017.01-1\">but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”</p>\n</div><h5>Galatians 3:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p48003010.07-2\">For all who rely on works of the law are under a curse; for it is written, “Cursed be everyone who does not abide by all things written in the Book of the Law, and do them.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"144": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Isaiah 40:13-17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23040013.01-1\">Who has measured the Spirit of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>or what man shows him his counsel?<br />\n Whom did he consult,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and who made him understand?<br />\nWho taught him the path of justice,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and taught him knowledge,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and showed him the way of understanding?<br />\n Behold, the nations are like a drop from a bucket,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and are accounted as the dust on the scales;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>behold, he takes up the coastlands like fine dust.<br />\n Lebanon would not suffice for fuel,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>nor are its beasts enough for a burnt offering.<br />\n All the nations are as nothing before him,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>they are accounted by him as less than nothing and emptiness.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Job 9:32-33</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p18009032.01-2\">For he is not a man, as I am, that I might answer him,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that we should come to trial together.<br />\n There is no arbiter between us,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>who might lay his hand on us both.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>1 Samuel 2:25</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p09002025.01-3\">If someone sins against a man, God will mediate for him, but if someone sins against the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, who can intercede for him?” But they would not listen to the voice of their father, for it was the will of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> to put them to death.</p>\n</div><h5>Psalm 113:5-6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19113005.01-4\">Who is like the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> our God,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>who is seated on high,<br />\n who looks far down<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>on the heavens and the earth?</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 100:2-3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19100002.01-5\"><span class=\"indent\"></span>Serve the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> with gladness!<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Come into his presence with singing!</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19100003.01-5\">Know that the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, he is God!<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>It is he who made us, and we are his;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Job 22:2-3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p18022002.01-6\">“Can a man be profitable to God?<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself.<br />\n Is it any pleasure to the Almighty if you are in the right,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>or is it gain to him if you make your ways blameless?</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Job 35:7-8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p18035007.01-7\">If you are righteous, what do you give to him?<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Or what does he receive from your hand?<br />\n Your wickedness concerns a man like yourself,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and your righteousness a son of man.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Luke 17:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42017010.01-8\"><span class=\"woc\">So you also, when you have done all that you were commanded, say, ‘We are unworthy servants; we have only done what was our duty.’”</span></p>\n</div><h5>Acts 17:24-25</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44017024.01-9\">The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by man, nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"145": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Galatians 3:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p48003012.01-1\">But the law is not of faith, rather “The one who does them shall live by them.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"155": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Galatians 3:7-9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p48003007.01-1\">Know then that it is those of faith who are the sons of Abraham. And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, “In you shall all the nations be blessed.” So then, those who are of faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith.</p>\n</div><h5>Galatians 3:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p48003014.01-2\">so that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles, so that we might receive the promised Spirit through faith. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"154": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Corinthians 10:1-4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p46010001.04-1\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v46010001-1\">10:1 </span>For I want you to know, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea, and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, and all ate the same spiritual food, and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spiritual Rock that followed them, and the Rock was Christ.</p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 11:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58011013.01-2\">These all died in faith, not having received the things promised, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.</p>\n</div><h5>John 8:56</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43008056.01-3\"><span class=\"woc\">Your father Abraham rejoiced that he would see my day. He saw it and was glad.”</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"157": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 28:19-20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40028019.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,</span> <span class=\"woc\">teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”</span></p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 11:23-25</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46011023.01-2\">For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, <span class=\"woc\">“This is my body which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.”</span> In the same way also he took the cup, after supper, saying, <span class=\"woc\">“This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.”</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"150": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ezekiel 36:26-27</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p26036026.01-1\">And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my rules.</p>\n</div><h5>John 6:44-45</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43006044.01-2\"><span class=\"woc\">No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day.</span> <span class=\"woc\">It is written in the Prophets, ‘And they will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to me—</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"159": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 28:19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40028019.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,</span></p>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 2:15-19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49002015.01-2\">by abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace, and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility. And he came and preached peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near. For through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father. So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"158": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Hebrews 12:22-27</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58012022.01-1\">But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable angels in festal gathering, and to the assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect, and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.</p>\n <p id=\"p58012025.01-1\">See that you do not refuse him who is speaking. For if they did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, much less will we escape if we reject him who warns from heaven. At that time his voice shook the earth, but now he has promised, “Yet once more I will shake not only the earth but also the heavens.” This phrase, “Yet once more,” indicates the removal of things that are shaken—that is, things that have been made—in order that the things that cannot be shaken may remain.</p>\n</div><h5>Jeremiah 31:33-34</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p24031033.01-2\">But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people. And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, ‘Know the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"156": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Colossians 2:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p51002017.01-1\">These are a shadow of the things to come, but the substance belongs to Christ. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"151": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Hebrews 9:15-17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58009015.01-1\">Therefore he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, since a death has occurred that redeems them from the transgressions committed under the first covenant. For where a will is involved, the death of the one who made it must be established. For a will takes effect only at death, since it is not in force as long as the one who made it is alive.</p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 7:22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p class=\"same-paragraph\" id=\"p58007022.01-2\">This makes Jesus the guarantor of a better covenant.</p>\n</div><h5>Luke 22:20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42022020.01-3\">And likewise the cup after they had eaten, saying, <span class=\"woc\">“This cup that is poured out for you is the new covenant in my blood.</span></p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 11:25</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46011025.01-4\">In the same way also he took the cup, after supper, saying, <span class=\"woc\">“This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.”</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"153": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Hebrews 8-10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p58008001.08-1\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v58008001-1\">8:1 </span>Now the point in what we are saying is this: we have such a high priest, one who is seated at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven, a minister in the holy places, in the true tent that the Lord set up, not man. For every high priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices; thus it is necessary for this priest also to have something to offer. Now if he were on earth, he would not be a priest at all, since there are priests who offer gifts according to the law. They serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things. For when Moses was about to erect the tent, he was instructed by God, saying, “See that you make everything according to the pattern that was shown you on the mountain.” But as it is, Christ has obtained a ministry that is as much more excellent than the old as the covenant he mediates is better, since it is enacted on better promises. For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion to look for a second.</p>\n <p id=\"p58008008.01-1\">For he finds fault with them when he says:</p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p58008008.10-1\">“Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>when I will establish a new covenant with the house of Israel<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and with the house of Judah,<br />\n not like the covenant that I made with their fathers<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt.<br />\nFor they did not continue in my covenant,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and so I showed no concern for them, declares the Lord.<br />\n For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>after those days, declares the Lord:<br />\nI will put my laws into their minds,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and write them on their hearts,<br />\nand I will be their God,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and they shall be my people.<br />\n And they shall not teach, each one his neighbor<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and each one his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’<br />\nfor they shall all know me,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>from the least of them to the greatest.<br />\n For I will be merciful toward their iniquities,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and I will remember their sins no more.”</p>\n</div>\n <p class=\"same-paragraph\" id=\"p58008013.01-1\">In speaking of a new covenant, he makes the first one obsolete. And what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.</p>\n \n<p id=\"p58009001.05-1\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v58009001-1\">9:1 </span>Now even the first covenant had regulations for worship and an earthly place of holiness. For a tent was prepared, the first section, in which were the lampstand and the table and the bread of the Presence. It is called the Holy Place. Behind the second curtain was a second section called the Most Holy Place, having the golden altar of incense and the ark of the covenant covered on all sides with gold, in which was a golden urn holding the manna, and Aaron's staff that budded, and the tablets of the covenant. Above it were the cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat. Of these things we cannot now speak in detail.</p>\n <p id=\"p58009006.01-1\">These preparations having thus been made, the priests go regularly into the first section, performing their ritual duties, but into the second only the high priest goes, and he but once a year, and not without taking blood, which he offers for himself and for the unintentional sins of the people. By this the Holy Spirit indicates that the way into the holy places is not yet opened as long as the first section is still standing (which is symbolic for the present age). According to this arrangement, gifts and sacrifices are offered that cannot perfect the conscience of the worshiper, but deal only with food and drink and various washings, regulations for the body imposed until the time of reformation.</p>\n \n<p id=\"p58009011.07-1\">But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things that have come, then through the greater and more perfect tent (not made with hands, that is, not of this creation) he entered once for all into the holy places, not by means of the blood of goats and calves but by means of his own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption. For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the sprinkling of defiled persons with the ashes of a heifer, sanctify for the purification of the flesh, how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God.</p>\n <p id=\"p58009015.01-1\">Therefore he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, since a death has occurred that redeems them from the transgressions committed under the first covenant. For where a will is involved, the death of the one who made it must be established. For a will takes effect only at death, since it is not in force as long as the one who made it is alive. Therefore not even the first covenant was inaugurated without blood. For when every commandment of the law had been declared by Moses to all the people, he took the blood of calves and goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people, saying, “This is the blood of the covenant that God commanded for you.” And in the same way he sprinkled with the blood both the tent and all the vessels used in worship. Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins.</p>\n <p id=\"p58009023.01-1\">Thus it was necessary for the copies of the heavenly things to be purified with these rites, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. For Christ has entered, not into holy places made with hands, which are copies of the true things, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf. Nor was it to offer himself repeatedly, as the high priest enters the holy places every year with blood not his own, for then he would have had to suffer repeatedly since the foundation of the world. But as it is, he has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment, so Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him.</p>\n \n<p id=\"p58010001.06-1\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v58010001-1\">10:1 </span>For since the law has but a shadow of the good things to come instead of the true form of these realities, it can never, by the same sacrifices that are continually offered every year, make perfect those who draw near. Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, since the worshipers, having once been cleansed, would no longer have any consciousness of sins? But in these sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every year. For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.</p>\n <p id=\"p58010005.01-1\">Consequently, when Christ came into the world, he said,</p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p58010005.10-1\">“Sacrifices and offerings you have not desired,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but a body have you prepared for me;<br />\n in burnt offerings and sin offerings<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>you have taken no pleasure.<br />\n Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come to do your will, O God,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>as it is written of me in the scroll of the book.’”</p>\n</div>\n <p class=\"same-paragraph\" id=\"p58010008.01-1\">When he said above, “You have neither desired nor taken pleasure in sacrifices and offerings and burnt offerings and sin offerings” (these are offered according to the law), then he added, “Behold, I have come to do your will.” He does away with the first in order to establish the second. And by that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.</p>\n <p id=\"p58010011.01-1\">And every priest stands daily at his service, offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God, waiting from that time until his enemies should be made a footstool for his feet. For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified.</p>\n <p id=\"p58010015.01-1\">And the Holy Spirit also bears witness to us; for after saying,</p>\n <div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p58010016.01-1\">“This is the covenant that I will make with them<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>after those days, declares the Lord:<br />\nI will put my laws on their hearts,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and write them on their minds,”</p>\n</div>\n <p class=\"same-paragraph\" id=\"p58010017.01-1\">then he adds,</p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p58010017.04-1\">“I will remember their sins and their lawless deeds no more.”</p>\n</div>\n <p class=\"same-paragraph\" id=\"p58010018.01-1\">Where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer any offering for sin.</p>\n \n<p id=\"p58010019.06-1\">Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus, by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh, and since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful. And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.</p>\n <p id=\"p58010026.01-1\">For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a fearful expectation of judgment, and a fury of fire that will consume the adversaries. Anyone who has set aside the law of Moses dies without mercy on the evidence of two or three witnesses. How much worse punishment, do you think, will be deserved by the one who has spurned the Son of God, and has profaned the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has outraged the Spirit of grace? For we know him who said, “Vengeance is mine; I will repay.” And again, “The Lord will judge his people.” It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.</p>\n <p id=\"p58010032.01-1\">But recall the former days when, after you were enlightened, you endured a hard struggle with sufferings, sometimes being publicly exposed to reproach and affliction, and sometimes being partners with those so treated. For you had compassion on those in prison, and you joyfully accepted the plundering of your property, since you knew that you yourselves had a better possession and an abiding one. Therefore do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward. For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God you may receive what is promised. For,</p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p58010037.02-1\">“Yet a little while,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and the coming one will come and will not delay;<br />\n but my righteous one shall live by faith,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and if he shrinks back,<br />\nmy soul has no pleasure in him.”</p>\n</div>\n <p class=\"same-paragraph\" id=\"p58010039.01-1\">But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and preserve their souls.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 4:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45004011.01-2\">He received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. The purpose was to make him the father of all who believe without being circumcised, so that righteousness would be counted to them as well,</p>\n</div><h5>Colossians 2:11-12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p51002011.01-3\">In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 5:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46005007.01-4\">Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"148": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Galatians 3:21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p48003021.01-1\">Is the law then contrary to the promises of God? Certainly not! For if a law had been given that could give life, then righteousness would indeed be by the law.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 8:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45008003.01-2\">For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 3:20-21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45003020.01-3\">For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.</p>\n \n<p id=\"p45003021.07-3\">But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it—</p>\n</div><h5>Genesis 3:15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p01003015.01-4\">I will put enmity between you and the woman,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and between your offspring and her offspring;<br />\nhe shall bruise your head,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and you shall bruise his heel.”</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Isaiah 42:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23042006.01-5\">“I am the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>; I have called you in righteousness;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I will take you by the hand and keep you;<br />\nI will give you as a covenant for the people,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>a light for the nations, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"149": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Mark 16:15-16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p41016015.01-1\">And he said to them, <span class=\"woc\">“Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation.</span> <span class=\"woc\">Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.</span></p>\n</div><h5>John 3:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p43003016.07-2\"><span class=\"woc\">“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.</span></p>\n</div><h5>Romans 10:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45010006.01-3\">But the righteousness based on faith says, “Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into heaven?’” (that is, to bring Christ down)</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 10:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45010009.01-4\">because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.</p>\n</div><h5>Galatians 3:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p48003011.01-5\">Now it is evident that no one is justified before God by the law, for “The righteous shall live by faith.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"152": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>2 Corinthians 3:6-9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p47003006.01-1\">who has made us competent to be ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.</p>\n <p id=\"p47003007.01-1\">Now if the ministry of death, carved in letters on stone, came with such glory that the Israelites could not gaze at Moses' face because of its glory, which was being brought to an end, will not the ministry of the Spirit have even more glory? For if there was glory in the ministry of condemnation, the ministry of righteousness must far exceed it in glory. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"160": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Luke 22:20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42022020.01-1\">And likewise the cup after they had eaten, saying, <span class=\"woc\">“This cup that is poured out for you is the new covenant in my blood.</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"161": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Galatians 3:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p48003014.01-1\">so that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles, so that we might receive the promised Spirit through faith.</p>\n</div><h5>Galatians 3:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p48003016.01-2\">Now the promises were made to Abraham and to his offspring. It does not say, “And to offsprings,” referring to many, but referring to one, “And to your offspring,” who is Christ.</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 15:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44015011.01-3\">But we believe that we will be saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, just as they will.”</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 3:21-23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p45003021.07-4\">But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it— the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction: for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 3:30</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45003030.01-5\">since God is one—who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith.</p>\n</div><h5>Psalm 32:1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19032001.09-6\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v19032001-6\">32:1 </span>Blessed is the one whose transgression is forgiven,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>whose sin is covered.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Romans 4:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45004003.01-7\">For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness.”</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 4:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45004006.01-8\">just as David also speaks of the blessing of the one to whom God counts righteousness apart from works:</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 4:16-17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45004016.01-9\">That is why it depends on faith, in order that the promise may rest on grace and be guaranteed to all his offspring—not only to the adherent of the law but also to the one who shares the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all, as it is written, “I have made you the father of many nations”—in the presence of the God in whom he believed, who gives life to the dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 4:23-24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45004023.01-10\">But the words “it was counted to him” were not written for his sake alone, but for ours also. It will be counted to us who believe in him who raised from the dead Jesus our Lord,</p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 13:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58013008.01-11\">Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"146": "Romans 10:5; Romans 5:12-20",
"147": "Genesis 2:17; Galatians 3:10",
"144": "Isaiah 40:13-17; Job 9:32-33; 1 Samuel 2:25; Psalm 113:5-6; Psalm 100:2-3; Job 22:2-3; Job 35:7-8; Luke 17:10; Acts 17:24-25",
"145": "Galatians 3:12",
"155": "Galatians 3:7-9, 14",
"154": "1 Corinthians 10:1-4; Hebrews 11:13; John 8:56",
"157": "Matthew 28:19-20; 1 Corinthians 11:23-25",
"150": "Ezekiel 36:26-27; John 6:44-45",
"159": "Matthew 28:19; Ephesians 2:15-19",
"158": "Hebrews 12:22-27; Jeremiah 31:33-34",
"156": "Colossians 2:17",
"151": "Hebrews 9:15-17; Hebrews 7:22; Luke 22:20; 1 Corinthians 11:25",
"153": "Hebrews 8-10; Romans 4:11; Colossians 2:11-12; 1 Corinthians 5:7",
"148": "Galatians 3:21; Romans 8:3; Romans 3:20-21; Genesis 3:15; Isaiah 42:6",
"149": "Mark 16:15-16; John 3:16; Romans 10:6, 9; Galatians 3:11",
"152": "2 Corinthians 3:6-9",
"160": "Luke 22:20",
"161": "Galatians 3:14, 16; Acts 15:11; Romans 3:21-23, 30; Psalm 32:1; Romans 4:3, 6, 16-17, 23-24; Hebrews 13:8"
},
"title": "Chapter 7: Of God's Covenant with Man"
},
"6": {
"body": {
"1": "<span data-prooftexts='Genesis 3:13; 2 Corinthians 11:3' data-prooftexts-index='124'>Our first parents, being seduced by the subtlety and temptation of Satan, sinned, in eating the forbidden fruit.</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 11:32' data-prooftexts-index='125'> This their sin, God was pleased, according to his wise and holy counsel, to permit, having purposed to order it to his own glory.</span>",
"3": "<span data-prooftexts='Genesis 1:27-28; Genesis 2:16-17; Acts 17:26; Romans 5:12, 15-19; 1 Corinthians 15:21-22, 45, 49' data-prooftexts-index='129'>They being the root of all mankind, the guilt of this sin was imputed;</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalm 51:5; Genesis 5:3; Job 14:4; Job 15:14' data-prooftexts-index='130'> and the same death in sin, and corrupted nature, conveyed to all their posterity descending from them by ordinary generation.</span>",
"2": "<span data-prooftexts='Genesis 3:6-8; Ecclesiastes 7:29; Romans 3:23' data-prooftexts-index='126'>By this sin they fell from their original righteousness and communion with God,</span><span data-prooftexts='Genesis 2:17; Ephesians 2:1' data-prooftexts-index='127'> and so became dead in sin,</span><span data-prooftexts='Titus 1:15; Genesis 6:5; Jeremiah 17:9; Romans 3:10-18' data-prooftexts-index='128'> and wholly defiled in all the parts and faculties of soul and body.</span>",
"5": "<span data-prooftexts='1 John 1:8, 10; Romans 7:14, 17-18, 23; James 3:2; Proverbs 20:9; Ecclesiastes 7:20' data-prooftexts-index='134'>This corruption of nature, during this life, doth remain in those that are regenerated;</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 7:5, 7-8, 25; Galatians 5:17' data-prooftexts-index='135'> and although it be, through Christ, pardoned, and mortified; yet both itself, and all the motions thereof, are truly and properly sin.</span>",
"4": "<span data-prooftexts='Romans 5:6; Romans 8:7; Romans 7:18; Colossians 1:21' data-prooftexts-index='131'>From this original corruption, whereby we are utterly indisposed, disabled, and made opposite to all good,</span><span data-prooftexts='Genesis 6:5; Genesis 8:21; Romans 3:10-12' data-prooftexts-index='132'> and wholly inclined to all evil,</span><span data-prooftexts='James 1:14-15; Ephesians 2:2-3; Matthew 15:19' data-prooftexts-index='133'> do proceed all actual transgressions.</span>",
"6": "<span data-prooftexts='1 John 3:4' data-prooftexts-index='136'>Every sin, both original and actual, being a transgression of the righteous law of God, and contrary thereunto,</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 2:15; Romans 3:9, 19' data-prooftexts-index='137'> doth, in its own nature, bring guilt upon the sinner,</span><span data-prooftexts='Ephesians 2:3' data-prooftexts-index='138'> whereby he is bound over to the wrath of God,</span><span data-prooftexts='Galatians 3:10' data-prooftexts-index='139'> and curse of the law,</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 6:23' data-prooftexts-index='140'> and so made subject to death,</span><span data-prooftexts='Ephesians 4:18' data-prooftexts-index='141'> with all miseries spiritual,</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 8:20; Lamentations 3:39' data-prooftexts-index='142'> temporal,</span><span data-prooftexts='Matthew 25:41; 2 Thessalonians 1:9' data-prooftexts-index='143'> and eternal.</span>"
},
"prooftext_verses": {
"142": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 8:20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45008020.01-1\">For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it, in hope</p>\n</div><h5>Lamentations 3:39</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p25003039.01-2\">Why should a living man complain,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>a man, about the punishment of his sins? (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"143": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 25:41</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40025041.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">“Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.</span></p>\n</div><h5>2 Thessalonians 1:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p53001009.01-2\">They will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"140": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 6:23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45006023.01-1\">For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"141": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ephesians 4:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49004018.01-1\">They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"134": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 John 1:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p62001008.01-1\">If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.</p>\n</div><h5>1 John 1:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p62001010.01-2\">If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 7:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45007014.01-3\">For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold under sin.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 7:17-18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45007017.01-4\">So now it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me. For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 7:23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45007023.01-5\">but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members.</p>\n</div><h5>James 3:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p59003002.01-6\">For we all stumble in many ways. And if anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle his whole body.</p>\n</div><h5>Proverbs 20:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20020009.01-7\">Who can say, “I have made my heart pure;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I am clean from my sin”?</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Ecclesiastes 7:20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p21007020.01-8\">Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and never sins. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"133": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>James 1:14-15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p59001014.01-1\">But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire. Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.</p>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 2:2-3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49002002.01-2\">in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.</p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 15:19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40015019.01-3\"><span class=\"woc\">For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander.</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"132": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Genesis 6:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p01006005.01-1\">The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.</p>\n</div><h5>Genesis 8:21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p01008021.01-2\">And when the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> smelled the pleasing aroma, the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> said in his heart, “I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the intention of man's heart is evil from his youth. Neither will I ever again strike down every living creature as I have done.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 3:10-12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45003010.01-3\">as it is written:</p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p45003010.05-3\">“None is righteous, no, not one;<br />\n <span class=\"indent\"></span>no one understands;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>no one seeks for God.<br />\n All have turned aside; together they have become worthless;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>no one does good,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>not even one.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"131": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 5:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45005006.01-1\">For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 8:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45008007.01-2\">For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law; indeed, it cannot.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 7:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45007018.01-3\">For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out.</p>\n</div><h5>Colossians 1:21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p51001021.01-4\">And you, who once were alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"130": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 51:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19051005.01-1\">Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and in sin did my mother conceive me.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Genesis 5:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p01005003.01-2\">When Adam had lived 130 years, he fathered a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth.</p>\n</div><h5>Job 14:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p18014004.01-3\">Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean?<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>There is not one.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Job 15:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p18015014.01-4\">What is man, that he can be pure?<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Or he who is born of a woman, that he can be righteous? (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"124": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Genesis 3:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p01003013.01-1\">Then the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> God said to the woman, “What is this that you have done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”</p>\n</div><h5>2 Corinthians 11:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p47011003.01-2\">But I am afraid that as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts will be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"136": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 John 3:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p62003004.01-1\">Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"135": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 7:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45007005.01-1\">For while we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 7:7-8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p45007007.05-2\">What then shall we say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet if it had not been for the law, I would not have known sin. For I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, “You shall not covet.” But sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetousness. For apart from the law, sin lies dead.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 7:25</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45007025.01-3\">Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.</p>\n</div><h5>Galatians 5:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p48005017.01-4\">For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"127": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Genesis 2:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p01002017.01-1\">but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”</p>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 2:1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p49002001.05-2\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v49002001-2\">2:1 </span>And you were dead in the trespasses and sins (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"128": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Titus 1:15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p56001015.01-1\">To the pure, all things are pure, but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their minds and their consciences are defiled.</p>\n</div><h5>Genesis 6:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p01006005.01-2\">The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.</p>\n</div><h5>Jeremiah 17:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p24017009.01-3\">The heart is deceitful above all things,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and desperately sick;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>who can understand it?</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Romans 3:10-18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45003010.01-4\">as it is written:</p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p45003010.05-4\">“None is righteous, no, not one;<br />\n <span class=\"indent\"></span>no one understands;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>no one seeks for God.<br />\n All have turned aside; together they have become worthless;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>no one does good,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>not even one.”<br />\n “Their throat is an open grave;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>they use their tongues to deceive.”<br />\n“The venom of asps is under their lips.”<br />\n <span class=\"indent\"></span>“Their mouth is full of curses and bitterness.”<br />\n “Their feet are swift to shed blood;<br />\n <span class=\"indent\"></span>in their paths are ruin and misery,<br />\n and the way of peace they have not known.”<br />\n <span class=\"indent\"></span>“There is no fear of God before their eyes.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"137": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 2:15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45002015.01-1\">They show that the work of the law is written on their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness, and their conflicting thoughts accuse or even excuse them</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 3:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p45003009.05-2\">What then? Are we Jews any better off? No, not at all. For we have already charged that all, both Jews and Greeks, are under sin,</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 3:19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45003019.01-3\">Now we know that whatever the law says it speaks to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and the whole world may be held accountable to God. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"139": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Galatians 3:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p48003010.07-1\">For all who rely on works of the law are under a curse; for it is written, “Cursed be everyone who does not abide by all things written in the Book of the Law, and do them.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"138": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ephesians 2:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49002003.01-1\">among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"126": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Genesis 3:6-8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p01003006.01-1\">So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate. Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loincloths.</p>\n <p id=\"p01003008.01-1\">And they heard the sound of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> God among the trees of the garden.</p>\n</div><h5>Ecclesiastes 7:29</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p21007029.01-2\">See, this alone I found, that God made man upright, but they have sought out many schemes.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 3:23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45003023.01-3\">for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"129": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Genesis 1:27-28</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p01001027.01-1\">So God created man in his own image,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>in the image of God he created him;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>male and female he created them.</p>\n</div>\n <p id=\"p01001028.01-1\">And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”</p>\n</div><h5>Genesis 2:16-17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p01002016.01-2\">And the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> God commanded the man, saying, “You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 17:26</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44017026.01-3\">And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place,</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 5:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p45005012.07-4\">Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned—</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 5:15-19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45005015.01-5\">But the free gift is not like the trespass. For if many died through one man's trespass, much more have the grace of God and the free gift by the grace of that one man Jesus Christ abounded for many. And the free gift is not like the result of that one man's sin. For the judgment following one trespass brought condemnation, but the free gift following many trespasses brought justification. For if, because of one man's trespass, death reigned through that one man, much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man Jesus Christ.</p>\n <p id=\"p45005018.01-5\">Therefore, as one trespass led to condemnation for all men, so one act of righteousness leads to justification and life for all men. For as by the one man's disobedience the many were made sinners, so by the one man's obedience the many will be made righteous.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 15:21-22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46015021.01-6\">For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 15:45</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46015045.01-7\">Thus it is written, “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 15:49</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46015049.01-8\">Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"125": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 11:32</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45011032.01-1\">For God has consigned all to disobedience, that he may have mercy on all. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"124": "Genesis 3:13; 2 Corinthians 11:3",
