static/confessions/wlc.json
{
"1": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Romans 11:36; I Corinthians 6:20; I Corinthians 10:31; Psalms 86:9,12' data-prooftexts-index='1'>Man's chief and highest end is to glorify God,</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 73:24-28; John 17:21-23; Psalms 16:5-11; Revelation 21:3-4' data-prooftexts-index='2'> and fully to enjoy him forever.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"1": "<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.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 6:20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46006020.01-2\">for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 10:31</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46010031.01-3\">So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.</p>\n</div><h5>Psalm 86:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19086009.01-4\">All the nations you have made shall come<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and worship before you, O Lord,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and shall glorify your name.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 86:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19086012.01-5\">I give thanks to you, O Lord my God, with my whole heart,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and I will glorify your name forever. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"2": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 73:24-28</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19073024.01-1\">You guide me with your counsel,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and afterward you will receive me to glory.<br />\n Whom have I in heaven but you?<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>And there is nothing on earth that I desire besides you.<br />\n My flesh and my heart may fail,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19073027.01-1\">For behold, those who are far from you shall perish;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>you put an end to everyone who is unfaithful to you.<br />\n But for me it is good to be near God;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I have made the Lord <span class=\"small-caps\">God</span> my refuge,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that I may tell of all your works.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>John 17:21-23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43017021.01-2\"><span class=\"woc\">that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me.</span> <span class=\"woc\">The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one,</span> <span class=\"woc\">I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me.</span></p>\n</div><h5>Psalm 16:5-11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19016005.01-3\">The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> is my chosen portion and my cup;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>you hold my lot.<br />\n The lines have fallen for me in pleasant places;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>indeed, I have a beautiful inheritance.</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19016007.01-3\">I bless the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> who gives me counsel;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>in the night also my heart instructs me.<br />\n I have set the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> always before me;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>because he is at my right hand, I shall not be shaken.</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19016009.01-3\">Therefore my heart is glad, and my whole being rejoices;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>my flesh also dwells secure.<br />\n For you will not abandon my soul to Sheol,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>or let your holy one see corruption.</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19016011.01-3\">You make known to me the path of life;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>in your presence there is fullness of joy;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Revelation 21:3-4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p66021003.01-4\">And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God. He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"1": "Romans 11:36; I Corinthians 6:20; I Corinthians 10:31; Psalms 86:9,12",
"2": "Psalms 73:24-28; John 17:21-23; Psalms 16:5-11; Revelation 21:3-4"
},
"question": "What is the chief and highest end of man?"
},
"10": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Hebrews 1:5-6,8' data-prooftexts-index='39'>It is proper to the Father to beget the Son,</span><span data-prooftexts='John 1:14,18' data-prooftexts-index='40'> and to the Son to be begotten of the Father,</span><span data-prooftexts='John 15:26; Galatians 4:6' data-prooftexts-index='41'> and to the Holy Ghost to proceed from the Father and the Son from all eternity.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"39": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Hebrews 1:5-6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58001005.01-1\">For to which of the angels did God ever say,</p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p58001005.11-1\">“You are my Son,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>today I have begotten you”?</p>\n</div>\n<p class=\"same-paragraph\" id=\"p58001005.20-1\">Or again,</p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p58001005.22-1\">“I will be to him a father,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and he shall be to me a son”?</p>\n</div>\n <p class=\"same-paragraph\" id=\"p58001006.01-1\">And again, when he brings the firstborn into the world, he says,</p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p58001006.13-1\">“Let all God's angels worship him.”</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 1:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p class=\"same-paragraph\" id=\"p58001008.01-2\">But of the Son he says,</p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p58001008.07-2\">“Your throne, O God, is forever and ever,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>the scepter of uprightness is the scepter of your kingdom. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"40": "<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>",
"41": "<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>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"39": "Hebrews 1:5-6,8",
"40": "John 1:14,18",
"41": "John 15:26; Galatians 4:6"
},
"question": "What are the personal properties of the three persons in the Godhead?"
},
"100": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Ephesians 6:1-3' data-prooftexts-index='447'>We are to consider, in the Ten Commandments, the preface, the substance of the commandments themselves, and several reasons annexed to some of them, the more to enforce them.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"447": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ephesians 6:1-3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p49006001.04-1\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v49006001-1\">6:1 </span>Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “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.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"447": "Ephesians 6:1-3"
},
"question": "What special things are we to consider in the Ten Commandments?"