"142": "Romans 8:20; Lamentations 3:39",
"143": "Matthew 25:41; 2 Thessalonians 1:9",
"140": "Romans 6:23",
"141": "Ephesians 4:18",
"127": "Genesis 2:17; Ephesians 2:1",
"133": "James 1:14-15; Ephesians 2:2-3; Matthew 15:19",
"132": "Genesis 6:5; Genesis 8:21; Romans 3:10-12",
"131": "Romans 5:6; Romans 8:7; Romans 7:18; Colossians 1:21",
"130": "Psalm 51:5; Genesis 5:3; Job 14:4; Job 15:14",
"137": "Romans 2:15; Romans 3:9, 19",
"136": "1 John 3:4",
"135": "Romans 7:5, 7-8, 25; Galatians 5:17",
"134": "1 John 1:8, 10; Romans 7:14, 17-18, 23; James 3:2; Proverbs 20:9; Ecclesiastes 7:20",
"128": "Titus 1:15; Genesis 6:5; Jeremiah 17:9; Romans 3:10-18",
"129": "Genesis 1:27-28; Genesis 2:16-17; Acts 17:26; Romans 5:12, 15-19; 1 Corinthians 15:21-22, 45, 49",
"139": "Galatians 3:10",
"138": "Ephesians 2:3",
"126": "Genesis 3:6-8; Ecclesiastes 7:29; Romans 3:23",
"125": "Romans 11:32"
},
"title": "Chapter 6: Of the Fall of Man, of Sin, and of the Punishment Thereof"
},
"9": {
"body": {
"1": "<span data-prooftexts='Matthew 17:12; James 1:14; Deuteronomy 30:19' data-prooftexts-index='205'>God hath endued the will of man with that natural liberty, that it is neither forced, nor, by any absolute necessity of nature, determined to good, or evil.</span>",
"3": "<span data-prooftexts='Romans 5:6; Romans 8:7; John 15:5' data-prooftexts-index='208'>Man, by his fall into a state of sin, hath wholly lost all ability of will to any spiritual good accompanying salvation:</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 3:10, 12' data-prooftexts-index='209'> so as, a natural man, being altogether averse from that good,</span><span data-prooftexts='Ephesians 2:1, 5; Colossians 2:13' data-prooftexts-index='210'> and dead in sin,</span><span data-prooftexts='John 6:44, 65; Ephesians 2:2-5; 1 Corinthians 2:14; Titus 3:3-5' data-prooftexts-index='211'> is not able, by his own strength, to convert himself, or to prepare himself thereunto.</span>",
"2": "<span data-prooftexts='Ecclesiastes 7:29; Genesis 1:26' data-prooftexts-index='206'>Man, in his state of innocency, had freedom, and power to will and to do that which was good and well pleasing to God;</span><span data-prooftexts='Genesis 2:16-17; Genesis 3:6' data-prooftexts-index='207'> but yet, mutably, so that he might fall from it.</span>",
"5": "<span data-prooftexts='Ephesians 4:13; Hebrews 12:23; 1 John 3:2; Jude 24' data-prooftexts-index='215'>The will of man is made perfectly and immutably free to good alone, in the state of glory only.</span>",
"4": "<span data-prooftexts='Colossians 1:13; John 8:34, 36' data-prooftexts-index='212'>When God converts a sinner, and translates him into the state of grace, he freeth him from his natural bondage under sin;</span><span data-prooftexts='Philippians 2:13; Romans 6:18, 22' data-prooftexts-index='213'> and, by his grace alone, enables him freely to will and to do that which is spiritually good;</span><span data-prooftexts='Galatians 5:17; Romans 7:15, 18-19, 21, 23' data-prooftexts-index='214'> yet so, as that by reason of his remaining corruption, he doth not perfectly, nor only, will that which is good, but doth also will that which is evil.</span>"
},
"prooftext_verses": {
"214": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Galatians 5:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p48005017.01-1\">For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 7:15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45007015.01-2\">For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 7:18-19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45007018.01-3\">For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out. For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 7:21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45007021.01-4\">So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 7:23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45007023.01-5\">but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"215": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ephesians 4:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49004013.01-1\">until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ,</p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 12:23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58012023.01-2\">and to the assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect,</p>\n</div><h5>1 John 3:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p62003002.01-3\">Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is.</p>\n</div><h5>Jude 1:24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p65001024.02-4\">Now to him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you blameless before the presence of his glory with great joy, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"205": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 17:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40017012.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">But I tell you that Elijah has already come, and they did not recognize him, but did to him whatever they pleased. So also the Son of Man will certainly suffer at their hands.”</span></p>\n</div><h5>James 1:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p59001014.01-2\">But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire.</p>\n</div><h5>Deuteronomy 30:19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p05030019.01-3\">I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Therefore choose life, that you and your offspring may live, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"207": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Genesis 2:16-17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p01002016.01-1\">And the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> God commanded the man, saying, “You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”</p>\n</div><h5>Genesis 3:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p01003006.01-2\">So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"210": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ephesians 2:1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p49002001.05-1\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v49002001-1\">2:1 </span>And you were dead in the trespasses and sins</p>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 2:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49002005.01-2\">even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—</p>\n</div><h5>Colossians 2:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p51002013.01-3\">And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"206": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ecclesiastes 7:29</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p21007029.01-1\">See, this alone I found, that God made man upright, but they have sought out many schemes.</p>\n</div><h5>Genesis 1:26</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p01001026.01-2\">Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"209": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 3:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45003010.01-1\">as it is written:</p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p45003010.05-1\">“None is righteous, no, not one;</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Romans 3:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p45003012.01-2\">All have turned aside; together they have become worthless;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>no one does good,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>not even one.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"208": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 5:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45005006.01-1\">For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 8:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45008007.01-2\">For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law; indeed, it cannot.</p>\n</div><h5>John 15:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43015005.01-3\"><span class=\"woc\">I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"211": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>John 6:44</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43006044.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day.</span></p>\n</div><h5>John 6:65</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43006065.01-2\">And he said, <span class=\"woc\">“This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted him by the Father.”</span></p>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 2:2-5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49002002.01-3\">in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind. But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—</p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 2:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46002014.01-4\">The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.</p>\n</div><h5>Titus 3:3-5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p56003003.01-5\">For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another. But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"212": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Colossians 1:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p51001013.01-1\">He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son,</p>\n</div><h5>John 8:34</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43008034.01-2\">Jesus answered them, <span class=\"woc\">“Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who commits sin is a slave to sin.</span></p>\n</div><h5>John 8:36</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43008036.01-3\"><span class=\"woc\">So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"213": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Philippians 2:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p50002013.01-1\">for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 6:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45006018.01-2\">and, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 6:22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45006022.01-3\">But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the fruit you get leads to sanctification and its end, eternal life. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"214": "Galatians 5:17; Romans 7:15, 18-19, 21, 23",
"215": "Ephesians 4:13; Hebrews 12:23; 1 John 3:2; Jude 24",
"205": "Matthew 17:12; James 1:14; Deuteronomy 30:19",
"207": "Genesis 2:16-17; Genesis 3:6",
"210": "Ephesians 2:1, 5; Colossians 2:13",
"206": "Ecclesiastes 7:29; Genesis 1:26",
"209": "Romans 3:10, 12",
"208": "Romans 5:6; Romans 8:7; John 15:5",
"211": "John 6:44, 65; Ephesians 2:2-5; 1 Corinthians 2:14; Titus 3:3-5",
"212": "Colossians 1:13; John 8:34, 36",
"213": "Philippians 2:13; Romans 6:18, 22"
},
"title": "Chapter 9: Of Free Will"
},
"8": {
"body": {
"1": "<span data-prooftexts='Isaiah 42:1; 1 Peter 1:19-20; John 3:16; 1 Timothy 2:5' data-prooftexts-index='162'>It pleased God, in his eternal purpose, to choose and ordain the Lord Jesus, his only begotten Son, to be the Mediator between God and man,</span><span data-prooftexts='Acts 3:22' data-prooftexts-index='163'> the Prophet,</span><span data-prooftexts='Hebrews 5:5-6' data-prooftexts-index='164'> Priest,</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalm 2:6; Luke 1:33' data-prooftexts-index='165'> and King,</span><span data-prooftexts='Ephesians 5:23' data-prooftexts-index='166'> the Head and Savior of his church,</span><span data-prooftexts='Hebrews 1:2' data-prooftexts-index='167'> the Heir of all things,</span><span data-prooftexts='Acts 17:31' data-prooftexts-index='168'> and Judge of the world:</span><span data-prooftexts='John 17:6; Psalm 22:30; Isaiah 53:10' data-prooftexts-index='169'> unto whom he did from all eternity give a people, to be his seed,</span><span data-prooftexts='1 Timothy 2:6; Isaiah 55:4-5; 1 Corinthians 1:30' data-prooftexts-index='170'> and to be by him in time redeemed, called, justified, sanctified, and glorified.</span>",
"3": "<span data-prooftexts='Psalm 45:7; John 3:34' data-prooftexts-index='176'>The Lord Jesus, in his human nature thus united to the divine, was sanctified, and anointed with the Holy Spirit, above measure,</span><span data-prooftexts='Colossians 2:3' data-prooftexts-index='177'> having in him all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge;</span><span data-prooftexts='Colossians 1:19' data-prooftexts-index='178'> in whom it pleased the Father that all fullness should dwell;</span><span data-prooftexts='Hebrews 7:26; John 1:14' data-prooftexts-index='179'> to the end that, being holy, harmless, undefiled, and full of grace and truth,</span><span data-prooftexts='Acts 10:38; Hebrews 12:24; Hebrews 7:22' data-prooftexts-index='180'> he might be thoroughly furnished to execute the office of a mediator, and surety.</span><span data-prooftexts='Hebrews 5:4-5' data-prooftexts-index='181'> Which office he took not unto himself, but was thereunto called by his Father,</span><span data-prooftexts='John 5:22, 27; Matthew 28:18; Acts 2:36' data-prooftexts-index='182'> who put all power and judgment into his hand, and gave him commandment to execute the same.</span>",
"2": "<span data-prooftexts='John 1:1, 14; 1 John 5:20; Philippians 2:6; Galatians 4:4' data-prooftexts-index='171'>The Son of God, the second person in the Trinity, being very and eternal God, of one substance and equal with the Father, did, when the fullness of time was come, take upon him man's nature,</span><span data-prooftexts='Hebrews 2:14, 16-17; Hebrews 4:15' data-prooftexts-index='172'> with all the essential properties, and common infirmities thereof, yet without sin;</span><span data-prooftexts='Luke 1:27, 31, 35; Galatians 4:4' data-prooftexts-index='173'> being conceived by the power of the Holy Ghost, in the womb of the virgin Mary, of her substance.</span><span data-prooftexts='Luke 1:35; Colossians 2:9; Romans 9:5; 1 Peter 3:18; 1 Timothy 3:16' data-prooftexts-index='174'> So that two whole, perfect, and distinct natures, the Godhead and the manhood, were inseparably joined together in one person, without conversion, composition, or confusion.</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 1:3; Romans 1:4; 1 Timothy 2:5' data-prooftexts-index='175'> Which person is very God, and very man, yet one Christ, the only Mediator between God and man.</span>",
"5": "<span data-prooftexts='Romans 5:19; Hebrews 9:14, 16; Hebrews 10:14; Ephesians 5:2; Romans 3:25-26' data-prooftexts-index='195'>The Lord Jesus, by his perfect obedience, and sacrifice of himself, which he, through the eternal Spirit, once offered up unto God, hath fully satisfied the justice of his Father;</span><span data-prooftexts='Daniel 9:24, 26; Colossians 1:19-20; Ephesians 1:11, 14; John 17:2; Hebrews 9:12, 15' data-prooftexts-index='196'> and purchased, not only reconciliation, but an everlasting inheritance in the kingdom of heaven, for all those whom the Father hath given unto him.</span>",
"4": "<span data-prooftexts='Psalm 40:7-8; Hebrews 10:5-10; John 10:18; Philippians 2:8' data-prooftexts-index='183'>This office the Lord Jesus did most willingly undertake;</span><span data-prooftexts='Galatians 4:4' data-prooftexts-index='184'> which that he might discharge, he was made under the law,</span><span data-prooftexts='Matthew 3:15; Matthew 5:17' data-prooftexts-index='185'> and did perfectly fulfill it;</span><span data-prooftexts='Matthew 26:37-38; Luke 22:44; Matthew 27:46' data-prooftexts-index='186'> endured most grievous torments immediately in his soul,</span><span data-prooftexts='Matthew 26-27' data-prooftexts-index='187'> and most painful sufferings in his body;</span><span data-prooftexts='Philippians 2:8' data-prooftexts-index='188'> was crucified, and died,</span><span data-prooftexts='Acts 2:23-24, 27; Acts 13:37; Romans 6:9' data-prooftexts-index='189'> was buried, and remained under the power of death, yet saw no corruption.</span><span data-prooftexts='1 Corinthians 15:3-4' data-prooftexts-index='190'> On the third day he arose from the dead,</span><span data-prooftexts='John 20:25, 27' data-prooftexts-index='191'> with the same body in which he suffered,</span><span data-prooftexts='Mark 16:19' data-prooftexts-index='192'> with which also he ascended into heaven, and there sitteth at the right hand of his Father,</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 8:34; Hebrews 9:24; Hebrews 7:25' data-prooftexts-index='193'> making intercession,</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 14:9-10; Acts 1:11; Acts 10:42; Matthew 13:40-42; Jude 6; 2 Peter 2:4' data-prooftexts-index='194'> and shall return, to judge men and angels, at the end of the world.</span>",
"7": "<span data-prooftexts='Hebrews 9:14; 1 Peter 3:18' data-prooftexts-index='198'>Christ, in the work of mediation, acts according to both natures, by each nature doing that which is proper to itself;</span><span data-prooftexts='Acts 20:28; John 3:13; 1 John 3:16' data-prooftexts-index='199'> yet, by reason of the unity of the person, that which is proper to one nature is sometimes in Scripture attributed to the person denominated by the other nature.</span>",
"6": "<span data-prooftexts='Galatians 4:4-5; Genesis 3:15; Revelation 13:8; Hebrews 13:8' data-prooftexts-index='197'>Although the work of redemption was not actually wrought by Christ till after his incarnation, yet the virtue, efficacy, and benefits thereof were communicated unto the elect, in all ages successively from the beginning of the world, in and by those promises, types, and sacrifices, wherein he was revealed, and signified to be the seed of the woman which should bruise the serpent's head; and the Lamb slain from the beginning of the world; being yesterday and today the same, and forever.</span>",
"8": "<span data-prooftexts='John 6:37, 39; John 10:15-16' data-prooftexts-index='200'>To all those for whom Christ hath purchased redemption, he doth certainly and effectually apply and communicate the same;</span><span data-prooftexts='1 John 2:1-2; Romans 8:34' data-prooftexts-index='201'> making intercession for them,</span><span data-prooftexts='John 15:13, 15; Ephesians 1:7-9; John 17:6' data-prooftexts-index='202'> and revealing unto them, in and by the Word, the mysteries of salvation;</span><span data-prooftexts='John 14:16; Hebrews 12:2; 2 Corinthians 4:13; Romans 8:9, 14; Romans 15:18-19; John 17:17' data-prooftexts-index='203'> effectually persuading them by his Spirit to believe and obey, and governing their hearts by his Word and Spirit;</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalm 110:1; 1 Corinthians 15:25-26; Malachi 4:2-3; Colossians 2:15' data-prooftexts-index='204'> overcoming all their enemies by his almighty power and wisdom, in such manner, and ways, as are most consonant to his wonderful and unsearchable dispensation.</span>"
},
"prooftext_verses": {
"199": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Acts 20:28</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44020028.01-1\">Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God, which he obtained with his own blood.</p>\n</div><h5>John 3:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43003013.01-2\"><span class=\"woc\">No one has ascended into heaven except he who descended from heaven, the Son of Man.</span></p>\n</div><h5>1 John 3:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p62003016.01-3\">By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"198": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Hebrews 9:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58009014.01-1\">how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Peter 3:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p60003018.01-2\">For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"195": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 5:19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45005019.01-1\">For as by the one man's disobedience the many were made sinners, so by the one man's obedience the many will be made righteous.</p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 9:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58009014.01-2\">how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God.</p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 9:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58009016.01-3\">For where a will is involved, the death of the one who made it must be established.</p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 10:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58010014.01-4\">For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified.</p>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 5:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49005002.01-5\">And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 3:25-26</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45003025.01-6\">whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God's righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins. 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>\n</div>\n</div>",
"194": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 14:9-10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45014009.01-1\">For to this end Christ died and lived again, that he might be Lord both of the dead and of the living.</p>\n <p id=\"p45014010.01-1\">Why do you pass judgment on your brother? Or you, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God;</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 1:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44001011.01-2\">and said, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into heaven? This Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same way as you saw him go into heaven.”</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 10:42</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44010042.01-3\">And he commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that he is the one appointed by God to be judge of the living and the dead.</p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 13:40-42</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40013040.01-4\"><span class=\"woc\">Just as the weeds are gathered and burned with fire, so will it be at the close of the age.</span> <span class=\"woc\">The Son of Man will send his angels, and they will gather out of his kingdom all causes of sin and all law-breakers,</span> <span class=\"woc\">and throw them into the fiery furnace. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.</span></p>\n</div><h5>Jude 1:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p65001006.01-5\">And the angels who did not stay within their own position of authority, but left their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness until the judgment of the great day—</p>\n</div><h5>2 Peter 2:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p61002004.01-6\">For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment; (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"197": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Galatians 4:4-5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p48004004.01-1\">But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons.</p>\n</div><h5>Genesis 3:15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p01003015.01-2\">I will put enmity between you and the woman,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and between your offspring and her offspring;<br />\nhe shall bruise your head,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and you shall bruise his heel.”</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Revelation 13:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p66013008.01-3\">and all who dwell on earth will worship it, everyone whose name has not been written before the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who was slain.</p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 13:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58013008.01-4\">Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"196": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Daniel 9:24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p27009024.04-1\">“Seventy weeks are decreed about your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to put an end to sin, and to atone for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal both vision and prophet, and to anoint a most holy place.</p>\n</div><h5>Daniel 9:26</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p27009026.01-2\">And after the sixty-two weeks, an anointed one shall be cut off and shall have nothing. And the people of the prince who is to come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. Its end shall come with a flood, and to the end there shall be war. Desolations are decreed.</p>\n</div><h5>Colossians 1:19-20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p51001019.01-3\">For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross.</p>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 1:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49001011.01-4\">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,</p>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 1:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49001014.01-5\">who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory.</p>\n</div><h5>John 17:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43017002.01-6\"><span class=\"woc\">since you have given him authority over all flesh, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him.</span></p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 9:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58009012.01-7\">he entered once for all into the holy places, not by means of the blood of goats and calves but by means of his own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption.</p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 9:15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58009015.01-8\">Therefore he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, since a death has occurred that redeems them from the transgressions committed under the first covenant. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"191": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>John 20:25</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43020025.01-1\">So the other disciples told him, “We have seen the Lord.” But he said to them, “Unless I see in his hands the mark of the nails, and place my finger into the mark of the nails, and place my hand into his side, I will never believe.”</p>\n</div><h5>John 20:27</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43020027.01-2\">Then he said to Thomas, <span class=\"woc\">“Put your finger here, and see my hands; and put out your hand, and place it in my side. Do not disbelieve, but believe.”</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"190": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Corinthians 15:3-4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46015003.01-1\">For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"193": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 8:34</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45008034.01-1\">Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us.</p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 9:24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58009024.01-2\">For Christ has entered, not into holy places made with hands, which are copies of the true things, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf.</p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 7:25</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58007025.01-3\">Consequently, he is able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"192": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Mark 16:19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p41016019.01-1\">So then the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was taken up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"179": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Hebrews 7:26</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58007026.01-1\">For it was indeed fitting that we should have such a high priest, holy, innocent, unstained, separated from sinners, and exalted above the heavens.</p>\n</div><h5>John 1:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43001014.01-2\">And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"178": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Colossians 1:19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p51001019.01-1\">For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"177": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Colossians 2:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p51002003.01-1\">in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"176": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 45:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19045007.01-1\"><span class=\"indent\"></span>you have loved righteousness and hated wickedness.<br />\nTherefore God, your God, has anointed you<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>with the oil of gladness beyond your companions;</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>John 3:34</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43003034.01-2\">For he whom God has sent utters the words of God, for he gives the Spirit without measure. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"175": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 1:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45001003.01-1\">concerning his Son, who was descended from David according to the flesh</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 1:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45001004.01-2\">and was declared to be the Son of God in power according to the Spirit of holiness by his resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord,</p>\n</div><h5>1 Timothy 2:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p54002005.01-3\">For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"174": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Luke 1:35</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42001035.01-1\">And the angel answered her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be called holy—the Son of God.</p>\n</div><h5>Colossians 2:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p51002009.01-2\">For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily,</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 9:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45009005.01-3\">To them belong the patriarchs, and from their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ who is God over all, blessed forever. Amen.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Peter 3:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p60003018.01-4\">For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit,</p>\n</div><h5>1 Timothy 3:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p54003016.01-5\">Great indeed, we confess, is the mystery of godliness:</p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p54003016.10-5\">He was manifested in the flesh,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>vindicated by the Spirit,<br />\n<span class=\"indent-2\"></span>seen by angels,<br />\nproclaimed among the nations,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>believed on in the world,<br />\n<span class=\"indent-2\"></span>taken up in glory. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"173": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Luke 1:27</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42001027.01-1\">to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. And the virgin's name was Mary.</p>\n</div><h5>Luke 1:31</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42001031.01-2\">And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus.</p>\n</div><h5>Luke 1:35</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42001035.01-3\">And the angel answered her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be called holy—the Son of God.</p>\n</div><h5>Galatians 4:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p48004004.01-4\">But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"172": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Hebrews 2:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58002014.01-1\">Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same things, that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil,</p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 2:16-17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58002016.01-2\">For surely it is not angels that he helps, but he helps the offspring of Abraham. Therefore he had to be made like his brothers in every respect, so that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in the service of God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people.</p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 4:15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58004015.01-3\">For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"171": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>John 1:1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p class=\"chapter-first\" id=\"p43001001.05-1\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v43001001-1\">1:1 </span>In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.</p>\n</div><h5>John 1:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43001014.01-2\">And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.</p>\n</div><h5>1 John 5:20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p62005020.01-3\">And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true; and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.</p>\n</div><h5>Philippians 2:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p50002006.01-4\">who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped,</p>\n</div><h5>Galatians 4:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p48004004.01-5\">But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"170": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Timothy 2:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p54002006.01-1\">who gave himself as a ransom for all, which is the testimony given at the proper time.</p>\n</div><h5>Isaiah 55:4-5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23055004.01-2\">Behold, I made him a witness to the peoples,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>a leader and commander for the peoples.<br />\n Behold, you shall call a nation that you do not know,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and a nation that did not know you shall run to you,<br />\nbecause of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God, and of the Holy One of Israel,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for he has glorified you.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 1:30</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46001030.01-3\">And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"182": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>John 5:22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43005022.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">The Father judges no one, but has given all judgment to the Son,</span></p>\n</div><h5>John 5:27</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43005027.01-2\"><span class=\"woc\">And he has given him authority to execute judgment, because he is the Son of Man.</span></p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 28:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40028018.01-3\">And Jesus came and said to them, <span class=\"woc\">“All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.</span></p>\n</div><h5>Acts 2:36</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p class=\"same-paragraph\" id=\"p44002036.01-4\">Let all the house of Israel therefore know for certain that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"183": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 40:7-8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19040007.01-1\">Then I said, “Behold, I have come;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>in the scroll of the book it is written of me:<br />\n I delight to do your will, O my God;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>your law is within my heart.”</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 10:5-10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58010005.01-2\">Consequently, when Christ came into the world, he said,</p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p58010005.10-2\">“Sacrifices and offerings you have not desired,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but a body have you prepared for me;<br />\n in burnt offerings and sin offerings<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>you have taken no pleasure.<br />\n Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come to do your will, O God,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>as it is written of me in the scroll of the book.’”</p>\n</div>\n <p class=\"same-paragraph\" id=\"p58010008.01-2\">When he said above, “You have neither desired nor taken pleasure in sacrifices and offerings and burnt offerings and sin offerings” (these are offered according to the law), then he added, “Behold, I have come to do your will.” He does away with the first in order to establish the second. And by that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.</p>\n</div><h5>John 10:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43010018.01-3\"><span class=\"woc\">No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again. This charge I have received from my Father.”</span></p>\n</div><h5>Philippians 2:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p50002008.01-4\">And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"180": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Acts 10:38</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44010038.01-1\">how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power. He went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.</p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 12:24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58012024.01-2\">and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.</p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 7:22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p class=\"same-paragraph\" id=\"p58007022.01-3\">This makes Jesus the guarantor of a better covenant. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"181": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Hebrews 5:4-5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58005004.01-1\">And no one takes this honor for himself, but only when called by God, just as Aaron was.</p>\n <p id=\"p58005005.01-1\">So also Christ did not exalt himself to be made a high priest, but was appointed by him who said to him,</p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p58005005.23-1\">“You are my Son,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>today I have begotten you”; (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"186": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 26:37-38</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40026037.01-1\">And taking with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, he began to be sorrowful and troubled. Then he said to them, <span class=\"woc\">“My soul is very sorrowful, even to death; remain here, and watch with me.”</span></p>\n</div><h5>Luke 22:44</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42022044.01-2\">And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly; and his sweat became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground.</p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 27:46</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40027046.01-3\">And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, <span class=\"woc\">“Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?”</span> that is, <span class=\"woc\">“My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"187": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 26-27</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p40026001.06-1\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v40026001-1\">26:1 </span>When Jesus had finished all these sayings, he said to his disciples, <span class=\"woc\">“You know that after two days the Passover is coming, and the Son of Man will be delivered up to be crucified.”</span></p>\n <p id=\"p40026003.01-1\">Then the chief priests and the elders of the people gathered in the palace of the high priest, whose name was Caiaphas, and plotted together in order to arrest Jesus by stealth and kill him. But they said, “Not during the feast, lest there be an uproar among the people.”</p>\n \n<p id=\"p40026006.05-1\">Now when Jesus was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, a woman came up to him with an alabaster flask of very expensive ointment, and she poured it on his head as he reclined at table. And when the disciples saw it, they were indignant, saying, “Why this waste? For this could have been sold for a large sum and given to the poor.” But Jesus, aware of this, said to them, <span class=\"woc\">“Why do you trouble the woman? For she has done a beautiful thing to me.</span> <span class=\"woc\">For you always have the poor with you, but you will not always have me.</span> <span class=\"woc\">In pouring this ointment on my body, she has done it to prepare me for burial.</span> <span class=\"woc\">Truly, I say to you, wherever this gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will also be told in memory of her.”</span></p>\n \n<p id=\"p40026014.05-1\">Then one of the twelve, whose name was Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests and said, “What will you give me if I deliver him over to you?” And they paid him thirty pieces of silver. And from that moment he sought an opportunity to betray him.</p>\n \n<p id=\"p40026017.06-1\">Now on the first day of Unleavened Bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying, “Where will you have us prepare for you to eat the Passover?” He said, <span class=\"woc\">“Go into the city to a certain man and say to him, ‘The Teacher says, My time is at hand. I will keep the Passover at your house with my disciples.’”</span> And the disciples did as Jesus had directed them, and they prepared the Passover.</p>\n <p id=\"p40026020.01-1\">When it was evening, he reclined at table with the twelve. And as they were eating, he said, <span class=\"woc\">“Truly, I say to you, one of you will betray me.”</span> And they were very sorrowful and began to say to him one after another, “Is it I, Lord?” He answered, <span class=\"woc\">“He who has dipped his hand in the dish with me will betray me.</span> <span class=\"woc\">The Son of Man goes as it is written of him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for that man if he had not been born.”</span> Judas, who would betray him, answered, “Is it I, Rabbi?” He said to him, <span class=\"woc\">“You have said so.”</span></p>\n \n<p id=\"p40026026.06-1\">Now as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and after blessing it broke it and gave it to the disciples, and said, <span class=\"woc\">“Take, eat; this is my body.”</span> And he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he gave it to them, saying, <span class=\"woc\">“Drink of it, all of you,</span> <span class=\"woc\">for this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.</span> <span class=\"woc\">I tell you I will not drink again of this fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father's kingdom.”</span></p>\n \n<p id=\"p40026030.05-1\">And when they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives. Then Jesus said to them, <span class=\"woc\">“You will all fall away because of me this night. For it is written, ‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’</span> <span class=\"woc\">But after I am raised up, I will go before you to Galilee.”</span> Peter answered him, “Though they all fall away because of you, I will never fall away.” Jesus said to him, <span class=\"woc\">“Truly, I tell you, this very night, before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times.”</span> Peter said to him, “Even if I must die with you, I will not deny you!” And all the disciples said the same.</p>\n \n<p id=\"p40026036.05-1\">Then Jesus went with them to a place called Gethsemane, and he said to his disciples, <span class=\"woc\">“Sit here, while I go over there and pray.”</span> And taking with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, he began to be sorrowful and troubled. Then he said to them, <span class=\"woc\">“My soul is very sorrowful, even to death; remain here, and watch with me.”</span> And going a little farther he fell on his face and prayed, saying, <span class=\"woc\">“My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as you will.”</span> And he came to the disciples and found them sleeping. And he said to Peter, <span class=\"woc\">“So, could you not watch with me one hour?</span> <span class=\"woc\">Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”</span> Again, for the second time, he went away and prayed, <span class=\"woc\">“My Father, if this cannot pass unless I drink it, your will be done.”</span> And again he came and found them sleeping, for their eyes were heavy. So, leaving them again, he went away and prayed for the third time, saying the same words again. Then he came to the disciples and said to them, <span class=\"woc\">“Sleep and take your rest later on. See, the hour is at hand, and the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.</span> <span class=\"woc\">Rise, let us be going; see, my betrayer is at hand.”</span></p>\n \n<p id=\"p40026047.06-1\">While he was still speaking, Judas came, one of the twelve, and with him a great crowd with swords and clubs, from the chief priests and the elders of the people. Now the betrayer had given them a sign, saying, “The one I will kiss is the man; seize him.” And he came up to Jesus at once and said, “Greetings, Rabbi!” And he kissed him. Jesus said to him, <span class=\"woc\">“Friend, do what you came to do.”</span> Then they came up and laid hands on Jesus and seized him. And behold, one of those who were with Jesus stretched out his hand and drew his sword and struck the servant of the high priest and cut off his ear. Then Jesus said to him, <span class=\"woc\">“Put your sword back into its place. For all who take the sword will perish by the sword.</span> <span class=\"woc\">Do you think that I cannot appeal to my Father, and he will at once send me more than twelve legions of angels?</span> <span class=\"woc\">But how then should the Scriptures be fulfilled, that it must be so?”</span> At that hour Jesus said to the crowds, <span class=\"woc\">“Have you come out as against a robber, with swords and clubs to capture me? Day after day I sat in the temple teaching, and you did not seize me.</span> <span class=\"woc\">But all this has taken place that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled.”</span> Then all the disciples left him and fled.</p>\n \n<p id=\"p40026057.07-1\">Then those who had seized Jesus led him to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders had gathered. And Peter was following him at a distance, as far as the courtyard of the high priest, and going inside he sat with the guards to see the end. Now the chief priests and the whole Council were seeking false testimony against Jesus that they might put him to death, but they found none, though many false witnesses came forward. At last two came forward and said, “This man said, ‘I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to rebuild it in three days.’” And the high priest stood up and said, “Have you no answer to make? What is it that these men testify against you?” But Jesus remained silent. And the high priest said to him, “I adjure you by the living God, tell us if you are the Christ, the Son of God.” Jesus said to him, <span class=\"woc\">“You have said so. But I tell you, from now on you will see the Son of Man seated at the right hand of Power and coming on the clouds of heaven.”</span> Then the high priest tore his robes and said, “He has uttered blasphemy. What further witnesses do we need? You have now heard his blasphemy. What is your judgment?” They answered, “He deserves death.” Then they spit in his face and struck him. And some slapped him, saying, “Prophesy to us, you Christ! Who is it that struck you?”</p>\n \n<p id=\"p40026069.04-1\">Now Peter was sitting outside in the courtyard. And a servant girl came up to him and said, “You also were with Jesus the Galilean.” But he denied it before them all, saying, “I do not know what you mean.” And when he went out to the entrance, another servant girl saw him, and she said to the bystanders, “This man was with Jesus of Nazareth.” And again he denied it with an oath: “I do not know the man.” After a little while the bystanders came up and said to Peter, “Certainly you too are one of them, for your accent betrays you.” Then he began to invoke a curse on himself and to swear, “I do not know the man.” And immediately the rooster crowed. And Peter remembered the saying of Jesus, <span class=\"woc\">“Before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times.”</span> And he went out and wept bitterly.</p>\n \n<p id=\"p40027001.05-1\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v40027001-1\">27:1 </span>When morning came, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death. And they bound him and led him away and delivered him over to Pilate the governor.</p>\n \n<p id=\"p40027003.04-1\">Then when Judas, his betrayer, saw that Jesus was condemned, he changed his mind and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and the elders, saying, “I have sinned by betraying innocent blood.” They said, “What is that to us? See to it yourself.” And throwing down the pieces of silver into the temple, he departed, and he went and hanged himself. But the chief priests, taking the pieces of silver, said, “It is not lawful to put them into the treasury, since it is blood money.” So they took counsel and bought with them the potter's field as a burial place for strangers. Therefore that field has been called the Field of Blood to this day. Then was fulfilled what had been spoken by the prophet Jeremiah, saying, “And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him on whom a price had been set by some of the sons of Israel, and they gave them for the potter's field, as the Lord directed me.”</p>\n \n<p id=\"p40027011.04-1\">Now Jesus stood before the governor, and the governor asked him, “Are you the King of the Jews?” Jesus said, <span class=\"woc\">“You have said so.”</span> But when he was accused by the chief priests and elders, he gave no answer. Then Pilate said to him, “Do you not hear how many things they testify against you?” But he gave him no answer, not even to a single charge, so that the governor was greatly amazed.</p>\n \n<p id=\"p40027015.05-1\">Now at the feast the governor was accustomed to release for the crowd any one prisoner whom they wanted. And they had then a notorious prisoner called Barabbas. So when they had gathered, Pilate said to them, “Whom do you want me to release for you: Barabbas, or Jesus who is called Christ?” For he knew that it was out of envy that they had delivered him up. Besides, while he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent word to him, “Have nothing to do with that righteous man, for I have suffered much because of him today in a dream.” Now the chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowd to ask for Barabbas and destroy Jesus. The governor again said to them, “Which of the two do you want me to release for you?” And they said, “Barabbas.” Pilate said to them, “Then what shall I do with Jesus who is called Christ?” They all said, “Let him be crucified!” And he said, “Why, what evil has he done?” But they shouted all the more, “Let him be crucified!”</p>\n \n<p id=\"p40027024.07-1\">So when Pilate saw that he was gaining nothing, but rather that a riot was beginning, he took water and washed his hands before the crowd, saying, “I am innocent of this man's blood; see to it yourselves.” And all the people answered, “His blood be on us and on our children!” Then he released for them Barabbas, and having scourged Jesus, delivered him to be crucified.</p>\n \n<p id=\"p40027027.04-1\">Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the governor's headquarters, and they gathered the whole battalion before him. And they stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him, and twisting together a crown of thorns, they put it on his head and put a reed in his right hand. And kneeling before him, they mocked him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” And they spit on him and took the reed and struck him on the head. And when they had mocked him, they stripped him of the robe and put his own clothes on him and led him away to crucify him.</p>\n \n<p id=\"p40027032.03-1\">As they went out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name. They compelled this man to carry his cross. And when they came to a place called Golgotha (which means Place of a Skull), they offered him wine to drink, mixed with gall, but when he tasted it, he would not drink it. And when they had crucified him, they divided his garments among them by casting lots. Then they sat down and kept watch over him there. And over his head they put the charge against him, which read, “This is Jesus, the King of the Jews.” Then two robbers were crucified with him, one on the right and one on the left. And those who passed by derided him, wagging their heads and saying, “You who would destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, save yourself! If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross.” So also the chief priests, with the scribes and elders, mocked him, saying, “He saved others; he cannot save himself. He is the King of Israel; let him come down now from the cross, and we will believe in him. He trusts in God; let God deliver him now, if he desires him. For he said, ‘I am the Son of God.’” And the robbers who were crucified with him also reviled him in the same way.</p>\n \n<p id=\"p40027045.05-1\">Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour. And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, <span class=\"woc\">“Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?”</span> that is, <span class=\"woc\">“My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”</span> And some of the bystanders, hearing it, said, “This man is calling Elijah.” And one of them at once ran and took a sponge, filled it with sour wine, and put it on a reed and gave it to him to drink. But the others said, “Wait, let us see whether Elijah will come to save him.” And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice and yielded up his spirit.</p>\n <p id=\"p40027051.01-1\">And behold, the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom. And the earth shook, and the rocks were split. The tombs also were opened. And many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised, and coming out of the tombs after his resurrection they went into the holy city and appeared to many. When the centurion and those who were with him, keeping watch over Jesus, saw the earthquake and what took place, they were filled with awe and said, “Truly this was the Son of God!”</p>\n <p id=\"p40027055.01-1\">There were also many women there, looking on from a distance, who had followed Jesus from Galilee, ministering to him, among whom were Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of James and Joseph and the mother of the sons of Zebedee.</p>\n \n<p id=\"p40027057.04-1\">When it was evening, there came a rich man from Arimathea, named Joseph, who also was a disciple of Jesus. He went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. Then Pilate ordered it to be given to him. And Joseph took the body and wrapped it in a clean linen shroud and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had cut in the rock. And he rolled a great stone to the entrance of the tomb and went away. Mary Magdalene and the other Mary were there, sitting opposite the tomb.</p>\n \n<p id=\"p40027062.06-1\">The next day, that is, after the day of Preparation, the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered before Pilate and said, “Sir, we remember how that impostor said, while he was still alive, ‘After three days I will rise.’ Therefore order the tomb to be made secure until the third day, lest his disciples go and steal him away and tell the people, ‘He has risen from the dead,’ and the last fraud will be worse than the first.” Pilate said to them, “You have a guard of soldiers. Go, make it as secure as you can.” So they went and made the tomb secure by sealing the stone and setting a guard. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"184": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Galatians 4:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p48004004.01-1\">But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"185": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 3:15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40003015.01-1\">But Jesus answered him, <span class=\"woc\">“Let it be so now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness.”</span> Then he consented.</p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 5:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p40005017.07-2\"><span class=\"woc\">“Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"188": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Philippians 2:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p50002008.01-1\">And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"189": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Acts 2:23-24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44002023.01-1\">this Jesus, delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God, you crucified and killed by the hands of lawless men. God raised him up, loosing the pangs of death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it.</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 2:27</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p44002027.01-2\">For you will not abandon my soul to Hades,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>or let your Holy One see corruption.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Acts 13:37</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44013037.01-3\">but he whom God raised up did not see corruption.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 6:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45006009.01-4\">We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"201": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 John 2:1-2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p62002001.04-1\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v62002001-1\">2:1 </span>My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 8:34</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45008034.01-2\">Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"200": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>John 6:37</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43006037.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out.</span></p>\n</div><h5>John 6:39</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43006039.01-2\"><span class=\"woc\">And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but raise it up on the last day.</span></p>\n</div><h5>John 10:15-16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43010015.01-3\"><span class=\"woc\">just as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep.</span> <span class=\"woc\">And I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice. So there will be one flock, one shepherd.</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"203": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>John 14:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43014016.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever,</span></p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 12:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58012002.01-2\">looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.</p>\n</div><h5>2 Corinthians 4:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p47004013.01-3\">Since we have the same spirit of faith according to what has been written, “I believed, and so I spoke,” we also believe, and so we also speak,</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 8:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45008009.01-4\">You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 8:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45008014.01-5\">For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 15:18-19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45015018.01-6\">For I will not venture to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me to bring the Gentiles to obedience—by word and deed, by the power of signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God—so that from Jerusalem and all the way around to Illyricum I have fulfilled the ministry of the gospel of Christ;</p>\n</div><h5>John 17:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43017017.01-7\"><span class=\"woc\">Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"202": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>John 15:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43015013.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.</span></p>\n</div><h5>John 15:15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43015015.01-2\"><span class=\"woc\">No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.</span></p>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 1:7-9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49001007.01-3\">In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace, which he lavished upon us, in all wisdom and insight making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his purpose, which he set forth in Christ</p>\n</div><h5>John 17:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43017006.01-4\"><span class=\"woc\">“I have manifested your name to the people whom you gave me out of the world. Yours they were, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word.</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"204": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 110:1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19110001.10-1\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v19110001-1\">110:1 </span>The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> says to my Lord:<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>“Sit at my right hand,<br />\nuntil I make your enemies your footstool.”</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 15:25-26</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46015025.01-2\">For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. The last enemy to be destroyed is death.</p>\n</div><h5>Malachi 4:2-3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p39004002.01-3\">But for you who fear my name, the sun of righteousness shall rise with healing in its wings. You shall go out leaping like calves from the stall. And you shall tread down the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet, on the day when I act, says the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> of hosts.</p>\n</div><h5>Colossians 2:15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p51002015.01-4\">He disarmed the rulers and authorities and put them to open shame, by triumphing over them in him. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"168": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Acts 17:31</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44017031.01-1\">because he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed; and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"169": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>John 17:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43017006.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">“I have manifested your name to the people whom you gave me out of the world. Yours they were, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word.</span></p>\n</div><h5>Psalm 22:30</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19022030.01-2\">Posterity shall serve him;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>it shall be told of the Lord to the coming generation;</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Isaiah 53:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23053010.01-3\">Yet it was the will of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> to crush him;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>he has put him to grief;<br />\nwhen his soul makes an offering for guilt,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>he shall see his offspring; he shall prolong his days;<br />\nthe will of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> shall prosper in his hand. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"164": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Hebrews 5:5-6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58005005.01-1\">So also Christ did not exalt himself to be made a high priest, but was appointed by him who said to him,</p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p58005005.23-1\">“You are my Son,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>today I have begotten you”;</p>\n</div>\n <p class=\"same-paragraph\" id=\"p58005006.01-1\">as he says also in another place,</p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p58005006.08-1\">“You are a priest forever,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>after the order of Melchizedek.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"165": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 2:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19002006.01-1\">“As for me, I have set my King<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>on Zion, my holy hill.”</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Luke 1:33</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42001033.01-2\">and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of his kingdom there will be no end.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"166": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ephesians 5:23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49005023.01-1\">For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"167": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Hebrews 1:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58001002.01-1\">but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"162": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Isaiah 42:1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23042001.05-1\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v23042001-1\">42:1 </span>Behold my servant, whom I uphold,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>my chosen, in whom my soul delights;<br />\nI have put my Spirit upon him;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>he will bring forth justice to the nations.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>1 Peter 1:19-20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p60001019.01-2\">but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot. He was foreknown before the foundation of the world but was made manifest in the last times for the sake of you</p>\n</div><h5>John 3:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p43003016.07-3\"><span class=\"woc\">“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.</span></p>\n</div><h5>1 Timothy 2:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p54002005.01-4\">For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"163": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Acts 3:22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44003022.01-1\">Moses said, ‘The Lord God will raise up for you a prophet like me from your brothers. You shall listen to him in whatever he tells you. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"199": "Acts 20:28; John 3:13; 1 John 3:16",
"198": "Hebrews 9:14; 1 Peter 3:18",
"195": "Romans 5:19; Hebrews 9:14, 16; Hebrews 10:14; Ephesians 5:2; Romans 3:25-26",
"194": "Romans 14:9-10; Acts 1:11; Acts 10:42; Matthew 13:40-42; Jude 6; 2 Peter 2:4",
"197": "Galatians 4:4-5; Genesis 3:15; Revelation 13:8; Hebrews 13:8",
"196": "Daniel 9:24, 26; Colossians 1:19-20; Ephesians 1:11, 14; John 17:2; Hebrews 9:12, 15",
"191": "John 20:25, 27",
"190": "1 Corinthians 15:3-4",
"193": "Romans 8:34; Hebrews 9:24; Hebrews 7:25",
"192": "Mark 16:19",
"179": "Hebrews 7:26; John 1:14",
"178": "Colossians 1:19",
"177": "Colossians 2:3",
"176": "Psalm 45:7; John 3:34",
"175": "Romans 1:3; Romans 1:4; 1 Timothy 2:5",
"174": "Luke 1:35; Colossians 2:9; Romans 9:5; 1 Peter 3:18; 1 Timothy 3:16",
"173": "Luke 1:27, 31, 35; Galatians 4:4",
"172": "Hebrews 2:14, 16-17; Hebrews 4:15",
"171": "John 1:1, 14; 1 John 5:20; Philippians 2:6; Galatians 4:4",
"170": "1 Timothy 2:6; Isaiah 55:4-5; 1 Corinthians 1:30",
"182": "John 5:22, 27; Matthew 28:18; Acts 2:36",
"183": "Psalm 40:7-8; Hebrews 10:5-10; John 10:18; Philippians 2:8",
"180": "Acts 10:38; Hebrews 12:24; Hebrews 7:22",
"181": "Hebrews 5:4-5",
"186": "Matthew 26:37-38; Luke 22:44; Matthew 27:46",
"187": "Matthew 26-27",
"184": "Galatians 4:4",
"185": "Matthew 3:15; Matthew 5:17",
"188": "Philippians 2:8",
"189": "Acts 2:23-24, 27; Acts 13:37; Romans 6:9",
"201": "1 John 2:1-2; Romans 8:34",
"200": "John 6:37, 39; John 10:15-16",
"203": "John 14:16; Hebrews 12:2; 2 Corinthians 4:13; Romans 8:9, 14; Romans 15:18-19; John 17:17",
"202": "John 15:13, 15; Ephesians 1:7-9; John 17:6",
"204": "Psalm 110:1; 1 Corinthians 15:25-26; Malachi 4:2-3; Colossians 2:15",
"168": "Acts 17:31",
"169": "John 17:6; Psalm 22:30; Isaiah 53:10",
"164": "Hebrews 5:5-6",
"165": "Psalm 2:6; Luke 1:33",
"166": "Ephesians 5:23",
"167": "Hebrews 1:2",
"162": "Isaiah 42:1; 1 Peter 1:19-20; John 3:16; 1 Timothy 2:5",
"163": "Acts 3:22"
},
"title": "Chapter 8: Of Christ the Mediator"
},
"11": {
"body": {
"1": "<span data-prooftexts='Romans 8:30; Romans 3:24' data-prooftexts-index='235'>Those whom God effectually calleth, he also freely justifieth:</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 4:5-8; 2 Corinthians 5:19, 21; Romans 3:22, 24-25, 27-28; Titus 3:5, 7; Ephesians 1:7; Jeremiah 23:6; 1 Corinthians 1:30-31; Romans 5:17-19' data-prooftexts-index='236'> not by infusing righteousness into them, but by pardoning their sins, and by accounting and accepting their persons as righteous; not for anything wrought in them, or done by them, but for Christ's sake alone; nor by imputing faith itself, the act of believing, or any other evangelical obedience to them, as their righteousness; but by imputing the obedience and satisfaction of Christ unto them,</span><span data-prooftexts='Acts 10:44; Galatians 2:16; Philippians 3:9; Acts 13:38-39; Ephesians 2:7-8' data-prooftexts-index='237'> they receiving and resting on him and his righteousness, by faith; which faith they have not of themselves, it is the gift of God.</span>",
"3": "<span data-prooftexts='Romans 5:8-10, 19; 1 Timothy 2:5-6; Hebrews 10:10, 14; Daniel 9:24, 26; Isaiah 53:4-6, 10-12' data-prooftexts-index='240'>Christ, by his obedience and death, did fully discharge the debt of all those that are thus justified, and did make a proper, real, and full satisfaction to his Father's justice in their behalf.</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 8:32' data-prooftexts-index='241'> Yet, inasmuch as he was given by the Father for them;</span><span data-prooftexts='2 Corinthians 5:21; Matthew 3:17; Ephesians 5:2' data-prooftexts-index='242'> and his obedience and satisfaction accepted in their stead;</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 3:24; Ephesians 1:7' data-prooftexts-index='243'> and both, freely, not for anything in them; their justification is only of free grace;</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 3:26; Ephesians 2:7' data-prooftexts-index='244'> that both the exact justice and rich grace of God might be glorified in the justification of sinners.</span>",
"2": "<span data-prooftexts='John 1:12; Romans 3:28; Romans 5:1' data-prooftexts-index='238'>Faith, thus receiving and resting on Christ and his righteousness, is the alone instrument of justification:</span><span data-prooftexts='James 2:17, 22, 26; Galatians 5:6' data-prooftexts-index='239'> yet is it not alone in the person justified, but is ever accompanied with all other saving graces, and is no dead faith, but worketh by love.</span>",
"5": "<span data-prooftexts='Matthew 6:12; 1 John 1:7, 9; 1 John 2:1-2' data-prooftexts-index='248'>God doth continue to forgive the sins of those that are justified;</span><span data-prooftexts='Luke 22:32; John 10:28; Hebrews 10:14' data-prooftexts-index='249'> and, although they can never fall from the state of justification,</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalm 89:31-33; Psalm 51:7-12; Psalm 32:5; Matthew 26:75; 1 Corinthians 11:30, 32; Luke 1:20' data-prooftexts-index='250'> yet they may, by their sins, fall under God's fatherly displeasure, and not have the light of his countenance restored unto them, until they humble themselves, confess their sins, beg pardon, and renew their faith and repentance.</span>",
"4": "<span data-prooftexts='Galatians 3:8; 1 Peter 1:2, 19-20; Romans 8:30' data-prooftexts-index='245'>God did, from all eternity, decree to justify all the elect,</span><span data-prooftexts='Galatians 4:4; 1 Timothy 2:6; Romans 4:25' data-prooftexts-index='246'> and Christ did, in the fullness of time, die for their sins, and rise again for their justification:</span><span data-prooftexts='Colossians 1:21-22; Galatians 2:16; Titus 3:4-7' data-prooftexts-index='247'> nevertheless, they are not justified, until the Holy Spirit doth, in due time, actually apply Christ unto them.</span>",
"6": "<span data-prooftexts='Galatians 3:9, 13-14; Romans 4:22-24; Hebrews 13:8' data-prooftexts-index='251'>The justification of believers under the old testament was, in all these respects, one and the same with the justification of believers under the new testament.</span>"
},
"prooftext_verses": {
"235": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 8:30</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45008030.01-1\">And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 3:24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45003024.01-2\">and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"237": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Acts 10:44</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p44010044.08-1\">While Peter was still saying these things, the Holy Spirit fell on all who heard the word.</p>\n</div><h5>Galatians 2:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p48002016.01-2\">yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.</p>\n</div><h5>Philippians 3:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p50003009.01-3\">and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith—</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 13:38-39</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44013038.01-4\">Let it be known to you therefore, brothers, that through this man forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you, and by him everyone who believes is freed from everything from which you could not be freed by the law of Moses.</p>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 2:7-8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49002007.01-5\">so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"248": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 6:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p40006012.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">and forgive us our debts,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>as we also have forgiven our debtors.</span></p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>1 John 1:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p62001007.01-2\">But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.</p>\n</div><h5>1 John 1:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p62001009.01-3\">If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.</p>\n</div><h5>1 John 2:1-2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p62002001.04-4\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v62002001-4\">2:1 </span>My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"245": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Galatians 3:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p48003008.01-1\">And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, “In you shall all the nations be blessed.”</p>\n</div><h5>1 Peter 1:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p60001002.01-2\">according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in the sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience to Jesus Christ and for sprinkling with his blood:</p>\n<p id=\"p60001002.26-2\">May grace and peace be multiplied to you.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Peter 1:19-20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p60001019.01-3\">but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot. He was foreknown before the foundation of the world but was made manifest in the last times for the sake of you</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 8:30</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45008030.01-4\">And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"244": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 3:26</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45003026.01-1\">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.</p>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 2:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49002007.01-2\">so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"247": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Colossians 1:21-22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p51001021.01-1\">And you, who once were alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds, he has now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death, in order to present you holy and blameless and above reproach before him,</p>\n</div><h5>Galatians 2:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p48002016.01-2\">yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.</p>\n</div><h5>Titus 3:4-7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p56003004.01-3\">But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit, whom he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that being justified by his grace we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"246": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Galatians 4:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p48004004.01-1\">But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law,</p>\n</div><h5>1 Timothy 2:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p54002006.01-2\">who gave himself as a ransom for all, which is the testimony given at the proper time.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 4:25</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45004025.01-3\">who was delivered up for our trespasses and raised for our justification. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"238": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>John 1:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43001012.01-1\">But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 3:28</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45003028.01-2\">For we hold that one is justified by faith apart from works of the law.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 5:1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p45005001.06-3\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v45005001-3\">5:1 </span>Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"239": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>James 2:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p59002017.01-1\">So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.</p>\n</div><h5>James 2:22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p59002022.01-2\">You see that faith was active along with his works, and faith was completed by his works;</p>\n</div><h5>James 2:26</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p59002026.01-3\">For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works is dead.</p>\n</div><h5>Galatians 5:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p48005006.01-4\">For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith working through love. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"243": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 3:24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45003024.01-1\">and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,</p>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 1:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49001007.01-2\">In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"242": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>2 Corinthians 5:21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p47005021.01-1\">For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.</p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 3:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40003017.01-2\">and behold, a voice from heaven said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.”</p>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 5:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49005002.01-3\">And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"241": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 8:32</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45008032.01-1\">He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"250": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 89:31-33</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,<br />\n but I will not remove from him my steadfast love<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>or be false to my faithfulness.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 51:7-12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19051007.01-2\">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</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 32:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19032005.01-3\">I acknowledged my sin to you,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and I did not cover my iniquity;<br />\nI said, “I will confess my transgressions to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,”<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. <span class=\"selah\">Selah</span></p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Matthew 26:75</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40026075.01-4\">And Peter remembered the saying of Jesus, <span class=\"woc\">“Before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times.”</span> And he went out and wept bitterly.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 11:30</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46011030.01-5\">That is why many of you are weak and ill, and some have died.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 11:32</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46011032.01-6\">But when we are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined so that we may not be condemned along with the world.</p>\n</div><h5>Luke 1:20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42001020.01-7\">And behold, you will be silent and unable to speak until the day that these things take place, because you did not believe my words, which will be fulfilled in their time.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"251": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Galatians 3:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p48003009.01-1\">So then, those who are of faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith.</p>\n</div><h5>Galatians 3:13-14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p48003013.01-2\">Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree”— so that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles, so that we might receive the promised Spirit through faith.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 4:22-24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45004022.01-3\">That is why his faith was “counted to him as righteousness.” But the words “it was counted to him” were not written for his sake alone, but for ours also. It will be counted to us who believe in him who raised from the dead Jesus our Lord,</p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 13:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58013008.01-4\">Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"249": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Luke 22:32</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42022032.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">but I have prayed for you that your faith may not fail. And when you have turned again, strengthen your brothers.”</span></p>\n</div><h5>John 10:28</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43010028.01-2\"><span class=\"woc\">I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.</span></p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 10:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58010014.01-3\">For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"236": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 4:5-8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45004005.01-1\">And to the one who does not work but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness, just as David also speaks of the blessing of the one to whom God counts righteousness apart from works:</p>\n <div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p45004007.01-1\">“Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and whose sins are covered;<br />\n blessed is the man against whom the Lord will not count his sin.”</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>2 Corinthians 5:19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p47005019.01-2\">that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation.</p>\n</div><h5>2 Corinthians 5:21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p47005021.01-3\">For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 3:22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45003022.01-4\">the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction:</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 3:24-25</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45003024.01-5\">and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God's righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 3:27-28</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45003027.01-6\">Then what becomes of our boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? By a law of works? No, but by the law of faith. For we hold that one is justified by faith apart from works of the law.</p>\n</div><h5>Titus 3:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p56003005.01-7\">he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,</p>\n</div><h5>Titus 3:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p56003007.01-8\">so that being justified by his grace we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.</p>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 1:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49001007.01-9\">In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,</p>\n</div><h5>Jeremiah 23:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p24023006.01-10\">In his days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell securely. And this is the name by which he will be called: ‘The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> is our righteousness.’</p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 1:30-31</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46001030.01-11\">And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption, so that, as it is written, “Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.”</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 5:17-19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45005017.01-12\">For if, because of one man's trespass, death reigned through that one man, much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man Jesus Christ.</p>\n <p id=\"p45005018.01-12\">Therefore, as one trespass led to condemnation for all men, so one act of righteousness leads to justification and life for all men. For as by the one man's disobedience the many were made sinners, so by the one man's obedience the many will be made righteous. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"240": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 5:8-10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45005008.01-1\">but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God. For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 5:19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45005019.01-2\">For as by the one man's disobedience the many were made sinners, so by the one man's obedience the many will be made righteous.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Timothy 2:5-6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p54002005.01-3\">For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all, which is the testimony given at the proper time.</p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 10:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58010010.01-4\">And by that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.</p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 10:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58010014.01-5\">For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified.</p>\n</div><h5>Daniel 9:24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p27009024.04-6\">“Seventy weeks are decreed about your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to put an end to sin, and to atone for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal both vision and prophet, and to anoint a most holy place.</p>\n</div><h5>Daniel 9:26</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p27009026.01-7\">And after the sixty-two weeks, an anointed one shall be cut off and shall have nothing. And the people of the prince who is to come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. Its end shall come with a flood, and to the end there shall be war. Desolations are decreed.</p>\n</div><h5>Isaiah 53:4-6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23053004.01-8\">Surely he has borne our griefs<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and carried our sorrows;<br />\nyet we esteemed him stricken,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>smitten by God, and afflicted.<br />\n But he was wounded for our transgressions;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>he was crushed for our iniquities;<br />\nupon him was the chastisement that brought us peace,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and with his stripes we are healed.<br />\n All we like sheep have gone astray;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>we have turned—every one—to his own way;<br />\nand the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> has laid on him<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>the iniquity of us all.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Isaiah 53:10-12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23053010.01-9\">Yet it was the will of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> to crush him;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>he has put him to grief;<br />\nwhen his soul makes an offering for guilt,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>he shall see his offspring; he shall prolong his days;<br />\nthe will of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> shall prosper in his hand.<br />\n Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see and be satisfied;<br />\nby his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>make many to be accounted righteous,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and he shall bear their iniquities.<br />\n Therefore I will divide him a portion with the many,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and he shall divide the spoil with the strong,<br />\nbecause he poured out his soul to death<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and was numbered with the transgressors;<br />\nyet he bore the sin of many,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and makes intercession for the transgressors. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"251": "Galatians 3:9, 13-14; Romans 4:22-24; Hebrews 13:8",
"250": "Psalm 89:31-33; Psalm 51:7-12; Psalm 32:5; Matthew 26:75; 1 Corinthians 11:30, 32; Luke 1:20",
"245": "Galatians 3:8; 1 Peter 1:2, 19-20; Romans 8:30",
"244": "Romans 3:26; Ephesians 2:7",
"247": "Colossians 1:21-22; Galatians 2:16; Titus 3:4-7",
"246": "Galatians 4:4; 1 Timothy 2:6; Romans 4:25",
"238": "John 1:12; Romans 3:28; Romans 5:1",
"239": "James 2:17, 22, 26; Galatians 5:6",
"243": "Romans 3:24; Ephesians 1:7",
"242": "2 Corinthians 5:21; Matthew 3:17; Ephesians 5:2",
"241": "Romans 8:32",
"235": "Romans 8:30; Romans 3:24",
"236": "Romans 4:5-8; 2 Corinthians 5:19, 21; Romans 3:22, 24-25, 27-28; Titus 3:5, 7; Ephesians 1:7; Jeremiah 23:6; 1 Corinthians 1:30-31; Romans 5:17-19",
"237": "Acts 10:44; Galatians 2:16; Philippians 3:9; Acts 13:38-39; Ephesians 2:7-8",
"249": "Luke 22:32; John 10:28; Hebrews 10:14",
"248": "Matthew 6:12; 1 John 1:7, 9; 1 John 2:1-2",
"240": "Romans 5:8-10, 19; 1 Timothy 2:5-6; Hebrews 10:10, 14; Daniel 9:24, 26; Isaiah 53:4-6, 10-12"
},
"title": "Chapter 11: Of Justification"
},
"10": {
"body": {
"1": "<span data-prooftexts='Romans 8:30; Romans 11:7; Ephesians 1:10-11' data-prooftexts-index='216'>All those whom God hath predestinated unto life, and those only, he is pleased, in his appointed and accepted time, effectually to call,</span><span data-prooftexts='2 Thessalonians 2:13-14; 2 Corinthians 3:3, 6' data-prooftexts-index='217'> by his Word and Spirit,</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 8:2; Ephesians 2:1-5; 2 Timothy 1:9-10' data-prooftexts-index='218'> out of that state of sin and death, in which they are by nature, to grace and salvation, by Jesus Christ;</span><span data-prooftexts='Acts 26:18; 1 Corinthians 2:10, 12; Ephesians 1:17-18' data-prooftexts-index='219'> enlightening their minds spiritually and savingly to understand the things of God,</span><span data-prooftexts='Ezekiel 36:26' data-prooftexts-index='220'> taking away their heart of stone, and giving unto them a heart of flesh;</span><span data-prooftexts='Ezekiel 11:19; Philippians 2:13; Deuteronomy 30:6; Ezekiel 36:27' data-prooftexts-index='221'> renewing their wills, and, by his almighty power, determining them to that which is good,</span><span data-prooftexts='Ephesians 1:19; John 6:44-45' data-prooftexts-index='222'> and effectually drawing them to Jesus Christ:</span><span data-prooftexts='Song of Solomon 1:4; Psalm 110:3; John 6:37; Romans 6:16-18' data-prooftexts-index='223'> yet so, as they come most freely, being made willing by his grace.</span>",
"3": "<span data-prooftexts='Luke 18:15-16; Acts 2:38-39; John 3:3, 5; 1 John 5:12; Romans 8:9' data-prooftexts-index='227'>Elect infants, dying in infancy, are regenerated, and saved by Christ, through the Spirit,</span><span data-prooftexts='John 3:8' data-prooftexts-index='228'> who worketh when, and where, and how he pleaseth:</span><span data-prooftexts='1 John 5:12; Acts 4:12' data-prooftexts-index='229'> so also are all other elect persons who are incapable of being outwardly called by the ministry of the Word.</span>",
"2": "<span data-prooftexts='2 Timothy 1:9; Titus 3:4-5; Ephesians 2:4-5, 8-9; Romans 9:11' data-prooftexts-index='224'>This effectual call is of God's free and special grace alone, not from anything at all foreseen in man,</span><span data-prooftexts='1 Corinthians 2:14; Romans 8:7; Ephesians 2:5' data-prooftexts-index='225'> who is altogether passive therein, until, being quickened and renewed by the Holy Spirit,</span><span data-prooftexts='John 6:37; Ezekiel 36:37; John 5:25' data-prooftexts-index='226'> he is thereby enabled to answer this call, and to embrace the grace offered and conveyed in it.</span>",