},
"101": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Ex 20:2; Deuteronomy 5:6' data-prooftexts-index='448'>The preface to the Ten Commandments is contained in these words, I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.</span><span data-prooftexts='Isaiah 44:6' data-prooftexts-index='449'> Wherein God manifesteth his sovereignty, as being JEHOVAH, the eternal, immutable, and almighty God;</span><span data-prooftexts='Ex 3:14' data-prooftexts-index='450'> having his being in and of himself,</span><span data-prooftexts='Ex 6:3' data-prooftexts-index='451'> and giving being to all his words</span><span data-prooftexts='Acts 17:24,28' data-prooftexts-index='452'> and works:</span><span data-prooftexts='Genesis 17:7; Romans 3:29' data-prooftexts-index='453'> and that he is a God in covenant, as with Israel of old, so with all his people;</span><span data-prooftexts='Luke 1:74-75; Galatians 5:1' data-prooftexts-index='454'> who, as he brought them out of their bondage in Egypt, so he delivereth us from our spiritual thraldom;</span><span data-prooftexts='I Peter 1:15-19; Leviticus 18:30; Leviticus 19:37' data-prooftexts-index='455'> and that therefore we are bound to take him for our God alone, and to keep all his commandments.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"448": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Exodus 20:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p class=\"chapter-first\" id=\"p02020002.01-1\">“I am the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.</p>\n</div><h5>Deuteronomy 5:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p05005006.01-2\">“‘I am the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"449": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Isaiah 44:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23044006.07-1\">Thus says the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, the King of Israel<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and his Redeemer, the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> of hosts:<br />\n“I am the first and I am the last;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>besides me there is no god. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"450": "<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>",
"451": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Exodus 6:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p02006003.01-1\">I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty, but by my name the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> I did not make myself known to them. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"452": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Acts 17:24</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,</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 17:28</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44017028.01-2\">for</p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p44017028.02-2\">“‘In him we live and move and have our being’;</p>\n</div>\n<p class=\"same-paragraph\" id=\"p44017028.12-2\">as even some of your own poets have said,</p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p44017028.21-2\">“‘For we are indeed his offspring.’ (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"453": "<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>Romans 3:29</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45003029.01-2\">Or is God the God of Jews only? Is he not the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"454": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Luke 1:74-75</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p42001074.01-1\"><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.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Galatians 5:1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p48005001.06-2\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v48005001-2\">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>",
"455": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Peter 1:15-19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p60001015.01-1\">but as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, since it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.” And if you call on him as Father who judges impartially according to each one's deeds, conduct yourselves with fear throughout the time of your exile, knowing that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold, but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot.</p>\n</div><h5>Leviticus 18:30</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p03018030.01-2\">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>Leviticus 19:37</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p03019037.01-3\">And you shall observe all my statutes and all my rules, and do them: I am the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"448": "Ex 20:2; Deuteronomy 5:6",
"449": "Isaiah 44:6",
"450": "Ex 3:14",
"451": "Ex 6:3",
"452": "Acts 17:24,28",
"453": "Genesis 17:7; Romans 3:29",
"454": "Luke 1:74-75; Galatians 5:1",
"455": "I Peter 1:15-19; Leviticus 18:30; Leviticus 19:37"
},
"question": "What is the preface to the Ten Commandments?"
},
"102": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Luke 10:27; Matthew 22:37-40' data-prooftexts-index='456'>The sum of the four commandments containing our duty to God is, to love the Lord our God with all our heart, and with all our soul, and with all our strength, and with all our mind.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"456": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Luke 10:27</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42010027.01-1\">And he answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.”</p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 22:37-40</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40022037.01-2\">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>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"456": "Luke 10:27; Matthew 22:37-40"
},
"question": "What is the sum of the four commandments which contain our duty to God?"
},
"103": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Ex 20:3; Deuteronomy 5:7' data-prooftexts-index='457'>The first commandment is, Thou shall have no other gods before me.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"457": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Exodus 20:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p02020003.01-1\">“You shall have no other gods before me.</p>\n</div><h5>Deuteronomy 5:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p05005007.01-2\">“‘You shall have no other gods before me. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"457": "Ex 20:3; Deuteronomy 5:7"
},
"question": "Which is the first commandment?"