"4": "<span data-prooftexts='Matthew 22:14' data-prooftexts-index='230'>Others, not elected, although they may be called by the ministry of the Word,</span><span data-prooftexts='Matthew 7:22; Matthew 13:20-21; Hebrews 6:4-5' data-prooftexts-index='231'> and may have some common operations of the Spirit,</span><span data-prooftexts='John 6:64-66; John 8:24' data-prooftexts-index='232'> yet they never truly come unto Christ, and therefore cannot be saved:</span><span data-prooftexts='Acts 4:12; John 14:6; Ephesians 2:12; John 4:22; John 17:3' data-prooftexts-index='233'> much less can men, not professing the Christian religion, be saved in any other way whatsoever, be they never so diligent to frame their lives according to the light of nature, and the laws of that religion they do profess.</span><span data-prooftexts='2 John 9-11; 1 Corinthians 16:22; Galatians 1:6-8' data-prooftexts-index='234'> And, to assert and maintain that they may, is very pernicious, and to be detested.</span>"
},
"prooftext_verses": {
"216": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 8:30</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45008030.01-1\">And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 11:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45011007.01-2\">What then? Israel failed to obtain what it was seeking. The elect obtained it, but the rest were hardened,</p>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 1:10-11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49001010.01-3\">as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth.</p>\n <p id=\"p49001011.01-3\">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>",
"217": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>2 Thessalonians 2:13-14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p53002013.03-1\">But we ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers beloved by the Lord, because God chose you as the firstfruits to be saved, through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth. To this he called you through our gospel, so that you may obtain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.</p>\n</div><h5>2 Corinthians 3:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p47003003.01-2\">And you show that you are a letter from Christ delivered by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.</p>\n</div><h5>2 Corinthians 3:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p47003006.01-3\">who has made us competent to be ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"230": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 22:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40022014.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">For many are called, but few are chosen.”</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"218": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 8:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45008002.01-1\">For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.</p>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 2:1-5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p49002001.05-2\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v49002001-2\">2:1 </span>And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind. But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—</p>\n</div><h5>2 Timothy 1:9-10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p55001009.01-3\">who saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works but because of his own purpose and grace, which he gave us in Christ Jesus before the ages began, and which now has been manifested through the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus, who abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"219": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Acts 26:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44026018.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">to open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’</span></p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 2:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p class=\"same-paragraph\" id=\"p46002010.01-2\">these things God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 2:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46002012.01-3\">Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God.</p>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 1:17-18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49001017.01-4\">that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him, having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"227": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Luke 18:15-16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p42018015.07-1\">Now they were bringing even infants to him that he might touch them. And when the disciples saw it, they rebuked them. But Jesus called them to him, saying, <span class=\"woc\">“Let the children come to me, and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of God.</span></p>\n</div><h5>Acts 2:38-39</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44002038.01-2\">And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. For the promise is for you and for your children and for all who are far off, everyone whom the Lord our God calls to himself.”</p>\n</div><h5>John 3:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43003003.01-3\">Jesus answered him, <span class=\"woc\">“Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”</span></p>\n</div><h5>John 3:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43003005.01-4\">Jesus answered, <span class=\"woc\">“Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.</span></p>\n</div><h5>1 John 5:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p62005012.01-5\">Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 8:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45008009.01-6\">You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"231": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 7:22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40007022.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’</span></p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 13:20-21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40013020.01-2\"><span class=\"woc\">As for what was sown on rocky ground, this is the one who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy,</span> <span class=\"woc\">yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while, and when tribulation or persecution arises on account of the word, immediately he falls away.</span></p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 6:4-5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58006004.01-3\">For it is impossible, in the case of those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, and have shared in the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the age to come, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"233": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Acts 4:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44004012.01-1\">And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”</p>\n</div><h5>John 14:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43014006.01-2\">Jesus said to him, <span class=\"woc\">“I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.</span></p>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 2:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49002012.01-3\">remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.</p>\n</div><h5>John 4:22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43004022.01-4\"><span class=\"woc\">You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews.</span></p>\n</div><h5>John 17:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43017003.01-5\"><span class=\"woc\">And this is eternal life, that they know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"232": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>John 6:64-66</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43006064.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">But there are some of you who do not believe.”</span> (For Jesus knew from the beginning who those were who did not believe, and who it was who would betray him.) And he said, <span class=\"woc\">“This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted him by the Father.”</span></p>\n <p id=\"p43006066.01-1\">After this many of his disciples turned back and no longer walked with him.</p>\n</div><h5>John 8:24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43008024.01-2\"><span class=\"woc\">I told you that you would die in your sins, for unless you believe that I am he you will die in your sins.”</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"229": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 John 5:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p62005012.01-1\">Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 4:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44004012.01-2\">And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"228": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>John 3:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43003008.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.”</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"234": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>2 John 1:9-11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p63001009.01-1\">Everyone who goes on ahead and does not abide in the teaching of Christ, does not have God. Whoever abides in the teaching has both the Father and the Son. If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your house or give him any greeting, for whoever greets him takes part in his wicked works.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 16:22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46016022.01-2\">If anyone has no love for the Lord, let him be accursed. Our Lord, come!</p>\n</div><h5>Galatians 1:6-8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p48001006.04-3\">I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel— not that there is another one, but there are some who trouble you and want to distort the gospel of Christ. But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be accursed. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"226": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>John 6:37</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43006037.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out.</span></p>\n</div><h5>Ezekiel 36:37</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p26036037.01-2\">“Thus says the Lord <span class=\"small-caps\">God</span>: This also I will let the house of Israel ask me to do for them: to increase their people like a flock.</p>\n</div><h5>John 5:25</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43005025.01-3\"><span class=\"woc\">“Truly, truly, I say to you, an hour is coming, and is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"225": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Corinthians 2:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46002014.01-1\">The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 8:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45008007.01-2\">For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law; indeed, it cannot.</p>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 2:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49002005.01-3\">even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"224": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>2 Timothy 1:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p55001009.01-1\">who saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works but because of his own purpose and grace, which he gave us in Christ Jesus before the ages began,</p>\n</div><h5>Titus 3:4-5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p56003004.01-2\">But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,</p>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 2:4-5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49002004.01-3\">But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—</p>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 2:8-9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49002008.01-4\">For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 9:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45009011.01-5\">though they were not yet born and had done nothing either good or bad—in order that God's purpose of election might continue, not because of works but because of him who calls— (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"223": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Song of Solomon 1:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p22001004.01-1\">Draw me after you; let us run.<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>The king has brought me into his chambers.</p>\n\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p22001004.17-1\">We will exult and rejoice in you;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>we will extol your love more than wine;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>rightly do they love you.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 110:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19110003.01-2\">Your people will offer themselves freely<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>on the day of your power,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>in holy garments;<br />\nfrom the womb of the morning,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>the dew of your youth will be yours.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>John 6:37</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43006037.01-3\"><span class=\"woc\">All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out.</span></p>\n</div><h5>Romans 6:16-18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45006016.01-4\">Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness? But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were committed, and, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"222": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ephesians 1:19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49001019.01-1\">and what is the immeasurable greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of his great might</p>\n</div><h5>John 6:44-45</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43006044.01-2\"><span class=\"woc\">No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day.</span> <span class=\"woc\">It is written in the Prophets, ‘And they will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to me—</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"221": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ezekiel 11:19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p26011019.01-1\">And I will give them one heart, and a new spirit I will put within them. I will remove the heart of stone from their flesh and give them a heart of flesh,</p>\n</div><h5>Philippians 2:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p50002013.01-2\">for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure.</p>\n</div><h5>Deuteronomy 30:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p05030006.01-3\">And the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your offspring, so that you will love the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.</p>\n</div><h5>Ezekiel 36:27</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p26036027.01-4\">And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my rules. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"220": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ezekiel 36:26</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p26036026.01-1\">And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"216": "Romans 8:30; Romans 11:7; Ephesians 1:10-11",
"217": "2 Thessalonians 2:13-14; 2 Corinthians 3:3, 6",
"220": "Ezekiel 36:26",
"222": "Ephesians 1:19; John 6:44-45",
"223": "Song of Solomon 1:4; Psalm 110:3; John 6:37; Romans 6:16-18",
"218": "Romans 8:2; Ephesians 2:1-5; 2 Timothy 1:9-10",
"219": "Acts 26:18; 1 Corinthians 2:10, 12; Ephesians 1:17-18",
"234": "2 John 1:9-11; 1 Corinthians 16:22; Galatians 1:6-8",
"221": "Ezekiel 11:19; Philippians 2:13; Deuteronomy 30:6; Ezekiel 36:27",
"229": "1 John 5:12; Acts 4:12",
"228": "John 3:8",
"227": "Luke 18:15-16; Acts 2:38-39; John 3:3, 5; 1 John 5:12; Romans 8:9",
"226": "John 6:37; Ezekiel 36:37; John 5:25",
"225": "1 Corinthians 2:14; Romans 8:7; Ephesians 2:5",
"224": "2 Timothy 1:9; Titus 3:4-5; Ephesians 2:4-5, 8-9; Romans 9:11",
"230": "Matthew 22:14",
"231": "Matthew 7:22; Matthew 13:20-21; Hebrews 6:4-5",
"232": "John 6:64-66; John 8:24",
"233": "Acts 4:12; John 14:6; Ephesians 2:12; John 4:22; John 17:3"
},
"title": "Chapter 10: Of Effectual Calling"
},
"13": {
"body": {
"1": "<span data-prooftexts='1 Corinthians 6:11; Acts 20:32; Philippians 3:10; Romans 6:5-6' data-prooftexts-index='266'>They, who are once effectually called, and regenerated, having a new heart, and a new spirit created in them, are further sanctified, really and personally, through the virtue of Christ's death and resurrection,</span><span data-prooftexts='John 17:17; Ephesians 5:26; 2 Thessalonians 2:13' data-prooftexts-index='267'> by his Word and Spirit dwelling in them:</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 6:6, 14' data-prooftexts-index='268'> the dominion of the whole body of sin is destroyed,</span><span data-prooftexts='Galatians 5:24; Romans 8:13' data-prooftexts-index='269'> and the several lusts thereof are more and more weakened and mortified;</span><span data-prooftexts='Colossians 1:11; Ephesians 3:16-19' data-prooftexts-index='270'> and they more and more quickened and strengthened in all saving graces,</span><span data-prooftexts='2 Corinthians 7:1; Hebrews 12:14' data-prooftexts-index='271'> to the practice of true holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord.</span>",
"3": "<span data-prooftexts='Romans 7:23' data-prooftexts-index='275'>In which war, although the remaining corruption, for a time, may much prevail;</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 6:14; 1 John 5:4; Ephesians 4:15-16' data-prooftexts-index='276'> yet, through the continual supply of strength from the sanctifying Spirit of Christ, the regenerate part doth overcome;</span><span data-prooftexts='2 Peter 3:18; 2 Corinthians 3:18' data-prooftexts-index='277'> and so, the saints grow in grace,</span><span data-prooftexts='2 Corinthians 7:1' data-prooftexts-index='278'> perfecting holiness in the fear of God.</span>",
"2": "<span data-prooftexts='1 Thessalonians 5:23' data-prooftexts-index='272'>This sanctification is throughout, in the whole man;</span><span data-prooftexts='1 John 1:10; Romans 7:18, 23; Philippians 3:12' data-prooftexts-index='273'> yet imperfect in this life, there abiding still some remnants of corruption in every part;</span><span data-prooftexts='Galatians 5:17; 1 Peter 2:11' data-prooftexts-index='274'> whence ariseth a continual and irreconcilable war, the flesh lusting against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh.</span>"
},
"prooftext_verses": {
"270": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Colossians 1:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p51001011.01-1\">May you be strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy,</p>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 3:16-19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49003016.01-2\">that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"271": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>2 Corinthians 7:1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p47007001.01-1\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v47007001-1\">7:1 </span>Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and spirit, bringing holiness to completion in the fear of God.</p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 12:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58012014.01-2\">Strive for peace with everyone, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"272": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Thessalonians 5:23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p52005023.01-1\">Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"273": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 John 1:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p62001010.01-1\">If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 7:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45007018.01-2\">For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 7:23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45007023.01-3\">but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members.</p>\n</div><h5>Philippians 3:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p50003012.05-4\">Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"267": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>John 17:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43017017.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.</span></p>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 5:26</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49005026.01-2\">that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word,</p>\n</div><h5>2 Thessalonians 2:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p53002013.03-3\">But we ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers beloved by the Lord, because God chose you as the firstfruits to be saved, through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"266": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Corinthians 6:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46006011.01-1\">And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 20:32</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44020032.01-2\">And now I commend you to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified.</p>\n</div><h5>Philippians 3:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p50003010.01-3\">that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death,</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 6:5-6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45006005.01-4\">For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"276": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 6:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45006014.01-1\">For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.</p>\n</div><h5>1 John 5:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p62005004.01-2\">For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith.</p>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 4:15-16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49004015.01-3\">Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"277": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>2 Peter 3:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p61003018.01-1\">But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.</p>\n</div><h5>2 Corinthians 3:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p47003018.01-2\">And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"278": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>2 Corinthians 7:1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p47007001.01-1\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v47007001-1\">7:1 </span>Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and spirit, bringing holiness to completion in the fear of God. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"274": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Galatians 5:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p48005017.01-1\">For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Peter 2:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p60002011.01-2\">Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"269": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Galatians 5:24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p48005024.01-1\">And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 8:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45008013.01-2\">For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"268": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 6:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45006006.01-1\">We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 6:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45006014.01-2\">For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"275": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 7:23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45007023.01-1\">but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"270": "Colossians 1:11; Ephesians 3:16-19",
"271": "2 Corinthians 7:1; Hebrews 12:14",
"272": "1 Thessalonians 5:23",
"273": "1 John 1:10; Romans 7:18, 23; Philippians 3:12",
"267": "John 17:17; Ephesians 5:26; 2 Thessalonians 2:13",
"266": "1 Corinthians 6:11; Acts 20:32; Philippians 3:10; Romans 6:5-6",
"276": "Romans 6:14; 1 John 5:4; Ephesians 4:15-16",
"277": "2 Peter 3:18; 2 Corinthians 3:18",
"278": "2 Corinthians 7:1",
"274": "Galatians 5:17; 1 Peter 2:11",
"269": "Galatians 5:24; Romans 8:13",
"268": "Romans 6:6, 14",
"275": "Romans 7:23"
},
"title": "Chapter 13: Of Sanctification"
},
"12": {
"body": {
"1": "<span data-prooftexts='Ephesians 1:5; Galatians 4:4-5' data-prooftexts-index='252'>All those that are justified, God vouchsafeth, in and for his only Son Jesus Christ, to make partakers of the grace of adoption,</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 8:17; John 1:12' data-prooftexts-index='253'> by which they are taken into the number, and enjoy the liberties and privileges of the children of God,</span><span data-prooftexts='Jeremiah 14:9; 2 Corinthians 6:18; Revelation 3:12' data-prooftexts-index='254'> have his name put upon them,</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 8:15' data-prooftexts-index='255'> receive the Spirit of adoption,</span><span data-prooftexts='Ephesians 3:12; Romans 5:2' data-prooftexts-index='256'> have access to the throne of grace with boldness,</span><span data-prooftexts='Galatians 4:6' data-prooftexts-index='257'> are enabled to cry, Abba, Father,</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalm 103:13' data-prooftexts-index='258'> are pitied,</span><span data-prooftexts='Proverbs 14:26' data-prooftexts-index='259'> protected,</span><span data-prooftexts='Matthew 6:30, 32; 1 Peter 5:7' data-prooftexts-index='260'> provided for,</span><span data-prooftexts='Hebrews 12:6' data-prooftexts-index='261'> and chastened by him, as by a father:</span><span data-prooftexts='Lamentations 3:31' data-prooftexts-index='262'> yet never cast off,</span><span data-prooftexts='Ephesians 4:30' data-prooftexts-index='263'> but sealed to the day of redemption;</span><span data-prooftexts='Hebrews 6:12' data-prooftexts-index='264'> and inherit the promises,</span><span data-prooftexts='1 Peter 1:3-4; Hebrews 1:14' data-prooftexts-index='265'> as heirs of everlasting salvation.</span>"
},
"prooftext_verses": {
"259": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Proverbs 14:26</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20014026.01-1\">In the fear of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> one has strong confidence,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and his children will have a refuge. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"261": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Hebrews 12:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p58012006.01-1\">For the Lord disciplines the one he loves,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and chastises every son whom he receives.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"263": "<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>",
"262": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Lamentations 3:31</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p25003031.01-1\">For the Lord will not<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>cast off forever, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"258": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 103:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19103013.01-1\">As a father shows compassion to his children,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>so the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> shows compassion to those who fear him. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"260": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 6:30</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40006030.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?</span></p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 6:32</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40006032.01-2\"><span class=\"woc\">For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all.</span></p>\n</div><h5>1 Peter 5:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p60005007.01-3\">casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"265": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Peter 1:3-4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p60001003.07-1\">Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you,</p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 1:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p class=\"same-paragraph\" id=\"p58001014.01-2\">Are they not all ministering spirits sent out to serve for the sake of those who are to inherit salvation? (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"264": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Hebrews 6:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58006012.01-1\">so that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"252": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ephesians 1:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49001005.01-1\">he predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will,</p>\n</div><h5>Galatians 4:4-5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p48004004.01-2\">But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"253": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 8:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45008017.01-1\">and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him.</p>\n</div><h5>John 1:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43001012.01-2\">But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"256": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ephesians 3:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49003012.01-1\">in whom we have boldness and access with confidence through our faith in him.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 5:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45005002.01-2\">Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"257": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Galatians 4:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p48004006.01-1\">And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"254": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Jeremiah 14:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p24014009.01-1\">Why should you be like a man confused,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>like a mighty warrior who cannot save?<br />\nYet you, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, are in the midst of us,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and we are called by your name;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>do not leave us.”</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>2 Corinthians 6:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p47006018.01-2\">and I will be a father to you,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and you shall be sons and daughters to me,<br />\nsays the Lord Almighty.”</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Revelation 3:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p66003012.01-3\"><span class=\"woc\">The one who conquers, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God. Never shall he go out of it, and I will write on him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down from my God out of heaven, and my own new name.</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"255": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 8:15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45008015.01-1\">For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"260": "Matthew 6:30, 32; 1 Peter 5:7",
"258": "Psalm 103:13",
"263": "Ephesians 4:30",
"262": "Lamentations 3:31",
"261": "Hebrews 12:6",
"259": "Proverbs 14:26",
"265": "1 Peter 1:3-4; Hebrews 1:14",
"264": "Hebrews 6:12",
"252": "Ephesians 1:5; Galatians 4:4-5",
"253": "Romans 8:17; John 1:12",
"256": "Ephesians 3:12; Romans 5:2",
"257": "Galatians 4:6",
"254": "Jeremiah 14:9; 2 Corinthians 6:18; Revelation 3:12",
"255": "Romans 8:15"
},
"title": "Chapter 12: Of Adoption"
},
"15": {
"body": {
"1": "<span data-prooftexts='Zechariah 12:10; Acts 11:18' data-prooftexts-index='292'>Repentance unto life is an evangelical grace,</span><span data-prooftexts='Luke 24:47; Mark 1:15; Acts 20:21' data-prooftexts-index='293'> the doctrine whereof is to be preached by every minister of the gospel, as well as that of faith in Christ.</span>",
"3": "<span data-prooftexts='Ezekiel 36:31-32; Ezekiel 16:61-63' data-prooftexts-index='296'>Although repentance be not to be rested in, as any satisfaction for sin, or any cause of the pardon thereof,</span><span data-prooftexts='Hosea 14:2, 4; Romans 3:24; Ephesians 1:7' data-prooftexts-index='297'> which is the act of God's free grace in Christ;</span><span data-prooftexts='Luke 13:3, 5; Acts 17:30-31' data-prooftexts-index='298'> yet it is of such necessity to all sinners, that none may expect pardon without it.</span>",
"2": "<span data-prooftexts='Ezekiel 18:30-31; Ezekiel 36:31; Isaiah 30:22; Psalm 51:4; Jeremiah 31:18-19; Joel 2:12-13; Amos 5:15; Psalm 119:128; 2 Corinthians 7:11' data-prooftexts-index='294'>By it, a sinner, out of the sight and sense not only of the danger, but also of the filthiness and odiousness of his sins, as contrary to the holy nature, and righteous law of God; and upon the apprehension of his mercy in Christ to such as are penitent, so grieves for, and hates his sins, as to turn from them all unto God,</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalm 119:6, 59, 106; Luke 1:6; 2 Kings 23:25' data-prooftexts-index='295'> purposing and endeavoring to walk with him in all the ways of his commandments.</span>",
"5": "<span data-prooftexts='Psalm 19:13; Luke 19:8; 1 Timothy 1:13, 15' data-prooftexts-index='301'>Men ought not to content themselves with a general repentance, but it is every man's duty to endeavor to repent of his particular sins, particularly.</span>",
"4": "<span data-prooftexts='Romans 6:23; Romans 5:12; Matthew 12:36' data-prooftexts-index='299'>As there is no sin so small, but it deserves damnation;</span><span data-prooftexts='Isaiah 55:7; Romans 8:1; Isaiah 1:16, 18' data-prooftexts-index='300'> so there is no sin so great, that it can bring damnation upon those who truly repent.</span>",
"6": "<span data-prooftexts='Psalm 51:4-5, 7, 9, 14; Psalm 32:5-6' data-prooftexts-index='302'>As every man is bound to make private confession of his sins to God, praying for the pardon thereof;</span><span data-prooftexts='Proverbs 28:13; 1 John 1:9' data-prooftexts-index='303'> upon which, and the forsaking of them, he shall find mercy;</span><span data-prooftexts='James 5:16; Luke 17:3-4; Joshua 7:19; Psalm 51' data-prooftexts-index='304'> so, he that scandalizeth his brother, or the church of Christ, ought to be willing, by a private or public confession, and sorrow for his sin, to declare his repentance to those that are offended,</span><span data-prooftexts='2 Corinthians 2:8' data-prooftexts-index='305'> who are thereupon to be reconciled to him, and in love to receive him.</span>"
},
"prooftext_verses": {
"300": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Isaiah 55:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23055007.01-1\">let the wicked forsake his way,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and the unrighteous man his thoughts;<br />\nlet him return to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, that he may have compassion on him,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Romans 8:1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p45008001.05-2\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v45008001-2\">8:1 </span>There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.</p>\n</div><h5>Isaiah 1:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23001016.01-3\">Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>remove the evil of your deeds from before my eyes;<br />\ncease to do evil,</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Isaiah 1:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23001018.01-4\">“Come now, let us reason together, says the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>:<br />\nthough your sins are like scarlet,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>they shall be as white as snow;<br />\nthough they are red like crimson,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>they shall become like wool. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"301": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 19:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19019013.01-1\">Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>let them not have dominion over me!<br />\nThen I shall be blameless,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and innocent of great transgression.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Luke 19:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42019008.01-2\">And Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, “Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor. And if I have defrauded anyone of anything, I restore it fourfold.”</p>\n</div><h5>1 Timothy 1:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p54001013.01-3\">though formerly I was a blasphemer, persecutor, and insolent opponent. But I received mercy because I had acted ignorantly in unbelief,</p>\n</div><h5>1 Timothy 1:15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p54001015.01-4\">The saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the foremost. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"302": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 51:4-5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19051004.01-1\">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.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 51:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19051007.01-2\">Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 51:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19051009.01-3\">Hide your face from my sins,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and blot out all my iniquities.</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=\"p19051014.01-4\">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.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 32:5-6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19032005.01-5\">I acknowledged my sin to you,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and I did not cover my iniquity;<br />\nI said, “I will confess my transgressions to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,”<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. <span class=\"selah\">Selah</span></p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19032006.01-5\">Therefore let everyone who is godly<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>offer prayer to you at a time when you may be found;<br />\nsurely in the rush of great waters,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>they shall not reach him. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"303": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Proverbs 28:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20028013.01-1\">Whoever conceals his transgressions will not prosper,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>1 John 1:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p62001009.01-2\">If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"304": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>James 5:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p59005016.01-1\">Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.</p>\n</div><h5>Luke 17:3-4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42017003.01-2\"><span class=\"woc\">Pay attention to yourselves! If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him,</span> <span class=\"woc\">and if he sins against you seven times in the day, and turns to you seven times, saying, ‘I repent,’ you must forgive him.”</span></p>\n</div><h5>Joshua 7:19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p06007019.01-3\">Then Joshua said to Achan, “My son, give glory to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> God of Israel and give praise to him. And tell me now what you have done; do not hide it from me.”</p>\n</div><h5>Psalm 51</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19051001.30-4\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v19051001-4\">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=\"p19051003.01-4\">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=\"p19051007.01-4\">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=\"p19051013.01-4\">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=\"p19051018.01-4\">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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"305": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>2 Corinthians 2:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p47002008.01-1\">So I beg you to reaffirm your love for him. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"298": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Luke 13:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42013003.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.</span></p>\n</div><h5>Luke 13:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42013005.01-2\"><span class=\"woc\">No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.”</span></p>\n</div><h5>Acts 17:30-31</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44017030.01-3\">The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent, because he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed; and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"299": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 6:23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45006023.01-1\">For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 5:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p45005012.07-2\">Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned—</p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 12:36</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40012036.01-3\"><span class=\"woc\">I tell you, on the day of judgment people will give account for every careless word they speak,</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"296": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ezekiel 36:31-32</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p26036031.01-1\">Then you will remember your evil ways, and your deeds that were not good, and you will loathe yourselves for your iniquities and your abominations. It is not for your sake that I will act, declares the Lord <span class=\"small-caps\">God</span>; let that be known to you. Be ashamed and confounded for your ways, O house of Israel.</p>\n</div><h5>Ezekiel 16:61-63</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p26016061.01-2\">Then you will remember your ways and be ashamed when you take your sisters, both your elder and your younger, and I give them to you as daughters, but not on account of the covenant with you. I will establish my covenant with you, and you shall know that I am the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, that you may remember and be confounded, and never open your mouth again because of your shame, when I atone for you for all that you have done, declares the Lord <span class=\"small-caps\">God</span>.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"297": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Hosea 14:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p28014002.01-1\">Take with you words<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and return to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>;<br />\nsay to him,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>“Take away all iniquity;<br />\naccept what is good,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and we will pay with bulls<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>the vows of our lips.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Hosea 14:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p28014004.01-2\">I will heal their apostasy;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I will love them freely,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for my anger has turned from them.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Romans 3:24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45003024.01-3\">and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,</p>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 1:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49001007.01-4\">In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"294": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ezekiel 18:30-31</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p26018030.01-1\">“Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, declares the Lord <span class=\"small-caps\">God</span>. Repent and turn from all your transgressions, lest iniquity be your ruin. Cast away from you all the transgressions that you have committed, and make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit! Why will you die, O house of Israel?</p>\n</div><h5>Ezekiel 36:31</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p26036031.01-2\">Then you will remember your evil ways, and your deeds that were not good, and you will loathe yourselves for your iniquities and your abominations.</p>\n</div><h5>Isaiah 30:22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p23030022.01-3\">Then you will defile your carved idols overlaid with silver and your gold-plated metal images. You will scatter them as unclean things. You will say to them, “Be gone!”</p>\n</div><h5>Psalm 51:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19051004.01-4\">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.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Jeremiah 31:18-19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p24031018.01-5\">I have heard Ephraim grieving,<br />\n‘You have disciplined me, and I was disciplined,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>like an untrained calf;<br />\nbring me back that I may be restored,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for you are the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> my God.<br />\n For after I had turned away, I relented,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and after I was instructed, I struck my thigh;<br />\nI was ashamed, and I was confounded,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>because I bore the disgrace of my youth.’</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Joel 2:12-13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p29002012.05-6\">“Yet even now,” declares the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>“return to me with all your heart,<br />\nwith fasting, with weeping, and with mourning;<br />\n <span class=\"indent\"></span>and rend your hearts and not your garments.”<br />\nReturn to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for he is gracious and merciful,<br />\nslow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and he relents over disaster.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Amos 5:15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p30005015.01-7\">Hate evil, and love good,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and establish justice in the gate;<br />\nit may be that the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, the God of hosts,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 119:128</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119128.01-8\">Therefore I consider all your precepts to be right;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I hate every false way.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>2 Corinthians 7:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p47007011.01-9\">For see what earnestness this godly grief has produced in you, but also what eagerness to clear yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what longing, what zeal, what punishment! At every point you have proved yourselves innocent in the matter. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"295": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 119:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119006.01-1\">Then I shall not be put to shame,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>having my eyes fixed on all your commandments.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 119:59</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119059.01-2\">When I think on my ways,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I turn my feet to your testimonies;</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 119:106</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119106.01-3\">I have sworn an oath and confirmed it,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>to keep your righteous rules.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Luke 1:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42001006.01-4\">And they were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and statutes of the Lord.</p>\n</div><h5>2 Kings 23:25</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p12023025.01-5\">Before him there was no king like him, who turned to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his might, according to all the Law of Moses, nor did any like him arise after him. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"292": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Zechariah 12:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p38012010.06-1\">“And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and pleas for mercy, so that, when they look on me, on him whom they have pierced, they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over him, as one weeps over a firstborn.</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 11:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44011018.01-2\">When they heard these things they fell silent. And they glorified God, saying, “Then to the Gentiles also God has granted repentance that leads to life.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"293": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Luke 24:47</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42024047.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">and that repentance and forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.</span></p>\n</div><h5>Mark 1:15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p41001015.01-2\">and saying, <span class=\"woc\">“The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel.”</span></p>\n</div><h5>Acts 20:21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44020021.01-3\">testifying both to Jews and to Greeks of repentance toward God and of faith in our Lord Jesus Christ. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"300": "Isaiah 55:7; Romans 8:1; Isaiah 1:16, 18",
"301": "Psalm 19:13; Luke 19:8; 1 Timothy 1:13, 15",
"302": "Psalm 51:4-5, 7, 9, 14; Psalm 32:5-6",
"303": "Proverbs 28:13; 1 John 1:9",
"304": "James 5:16; Luke 17:3-4; Joshua 7:19; Psalm 51",
"305": "2 Corinthians 2:8",
"298": "Luke 13:3, 5; Acts 17:30-31",
"299": "Romans 6:23; Romans 5:12; Matthew 12:36",
"296": "Ezekiel 36:31-32; Ezekiel 16:61-63",
"297": "Hosea 14:2, 4; Romans 3:24; Ephesians 1:7",
"294": "Ezekiel 18:30-31; Ezekiel 36:31; Isaiah 30:22; Psalm 51:4; Jeremiah 31:18-19; Joel 2:12-13; Amos 5:15; Psalm 119:128; 2 Corinthians 7:11",
"295": "Psalm 119:6, 59, 106; Luke 1:6; 2 Kings 23:25",
"292": "Zechariah 12:10; Acts 11:18",
"293": "Luke 24:47; Mark 1:15; Acts 20:21"
},
"title": "Chapter 15: Of Repentance unto Life"
},
"14": {
"body": {
"1": "<span data-prooftexts='Hebrews 10:39' data-prooftexts-index='279'>The grace of faith, whereby the elect are enabled to believe to the saving of their souls,</span><span data-prooftexts='2 Corinthians 4:13; Ephesians 1:17-19; Ephesians 2:8' data-prooftexts-index='280'> is the work of the Spirit of Christ in their hearts,</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 10:14, 17' data-prooftexts-index='281'> and is ordinarily wrought by the ministry of the Word,</span><span data-prooftexts='1 Peter 2:2; Acts 20:32; Romans 4:11; Luke 17:5; Romans 1:16-17' data-prooftexts-index='282'> by which also, and by the administration of the sacraments, and prayer, it is increased and strengthened.</span>",
"3": "<span data-prooftexts='Hebrews 5:13-14; Romans 4:19-20; Matthew 6:30; Matthew 8:10' data-prooftexts-index='288'>This faith is different in degrees, weak or strong;</span><span data-prooftexts='Luke 22:31-32; Ephesians 6:16; 1 John 5:4-5' data-prooftexts-index='289'> may be often and many ways assailed, and weakened, but gets the victory:</span><span data-prooftexts='Hebrews 6:11-12; Hebrews 10:22' data-prooftexts-index='290'> growing up in many to the attainment of a full assurance, through Christ,</span><span data-prooftexts='Hebrews 12:2' data-prooftexts-index='291'> who is both the author and finisher of our faith.</span>",
"2": "<span data-prooftexts='John 4:42; 1 Thessalonians 2:13; 1 John 5:10; Acts 24:14' data-prooftexts-index='283'>By this faith, a Christian believeth to be true whatsoever is revealed in the Word, for the authority of God himself speaking therein;</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 16:26' data-prooftexts-index='284'> and acteth differently upon that which each particular passage thereof containeth; yielding obedience to the commands,</span><span data-prooftexts='Isaiah 66:2' data-prooftexts-index='285'> trembling at the threatenings,</span><span data-prooftexts='Hebrews 11:13; 1 Timothy 4:8' data-prooftexts-index='286'> and embracing the promises of God for this life, and that which is to come.</span><span data-prooftexts='John 1:12; Acts 16:31; Galatians 2:20; Acts 15:11' data-prooftexts-index='287'> But the principal acts of saving faith are accepting, receiving, and resting upon Christ alone for justification, sanctification, and eternal life, by virtue of the covenant of grace.</span>"
},
"prooftext_verses": {
"291": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Hebrews 12:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58012002.01-1\">looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"289": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Luke 22:31-32</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p42022031.05-1\"><span class=\"woc\">“Simon, Simon, behold, Satan demanded to have you, that he might sift you like wheat,</span> <span class=\"woc\">but I have prayed for you that your faith may not fail. And when you have turned again, strengthen your brothers.”</span></p>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 6:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49006016.01-2\">In all circumstances take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming darts of the evil one;</p>\n</div><h5>1 John 5:4-5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p62005004.01-3\">For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith. Who is it that overcomes the world except the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God? (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"288": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Hebrews 5:13-14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58005013.01-1\">for everyone who lives on milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, since he is a child. But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 4:19-20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45004019.01-2\">He did not weaken in faith when he considered his own body, which was as good as dead (since he was about a hundred years old), or when he considered the barrenness of Sarah's womb. No distrust made him waver concerning the promise of God, but he grew strong in his faith as he gave glory to God,</p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 6:30</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40006030.01-3\"><span class=\"woc\">But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?</span></p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 8:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40008010.01-4\">When Jesus heard this, he marveled and said to those who followed him, <span class=\"woc\">“Truly, I tell you, with no one in Israel have I found such faith.</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"290": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Hebrews 6:11-12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58006011.01-1\">And we desire each one of you to show the same earnestness to have the full assurance of hope until the end, so that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.</p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 10:22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58010022.01-2\">let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"279": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Hebrews 10:39</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p class=\"same-paragraph\" id=\"p58010039.01-1\">But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and preserve their souls. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"281": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 10:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45010014.01-1\">How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching?</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 10:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45010017.01-2\">So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"280": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>2 Corinthians 4:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p47004013.01-1\">Since we have the same spirit of faith according to what has been written, “I believed, and so I spoke,” we also believe, and so we also speak,</p>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 1:17-19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49001017.01-2\">that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him, having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, and what is the immeasurable greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of his great might</p>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 2:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49002008.01-3\">For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"283": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>John 4:42</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43004042.01-1\">They said to the woman, “It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this is indeed the Savior of the world.”</p>\n</div><h5>1 Thessalonians 2:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p52002013.01-2\">And we also thank God constantly for this, that when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men but as what it really is, the word of God, which is at work in you believers.</p>\n</div><h5>1 John 5:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p62005010.01-3\">Whoever believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. Whoever does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has borne concerning his Son.</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 24:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44024014.01-4\">But this I confess to you, that according to the Way, which they call a sect, I worship the God of our fathers, believing everything laid down by the Law and written in the Prophets, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"282": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Peter 2:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p60002002.01-1\">Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation—</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 20:32</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44020032.01-2\">And now I commend you to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 4:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45004011.01-3\">He received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. The purpose was to make him the father of all who believe without being circumcised, so that righteousness would be counted to them as well,</p>\n</div><h5>Luke 17:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p42017005.04-4\">The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith!”</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 1:16-17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p45001016.07-5\">For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, “The righteous shall live by faith.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"285": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Isaiah 66:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23066002.01-1\">All these things my hand has made,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and so all these things came to be,<br />\n<span class=\"declares-line\"></span>\ndeclares the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>.<br />\nBut this is the one to whom I will look:<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>he who is humble and contrite in spirit<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and trembles at my word. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"284": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 16:26</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45016026.01-1\">but has now been disclosed and through the prophetic writings has been made known to all nations, according to the command of the eternal God, to bring about the obedience of faith— (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"287": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>John 1:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43001012.01-1\">But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 16:31</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44016031.01-2\">And they said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.”</p>\n</div><h5>Galatians 2:20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p48002020.01-3\">I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 15:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44015011.01-4\">But we believe that we will be saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, just as they will.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"286": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Hebrews 11:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58011013.01-1\">These all died in faith, not having received the things promised, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Timothy 4:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p54004008.01-2\">for while bodily training is of some value, godliness is of value in every way, as it holds promise for the present life and also for the life to come. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"287": "John 1:12; Acts 16:31; Galatians 2:20; Acts 15:11",
"289": "Luke 22:31-32; Ephesians 6:16; 1 John 5:4-5",
"288": "Hebrews 5:13-14; Romans 4:19-20; Matthew 6:30; Matthew 8:10",
"286": "Hebrews 11:13; 1 Timothy 4:8",
"280": "2 Corinthians 4:13; Ephesians 1:17-19; Ephesians 2:8",
"281": "Romans 10:14, 17",
"279": "Hebrews 10:39",
"283": "John 4:42; 1 Thessalonians 2:13; 1 John 5:10; Acts 24:14",
"282": "1 Peter 2:2; Acts 20:32; Romans 4:11; Luke 17:5; Romans 1:16-17",
"285": "Isaiah 66:2",
"284": "Romans 16:26",
"290": "Hebrews 6:11-12; Hebrews 10:22",
"291": "Hebrews 12:2"
},
"title": "Chapter 14: Of Saving Faith"
},
"17": {
"body": {
"1": "<span data-prooftexts='Philippians 1:6; 2 Peter 1:10; John 10:28-29; 1 John 3:9; 1 Peter 1:5, 9' data-prooftexts-index='334'>They, whom God hath accepted in his Beloved, effectually called, and sanctified by his Spirit, can neither totally nor finally fall away from the state of grace, but shall certainly persevere therein to the end, and be eternally saved.</span>",
"3": "<span data-prooftexts='Matthew 26:70, 72, 74' data-prooftexts-index='340'>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;</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalm 51; Psalm 51:14' data-prooftexts-index='341'> and, for a time, continue therein:</span><span data-prooftexts='Isaiah 64:5, 7, 9; 2 Samuel 11:27' data-prooftexts-index='342'> whereby they incur God's displeasure,</span><span data-prooftexts='Ephesians 4:30' data-prooftexts-index='343'> and grieve his Holy Spirit,</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalm 51:8, 10, 12; Revelation 2:4; Song of Solomon 5:2-4, 6' data-prooftexts-index='344'> come to be deprived of some measure of their graces and comforts,</span><span data-prooftexts='Isaiah 63:17; Mark 6:52; Mark 16:14' data-prooftexts-index='345'> have their hearts hardened,</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalm 32:3-4; Psalm 51:8' data-prooftexts-index='346'> and their consciences wounded;</span><span data-prooftexts='2 Samuel 12:14' data-prooftexts-index='347'> hurt and scandalize others,</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalm 89:31-32; 1 Corinthians 11:32' data-prooftexts-index='348'> and bring temporal judgments upon themselves.</span>",
"2": "<span data-prooftexts='2 Timothy 2:18-19; Jeremiah 31:3' data-prooftexts-index='335'>This perseverance of the saints depends not upon their own free will, but upon the immutability of the decree of election, flowing from the free and unchangeable love of God the Father;</span><span data-prooftexts='Hebrews 10:10, 14; Hebrews 13:20-21; Hebrews 9:12-15; Romans 8:33-39; John 17:11, 24; Luke 22:32; Hebrews 7:25' data-prooftexts-index='336'> upon the efficacy of the merit and intercession of Jesus Christ,</span><span data-prooftexts='John 14:16-17; 1 John 2:27; 1 John 3:9' data-prooftexts-index='337'> the abiding of the Spirit, and of the seed of God within them,</span><span data-prooftexts='Jeremiah 32:40' data-prooftexts-index='338'> and the nature of the covenant of grace:</span><span data-prooftexts='John 10:28; 2 Thessalonians 3:3; 1 John 2:19' data-prooftexts-index='339'> from all which ariseth also the certainty and infallibility thereof.</span>"
},
"prooftext_verses": {
"339": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>John 10:28</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43010028.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.</span></p>\n</div><h5>2 Thessalonians 3:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p53003003.01-2\">But the Lord is faithful. He will establish you and guard you against the evil one.</p>\n</div><h5>1 John 2:19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p62002019.01-3\">They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us. But they went out, that it might become plain that they all are not of us. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"338": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Jeremiah 32:40</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p24032040.01-1\">I will make with them an everlasting covenant, that I will not turn away from doing good to them. And I will put the fear of me in their hearts, that they may not turn from me. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"335": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>2 Timothy 2:18-19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p55002018.01-1\">who have swerved from the truth, saying that the resurrection has already happened. They are upsetting the faith of some. But God's firm foundation stands, bearing this seal: “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Let everyone who names the name of the Lord depart from iniquity.”</p>\n</div><h5>Jeremiah 31:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p24031003.01-2\"><span class=\"indent\"></span>the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> appeared to him from far away.<br />\nI have loved you with an everlasting love;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>therefore I have continued my faithfulness to you. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"334": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Philippians 1:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p50001006.01-1\">And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.</p>\n</div><h5>2 Peter 1:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p61001010.01-2\">Therefore, brothers, be all the more diligent to make your calling and election sure, for if you practice these qualities you will never fall.</p>\n</div><h5>John 10:28-29</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43010028.01-3\"><span class=\"woc\">I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.</span> <span class=\"woc\">My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand.</span></p>\n</div><h5>1 John 3:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p62003009.01-4\">No one born of God makes a practice of sinning, for God's seed abides in him, and he cannot keep on sinning because he has been born of God.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Peter 1:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p60001005.01-5\">who by God's power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Peter 1:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p60001009.01-6\">obtaining the outcome of your faith, the salvation of your souls. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"337": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>John 14:16-17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43014016.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever,</span> <span class=\"woc\">even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you.</span></p>\n</div><h5>1 John 2:27</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p62002027.01-2\">But the anointing that you received from him abides in you, and you have no need that anyone should teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about everything, and is true, and is no lie—just as it has taught you, abide in him.</p>\n</div><h5>1 John 3:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p62003009.01-3\">No one born of God makes a practice of sinning, for God's seed abides in him, and he cannot keep on sinning because he has been born of God. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"336": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Hebrews 10:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58010010.01-1\">And by that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.</p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 10:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58010014.01-2\">For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified.</p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 13:20-21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p58013020.02-3\">Now may the God of peace who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the eternal covenant, equip you with everything good that you may do his will, working in us that which is pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.</p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 9:12-15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58009012.01-4\">he entered once for all into the holy places, not by means of the blood of goats and calves but by means of his own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption. For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the sprinkling of defiled persons with the ashes of a heifer, sanctify for the purification of the flesh, how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God.</p>\n <p id=\"p58009015.01-4\">Therefore he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, since a death has occurred that redeems them from the transgressions committed under the first covenant.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 8:33-39</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45008033.01-5\">Who shall bring any charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies. Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? As it is written,</p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p45008036.05-5\">“For your sake we are being killed all the day long;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.”</p>\n</div>\n <p class=\"same-paragraph\" id=\"p45008037.01-5\">No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.</p>\n</div><h5>John 17:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43017011.01-6\"><span class=\"woc\">And I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name, which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are one.</span></p>\n</div><h5>John 17:24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43017024.01-7\"><span class=\"woc\">Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory that you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world.</span></p>\n</div><h5>Luke 22:32</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42022032.01-8\"><span class=\"woc\">but I have prayed for you that your faith may not fail. And when you have turned again, strengthen your brothers.”</span></p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 7:25</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58007025.01-9\">Consequently, he is able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"344": "<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>",
"345": "<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>",
"346": "<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>",
"347": "<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>",
"340": "<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>",
"341": "<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>",
"342": "<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>",
"343": "<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>",
"348": "<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>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"339": "John 10:28; 2 Thessalonians 3:3; 1 John 2:19",
"338": "Jeremiah 32:40",
"335": "2 Timothy 2:18-19; Jeremiah 31:3",
"334": "Philippians 1:6; 2 Peter 1:10; John 10:28-29; 1 John 3:9; 1 Peter 1:5, 9",
"337": "John 14:16-17; 1 John 2:27; 1 John 3:9",
"336": "Hebrews 10:10, 14; Hebrews 13:20-21; Hebrews 9:12-15; Romans 8:33-39; John 17:11, 24; Luke 22:32; Hebrews 7:25",
"344": "Psalm 51:8, 10, 12; Revelation 2:4; Song of Solomon 5:2-4, 6",
"345": "Isaiah 63:17; Mark 6:52; Mark 16:14",
"346": "Psalm 32:3-4; Psalm 51:8",
"347": "2 Samuel 12:14",
"340": "Matthew 26:70, 72, 74",
"341": "Psalm 51; Psalm 51:14",
"342": "Isaiah 64:5, 7, 9; 2 Samuel 11:27",
"343": "Ephesians 4:30",
"348": "Psalm 89:31-32; 1 Corinthians 11:32"
},
"title": "Chapter 17: Of the Perseverance of the Saints"
},
"16": {
"body": {
"1": "<span data-prooftexts='Micah 6:8; Romans 12:2; Hebrews 13:21' data-prooftexts-index='306'>Good works are only such as God hath commanded in his holy Word,</span><span data-prooftexts='Matthew 15:9; Isaiah 29:13; 1 Peter 1:18; Romans 10:2; John 16:2; 1 Samuel 15:21-23' data-prooftexts-index='307'> and not such as, without the warrant thereof, are devised by men, out of blind zeal, or upon any pretense of good intention.</span>",
"3": "<span data-prooftexts='John 15:4-6; Ezekiel 36:26-27' data-prooftexts-index='317'>Their ability to do good works is not at all of themselves, but wholly from the Spirit of Christ.</span><span data-prooftexts='Philippians 2:13; Philippians 4:13; 2 Corinthians 3:5' data-prooftexts-index='318'> And that they may be enabled thereunto, beside the graces they have already received, there is required an actual influence of the same Holy Spirit, to work in them to will, and to do, of his good pleasure:</span><span data-prooftexts='Philippians 2:12; Hebrews 6:11-12; 2 Peter 1:3, 5, 10-11; Isaiah 64:7; 2 Timothy 1:6; Acts 26:6-7; Jude 20-21' data-prooftexts-index='319'> yet are they not hereupon to grow negligent, as if they were not bound to perform any duty unless upon a special motion of the Spirit; but they ought to be diligent in stirring up the grace of God that is in them.</span>",
"2": "<span data-prooftexts='James 2:18, 22' data-prooftexts-index='308'>These good works, done in obedience to God's commandments, are the fruits and evidences of a true and lively faith:</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalm 116:12-13; 1 Peter 2:9' data-prooftexts-index='309'> and by them believers manifest their thankfulness,</span><span data-prooftexts='1 John 2:3, 5; 2 Peter 1:5-10' data-prooftexts-index='310'> strengthen their assurance,</span><span data-prooftexts='2 Corinthians 9:2; Matthew 5:16' data-prooftexts-index='311'> edify their brethren,</span><span data-prooftexts='Titus 2:5, 9-12; 1 Timothy 6:1' data-prooftexts-index='312'> adorn the profession of the gospel,</span><span data-prooftexts='1 Peter 2:15' data-prooftexts-index='313'> stop the mouths of the adversaries,</span><span data-prooftexts='1 Peter 2:12; Philippians 1:11; John 15:8' data-prooftexts-index='314'> and glorify God,</span><span data-prooftexts='Ephesians 2:10' data-prooftexts-index='315'> whose workmanship they are, created in Christ Jesus thereunto,</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 6:22' data-prooftexts-index='316'> that, having their fruit unto holiness, they may have the end, eternal life.</span>",
"5": "<span data-prooftexts='Romans 3:20; Romans 4:2, 4, 6; Ephesians 2:8-9; Titus 3:5-7; Romans 8:18; Psalm 16:2; Job 22:2-3; Job 35:7-8' data-prooftexts-index='321'>We cannot by our best works merit pardon of sin, or eternal life at the hand of God, by reason of the great disproportion that is between them and the glory to come; and the infinite distance that is between us and God, whom, by them, we can neither profit, nor satisfy for the debt of our former sins,</span><span data-prooftexts='Luke 17:10' data-prooftexts-index='322'> but when we have done all we can, we have done but our duty, and are unprofitable servants:</span><span data-prooftexts='Galatians 5:22-23' data-prooftexts-index='323'> and because, as they are good, they proceed from his Spirit;</span><span data-prooftexts='Isaiah 64:6; Galatians 5:17; Romans 7:15, 18; Psalm 143:2; Psalm 130:3' data-prooftexts-index='324'> and as they are wrought by us, they are defiled, and mixed with so much weakness and imperfection, that they cannot endure the severity of God's judgment.</span>",
"4": "<span data-prooftexts='Luke 17:10; Nehemiah 13:22; Job 9:2-3; Galatians 5:17' data-prooftexts-index='320'>They who, in their obedience, attain to the greatest height which is possible in this life, are so far from being able to supererogate, and to do more than God requires, as that they fall short of much which in duty they are bound to do.</span>",
"7": "<span data-prooftexts='2 Kings 10:30-31; 1 Kings 21:27, 29; Philippians 1:15; Philippians 1:16, 18' data-prooftexts-index='328'>Works done by unregenerate men, although for the matter of them they may be things which God commands; and of good use both to themselves and others:</span><span data-prooftexts='Genesis 4:5; Hebrews 11:4, 6' data-prooftexts-index='329'> yet, because they proceed not from an heart purified by faith;</span><span data-prooftexts='1 Corinthians 13:3; Isaiah 1:12' data-prooftexts-index='330'> nor are done in a right manner, according to the Word;</span><span data-prooftexts='Matthew 6:2, 5, 16' data-prooftexts-index='331'> nor to a right end, the glory of God,</span><span data-prooftexts='Haggai 2:14; Titus 1:15; Amos 5:21-22; Hosea 1:4; Romans 9:16; Titus 3:15' data-prooftexts-index='332'> they are therefore sinful, and cannot please God, or make a man meet to receive grace from God:</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalm 14:4; Psalm 36:3; Job 21:14-15; Matthew 25:41-43, 45; Matthew 23:23' data-prooftexts-index='333'> and yet, their neglect of them is more sinful and displeasing unto God.</span>",
"6": "<span data-prooftexts='Ephesians 1:6; 1 Peter 2:5; Exodus 28:38; Genesis 4:4; Hebrews 11:4' data-prooftexts-index='325'>Notwithstanding, the persons of believers being accepted through Christ, their good works also are accepted in him;</span><span data-prooftexts='Job 9:20; Psalm 143:2' data-prooftexts-index='326'> not as though they were in this life wholly unblamable and unreprovable in God's sight;</span><span data-prooftexts='Hebrews 13:20-21; 2 Corinthians 8:12; Hebrews 6:10; Matthew 25:21, 23' data-prooftexts-index='327'> but that he, looking upon them in his Son, is pleased to accept and reward that which is sincere, although accompanied with many weaknesses and imperfections.</span>"
},
"prooftext_verses": {
"319": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Philippians 2:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p50002012.05-1\">Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, so now, not only as in my presence but much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling,</p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 6:11-12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58006011.01-2\">And we desire each one of you to show the same earnestness to have the full assurance of hope until the end, so that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.</p>\n</div><h5>2 Peter 1:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p61001003.07-3\">His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence,</p>\n</div><h5>2 Peter 1:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p61001005.01-4\">For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge,</p>\n</div><h5>2 Peter 1:10-11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p61001010.01-5\">Therefore, brothers, be all the more diligent to make your calling and election sure, for if you practice these qualities you will never fall. For in this way there will be richly provided for you an entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.</p>\n</div><h5>Isaiah 64:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23064007.01-6\">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>2 Timothy 1:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p55001006.01-7\">For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands,</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 26:6-7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44026006.01-8\">And now I stand here on trial because of my hope in the promise made by God to our fathers, to which our twelve tribes hope to attain, as they earnestly worship night and day. And for this hope I am accused by Jews, O king!</p>\n</div><h5>Jude 1:20-21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p65001020.01-9\">But you, beloved, building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit, keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that leads to eternal life. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"318": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Philippians 2:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p50002013.01-1\">for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure.</p>\n</div><h5>Philippians 4:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p50004013.01-2\">I can do all things through him who strengthens me.</p>\n</div><h5>2 Corinthians 3:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p47003005.01-3\">Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency is from God, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"313": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Peter 2:15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p60002015.01-1\">For this is the will of God, that by doing good you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish people. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"312": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Titus 2:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p56002005.01-1\">to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.</p>\n</div><h5>Titus 2:9-12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p56002009.01-2\">Slaves are to be submissive to their own masters in everything; they are to be well-pleasing, not argumentative, not pilfering, but showing all good faith, so that in everything they may adorn the doctrine of God our Savior.</p>\n <p id=\"p56002011.01-2\">For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age,</p>\n</div><h5>1 Timothy 6:1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p54006001.01-3\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v54006001-3\">6:1 </span>Let all who are under a yoke as slaves regard their own masters as worthy of all honor, so that the name of God and the teaching may not be reviled. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"311": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>2 Corinthians 9:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p47009002.01-1\">for I know your readiness, of which I boast about you to the people of Macedonia, saying that Achaia has been ready since last year. And your zeal has stirred up most of them.</p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 5:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40005016.01-2\"><span class=\"woc\">In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"310": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 John 2:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p62002003.01-1\">And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments.</p>\n</div><h5>1 John 2:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p62002005.01-2\">but whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in him:</p>\n</div><h5>2 Peter 1:5-10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p61001005.01-3\">For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love. For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. For whoever lacks these qualities is so nearsighted that he is blind, having forgotten that he was cleansed from his former sins. Therefore, brothers, be all the more diligent to make your calling and election sure, for if you practice these qualities you will never fall. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"317": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>John 15:4-6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43015004.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me.</span> <span class=\"woc\">I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.</span> <span class=\"woc\">If anyone does not abide in me he is thrown away like a branch and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned.</span></p>\n</div><h5>Ezekiel 36:26-27</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p26036026.01-2\">And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my rules. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"316": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 6:22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45006022.01-1\">But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the fruit you get leads to sanctification and its end, eternal life. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"315": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ephesians 2:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49002010.01-1\">For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"314": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Peter 2:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p60002012.01-1\">Keep your conduct among the Gentiles honorable, so that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day of visitation.</p>\n</div><h5>Philippians 1:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p50001011.01-2\">filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.</p>\n</div><h5>John 15:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43015008.01-3\"><span class=\"woc\">By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples.</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"322": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Luke 17:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42017010.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">So you also, when you have done all that you were commanded, say, ‘We are unworthy servants; we have only done what was our duty.’”</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"323": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Galatians 5:22-23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p48005022.01-1\">But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"320": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Luke 17:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42017010.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">So you also, when you have done all that you were commanded, say, ‘We are unworthy servants; we have only done what was our duty.’”</span></p>\n</div><h5>Nehemiah 13:22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p16013022.01-2\">Then I commanded the Levites that they should purify themselves and come and guard the gates, to keep the Sabbath day holy. Remember this also in my favor, O my God, and spare me according to the greatness of your steadfast love.</p>\n</div><h5>Job 9:2-3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p18009002.01-3\">“Truly I know that it is so:<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>But how can a man be in the right before God?<br />\n If one wished to contend with him,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>one could not answer him once in a thousand times.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Galatians 5:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p48005017.01-4\">For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"321": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 3:20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45003020.01-1\">For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 4:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45004002.01-2\">For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 4:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45004004.01-3\">Now to the one who works, his wages are not counted as a gift but as his due.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 4:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45004006.01-4\">just as David also speaks of the blessing of the one to whom God counts righteousness apart from works:</p>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 2:8-9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49002008.01-5\">For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.</p>\n</div><h5>Titus 3:5-7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p56003005.01-6\">he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit, whom he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that being justified by his grace we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 8:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p45008018.03-7\">For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us.</p>\n</div><h5>Psalm 16:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19016002.01-8\">I say to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, “You are my Lord;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I have no good apart from you.”</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Job 22:2-3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p18022002.01-9\">“Can a man be profitable to God?<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself.<br />\n Is it any pleasure to the Almighty if you are in the right,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>or is it gain to him if you make your ways blameless?</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Job 35:7-8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p18035007.01-10\">If you are righteous, what do you give to him?<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Or what does he receive from your hand?<br />\n Your wickedness concerns a man like yourself,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and your righteousness a son of man. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"326": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Job 9:20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p18009020.01-1\">Though I am in the right, my own mouth would condemn me;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>though I am blameless, he would prove me perverse.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 143:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19143002.01-2\">Enter not into judgment with your servant,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for no one living is righteous before you. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"327": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Hebrews 13:20-21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p58013020.02-1\">Now may the God of peace who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the eternal covenant, equip you with everything good that you may do his will, working in us that which is pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.</p>\n</div><h5>2 Corinthians 8:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p47008012.01-2\">For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according to what a person has, not according to what he does not have.</p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 6:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58006010.01-3\">For God is not unjust so as to overlook your work and the love that you have shown for his name in serving the saints, as you still do.</p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 25:21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40025021.01-4\"><span class=\"woc\">His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’</span></p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 25:23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40025023.01-5\"><span class=\"woc\">His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"324": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Isaiah 64:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23064006.01-1\">We have all become like one who is unclean,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and all our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment.<br />\nWe all fade like a leaf,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Galatians 5:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p48005017.01-2\">For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 7:15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45007015.01-3\">For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 7:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45007018.01-4\">For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out.</p>\n</div><h5>Psalm 143:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19143002.01-5\">Enter not into judgment with your servant,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for no one living is righteous before you.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 130:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19130003.01-6\">If you, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, should mark iniquities,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>O Lord, who could stand? (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"325": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ephesians 1:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49001006.01-1\">to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Peter 2:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p60002005.01-2\">you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.</p>\n</div><h5>Exodus 28:38</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p02028038.01-3\">It shall be on Aaron's forehead, and Aaron shall bear any guilt from the holy things that the people of Israel consecrate as their holy gifts. It shall regularly be on his forehead, that they may be accepted before the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>.</p>\n</div><h5>Genesis 4:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p01004004.01-4\">and Abel also brought of the firstborn of his flock and of their fat portions. And the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> had regard for Abel and his offering,</p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 11:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58011004.01-5\">By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he was commended as righteous, God commending him by accepting his gifts. And through his faith, though he died, he still speaks. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"328": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>2 Kings 10:30-31</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p12010030.01-1\">And the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> said to Jehu, “Because you have done well in carrying out what is right in my eyes, and have done to the house of Ahab according to all that was in my heart, your sons of the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel.” But Jehu was not careful to walk in the law of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, the God of Israel, with all his heart. He did not turn from the sins of Jeroboam, which he made Israel to sin.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Kings 21:27</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p11021027.01-2\">And when Ahab heard those words, he tore his clothes and put sackcloth on his flesh and fasted and lay in sackcloth and went about dejectedly.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Kings 21:29</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p11021029.01-3\">“Have you seen how Ahab has humbled himself before me? Because he has humbled himself before me, I will not bring the disaster in his days; but in his son's days I will bring the disaster upon his house.”</p>\n</div><h5>Philippians 1:15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p50001015.01-4\">Some indeed preach Christ from envy and rivalry, but others from good will.</p>\n</div><h5>Philippians 1:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p50001016.01-5\">The latter do it out of love, knowing that I am put here for the defense of the gospel.</p>\n</div><h5>Philippians 1:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p50001018.01-6\">What then? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is proclaimed, and in that I rejoice.</p>\n\n<p id=\"p50001018.26-6\">Yes, and I will rejoice, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"329": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Genesis 4:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p01004005.01-1\">but for Cain and his offering he had no regard. So Cain was very angry, and his face fell.</p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 11:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58011004.01-2\">By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he was commended as righteous, God commending him by accepting his gifts. And through his faith, though he died, he still speaks.</p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 11:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58011006.01-3\">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>",
"308": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>James 2:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p59002018.01-1\">But someone will say, “You have faith and I have works.” Show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works.</p>\n</div><h5>James 2:22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p59002022.01-2\">You see that faith was active along with his works, and faith was completed by his works; (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"309": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 116:12-13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19116012.01-1\">What shall I render to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span><br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for all his benefits to me?<br />\n I will lift up the cup of salvation<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and call on the name of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>1 Peter 2:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p60002009.01-2\">But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"331": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 6:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p class=\"chapter-first\" id=\"p40006002.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">“Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward.</span></p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 6:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p40006005.04-2\"><span class=\"woc\">“And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward.</span></p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 6:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p40006016.02-3\"><span class=\"woc\">“And when you fast, do not look gloomy like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces that their fasting may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward.</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"306": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Micah 6:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p33006008.01-1\">He has told you, O man, what is good;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and what does the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> require of you<br />\nbut to do justice, and to love kindness,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and to walk humbly with your God?</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Romans 12:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45012002.01-2\">Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.</p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 13:21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58013021.01-3\">equip you with everything good that you may do his will, working in us that which is pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"307": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 15:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p40015009.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">in vain do they worship me,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’”</span></p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Isaiah 29:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23029013.01-2\">And the Lord said:<br />\n“Because this people draw near with their mouth<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and honor me with their lips,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>while their hearts are far from me,<br />\nand their fear of me is a commandment taught by men,</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>1 Peter 1:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p60001018.01-3\">knowing that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold,</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 10:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45010002.01-4\">For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.</p>\n</div><h5>John 16:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43016002.01-5\"><span class=\"woc\">They will put you out of the synagogues. Indeed, the hour is coming when whoever kills you will think he is offering service to God.</span></p>\n</div><h5>1 Samuel 15:21-23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p09015021.01-6\">But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the best of the things devoted to destruction, to sacrifice to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God in Gilgal.” And Samuel said,</p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p09015022.04-6\">“Has the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>as in obeying the voice of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>?<br />\nBehold, to obey is better than sacrifice,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and to listen than the fat of rams.<br />\n For rebellion is as the sin of divination,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and presumption is as iniquity and idolatry.<br />\nBecause you have rejected the word of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>he has also rejected you from being king.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"330": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Corinthians 13:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46013003.01-1\">If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.</p>\n</div><h5>Isaiah 1:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23001012.01-2\">“When you come to appear before me,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>who has required of you<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>this trampling of my courts? (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"333": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 14:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19014004.01-1\">Have they no knowledge, all the evildoers<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>who eat up my people as they eat bread<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and do not call upon the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>?</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 36:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19036003.01-2\">The words of his mouth are trouble and deceit;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>he has ceased to act wisely and do good.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Job 21:14-15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p18021014.01-3\">They say to God, ‘Depart from us!<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>We do not desire the knowledge of your ways.<br />\n What is the Almighty, that we should serve him?<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>And what profit do we get if we pray to him?’</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Matthew 25:41-43</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40025041.01-4\"><span class=\"woc\">“Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.</span> <span class=\"woc\">For I was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you gave me no drink,</span> <span class=\"woc\">I was a stranger and you did not welcome me, naked and you did not clothe me, sick and in prison and you did not visit me.’</span></p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 25:45</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40025045.01-5\"><span class=\"woc\">Then he will answer them, saying, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to me.’</span></p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 23:23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40023023.01-6\"><span class=\"woc\">“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint and dill and cumin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faithfulness. These you ought to have done, without neglecting the others.</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"332": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Haggai 2:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p37002014.01-1\">Then Haggai answered and said, “So is it with this people, and with this nation before me, declares the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, and so with every work of their hands. And what they offer there is unclean.</p>\n</div><h5>Titus 1:15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p56001015.01-2\">To the pure, all things are pure, but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their minds and their consciences are defiled.</p>\n</div><h5>Amos 5:21-22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p30005021.01-3\">“I hate, I despise your feasts,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and I take no delight in your solemn assemblies.<br />\n Even though you offer me your burnt offerings and grain offerings,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I will not accept them;<br />\nand the peace offerings of your fattened animals,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I will not look upon them.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Hosea 1:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p28001004.01-4\">And the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> said to him, “Call his name Jezreel, for in just a little while I will punish the house of Jehu for the blood of Jezreel, and I will put an end to the kingdom of the house of Israel.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 9:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45009016.01-5\">So then it depends not on human will or exertion, but on God, who has mercy.</p>\n</div><h5>Titus 3:15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p56003015.01-6\">All who are with me send greetings to you. Greet those who love us in the faith.</p>\n<p id=\"p56003015.18-6\">Grace be with you all. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"319": "Philippians 2:12; Hebrews 6:11-12; 2 Peter 1:3, 5, 10-11; Isaiah 64:7; 2 Timothy 1:6; Acts 26:6-7; Jude 20-21",
"318": "Philippians 2:13; Philippians 4:13; 2 Corinthians 3:5",
"313": "1 Peter 2:15",
"312": "Titus 2:5, 9-12; 1 Timothy 6:1",
"311": "2 Corinthians 9:2; Matthew 5:16",
"310": "1 John 2:3, 5; 2 Peter 1:5-10",
"317": "John 15:4-6; Ezekiel 36:26-27",
"316": "Romans 6:22",
"315": "Ephesians 2:10",
"314": "1 Peter 2:12; Philippians 1:11; John 15:8",
"322": "Luke 17:10",
"323": "Galatians 5:22-23",
"320": "Luke 17:10; Nehemiah 13:22; Job 9:2-3; Galatians 5:17",
"321": "Romans 3:20; Romans 4:2, 4, 6; Ephesians 2:8-9; Titus 3:5-7; Romans 8:18; Psalm 16:2; Job 22:2-3; Job 35:7-8",
"326": "Job 9:20; Psalm 143:2",
"327": "Hebrews 13:20-21; 2 Corinthians 8:12; Hebrews 6:10; Matthew 25:21, 23",
"324": "Isaiah 64:6; Galatians 5:17; Romans 7:15, 18; Psalm 143:2; Psalm 130:3",
"325": "Ephesians 1:6; 1 Peter 2:5; Exodus 28:38; Genesis 4:4; Hebrews 11:4",
"328": "2 Kings 10:30-31; 1 Kings 21:27, 29; Philippians 1:15; Philippians 1:16, 18",
"329": "Genesis 4:5; Hebrews 11:4, 6",
"308": "James 2:18, 22",
"309": "Psalm 116:12-13; 1 Peter 2:9",
"331": "Matthew 6:2, 5, 16",
"306": "Micah 6:8; Romans 12:2; Hebrews 13:21",
"307": "Matthew 15:9; Isaiah 29:13; 1 Peter 1:18; Romans 10:2; John 16:2; 1 Samuel 15:21-23",
"330": "1 Corinthians 13:3; Isaiah 1:12",
"333": "Psalm 14:4; Psalm 36:3; Job 21:14-15; Matthew 25:41-43, 45; Matthew 23:23",
"332": "Haggai 2:14; Titus 1:15; Amos 5:21-22; Hosea 1:4; Romans 9:16; Titus 3:15"
},
"title": "Chapter 16: Of Good Works"
},
"19": {
"body": {
"1": "<span data-prooftexts='Genesis 1:26-27; Genesis 2:17; Romans 2:14-15; Romans 10:5; Romans 5:12, 19; Galatians 3:10, 12; Ecclesiastes 7:29; Job 28:28' data-prooftexts-index='366'>God gave to Adam a law, as a covenant of works, by which he bound him and all his posterity to personal, entire, exact, and perpetual obedience, promised life upon the fulfilling, and threatened death upon the breach of it, and endued him with power and ability to keep it.</span>",
"3": "<span data-prooftexts='Hebrews 9; Hebrews 10:1; Galatians 4:1-3; Colossians 2:17' data-prooftexts-index='369'>Beside this law, commonly called moral, God was pleased to give to the people of Israel, as a church under age, ceremonial laws, containing several typical ordinances, partly of worship, prefiguring Christ, his graces, actions, sufferings, and benefits;</span><span data-prooftexts='1 Corinthians 5:7; 2 Corinthians 6:17; Jude 23' data-prooftexts-index='370'> and partly, holding forth divers instructions of moral duties.</span><span data-prooftexts='Colossians 2:14, 16-17; Daniel 9:27; Ephesians 2:15-16' data-prooftexts-index='371'> All which ceremonial laws are now abrogated, under the new testament.</span>",
"2": "<span data-prooftexts='James 1:25; James 2:8, 10-12; Romans 13:8-9; Deuteronomy 5:32; Deuteronomy 10:4; Exodus 24:1' data-prooftexts-index='367'>This law, after his fall, continued to be a perfect rule of righteousness; and, as such, was delivered by God upon Mount Sinai, in ten commandments, and written in two tables:</span><span data-prooftexts='Matthew 22:37-40' data-prooftexts-index='368'> the first four commandments containing our duty towards God; and the other six, our duty to man.</span>",
"5": "<span data-prooftexts='Romans 13:8-10; Ephesians 6:2; 1 John 2:3-4, 7-8' data-prooftexts-index='373'>The moral law doth forever bind all, as well justified persons as others, to the obedience thereof;</span><span data-prooftexts='James 2:10-11' data-prooftexts-index='374'> and that, not only in regard of the matter contained in it, but also in respect of the authority of God the Creator, who gave it.</span><span data-prooftexts='Matthew 5:17-19; James 2:8; Romans 3:31' data-prooftexts-index='375'> Neither doth Christ, in the gospel, any way dissolve, but much strengthen this obligation.</span>",
"4": "<span data-prooftexts='Exodus 21-22:29; Genesis 49:10; 1 Peter 2:13-14; Matthew 5:17, 38-39; 1 Corinthians 9:8-10' data-prooftexts-index='372'>To them also, as a body politic, he gave sundry judicial laws, which expired together with the State of that people; not obliging any other now, further than the general equity thereof may require.</span>",
"7": "<span data-prooftexts='Galatians 3:21' data-prooftexts-index='386'>Neither are the forementioned uses of the law contrary to the grace of the gospel, but do sweetly comply with it;</span><span data-prooftexts='Ezekiel 36:27; Hebrews 8:10; Jeremiah 31:33' data-prooftexts-index='387'> the Spirit of Christ subduing and enabling the will of man to do that freely, and cheerfully, which the will of God, revealed in the law, requireth to be done.</span>",
"6": "<span data-prooftexts='Romans 6:14; Galatians 2:16; Galatians 3:13; Galatians 4:4-5; Acts 13:39; Romans 8:1' data-prooftexts-index='376'>Although true believers be not under the law, as a covenant of works, to be thereby justified, or condemned;</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 7:12, 22, 25; Psalm 119:4-6; 1 Corinthians 7:19; Galatians 5:14, 16, 18-23' data-prooftexts-index='377'> yet is it of great use to them, as well as to others; in that, as a rule of life informing them of the will of God, and their duty, it directs and binds them to walk accordingly;</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 7:7; Romans 3:20' data-prooftexts-index='378'> discovering also the sinful pollutions of their nature, hearts, and lives;</span><span data-prooftexts='James 1:23-25; Romans 7:9, 14, 24' data-prooftexts-index='379'> so as, examining themselves thereby, they may come to further conviction of, humiliation for, and hatred against sin,</span><span data-prooftexts='Galatians 3:24; Romans 7:24-25; Romans 8:3-4' data-prooftexts-index='380'> together with a clearer sight of the need they have of Christ, and the perfection of his obedience.</span><span data-prooftexts='James 2:11; Psalm 119:101, 104, 128' data-prooftexts-index='381'> It is likewise of use to the regenerate, to restrain their corruptions, in that it forbids sin:</span><span data-prooftexts='Ezra 9:13-14; Psalm 89:30-34' data-prooftexts-index='382'> and the threatenings of it serve to show what even their sins deserve; and what afflictions, in this life, they may expect for them, although freed from the curse thereof threatened in the law.</span><span data-prooftexts='Leviticus 26:1-14; 2 Corinthians 6:16; Ephesians 6:2-3; Psalm 37:11; Matthew 5:5; Psalm 19:11' data-prooftexts-index='383'> The promises of it, in like manner, show them God's approbation of obedience, and what blessings they may expect upon the performance thereof:</span><span data-prooftexts='Galatians 2:16; Luke 17:10' data-prooftexts-index='384'> although not as due to them by the law as a covenant of works.</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 6:12, 14; 1 Peter 3:8-12; Psalm 34:12-16; Hebrews 12:28-29' data-prooftexts-index='385'> So as, a man's doing good, and refraining from evil, because the law encourageth to the one, and deterreth from the other, is no evidence of his being under the law; and, not under grace.</span>"
},
"prooftext_verses": {
"368": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 22:37-40</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40022037.01-1\">And he said to him, <span class=\"woc\">“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.</span> <span class=\"woc\">This is the great and first commandment.</span> <span class=\"woc\">And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.</span> <span class=\"woc\">On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"369": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Hebrews 9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p58009001.05-1\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v58009001-1\">9:1 </span>Now even the first covenant had regulations for worship and an earthly place of holiness. For a tent was prepared, the first section, in which were the lampstand and the table and the bread of the Presence. It is called the Holy Place. Behind the second curtain was a second section called the Most Holy Place, having the golden altar of incense and the ark of the covenant covered on all sides with gold, in which was a golden urn holding the manna, and Aaron's staff that budded, and the tablets of the covenant. Above it were the cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat. Of these things we cannot now speak in detail.</p>\n <p id=\"p58009006.01-1\">These preparations having thus been made, the priests go regularly into the first section, performing their ritual duties, but into the second only the high priest goes, and he but once a year, and not without taking blood, which he offers for himself and for the unintentional sins of the people. By this the Holy Spirit indicates that the way into the holy places is not yet opened as long as the first section is still standing (which is symbolic for the present age). According to this arrangement, gifts and sacrifices are offered that cannot perfect the conscience of the worshiper, but deal only with food and drink and various washings, regulations for the body imposed until the time of reformation.</p>\n \n<p id=\"p58009011.07-1\">But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things that have come, then through the greater and more perfect tent (not made with hands, that is, not of this creation) he entered once for all into the holy places, not by means of the blood of goats and calves but by means of his own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption. For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the sprinkling of defiled persons with the ashes of a heifer, sanctify for the purification of the flesh, how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God.</p>\n <p id=\"p58009015.01-1\">Therefore he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, since a death has occurred that redeems them from the transgressions committed under the first covenant. For where a will is involved, the death of the one who made it must be established. For a will takes effect only at death, since it is not in force as long as the one who made it is alive. Therefore not even the first covenant was inaugurated without blood. For when every commandment of the law had been declared by Moses to all the people, he took the blood of calves and goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people, saying, “This is the blood of the covenant that God commanded for you.” And in the same way he sprinkled with the blood both the tent and all the vessels used in worship. Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins.</p>\n <p id=\"p58009023.01-1\">Thus it was necessary for the copies of the heavenly things to be purified with these rites, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. For Christ has entered, not into holy places made with hands, which are copies of the true things, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf. Nor was it to offer himself repeatedly, as the high priest enters the holy places every year with blood not his own, for then he would have had to suffer repeatedly since the foundation of the world. But as it is, he has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment, so Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him.</p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 10:1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p58010001.06-2\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v58010001-2\">10:1 </span>For since the law has but a shadow of the good things to come instead of the true form of these realities, it can never, by the same sacrifices that are continually offered every year, make perfect those who draw near.</p>\n</div><h5>Galatians 4:1-3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p48004001.04-3\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v48004001-3\">4:1 </span>I mean that the heir, as long as he is a child, is no different from a slave, though he is the owner of everything, but he is under guardians and managers until the date set by his father. In the same way we also, when we were children, were enslaved to the elementary principles of the world.</p>\n</div><h5>Colossians 2:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p51002017.01-4\">These are a shadow of the things to come, but the substance belongs to Christ. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"366": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Genesis 1:26-27</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p01001026.01-1\">Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”</p>\n <div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p01001027.01-1\">So God created man in his own image,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>in the image of God he created him;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>male and female he created them.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Genesis 2:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p01002017.01-2\">but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 2:14-15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45002014.01-3\">For when Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law. They show that the work of the law is written on their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness, and their conflicting thoughts accuse or even excuse them</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 10:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p45010005.07-4\">For Moses writes about the righteousness that is based on the law, that the person who does the commandments shall live by them.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 5:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p45005012.07-5\">Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned—</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 5:19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45005019.01-6\">For as by the one man's disobedience the many were made sinners, so by the one man's obedience the many will be made righteous.</p>\n</div><h5>Galatians 3:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p48003010.07-7\">For all who rely on works of the law are under a curse; for it is written, “Cursed be everyone who does not abide by all things written in the Book of the Law, and do them.”</p>\n</div><h5>Galatians 3:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p48003012.01-8\">But the law is not of faith, rather “The one who does them shall live by them.”</p>\n</div><h5>Ecclesiastes 7:29</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p21007029.01-9\">See, this alone I found, that God made man upright, but they have sought out many schemes.</p>\n</div><h5>Job 28:28</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p18028028.01-10\">And he said to man,<br />\n‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and to turn away from evil is understanding.’” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"367": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>James 1:25</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p59001025.01-1\">But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing.</p>\n</div><h5>James 2:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p59002008.01-2\">If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.</p>\n</div><h5>James 2:10-12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p59002010.01-3\">For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become accountable for all of it. For he who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not murder.” If you do not commit adultery but do murder, you have become a transgressor of the law. So speak and so act as those who are to be judged under the law of liberty.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 13:8-9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p45013008.06-4\">Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law. For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”</p>\n</div><h5>Deuteronomy 5:32</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p05005032.01-5\">You shall be careful therefore to do as the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God has commanded you. You shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.</p>\n</div><h5>Deuteronomy 10:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p05010004.01-6\">And he wrote on the tablets, in the same writing as before, the Ten Commandments that the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> had spoken to you on the mountain out of the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly. And the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> gave them to me.</p>\n</div><h5>Exodus 24:1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p02024001.04-7\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v02024001-7\">24:1 </span>Then he said to Moses, “Come up to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, you and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel, and worship from afar. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"380": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Galatians 3:24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p48003024.01-1\">So then, the law was our guardian until Christ came, in order that we might be justified by faith.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 7:24-25</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45007024.01-2\">Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 8:3-4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45008003.01-3\">For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"381": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>James 2:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p59002011.01-1\">For he who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not murder.” If you do not commit adultery but do murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.</p>\n</div><h5>Psalm 119:101</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119101.01-2\">I hold back my feet from every evil way,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>in order to keep your word.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 119:104</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119104.01-3\">Through your precepts I get understanding;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>therefore I hate every false way.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 119:128</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119128.01-4\">Therefore I consider all your precepts to be right;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I hate every false way. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"382": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ezra 9:13-14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p15009013.01-1\">And after all that has come upon us for our evil deeds and for our great guilt, seeing that you, our God, have punished us less than our iniquities deserved and have given us such a remnant as this, shall we break your commandments again and intermarry with the peoples who practice these abominations? Would you not be angry with us until you consumed us, so that there should be no remnant, nor any to escape?</p>\n</div><h5>Psalm 89:30-34</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19089030.01-2\">If his children forsake my law<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and do not walk according to my rules,<br />\n 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,<br />\n but I will not remove from him my steadfast love<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>or be false to my faithfulness.<br />\n I will not violate my covenant<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>or alter the word that went forth from my lips. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"383": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Leviticus 26:1-14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p03026001.04-1\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v03026001-1\">26:1 </span>“You shall not make idols for yourselves or erect an image or pillar, and you shall not set up a figured stone in your land to bow down to it, for I am the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God. You shall keep my Sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary: I am the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>.</p>\n <p id=\"p03026003.01-1\">“If you walk in my statutes and observe my commandments and do them, then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit. Your threshing shall last to the time of the grape harvest, and the grape harvest shall last to the time for sowing. And you shall eat your bread to the full and dwell in your land securely. I will give peace in the land, and you shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid. And I will remove harmful beasts from the land, and the sword shall not go through your land. You shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword. Five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall chase ten thousand, and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword. I will turn to you and make you fruitful and multiply you and will confirm my covenant with you. You shall eat old store long kept, and you shall clear out the old to make way for the new. I will make my dwelling among you, and my soul shall not abhor you. And I will walk among you and will be your God, and you shall be my people. I am the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that you should not be their slaves. And I have broken the bars of your yoke and made you walk erect.</p>\n \n<p id=\"p03026014.04-1\">“But if you will not listen to me and will not do all these commandments,</p>\n</div><h5>2 Corinthians 6:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p47006016.01-2\">What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; as God said,</p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p47006016.22-2\">“I will make my dwelling among them and walk among them,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and I will be their God,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and they shall be my people.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 6:2-3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49006002.01-3\">“Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.”</p>\n</div><h5>Psalm 37:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19037011.01-4\">But the meek shall inherit the land<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and delight themselves in abundant peace.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Matthew 5:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40005005.01-5\"><span class=\"woc\">“Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.</span></p>\n</div><h5>Psalm 19:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19019011.01-6\">Moreover, by them is your servant warned;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>in keeping them there is great reward. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"384": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Galatians 2:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p48002016.01-1\">yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.</p>\n</div><h5>Luke 17:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42017010.01-2\"><span class=\"woc\">So you also, when you have done all that you were commanded, say, ‘We are unworthy servants; we have only done what was our duty.’”</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"385": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 6:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45006012.01-1\">Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 6:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45006014.01-2\">For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Peter 3:8-12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p60003008.05-3\">Finally, all of you, have unity of mind, sympathy, brotherly love, a tender heart, and a humble mind. Do not repay evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary, bless, for to this you were called, that you may obtain a blessing. For</p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p60003010.02-3\">“Whoever desires to love life<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and see good days,<br />\nlet him keep his tongue from evil<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and his lips from speaking deceit;<br />\n let him turn away from evil and do good;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>let him seek peace and pursue it.<br />\n For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and his ears are open to their prayer.<br />\nBut the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 34:12-16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19034012.01-4\">What man is there who desires life<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and loves many days, that he may see good?<br />\n Keep your tongue from evil<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and your lips from speaking deceit.<br />\n Turn away from evil and do good;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>seek peace and pursue it.</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19034015.01-4\">The eyes of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> are toward the righteous<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and his ears toward their cry.<br />\n The face of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> is against those who do evil,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>to cut off the memory of them from the earth.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 12:28-29</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58012028.01-5\">Therefore let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and thus let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe, for our God is a consuming fire. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"386": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Galatians 3:21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p48003021.01-1\">Is the law then contrary to the promises of God? Certainly not! For if a law had been given that could give life, then righteousness would indeed be by the law. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"387": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ezekiel 36:27</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p26036027.01-1\">And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my rules.</p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 8:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p58008010.01-2\">For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>after those days, declares the Lord:<br />\nI will put my laws into their minds,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and write them on their hearts,<br />\nand I will be their God,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and they shall be my people.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Jeremiah 31:33</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p24031033.01-3\">But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"379": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>James 1:23-25</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p59001023.01-1\">For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like. But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 7:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45007009.01-2\">I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin came alive and I died.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 7:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45007014.01-3\">For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold under sin.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 7:24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45007024.01-4\">Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"378": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 7:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p45007007.05-1\">What then shall we say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet if it had not been for the law, I would not have known sin. For I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, “You shall not covet.”</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 3:20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45003020.01-2\">For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"371": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Colossians 2:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p51002014.01-1\">by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross.</p>\n</div><h5>Colossians 2:16-17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p51002016.06-2\">Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink, or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath. These are a shadow of the things to come, but the substance belongs to Christ.</p>\n</div><h5>Daniel 9:27</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p27009027.01-3\">And he shall make a strong covenant with many for one week, and for half of the week he shall put an end to sacrifice and offering. And on the wing of abominations shall come one who makes desolate, until the decreed end is poured out on the desolator.”</p>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 2:15-16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49002015.01-4\">by abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace, and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"370": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Corinthians 5:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46005007.01-1\">Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.</p>\n</div><h5>2 Corinthians 6:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p47006017.01-2\">Therefore go out from their midst,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and be separate from them, says the Lord,<br />\nand touch no unclean thing;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>then I will welcome you,</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Jude 1:23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p65001023.01-3\">save others by snatching them out of the fire; to others show mercy with fear, hating even the garment stained by the flesh. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"373": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 13:8-10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p45013008.06-1\">Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law. For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.</p>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 6:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49006002.01-2\">“Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise),</p>\n</div><h5>1 John 2:3-4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p62002003.01-3\">And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments. Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him,</p>\n</div><h5>1 John 2:7-8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p62002007.04-4\">Beloved, I am writing you no new commandment, but an old commandment that you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word that you have heard. At the same time, it is a new commandment that I am writing to you, which is true in him and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"372": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Exodus 21:1-22:29</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p02021001.04-1\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v02021001-1\">21:1 </span>“Now these are the rules that you shall set before them. When you buy a Hebrew slave, he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free, for nothing. If he comes in single, he shall go out single; if he comes in married, then his wife shall go out with him. If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out alone. But if the slave plainly says, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free,’ then his master shall bring him to God, and he shall bring him to the door or the doorpost. And his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall be his slave forever.</p>\n <p id=\"p02021007.01-1\">“When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she shall not go out as the male slaves do. If she does not please her master, who has designated her for himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He shall have no right to sell her to a foreign people, since he has broken faith with her. If he designates her for his son, he shall deal with her as with a daughter. If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, or her marital rights. And if he does not do these three things for her, she shall go out for nothing, without payment of money.</p>\n <p id=\"p02021012.01-1\">“Whoever strikes a man so that he dies shall be put to death. But if he did not lie in wait for him, but God let him fall into his hand, then I will appoint for you a place to which he may flee. But if a man willfully attacks another to kill him by cunning, you shall take him from my altar, that he may die.</p>\n <p id=\"p02021015.01-1\">“Whoever strikes his father or his mother shall be put to death.</p>\n <p id=\"p02021016.01-1\">“Whoever steals a man and sells him, and anyone found in possession of him, shall be put to death.</p>\n <p id=\"p02021017.01-1\">“Whoever curses his father or his mother shall be put to death.</p>\n <p id=\"p02021018.01-1\">“When men quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone or with his fist and the man does not die but takes to his bed, then if the man rises again and walks outdoors with his staff, he who struck him shall be clear; only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall have him thoroughly healed.</p>\n <p id=\"p02021020.01-1\">“When a man strikes his slave, male or female, with a rod and the slave dies under his hand, he shall be avenged. But if the slave survives a day or two, he is not to be avenged, for the slave is his money.</p>\n <p id=\"p02021022.01-1\">“When men strive together and hit a pregnant woman, so that her children come out, but there is no harm, the one who hit her shall surely be fined, as the woman's husband shall impose on him, and he shall pay as the judges determine. But if there is harm, then you shall pay life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.</p>\n <p id=\"p02021026.01-1\">“When a man strikes the eye of his slave, male or female, and destroys it, he shall let the slave go free because of his eye. If he knocks out the tooth of his slave, male or female, he shall let the slave go free because of his tooth.</p>\n <p id=\"p02021028.01-1\">“When an ox gores a man or a woman to death, the ox shall be stoned, and its flesh shall not be eaten, but the owner of the ox shall not be liable. But if the ox has been accustomed to gore in the past, and its owner has been warned but has not kept it in, and it kills a man or a woman, the ox shall be stoned, and its owner also shall be put to death. If a ransom is imposed on him, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatever is imposed on him. If it gores a man's son or daughter, he shall be dealt with according to this same rule. If the ox gores a slave, male or female, the owner shall give to their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.</p>\n \n<p id=\"p02021033.04-1\">“When a man opens a pit, or when a man digs a pit and does not cover it, and an ox or a donkey falls into it, the owner of the pit shall make restoration. He shall give money to its owner, and the dead beast shall be his.</p>\n <p id=\"p02021035.01-1\">“When one man's ox butts another's, so that it dies, then they shall sell the live ox and share its price, and the dead beast also they shall share. Or if it is known that the ox has been accustomed to gore in the past, and its owner has not kept it in, he shall repay ox for ox, and the dead beast shall be his.</p>\n <p id=\"p02022001.01-1\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v02022001-1\">22:1 </span> “If a man steals an ox or a sheep, and kills it or sells it, he shall repay five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep. If a thief is found breaking in and is struck so that he dies, there shall be no bloodguilt for him, but if the sun has risen on him, there shall be bloodguilt for him. He shall surely pay. If he has nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft. If the stolen beast is found alive in his possession, whether it is an ox or a donkey or a sheep, he shall pay double.</p>\n <p id=\"p02022005.01-1\">“If a man causes a field or vineyard to be grazed over, or lets his beast loose and it feeds in another man's field, he shall make restitution from the best in his own field and in his own vineyard.</p>\n <p id=\"p02022006.01-1\">“If fire breaks out and catches in thorns so that the stacked grain or the standing grain or the field is consumed, he who started the fire shall make full restitution.</p>\n <p id=\"p02022007.01-1\">“If a man gives to his neighbor money or goods to keep safe, and it is stolen from the man's house, then, if the thief is found, he shall pay double. If the thief is not found, the owner of the house shall come near to God to show whether or not he has put his hand to his neighbor's property. For every breach of trust, whether it is for an ox, for a donkey, for a sheep, for a cloak, or for any kind of lost thing, of which one says, ‘This is it,’ the case of both parties shall come before God. The one whom God condemns shall pay double to his neighbor.</p>\n <p id=\"p02022010.01-1\">“If a man gives to his neighbor a donkey or an ox or a sheep or any beast to keep safe, and it dies or is injured or is driven away, without anyone seeing it, an oath by the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> shall be between them both to see whether or not he has put his hand to his neighbor's property. The owner shall accept the oath, and he shall not make restitution. But if it is stolen from him, he shall make restitution to its owner. If it is torn by beasts, let him bring it as evidence. He shall not make restitution for what has been torn.</p>\n <p id=\"p02022014.01-1\">“If a man borrows anything of his neighbor, and it is injured or dies, the owner not being with it, he shall make full restitution. If the owner was with it, he shall not make restitution; if it was hired, it came for its hiring fee.</p>\n \n<p id=\"p02022016.05-1\">“If a man seduces a virgin who is not betrothed and lies with her, he shall give the bride-price for her and make her his wife. If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money equal to the bride-price for virgins.</p>\n <p id=\"p02022018.01-1\">“You shall not permit a sorceress to live.</p>\n <p id=\"p02022019.01-1\">“Whoever lies with an animal shall be put to death.</p>\n <p id=\"p02022020.01-1\">“Whoever sacrifices to any god, other than the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> alone, shall be devoted to destruction.</p>\n <p id=\"p02022021.01-1\">“You shall not wrong a sojourner or oppress him, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt. You shall not mistreat any widow or fatherless child. If you do mistreat them, and they cry out to me, I will surely hear their cry, and my wrath will burn, and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives shall become widows and your children fatherless.</p>\n <p id=\"p02022025.01-1\">“If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be like a moneylender to him, and you shall not exact interest from him. If ever you take your neighbor's cloak in pledge, you shall return it to him before the sun goes down, for that is his only covering, and it is his cloak for his body; in what else shall he sleep? And if he cries to me, I will hear, for I am compassionate.</p>\n <p id=\"p02022028.01-1\">“You shall not revile God, nor curse a ruler of your people.</p>\n <p id=\"p02022029.01-1\">“You shall not delay to offer from the fullness of your harvest and from the outflow of your presses. The firstborn of your sons you shall give to me.</p>\n</div><h5>Genesis 49:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p01049010.01-2\">The scepter shall not depart from Judah,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>nor the ruler's staff from between his feet,<br />\nuntil tribute comes to him;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and to him shall be the obedience of the peoples.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>1 Peter 2:13-14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p60002013.04-3\">Be subject for the Lord's sake to every human institution, whether it be to the emperor as supreme, or to governors as sent by him to punish those who do evil and to praise those who do good.</p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 5:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p40005017.07-4\"><span class=\"woc\">“Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.</span></p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 5:38-39</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p40005038.02-5\"><span class=\"woc\">“You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’</span> <span class=\"woc\">But I say to you, Do not resist the one who is evil. But if anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.</span></p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 9:8-10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46009008.01-6\">Do I say these things on human authority? Does not the Law say the same? For it is written in the Law of Moses, “You shall not muzzle an ox when it treads out the grain.” Is it for oxen that God is concerned? Does he not speak entirely for our sake? It was written for our sake, because the plowman should plow in hope and the thresher thresh in hope of sharing in the crop. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"375": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 5:17-19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p40005017.07-1\"><span class=\"woc\">“Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.</span> <span class=\"woc\">For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished.</span> <span class=\"woc\">Therefore whoever relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever does them and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.</span></p>\n</div><h5>James 2:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p59002008.01-2\">If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 3:31</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45003031.01-3\">Do we then overthrow the law by this faith? By no means! On the contrary, we uphold the law. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"374": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>James 2:10-11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p59002010.01-1\">For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become accountable for all of it. For he who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not murder.” If you do not commit adultery but do murder, you have become a transgressor of the law. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"377": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 7:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45007012.01-1\">So the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 7:22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45007022.01-2\">For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being,</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 7:25</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45007025.01-3\">Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.</p>\n</div><h5>Psalm 119:4-6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119004.01-4\">You have commanded your precepts<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>to be kept diligently.<br />\n Oh that my ways may be steadfast<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>in keeping your statutes!<br />\n Then I shall not be put to shame,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>having my eyes fixed on all your commandments.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 7:19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46007019.01-5\">For neither circumcision counts for anything nor uncircumcision, but keeping the commandments of God.</p>\n</div><h5>Galatians 5:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p48005014.01-6\">For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”</p>\n</div><h5>Galatians 5:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p48005016.05-7\">But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.</p>\n</div><h5>Galatians 5:18-23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p48005018.01-8\">But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"376": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 6:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45006014.01-1\">For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.</p>\n</div><h5>Galatians 2:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p48002016.01-2\">yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.</p>\n</div><h5>Galatians 3:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p48003013.01-3\">Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree”—</p>\n</div><h5>Galatians 4:4-5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p48004004.01-4\">But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons.</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 13:39</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44013039.01-5\">and by him everyone who believes is freed from everything from which you could not be freed by the law of Moses.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 8:1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p45008001.05-6\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v45008001-6\">8:1 </span>There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"368": "Matthew 22:37-40",
"369": "Hebrews 9; Hebrews 10:1; Galatians 4:1-3; Colossians 2:17",
"366": "Genesis 1:26-27; Genesis 2:17; Romans 2:14-15; Romans 10:5; Romans 5:12, 19; Galatians 3:10, 12; Ecclesiastes 7:29; Job 28:28",
"367": "James 1:25; James 2:8, 10-12; Romans 13:8-9; Deuteronomy 5:32; Deuteronomy 10:4; Exodus 24:1",
"380": "Galatians 3:24; Romans 7:24-25; Romans 8:3-4",
"381": "James 2:11; Psalm 119:101, 104, 128",
"382": "Ezra 9:13-14; Psalm 89:30-34",
"383": "Leviticus 26:1-14; 2 Corinthians 6:16; Ephesians 6:2-3; Psalm 37:11; Matthew 5:5; Psalm 19:11",
"384": "Galatians 2:16; Luke 17:10",
"385": "Romans 6:12, 14; 1 Peter 3:8-12; Psalm 34:12-16; Hebrews 12:28-29",
"386": "Galatians 3:21",
"387": "Ezekiel 36:27; Hebrews 8:10; Jeremiah 31:33",
"379": "James 1:23-25; Romans 7:9, 14, 24",
"378": "Romans 7:7; Romans 3:20",
"371": "Colossians 2:14, 16-17; Daniel 9:27; Ephesians 2:15-16",
"370": "1 Corinthians 5:7; 2 Corinthians 6:17; Jude 23",
"373": "Romans 13:8-10; Ephesians 6:2; 1 John 2:3-4, 7-8",
"372": "Exodus 21-22:29; Genesis 49:10; 1 Peter 2:13-14; Matthew 5:17, 38-39; 1 Corinthians 9:8-10",
"375": "Matthew 5:17-19; James 2:8; Romans 3:31",
"374": "James 2:10-11",
"377": "Romans 7:12, 22, 25; Psalm 119:4-6; 1 Corinthians 7:19; Galatians 5:14, 16, 18-23",
"376": "Romans 6:14; Galatians 2:16; Galatians 3:13; Galatians 4:4-5; Acts 13:39; Romans 8:1"
},
"title": "Chapter 19: Of the Law of God"
},
"18": {
"body": {
"1": "<span data-prooftexts='Job 8:13-14; Micah 3:11; Deuteronomy 29:19; John 8:41' data-prooftexts-index='349'>Although hypocrites and other unregenerate men may vainly deceive themselves with false hopes and carnal presumptions of being in the favor of God, and estate of salvation</span><span data-prooftexts='Matthew 7:22-23' data-prooftexts-index='350'> (which hope of theirs shall perish):</span><span data-prooftexts='1 John 2:3; 1 John 3:14, 18-19, 21, 24; 1 John 5:13' data-prooftexts-index='351'> yet such as truly believe in the Lord Jesus, and love him in sincerity, endeavoring to walk in all good conscience before him, may, in this life, be certainly assured that they are in the state of grace,</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 5:2, 5' data-prooftexts-index='352'> and may rejoice in the hope of the glory of God, which hope shall never make them ashamed.</span>",
"3": "<span data-prooftexts='1 John 5:13; Isaiah 50:10; Mark 9:24; Psalm 88; Psalm 77:1-12' data-prooftexts-index='358'>This infallible assurance doth not so belong to the essence of faith, but that a true believer may wait long, and conflict with many difficulties before he be partaker of it:</span><span data-prooftexts='1 Corinthians 2:12; 1 John 4:13; Hebrews 6:11-12; Ephesians 3:17-19' data-prooftexts-index='359'> yet, being enabled by the Spirit to know the things which are freely given him of God, he may, without extraordinary revelation, in the right use of ordinary means, attain thereunto.</span><span data-prooftexts='2 Peter 1:10' data-prooftexts-index='360'> And therefore it is the duty of everyone to give all diligence to make his calling and election sure,</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 5:1-2, 5; Romans 14:17; Romans 15:13; Ephesians 1:3-4; Psalm 4:6-7; Psalm 119:32' data-prooftexts-index='361'> that thereby his heart may be enlarged in peace and joy in the Holy Ghost, in love and thankfulness to God, and in strength and cheerfulness in the duties of obedience,</span><span data-prooftexts='1 John 2:1-2; Romans 6:1-2; Titus 2:11-12, 14; 2 Corinthians 7:1; Romans 8:1, 12; 1 John 3:2-3; Psalm 130:4; 1 John 1:6-7' data-prooftexts-index='362'> the proper fruits of this assurance; so far is it from inclining men to looseness.</span>",
"2": "<span data-prooftexts='Hebrews 6:11, 19' data-prooftexts-index='353'>This certainty is not a bare conjectural and probable persuasion grounded upon a fallible hope;</span><span data-prooftexts='Hebrews 6:17-18' data-prooftexts-index='354'> but an infallible assurance of faith founded upon the divine truth of the promises of salvation,</span><span data-prooftexts='2 Peter 1:4-5, 10-11; 1 John 2:3; 1 John 3:14; 2 Corinthians 1:12' data-prooftexts-index='355'> the inward evidence of those graces unto which these promises are made,</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 8:15-16' data-prooftexts-index='356'> the testimony of the Spirit of adoption witnessing with our spirits that we are the children of God,</span><span data-prooftexts='Ephesians 1:13-14; Ephesians 4:30; 2 Corinthians 1:21-22' data-prooftexts-index='357'> which Spirit is the earnest of our inheritance, whereby we are sealed to the day of redemption.</span>",
"4": "<span data-prooftexts='Song of Solomon 5:2-3, 6; Psalm 51:8, 12, 14; Ephesians 4:30-31; Psalm 77:1-10; Matthew 26:69-72; Psalm 31:22; Psalm 88; Isaiah 50:10' data-prooftexts-index='363'>True believers may have the assurance of their salvation divers ways shaken, diminished, and intermitted; as, by negligence in preserving of it, by falling into some special sin which woundeth the conscience and grieveth the Spirit; by some sudden or vehement temptation, by God's withdrawing the light of his countenance, and suffering even such as fear him to walk in darkness and to have no light:</span><span data-prooftexts='1 John 3:9; Luke 22:32; Job 13:15; Psalm 73:15; Psalm 51:8, 12; Isaiah 50:10' data-prooftexts-index='364'> yet are they never utterly destitute of that seed of God, and life of faith, that love of Christ and the brethren, that sincerity of heart, and conscience of duty, out of which, by the operation of the Spirit, this assurance may, in due time, be revived;</span><span data-prooftexts='Micah 7:7-9; Jeremiah 32:40; Isaiah 54:7-10; Psalm 22:1; Psalm 88' data-prooftexts-index='365'> and by the which, in the meantime, they are supported from utter despair.</span>"
},
"prooftext_verses": {
"363": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Song of Solomon 5:2-3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p22005002.08-1\">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?</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=\"p22005006.01-2\">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.</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=\"p19051008.01-3\">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 51:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19051012.01-4\">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>Psalm 51:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19051014.01-5\">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.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 4:30-31</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49004030.01-6\">And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice.</p>\n</div><h5>Psalm 77:1-10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19077001.20-7\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v19077001-7\">77:1 </span>I cry aloud to God,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>aloud to God, and he will hear me.<br />\n In the day of my trouble I seek the Lord;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>in the night my hand is stretched out without wearying;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>my soul refuses to be comforted.<br />\n When I remember God, I moan;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>when I meditate, my spirit faints. <span class=\"selah\">Selah</span></p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19077004.01-7\">You hold my eyelids open;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I am so troubled that I cannot speak.<br />\n I consider the days of old,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>the years long ago.<br />\n I said, “Let me remember my song in the night;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>let me meditate in my heart.”<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Then my spirit made a diligent search:<br />\n “Will the Lord spurn forever,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and never again be favorable?<br />\n Has his steadfast love forever ceased?<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Are his promises at an end for all time?<br />\n Has God forgotten to be gracious?<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Has he in anger shut up his compassion?” <span class=\"selah\">Selah</span></p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19077010.01-7\">Then I said, “I will appeal to this,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>to the years of the right hand of the Most High.”</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Matthew 26:69-72</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p40026069.04-8\">Now Peter was sitting outside in the courtyard. And a servant girl came up to him and said, “You also were with Jesus the Galilean.” But he denied it before them all, saying, “I do not know what you mean.” And when he went out to the entrance, another servant girl saw him, and she said to the bystanders, “This man was with Jesus of Nazareth.” And again he denied it with an oath: “I do not know the man.”</p>\n</div><h5>Psalm 31:22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19031022.01-9\">I had said in my alarm,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>“I am cut off from your sight.”<br />\nBut you heard the voice of my pleas for mercy<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>when I cried to you for help.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 88</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19088001.31-10\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v19088001-10\">88:1 </span>O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, God of my salvation;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I cry out day and night before you.<br />\n Let my prayer come before you;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>incline your ear to my cry!</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19088003.01-10\">For my soul is full of troubles,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and my life draws near to Sheol.<br />\n I am counted among those who go down to the pit;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I am a man who has no strength,<br />\n like one set loose among the dead,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>like the slain that lie in the grave,<br />\nlike those whom you remember no more,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for they are cut off from your hand.<br />\n You have put me in the depths of the pit,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>in the regions dark and deep.<br />\n Your wrath lies heavy upon me,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and you overwhelm me with all your waves. <span class=\"selah\">Selah</span></p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19088008.01-10\">You have caused my companions to shun me;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>you have made me a horror to them.<br />\nI am shut in so that I cannot escape;<br />\n <span class=\"indent\"></span>my eye grows dim through sorrow.<br />\nEvery day I call upon you, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I spread out my hands to you.<br />\n Do you work wonders for the dead?<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Do the departed rise up to praise you? <span class=\"selah\">Selah</span><br />\n Is your steadfast love declared in the grave,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>or your faithfulness in Abaddon?<br />\n Are your wonders known in the darkness,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>or your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19088013.01-10\">But I, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, cry to you;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>in the morning my prayer comes before you.<br />\n O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, why do you cast my soul away?<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Why do you hide your face from me?<br />\n Afflicted and close to death from my youth up,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I suffer your terrors; I am helpless.<br />\n Your wrath has swept over me;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>your dreadful assaults destroy me.<br />\n They surround me like a flood all day long;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>they close in on me together.<br />\n You have caused my beloved and my friend to shun me;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>my companions have become darkness.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Isaiah 50:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23050010.01-11\">Who among you fears the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span><br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and obeys the voice of his servant?<br />\nLet him who walks in darkness<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and has no light<br />\ntrust in the name of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span><br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and rely on his God. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"357": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ephesians 1:13-14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49001013.01-1\">In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory.</p>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 4:30</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49004030.01-2\">And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.</p>\n</div><h5>2 Corinthians 1:21-22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p47001021.01-3\">And it is God who establishes us with you in Christ, and has anointed us, and who has also put his seal on us and given us his Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"356": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 8:15-16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45008015.01-1\">For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!” The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"355": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>2 Peter 1:4-5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p61001004.01-1\">by which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire. For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge,</p>\n</div><h5>2 Peter 1:10-11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p61001010.01-2\">Therefore, brothers, be all the more diligent to make your calling and election sure, for if you practice these qualities you will never fall. For in this way there will be richly provided for you an entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.</p>\n</div><h5>1 John 2:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p62002003.01-3\">And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments.</p>\n</div><h5>1 John 3:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p62003014.01-4\">We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. Whoever does not love abides in death.</p>\n</div><h5>2 Corinthians 1:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p47001012.05-5\">For our boast is this, the testimony of our conscience, that we behaved in the world with simplicity and godly sincerity, not by earthly wisdom but by the grace of God, and supremely so toward you. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"354": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Hebrews 6:17-18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58006017.01-1\">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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"353": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Hebrews 6:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58006011.01-1\">And we desire each one of you to show the same earnestness to have the full assurance of hope until the end,</p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 6:19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58006019.01-2\">We have this as a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul, a hope that enters into the inner place behind the curtain, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"352": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 5:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45005002.01-1\">Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 5:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45005005.01-2\">and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"351": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 John 2:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p62002003.01-1\">And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments.</p>\n</div><h5>1 John 3:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p62003014.01-2\">We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. Whoever does not love abides in death.</p>\n</div><h5>1 John 3:18-19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p62003018.01-3\">Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.</p>\n <p id=\"p62003019.01-3\">By this we shall know that we are of the truth and reassure our heart before him;</p>\n</div><h5>1 John 3:21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p62003021.01-4\">Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence before God;</p>\n</div><h5>1 John 3:24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p62003024.01-5\">Whoever keeps his commandments abides in God, and God in him. And by this we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit whom he has given us.</p>\n</div><h5>1 John 5:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p62005013.05-6\">I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God that you may know that you have eternal life. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"350": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 7:22-23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40007022.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’</span> <span class=\"woc\">And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"358": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 John 5:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p62005013.05-1\">I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God that you may know that you have eternal life.</p>\n</div><h5>Isaiah 50:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23050010.01-2\">Who among you fears the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span><br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and obeys the voice of his servant?<br />\nLet him who walks in darkness<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and has no light<br />\ntrust in the name of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span><br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and rely on his God.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Mark 9:24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p41009024.01-3\">Immediately the father of the child cried out and said, “I believe; help my unbelief!”</p>\n</div><h5>Psalm 88</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19088001.31-4\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v19088001-4\">88:1 </span>O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, God of my salvation;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I cry out day and night before you.<br />\n Let my prayer come before you;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>incline your ear to my cry!</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19088003.01-4\">For my soul is full of troubles,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and my life draws near to Sheol.<br />\n I am counted among those who go down to the pit;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I am a man who has no strength,<br />\n like one set loose among the dead,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>like the slain that lie in the grave,<br />\nlike those whom you remember no more,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for they are cut off from your hand.<br />\n You have put me in the depths of the pit,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>in the regions dark and deep.<br />\n Your wrath lies heavy upon me,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and you overwhelm me with all your waves. <span class=\"selah\">Selah</span></p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19088008.01-4\">You have caused my companions to shun me;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>you have made me a horror to them.<br />\nI am shut in so that I cannot escape;<br />\n <span class=\"indent\"></span>my eye grows dim through sorrow.<br />\nEvery day I call upon you, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I spread out my hands to you.<br />\n Do you work wonders for the dead?<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Do the departed rise up to praise you? <span class=\"selah\">Selah</span><br />\n Is your steadfast love declared in the grave,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>or your faithfulness in Abaddon?<br />\n Are your wonders known in the darkness,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>or your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19088013.01-4\">But I, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, cry to you;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>in the morning my prayer comes before you.<br />\n O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, why do you cast my soul away?<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Why do you hide your face from me?<br />\n Afflicted and close to death from my youth up,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I suffer your terrors; I am helpless.<br />\n Your wrath has swept over me;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>your dreadful assaults destroy me.<br />\n They surround me like a flood all day long;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>they close in on me together.<br />\n You have caused my beloved and my friend to shun me;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>my companions have become darkness.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 77:1-12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19077001.20-5\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v19077001-5\">77:1 </span>I cry aloud to God,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>aloud to God, and he will hear me.<br />\n In the day of my trouble I seek the Lord;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>in the night my hand is stretched out without wearying;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>my soul refuses to be comforted.<br />\n When I remember God, I moan;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>when I meditate, my spirit faints. <span class=\"selah\">Selah</span></p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19077004.01-5\">You hold my eyelids open;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I am so troubled that I cannot speak.<br />\n I consider the days of old,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>the years long ago.<br />\n I said, “Let me remember my song in the night;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>let me meditate in my heart.”<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Then my spirit made a diligent search:<br />\n “Will the Lord spurn forever,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and never again be favorable?<br />\n Has his steadfast love forever ceased?<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Are his promises at an end for all time?<br />\n Has God forgotten to be gracious?<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Has he in anger shut up his compassion?” <span class=\"selah\">Selah</span></p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19077010.01-5\">Then I said, “I will appeal to this,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>to the years of the right hand of the Most High.”</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19077011.01-5\">I will remember the deeds of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>yes, I will remember your wonders of old.<br />\n I will ponder all your work,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and meditate on your mighty deeds. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"359": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Corinthians 2:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46002012.01-1\">Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God.</p>\n</div><h5>1 John 4:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p62004013.01-2\">By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.</p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 6:11-12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58006011.01-3\">And we desire each one of you to show the same earnestness to have the full assurance of hope until the end, so that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.</p>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 3:17-19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49003017.01-4\">so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"364": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 John 3:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p62003009.01-1\">No one born of God makes a practice of sinning, for God's seed abides in him, and he cannot keep on sinning because he has been born of God.</p>\n</div><h5>Luke 22:32</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42022032.01-2\"><span class=\"woc\">but I have prayed for you that your faith may not fail. And when you have turned again, strengthen your brothers.”</span></p>\n</div><h5>Job 13:15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p18013015.01-3\">Though he slay me, I will hope in him;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>yet I will argue my ways to his face.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 73:15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19073015.01-4\">If I had said, “I will speak thus,”<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I would have betrayed the generation of your children.</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=\"p19051008.01-5\">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 51:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19051012.01-6\">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>Isaiah 50:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23050010.01-7\">Who among you fears the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span><br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and obeys the voice of his servant?<br />\nLet him who walks in darkness<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and has no light<br />\ntrust in the name of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span><br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and rely on his God. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"365": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Micah 7:7-9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p33007007.01-1\">But as for me, I will look to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I will wait for the God of my salvation;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>my God will hear me.</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p33007008.01-1\">Rejoice not over me, O my enemy;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>when I fall, I shall rise;<br />\nwhen I sit in darkness,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> will be a light to me.<br />\n I will bear the indignation of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span><br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>because I have sinned against him,<br />\nuntil he pleads my cause<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and executes judgment for me.<br />\nHe will bring me out to the light;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I shall look upon his vindication.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Jeremiah 32:40</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p24032040.01-2\">I will make with them an everlasting covenant, that I will not turn away from doing good to them. And I will put the fear of me in their hearts, that they may not turn from me.</p>\n</div><h5>Isaiah 54:7-10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23054007.01-3\">For a brief moment I deserted you,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but with great compassion I will gather you.<br />\n In overflowing anger for a moment<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I hid my face from you,<br />\nbut with everlasting love I will have compassion on you,”<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>says the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, your Redeemer.</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23054009.01-3\">“This is like the days of Noah to me:<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>as I swore that the waters of Noah<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>should no more go over the earth,<br />\nso I have sworn that I will not be angry with you,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and will not rebuke you.<br />\n For the mountains may depart<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and the hills be removed,<br />\nbut my steadfast love shall not depart from you,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and my covenant of peace shall not be removed,”<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>says the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, who has compassion on you.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 22:1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19022001.20-4\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v19022001-4\">22:1 </span>My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Why are you so far from saving me, from the words of my groaning?</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 88</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19088001.31-5\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v19088001-5\">88:1 </span>O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, God of my salvation;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I cry out day and night before you.<br />\n Let my prayer come before you;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>incline your ear to my cry!</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19088003.01-5\">For my soul is full of troubles,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and my life draws near to Sheol.<br />\n I am counted among those who go down to the pit;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I am a man who has no strength,<br />\n like one set loose among the dead,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>like the slain that lie in the grave,<br />\nlike those whom you remember no more,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for they are cut off from your hand.<br />\n You have put me in the depths of the pit,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>in the regions dark and deep.<br />\n Your wrath lies heavy upon me,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and you overwhelm me with all your waves. <span class=\"selah\">Selah</span></p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19088008.01-5\">You have caused my companions to shun me;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>you have made me a horror to them.<br />\nI am shut in so that I cannot escape;<br />\n <span class=\"indent\"></span>my eye grows dim through sorrow.<br />\nEvery day I call upon you, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I spread out my hands to you.<br />\n Do you work wonders for the dead?<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Do the departed rise up to praise you? <span class=\"selah\">Selah</span><br />\n Is your steadfast love declared in the grave,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>or your faithfulness in Abaddon?<br />\n Are your wonders known in the darkness,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>or your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19088013.01-5\">But I, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, cry to you;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>in the morning my prayer comes before you.<br />\n O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, why do you cast my soul away?<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Why do you hide your face from me?<br />\n Afflicted and close to death from my youth up,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I suffer your terrors; I am helpless.<br />\n Your wrath has swept over me;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>your dreadful assaults destroy me.<br />\n They surround me like a flood all day long;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>they close in on me together.<br />\n You have caused my beloved and my friend to shun me;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>my companions have become darkness. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"362": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 John 2:1-2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p62002001.04-1\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v62002001-1\">2:1 </span>My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 6:1-2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p45006001.07-2\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v45006001-2\">6:1 </span>What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it?</p>\n</div><h5>Titus 2:11-12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p56002011.01-3\">For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age,</p>\n</div><h5>Titus 2:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p56002014.01-4\">who gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works.</p>\n</div><h5>2 Corinthians 7:1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p47007001.01-5\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v47007001-5\">7:1 </span>Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and spirit, bringing holiness to completion in the fear of God.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 8:1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p45008001.05-6\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v45008001-6\">8:1 </span>There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 8:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p45008012.04-7\">So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh.</p>\n</div><h5>1 John 3:2-3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p62003002.01-8\">Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is. And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure.</p>\n</div><h5>Psalm 130:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19130004.01-9\">But with you there is forgiveness,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that you may be feared.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>1 John 1:6-7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p62001006.01-10\">If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"349": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Job 8:13-14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p18008013.01-1\">Such are the paths of all who forget God;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>the hope of the godless shall perish.<br />\n His confidence is severed,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and his trust is a spider's web.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Micah 3:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p33003011.01-2\">Its heads give judgment for a bribe;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>its priests teach for a price;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>its prophets practice divination for money;<br />\nyet they lean on the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> and say,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>“Is not the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> in the midst of us?<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>No disaster shall come upon us.”</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Deuteronomy 29:19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p05029019.01-3\">one who, when he hears the words of this sworn covenant, blesses himself in his heart, saying, ‘I shall be safe, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart.’ This will lead to the sweeping away of moist and dry alike.</p>\n</div><h5>John 8:41</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43008041.01-4\"><span class=\"woc\">You are doing the works your father did.”</span> They said to him, “We were not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father—even God.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"360": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>2 Peter 1:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p61001010.01-1\">Therefore, brothers, be all the more diligent to make your calling and election sure, for if you practice these qualities you will never fall. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"361": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 5:1-2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p45005001.06-1\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v45005001-1\">5:1 </span>Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 5:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45005005.01-2\">and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 14:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45014017.01-3\">For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking but of righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 15:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p class=\"same-paragraph\" id=\"p45015013.01-4\">May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.</p>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 1:3-4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p49001003.05-5\">Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love</p>\n</div><h5>Psalm 4:6-7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19004006.01-6\">There are many who say, “Who will show us some good?<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Lift up the light of your face upon us, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>!”<br />\n You have put more joy in my heart<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>than they have when their grain and wine abound.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 119:32</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119032.01-7\">I will run in the way of your commandments<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>when you enlarge my heart! (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"365": "Micah 7:7-9; Jeremiah 32:40; Isaiah 54:7-10; Psalm 22:1; Psalm 88",
"349": "Job 8:13-14; Micah 3:11; Deuteronomy 29:19; John 8:41",
"360": "2 Peter 1:10",
"357": "Ephesians 1:13-14; Ephesians 4:30; 2 Corinthians 1:21-22",
"356": "Romans 8:15-16",
"355": "2 Peter 1:4-5, 10-11; 1 John 2:3; 1 John 3:14; 2 Corinthians 1:12",
"354": "Hebrews 6:17-18",
"353": "Hebrews 6:11, 19",
"352": "Romans 5:2, 5",
"351": "1 John 2:3; 1 John 3:14, 18-19, 21, 24; 1 John 5:13",
"350": "Matthew 7:22-23",
"364": "1 John 3:9; Luke 22:32; Job 13:15; Psalm 73:15; Psalm 51:8, 12; Isaiah 50:10",
"361": "Romans 5:1-2, 5; Romans 14:17; Romans 15:13; Ephesians 1:3-4; Psalm 4:6-7; Psalm 119:32",
"362": "1 John 2:1-2; Romans 6:1-2; Titus 2:11-12, 14; 2 Corinthians 7:1; Romans 8:1, 12; 1 John 3:2-3; Psalm 130:4; 1 John 1:6-7",
"363": "Song of Solomon 5:2-3, 6; Psalm 51:8, 12, 14; Ephesians 4:30-31; Psalm 77:1-10; Matthew 26:69-72; Psalm 31:22; Psalm 88; Isaiah 50:10",
"359": "1 Corinthians 2:12; 1 John 4:13; Hebrews 6:11-12; Ephesians 3:17-19",
"358": "1 John 5:13; Isaiah 50:10; Mark 9:24; Psalm 88; Psalm 77:1-12"
},
"title": "Chapter 18: Of the Assurance of Grace and Salvation"
},
"31": {
"body": {
"1": "<span data-prooftexts='Acts 15:2, 4, 6' data-prooftexts-index='560'>For the better government, and further edification of the church, there ought to be such assemblies as are commonly called synods or councils:</span><span data-prooftexts='Acts 15' data-prooftexts-index='561'> and it belongeth to the overseers and other rulers of the particular churches, by virtue of their office, and the power which Christ hath given them for edification and not for destruction, to appoint such assemblies;</span><span data-prooftexts='Acts 15:22-23, 25' data-prooftexts-index='562'> and to convene together in them, as often as they shall judge it expedient for the good of the church.</span>",
"3": "<span data-prooftexts='Ephesians 2:20; Acts 17:11; 1 Corinthians 2:5; 2 Corinthians 1:24' data-prooftexts-index='564'>All synods or councils, since the Apostles' times, whether general or particular, may err; and many have erred. Therefore they are not to be made the rule of faith, or practice; but to be used as a help in both.</span>",
"2": "<span data-prooftexts='Acts 15:15, 19, 24, 27-31; Acts 16:4; Matthew 18:17-20' data-prooftexts-index='563'>It belongeth to synods and councils, ministerially to determine controversies of faith, and cases of conscience; to set down rules and directions for the better ordering of the public worship of God, and government of his church; to receive complaints in cases of maladministration, and authoritatively to determine the same: which decrees and determinations, if consonant to the Word of God, are to be received with reverence and submission; not only for their agreement with the Word, but also for the power whereby they are made, as being an ordinance of God appointed thereunto in his Word.</span>",
"4": "<span data-prooftexts='Luke 12:13-14; John 18:36' data-prooftexts-index='565'>Synods and councils are to handle, or conclude nothing, but that which is ecclesiastical: and are not to intermeddle with civil affairs which concern the commonwealth, unless by way of humble petition in cases extraordinary; or, by way of advice, for satisfaction of conscience, if they be thereunto required by the civil magistrate.</span>"
},
"prooftext_verses": {
"560": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Acts 15:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44015002.01-1\">And after Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and debate with them, Paul and Barnabas and some of the others were appointed to go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and the elders about this question.</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 15:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44015004.01-2\">When they came to Jerusalem, they were welcomed by the church and the apostles and the elders, and they declared all that God had done with them.</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 15:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44015006.01-3\">The apostles and the elders were gathered together to consider this matter. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"561": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Acts 15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p44015001.04-1\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v44015001-1\">15:1 </span>But some men came down from Judea and were teaching the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved.” And after Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and debate with them, Paul and Barnabas and some of the others were appointed to go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and the elders about this question. So, being sent on their way by the church, they passed through both Phoenicia and Samaria, describing in detail the conversion of the Gentiles, and brought great joy to all the brothers. When they came to Jerusalem, they were welcomed by the church and the apostles and the elders, and they declared all that God had done with them. But some believers who belonged to the party of the Pharisees rose up and said, “It is necessary to circumcise them and to order them to keep the law of Moses.”</p>\n <p id=\"p44015006.01-1\">The apostles and the elders were gathered together to consider this matter. And after there had been much debate, Peter stood up and said to them, “Brothers, you know that in the early days God made a choice among you, that by my mouth the Gentiles should hear the word of the gospel and believe. And God, who knows the heart, bore witness to them, by giving them the Holy Spirit just as he did to us, and he made no distinction between us and them, having cleansed their hearts by faith. Now, therefore, why are you putting God to the test by placing a yoke on the neck of the disciples that neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear? But we believe that we will be saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, just as they will.”</p>\n <p id=\"p44015012.01-1\">And all the assembly fell silent, and they listened to Barnabas and Paul as they related what signs and wonders God had done through them among the Gentiles. After they finished speaking, James replied, “Brothers, listen to me. Simeon has related how God first visited the Gentiles, to take from them a people for his name. And with this the words of the prophets agree, just as it is written,</p>\n <div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p44015016.01-1\">“‘After this I will return,<br />\nand I will rebuild the tent of David that has fallen;<br />\nI will rebuild its ruins,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span> and I will restore it,<br />\n that the remnant of mankind may seek the Lord,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and all the Gentiles who are called by my name,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span> says the Lord, who makes these things <span class=\"verse-num inline\" id=\"v44015018-1\">18 </span>known from of old.’</p>\n</div>\n <p class=\"same-paragraph\" id=\"p44015019.01-1\">Therefore my judgment is that we should not trouble those of the Gentiles who turn to God, but should write to them to abstain from the things polluted by idols, and from sexual immorality, and from what has been strangled, and from blood. For from ancient generations Moses has had in every city those who proclaim him, for he is read every Sabbath in the synagogues.”</p>\n \n<p id=\"p44015022.07-1\">Then it seemed good to the apostles and the elders, with the whole church, to choose men from among them and send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas. They sent Judas called Barsabbas, and Silas, leading men among the brothers, with the following letter: “The brothers, both the apostles and the elders, to the brothers who are of the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia, greetings. Since we have heard that some persons have gone out from us and troubled you with words, unsettling your minds, although we gave them no instructions, it has seemed good to us, having come to one accord, to choose men and send them to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul, men who have risked their lives for the sake of our Lord Jesus Christ. We have therefore sent Judas and Silas, who themselves will tell you the same things by word of mouth. For it has seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to lay on you no greater burden than these requirements: that you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what has been strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.”</p>\n <p id=\"p44015030.01-1\">So when they were sent off, they went down to Antioch, and having gathered the congregation together, they delivered the letter. And when they had read it, they rejoiced because of its encouragement. And Judas and Silas, who were themselves prophets, encouraged and strengthened the brothers with many words. And after they had spent some time, they were sent off in peace by the brothers to those who had sent them. But Paul and Barnabas remained in Antioch, teaching and preaching the word of the Lord, with many others also.</p>\n \n<p id=\"p44015036.05-1\">And after some days Paul said to Barnabas, “Let us return and visit the brothers in every city where we proclaimed the word of the Lord, and see how they are.” Now Barnabas wanted to take with them John called Mark. But Paul thought best not to take with them one who had withdrawn from them in Pamphylia and had not gone with them to the work. And there arose a sharp disagreement, so that they separated from each other. Barnabas took Mark with him and sailed away to Cyprus, but Paul chose Silas and departed, having been commended by the brothers to the grace of the Lord. And he went through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the churches. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"562": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Acts 15:22-23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p44015022.07-1\">Then it seemed good to the apostles and the elders, with the whole church, to choose men from among them and send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas. They sent Judas called Barsabbas, and Silas, leading men among the brothers, with the following letter: “The brothers, both the apostles and the elders, to the brothers who are of the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia, greetings.</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 15:25</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44015025.01-2\">it has seemed good to us, having come to one accord, to choose men and send them to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"563": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Acts 15:15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44015015.01-1\">And with this the words of the prophets agree, just as it is written,</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 15:19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p class=\"same-paragraph\" id=\"p44015019.01-2\">Therefore my judgment is that we should not trouble those of the Gentiles who turn to God,</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 15:24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44015024.01-3\">Since we have heard that some persons have gone out from us and troubled you with words, unsettling your minds, although we gave them no instructions,</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 15:27-31</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44015027.01-4\">We have therefore sent Judas and Silas, who themselves will tell you the same things by word of mouth. For it has seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to lay on you no greater burden than these requirements: that you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what has been strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.”</p>\n <p id=\"p44015030.01-4\">So when they were sent off, they went down to Antioch, and having gathered the congregation together, they delivered the letter. And when they had read it, they rejoiced because of its encouragement.</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 16:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44016004.01-5\">As they went on their way through the cities, they delivered to them for observance the decisions that had been reached by the apostles and elders who were in Jerusalem.</p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 18:17-20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40018017.01-6\"><span class=\"woc\">If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.</span> <span class=\"woc\">Truly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.</span> <span class=\"woc\">Again I say to you, if two of you agree on earth about anything they ask, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven.</span> <span class=\"woc\">For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them.”</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"564": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ephesians 2:20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49002020.01-1\">built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone,</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 17:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44017011.01-2\">Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 2:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46002005.01-3\">that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.</p>\n</div><h5>2 Corinthians 1:24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p47001024.01-4\">Not that we lord it over your faith, but we work with you for your joy, for you stand firm in your faith. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"565": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Luke 12:13-14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p42012013.07-1\">Someone in the crowd said to him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.” But he said to him, <span class=\"woc\">“Man, who made me a judge or arbitrator over you?”</span></p>\n</div><h5>John 18:36</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43018036.01-2\">Jesus answered, <span class=\"woc\">“My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would have been fighting, that I might not be delivered over to the Jews. But my kingdom is not from the world.”</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"560": "Acts 15:2, 4, 6",
"561": "Acts 15",
"562": "Acts 15:22-23, 25",
"563": "Acts 15:15, 19, 24, 27-31; Acts 16:4; Matthew 18:17-20",
"564": "Ephesians 2:20; Acts 17:11; 1 Corinthians 2:5; 2 Corinthians 1:24",
"565": "Luke 12:13-14; John 18:36"
},
"title": "Chapter 31: Of Synods and Councils"
},
"30": {
"body": {
"1": "<span data-prooftexts='Isaiah 9:6-7; 1 Timothy 5:17; 1 Thessalonians 5:12; Acts 20:17-18; Hebrews 13:7, 17, 24; 1 Corinthians 12:28; Matthew 28:18-20' data-prooftexts-index='556'>The Lord Jesus, as King and Head of his church, hath therein appointed a government, in the hand of church officers, distinct from the civil magistrate.</span>",
"3": "<span data-prooftexts='1 Corinthians 5; 1 Timothy 5:20; Matthew 7:6; 1 Timothy 1:20; 1 Corinthians 11:27-34; Jude 23' data-prooftexts-index='558'>Church censures are necessary, for the reclaiming and gaining of offending brethren, for deterring of others from the like offenses, for purging out of that leaven which might infect the whole lump, for vindicating the honor of Christ, and the holy profession of the gospel, and for preventing the wrath of God, which might justly fall upon the church, if they should suffer his covenant, and the seals thereof, to be profaned by notorious and obstinate offenders.</span>",
"2": "<span data-prooftexts='Matthew 16:19; Matthew 18:17-18; John 20:21-23; 2 Corinthians 2:6-8' data-prooftexts-index='557'>To these officers the keys of the kingdom of heaven are committed; by virtue whereof, they have power, respectively, to retain, and remit sins; to shut that kingdom against the impenitent, both by the Word, and censures; and to open it unto penitent sinners, by the ministry of the gospel; and by absolution from censures, as occasion shall require.</span>",
"4": "<span data-prooftexts='1 Thessalonians 5:12; 2 Thessalonians 3:6, 14-15; 1 Corinthians 5:4-5, 13; Matthew 18:17; Titus 3:10' data-prooftexts-index='559'>For the better attaining of these ends, the officers of the church are to proceed by admonition; suspension from the sacrament of the Lord's Supper for a season; and by excommunication from the church; according to the nature of the crime, and demerit of the person.</span>"
},
"prooftext_verses": {
"557": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 16:19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40016019.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.”</span></p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 18:17-18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40018017.01-2\"><span class=\"woc\">If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.</span> <span class=\"woc\">Truly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.</span></p>\n</div><h5>John 20:21-23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43020021.01-3\">Jesus said to them again, <span class=\"woc\">“Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I am sending you.”</span> And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, <span class=\"woc\">“Receive the Holy Spirit.</span> <span class=\"woc\">If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you withhold forgiveness from any, it is withheld.”</span></p>\n</div><h5>2 Corinthians 2:6-8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p47002006.01-4\">For such a one, this punishment by the majority is enough, so you should rather turn to forgive and comfort him, or he may be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow. So I beg you to reaffirm your love for him. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"556": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Isaiah 9:6-7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23009006.01-1\">For to us a child is born,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>to us a son is given;<br />\nand the government shall be upon his shoulder,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and his name shall be called<br />\nWonderful Counselor, Mighty God,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.<br />\n Of the increase of his government and of peace<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>there will be no end,<br />\non the throne of David and over his kingdom,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>to establish it and to uphold it<br />\nwith justice and with righteousness<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>from this time forth and forevermore.<br />\nThe zeal of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> of hosts will do this.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>1 Timothy 5:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p54005017.01-2\">Let the elders who rule well be considered worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in preaching and teaching.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Thessalonians 5:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p52005012.05-3\">We ask you, brothers, to respect those who labor among you and are over you in the Lord and admonish you,</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 20:17-18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p44020017.07-4\">Now from Miletus he sent to Ephesus and called the elders of the church to come to him. And when they came to him, he said to them:</p>\n<p id=\"p44020018.11-4\">“You yourselves know how I lived among you the whole time from the first day that I set foot in Asia,</p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 13:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58013007.01-5\">Remember your leaders, those who spoke to you the word of God. Consider the outcome of their way of life, and imitate their faith.</p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 13:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58013017.01-6\">Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who will have to give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be of no advantage to you.</p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 13:24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58013024.01-7\">Greet all your leaders and all the saints. Those who come from Italy send you greetings.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 12:28</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46012028.01-8\">And God has appointed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healing, helping, administrating, and various kinds of tongues.</p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 28:18-20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40028018.01-9\">And Jesus came and said to them, <span class=\"woc\">“All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.</span> <span class=\"woc\">Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,</span> <span class=\"woc\">teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"559": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Thessalonians 5:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p52005012.05-1\">We ask you, brothers, to respect those who labor among you and are over you in the Lord and admonish you,</p>\n</div><h5>2 Thessalonians 3:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p53003006.04-2\">Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you keep away from any brother who is walking in idleness and not in accord with the tradition that you received from us.</p>\n</div><h5>2 Thessalonians 3:14-15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p53003014.01-3\">If anyone does not obey what we say in this letter, take note of that person, and have nothing to do with him, that he may be ashamed. Do not regard him as an enemy, but warn him as a brother.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 5:4-5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46005004.01-4\">When you are assembled in the name of the Lord Jesus and my spirit is present, with the power of our Lord Jesus, you are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 5:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46005013.01-5\">God judges those outside. “Purge the evil person from among you.”</p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 18:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40018017.01-6\"><span class=\"woc\">If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.</span></p>\n</div><h5>Titus 3:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p56003010.01-7\">As for a person who stirs up division, after warning him once and then twice, have nothing more to do with him, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"558": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Corinthians 5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p46005001.06-1\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v46005001-1\">5:1 </span>It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is not tolerated even among pagans, for a man has his father's wife. And you are arrogant! Ought you not rather to mourn? Let him who has done this be removed from among you.</p>\n <p id=\"p46005003.01-1\">For though absent in body, I am present in spirit; and as if present, I have already pronounced judgment on the one who did such a thing. When you are assembled in the name of the Lord Jesus and my spirit is present, with the power of our Lord Jesus, you are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.</p>\n <p id=\"p46005006.01-1\">Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. Let us therefore celebrate the festival, not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.</p>\n <p id=\"p46005009.01-1\">I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people— not at all meaning the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world. But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who bears the name of brother if he is guilty of sexual immorality or greed, or is an idolater, reviler, drunkard, or swindler—not even to eat with such a one. For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Is it not those inside the church whom you are to judge? God judges those outside. “Purge the evil person from among you.”</p>\n</div><h5>1 Timothy 5:20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p54005020.01-2\">As for those who persist in sin, rebuke them in the presence of all, so that the rest may stand in fear.</p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 7:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40007006.01-3\"><span class=\"woc\">“Do not give dogs what is holy, and do not throw your pearls before pigs, lest they trample them underfoot and turn to attack you.</span></p>\n</div><h5>1 Timothy 1:20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p54001020.01-4\">among whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have handed over to Satan that they may learn not to blaspheme.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 11:27-34</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46011027.01-5\">Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty concerning the body and blood of the Lord. Let a person examine himself, then, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup. For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment on himself. That is why many of you are weak and ill, and some have died. But if we judged ourselves truly, we would not be judged. But when we are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined so that we may not be condemned along with the world.</p>\n <p id=\"p46011033.01-5\">So then, my brothers, when you come together to eat, wait for one another— if anyone is hungry, let him eat at home—so that when you come together it will not be for judgment. About the other things I will give directions when I come.</p>\n</div><h5>Jude 1:23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p65001023.01-6\">save others by snatching them out of the fire; to others show mercy with fear, hating even the garment stained by the flesh. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"557": "Matthew 16:19; Matthew 18:17-18; John 20:21-23; 2 Corinthians 2:6-8",
"556": "Isaiah 9:6-7; 1 Timothy 5:17; 1 Thessalonians 5:12; Acts 20:17-18; Hebrews 13:7, 17, 24; 1 Corinthians 12:28; Matthew 28:18-20",
"559": "1 Thessalonians 5:12; 2 Thessalonians 3:6, 14-15; 1 Corinthians 5:4-5, 13; Matthew 18:17; Titus 3:10",
"558": "1 Corinthians 5; 1 Timothy 5:20; Matthew 7:6; 1 Timothy 1:20; 1 Corinthians 11:27-34; Jude 23"
},
"title": "Chapter 30: Of Church Censures"
},
"33": {
"body": {
"1": "<span data-prooftexts='Acts 17:31' data-prooftexts-index='573'>God hath appointed a day, wherein he will judge the world, in righteousness, by Jesus Christ,</span><span data-prooftexts='John 5:22, 27' data-prooftexts-index='574'> to whom all power and judgment is given of the Father.</span><span data-prooftexts='1 Corinthians 6:3; Jude 6; 2 Peter 2:4' data-prooftexts-index='575'> In which day, not only the apostate angels shall be judged,</span><span data-prooftexts='2 Corinthians 5:10; Ecclesiastes 12:14; Romans 2:16; Romans 14:10, 12; Matthew 12:36-37' data-prooftexts-index='576'> but likewise all persons that have lived upon earth shall appear before the tribunal of Christ, to give an account of their thoughts, words, and deeds; and to receive according to what they have done in the body, whether good or evil.</span>",
"3": "<span data-prooftexts='2 Peter 3:11, 14; 2 Corinthians 5:10-11; 2 Thessalonians 1:5-7; Luke 21:7, 28; Romans 8:23-25' data-prooftexts-index='578'>As Christ would have us to be certainly persuaded that there shall be a day of judgment, both to deter all men from sin; and for the greater consolation of the godly in their adversity:</span><span data-prooftexts='Matthew 24:36, 42-44; Mark 13:35-37; Luke 12:35-36; Revelation 22:20' data-prooftexts-index='579'> so will he have that day unknown to men, that they may shake off all carnal security, and be always watchful, because they know not at what hour the Lord will come; and may be ever prepared to say, Come Lord Jesus, come quickly, Amen.</span>",
"2": "<span data-prooftexts='Matthew 25:31-46; Romans 2:5-6; Romans 9:22-23; Matthew 25:21; Acts 3:19; 2 Thessalonians 1:7-10; Mark 9:48' data-prooftexts-index='577'>The end of God's appointing this day is for the manifestation of the glory of his mercy, in the eternal salvation of the elect; and of his justice, in the damnation of the reprobate, who are wicked and disobedient. For then shall the righteous go into everlasting life, and receive that fullness of joy and refreshing, which shall come from the presence of the Lord; but the wicked who know not God, and obey not the gospel of Jesus Christ, shall be cast into eternal torments, and be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power.</span>"
},
"prooftext_verses": {
"579": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 24:36</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p40024036.08-1\"><span class=\"woc\">“But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only.</span></p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 24:42-44</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40024042.01-2\"><span class=\"woc\">Therefore, stay awake, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming.</span> <span class=\"woc\">But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what part of the night the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and would not have let his house be broken into.</span> <span class=\"woc\">Therefore you also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.</span></p>\n</div><h5>Mark 13:35-37</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p41013035.01-3\"><span class=\"woc\">Therefore stay awake—for you do not know when the master of the house will come, in the evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or in the morning—</span> <span class=\"woc\">lest he come suddenly and find you asleep.</span> <span class=\"woc\">And what I say to you I say to all: Stay awake.”</span></p>\n</div><h5>Luke 12:35-36</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p42012035.05-4\"><span class=\"woc\">“Stay dressed for action and keep your lamps burning,</span> <span class=\"woc\">and be like men who are waiting for their master to come home from the wedding feast, so that they may open the door to him at once when he comes and knocks.</span></p>\n</div><h5>Revelation 22:20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p66022020.01-5\">He who testifies to these things says, <span class=\"woc\">“Surely I am coming soon.”</span> Amen. Come, Lord Jesus! (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"578": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>2 Peter 3:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p61003011.01-1\">Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, what sort of people ought you to be in lives of holiness and godliness,</p>\n</div><h5>2 Peter 3:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p61003014.03-2\">Therefore, beloved, since you are waiting for these, be diligent to be found by him without spot or blemish, and at peace.</p>\n</div><h5>2 Corinthians 5:10-11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p47005010.01-3\">For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil.</p>\n \n<p id=\"p47005011.05-3\">Therefore, knowing the fear of the Lord, we persuade others. But what we are is known to God, and I hope it is known also to your conscience.</p>\n</div><h5>2 Thessalonians 1:5-7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p53001005.06-4\">This is evidence of the righteous judgment of God, that you may be considered worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are also suffering— since indeed God considers it just to repay with affliction those who afflict you, and to grant relief to you who are afflicted as well as to us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels</p>\n</div><h5>Luke 21:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42021007.01-5\">And they asked him, “Teacher, when will these things be, and what will be the sign when these things are about to take place?”</p>\n</div><h5>Luke 21:28</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42021028.01-6\"><span class=\"woc\">Now when these things begin to take place, straighten up and raise your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.”</span></p>\n</div><h5>Romans 8:23-25</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45008023.01-7\">And not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies. For in this hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what he sees? But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"573": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Acts 17:31</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44017031.01-1\">because he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed; and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"577": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 25:31-46</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p40025031.04-1\"><span class=\"woc\">“When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne.</span> <span class=\"woc\">Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.</span> <span class=\"woc\">And he will place the sheep on his right, but the goats on the left.</span> <span class=\"woc\">Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.</span> <span class=\"woc\">For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me,</span> <span class=\"woc\">I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.’</span> <span class=\"woc\">Then the righteous will answer him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink?</span> <span class=\"woc\">And when did we see you a stranger and welcome you, or naked and clothe you?</span> <span class=\"woc\">And when did we see you sick or in prison and visit you?’</span> <span class=\"woc\">And the King will answer them, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’</span></p>\n <p id=\"p40025041.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">“Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.</span> <span class=\"woc\">For I was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you gave me no drink,</span> <span class=\"woc\">I was a stranger and you did not welcome me, naked and you did not clothe me, sick and in prison and you did not visit me.’</span> <span class=\"woc\">Then they also will answer, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to you?’</span> <span class=\"woc\">Then he will answer them, saying, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to me.’</span> <span class=\"woc\">And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”</span></p>\n</div><h5>Romans 2:5-6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45002005.01-2\">But because of your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God's righteous judgment will be revealed.</p>\n <p id=\"p45002006.01-2\">He will render to each one according to his works:</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 9:22-23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45009022.01-3\">What if God, desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction, in order to make known the riches of his glory for vessels of mercy, which he has prepared beforehand for glory—</p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 25:21</h5><h5>Acts 3:19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44003019.01-5\">Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out,</p>\n</div><h5>2 Thessalonians 1:7-10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p53001007.01-6\">and to grant relief to you who are afflicted as well as to us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. They will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might, when he comes on that day to be glorified in his saints, and to be marveled at among all who have believed, because our testimony to you was believed. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"576": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>2 Corinthians 5:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p47005010.01-1\">For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil.</p>\n</div><h5>Ecclesiastes 12:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p21012014.01-2\">For God will bring every deed into judgment, with every secret thing, whether good or evil.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 2:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45002016.01-3\">on that day when, according to my gospel, God judges the secrets of men by Christ Jesus.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 14:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45014010.01-4\">Why do you pass judgment on your brother? Or you, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God;</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 14:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p class=\"same-paragraph\" id=\"p45014012.01-5\">So then each of us will give an account of himself to God.</p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 12:36-37</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40012036.01-6\"><span class=\"woc\">I tell you, on the day of judgment people will give account for every careless word they speak,</span> <span class=\"woc\">for by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"575": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Corinthians 6:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46006003.01-1\">Do you not know that we are to judge angels? How much more, then, matters pertaining to this life!</p>\n</div><h5>Jude 1:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p65001006.01-2\">And the angels who did not stay within their own position of authority, but left their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness until the judgment of the great day—</p>\n</div><h5>2 Peter 2:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p61002004.01-3\">For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment; (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"574": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>John 5:22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43005022.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">The Father judges no one, but has given all judgment to the Son,</span></p>\n</div><h5>John 5:27</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43005027.01-2\"><span class=\"woc\">And he has given him authority to execute judgment, because he is the Son of Man.</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"579": "Matthew 24:36, 42-44; Mark 13:35-37; Luke 12:35-36; Revelation 22:20",
"578": "2 Peter 3:11, 14; 2 Corinthians 5:10-11; 2 Thessalonians 1:5-7; Luke 21:7, 28; Romans 8:23-25",
"573": "Acts 17:31",
"577": "Matthew 25:31-46; Romans 2:5-6; Romans 9:22-23; Matthew 25:21; Acts 3:19; 2 Thessalonians 1:7-10; Mark 9:48",
"576": "2 Corinthians 5:10; Ecclesiastes 12:14; Romans 2:16; Romans 14:10, 12; Matthew 12:36-37",
"575": "1 Corinthians 6:3; Jude 6; 2 Peter 2:4",
"574": "John 5:22, 27"
},
"title": "Chapter 33: Of the Last Judgment"
},
"32": {
"body": {
"1": "<span data-prooftexts='Genesis 3:19; Acts 13:36' data-prooftexts-index='566'>The bodies of men, after death, return to dust, and see corruption:</span><span data-prooftexts='Luke 23:43; Ecclesiastes 12:7' data-prooftexts-index='567'> but their souls, which neither die nor sleep, having an immortal subsistence, immediately return to God who gave them:</span><span data-prooftexts='Hebrews 12:23; 2 Corinthians 5:1, 6, 8; Philippians 1:23; Acts 3:21; Ephesians 4:10' data-prooftexts-index='568'> the souls of the righteous, being then made perfect in holiness, are received into the highest heavens, where they behold the face of God, in light and glory, waiting for the full redemption of their bodies.</span><span data-prooftexts='Luke 16:23-24; Acts 1:25; Jude 6-7; 1 Peter 3:19' data-prooftexts-index='569'> And the souls of the wicked are cast into hell, where they remain in torments and utter darkness, reserved to the judgment of the great day.</span> Besides these two places, for souls separated from their bodies, the Scripture acknowledgeth none.",
"3": "<span data-prooftexts='Acts 24:15; John 5:28-29; 1 Corinthians 15:43; Philippians 3:21' data-prooftexts-index='572'>The bodies of the unjust shall, by the power of Christ, be raised to dishonor: the bodies of the just, by his Spirit, unto honor; and be made conformable to his own glorious body.</span>",
"2": "<span data-prooftexts='1 Thessalonians 4:17; 1 Corinthians 15:51-52' data-prooftexts-index='570'>At the last day, such as are found alive shall not die, but be changed:</span><span data-prooftexts='Job 19:26-27; 1 Corinthians 15:42-44' data-prooftexts-index='571'> and all the dead shall be raised up, with the selfsame bodies, and none other (although with different qualities), which shall be united again to their souls forever.</span>"
},
"prooftext_verses": {
"568": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Hebrews 12:23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58012023.01-1\">and to the assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect,</p>\n</div><h5>2 Corinthians 5:1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p47005001.04-2\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v47005001-2\">5:1 </span>For we know that if the tent that is our earthly home is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.</p>\n</div><h5>2 Corinthians 5:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p47005006.01-3\">So we are always of good courage. We know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord,</p>\n</div><h5>2 Corinthians 5:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p47005008.01-4\">Yes, we are of good courage, and we would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord.</p>\n</div><h5>Philippians 1:23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p50001023.01-5\">I am hard pressed between the two. My desire is to depart and be with Christ, for that is far better.</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 3:21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44003021.01-6\">whom heaven must receive until the time for restoring all the things about which God spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets long ago.</p>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 4:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49004010.01-7\">He who descended is the one who also ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.) (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"569": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Luke 16:23-24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42016023.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">and in Hades, being in torment, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham far off and Lazarus at his side.</span> <span class=\"woc\">And he called out, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus to dip the end of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am in anguish in this flame.’</span></p>\n</div><h5>Acts 1:25</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44001025.01-2\">to take the place in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas turned aside to go to his own place.”</p>\n</div><h5>Jude 1:6-7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p65001006.01-3\">And the angels who did not stay within their own position of authority, but left their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness until the judgment of the great day— just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Peter 3:19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p60003019.01-4\">in which he went and proclaimed to the spirits in prison, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"572": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Acts 24:15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44024015.01-1\">having a hope in God, which these men themselves accept, that there will be a resurrection of both the just and the unjust.</p>\n</div><h5>John 5:28-29</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43005028.01-2\"><span class=\"woc\">Do not marvel at this, for an hour is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice</span> <span class=\"woc\">and come out, those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment.</span></p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 15:43</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46015043.01-3\">It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power.</p>\n</div><h5>Philippians 3:21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p50003021.01-4\">who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"571": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Job 19:26-27</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p18019026.01-1\">And after my skin has been thus destroyed,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>yet in my flesh I shall see God,<br />\n whom I shall see for myself,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and my eyes shall behold, and not another.<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>My heart faints within me!</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 15:42-44</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46015042.01-2\">So is it with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable; what is raised is imperishable. It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power. It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"570": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Thessalonians 4:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p52004017.01-1\">Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 15:51-52</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46015051.01-2\">Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"566": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Genesis 3:19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p01003019.01-1\">By the sweat of your face<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>you shall eat bread,<br />\ntill you return to the ground,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for out of it you were taken;<br />\nfor you are dust,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and to dust you shall return.”</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Acts 13:36</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p class=\"same-paragraph\" id=\"p44013036.01-2\">For David, after he had served the purpose of God in his own generation, fell asleep and was laid with his fathers and saw corruption, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"567": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Luke 23:43</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42023043.01-1\">And he said to him, <span class=\"woc\">“Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in Paradise.”</span></p>\n</div><h5>Ecclesiastes 12:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p21012007.01-2\">and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"568": "Hebrews 12:23; 2 Corinthians 5:1, 6, 8; Philippians 1:23; Acts 3:21; Ephesians 4:10",
"569": "Luke 16:23-24; Acts 1:25; Jude 6-7; 1 Peter 3:19",
"572": "Acts 24:15; John 5:28-29; 1 Corinthians 15:43; Philippians 3:21",
"571": "Job 19:26-27; 1 Corinthians 15:42-44",
"570": "1 Thessalonians 4:17; 1 Corinthians 15:51-52",
"566": "Genesis 3:19; Acts 13:36",
"567": "Luke 23:43; Ecclesiastes 12:7"
},
"title": "Chapter 32: Of the State of Men after Death, and of the Resurrection of the Dead"
}
}