},
"104": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='I Chronicles 28:9; Deuteronomy 26:7; Isaiah 43:10; Jeremiah 14:22' data-prooftexts-index='458'>The duties required in the first commandment are, the knowing and acknowledging of God to be the only true God, and our God;</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 95:6-7; Matthew 4:10; Psalms 29:2' data-prooftexts-index='459'> and to worship and glorify him accordingly,</span><span data-prooftexts='Malachi 3:16' data-prooftexts-index='460'> by thinking,</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 63:6' data-prooftexts-index='461'> meditating,</span><span data-prooftexts='Ecclesiastes 12:1' data-prooftexts-index='462'> remembering,</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 71:19' data-prooftexts-index='463'> highly esteeming,</span><span data-prooftexts='Malachi 1:6' data-prooftexts-index='464'> honoring,</span><span data-prooftexts='Isaiah 45:23; Psalms 96' data-prooftexts-index='465'> adoring,</span><span data-prooftexts='Joshua 24:15,22' data-prooftexts-index='466'> choosing,</span><span data-prooftexts='Deuteronomy 6:5' data-prooftexts-index='467'> loving,</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 73:25' data-prooftexts-index='468'> desiring,</span><span data-prooftexts='Isaiah 8:13' data-prooftexts-index='469'> fearing of him;</span><span data-prooftexts='Ex 14:31' data-prooftexts-index='470'> believing him;</span><span data-prooftexts='Isaiah 26:4' data-prooftexts-index='471'> trusting,</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 130:7' data-prooftexts-index='472'> hoping,</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 37:4' data-prooftexts-index='473'> delighting,</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 32:11' data-prooftexts-index='474'> rejoicing in him;</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 12:11; Numbers 25:11' data-prooftexts-index='475'> being zealous for him;</span><span data-prooftexts='Philippians 4:6' data-prooftexts-index='476'> calling upon him, giving all praise and thanks,</span><span data-prooftexts='Jeremiah 7:23; James 4:7' data-prooftexts-index='477'> and yielding all obedience and submission to him with the whole man;</span><span data-prooftexts='I John 3:22' data-prooftexts-index='478'> being careful in all things to please him,</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 119:136; Jeremiah 31:18' data-prooftexts-index='479'> and sorrowful when in anything he is offended;</span><span data-prooftexts='Micah 6:8' data-prooftexts-index='480'> and walking humbly with him.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"458": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Chronicles 28:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p13028009.05-1\">“And you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve him with a whole heart and with a willing mind, for the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> searches all hearts and understands every plan and thought. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.</p>\n</div><h5>Deuteronomy 26:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p05026007.01-2\">Then we cried to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, the God of our fathers, and the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> heard our voice and saw our affliction, our toil, and our oppression.</p>\n</div><h5>Isaiah 43:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23043010.01-3\">“You are my witnesses,” declares the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>“and my servant whom I have chosen,<br />\nthat you may know and believe me<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and understand that I am he.<br />\nBefore me no god was formed,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>nor shall there be any after me.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Jeremiah 14:22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p24014022.01-4\">Are there any among the false gods of the nations that can bring rain?<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Or can the heavens give showers?<br />\nAre you not he, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> our God?<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>We set our hope on you,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for you do all these things. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"459": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 95:6-7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19095006.01-1\">Oh come, let us worship and bow down;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>let us kneel before the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, our Maker!<br />\n For he is our God,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and we are the people of his pasture,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and the sheep of his hand.<br />\nToday, if you hear his voice,</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Matthew 4:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40004010.01-2\">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=\"p40004010.13-2\"><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>Psalm 29:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19029002.01-3\">Ascribe to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> the glory due his name;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>worship the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> in the splendor of holiness. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"460": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Malachi 3:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p39003016.05-1\">Then those who feared the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> spoke with one another. The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> paid attention and heard them, and a book of remembrance was written before him of those who feared the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> and esteemed his name. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"461": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 63:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19063006.01-1\">when I remember you upon my bed,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and meditate on you in the watches of the night; (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"462": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ecclesiastes 12:1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p21012001.07-1\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v21012001-1\">12:1 </span>Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come and the years draw near of which you will say, “I have no pleasure in them”; (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"463": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 71:19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19071019.01-1\">Your righteousness, O God,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>reaches the high heavens.<br />\nYou who have done great things,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>O God, who is like you? (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"464": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Malachi 1:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p39001006.05-1\">“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If then I am a father, where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is my fear? says the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> of hosts to you, O priests, who despise my name. But you say, ‘How have we despised your name?’ (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"465": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Isaiah 45:23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23045023.01-1\">By myself I have sworn;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>from my mouth has gone out in righteousness<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>a word that shall not return:<br />\n‘To me every knee shall bow,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>every tongue shall swear allegiance.’</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 96</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19096001.07-2\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v19096001-2\">96:1 </span>Oh sing to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> a new song;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>sing to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, all the earth!<br />\n Sing to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, bless his name;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>tell of his salvation from day to day.<br />\n Declare his glory among the nations,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>his marvelous works among all the peoples!<br />\n For great is the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, and greatly to be praised;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>he is to be feared above all gods.<br />\n For all the gods of the peoples are worthless idols,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> made the heavens.<br />\n Splendor and majesty are before him;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>strength and beauty are in his sanctuary.</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19096007.01-2\">Ascribe to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, O families of the peoples,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>ascribe to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> glory and strength!<br />\n Ascribe to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> the glory due his name;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>bring an offering, and come into his courts!<br />\n Worship the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> in the splendor of holiness;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>tremble before him, all the earth!</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19096010.01-2\">Say among the nations, “The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> reigns!<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Yes, the world is established; it shall never be moved;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>he will judge the peoples with equity.”</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19096011.01-2\">Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>let the sea roar, and all that fills it;<br />\n <span class=\"indent\"></span>let the field exult, and everything in it!<br />\nThen shall all the trees of the forest sing for joy<br />\n <span class=\"indent\"></span>before the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, for he comes,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for he comes to judge the earth.<br />\nHe will judge the world in righteousness,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and the peoples in his faithfulness. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"466": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Joshua 24:15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p06024015.01-1\">And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>.”</p>\n</div><h5>Joshua 24:22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p06024022.01-2\">Then Joshua said to the people, “You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, to serve him.” And they said, “We are witnesses.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"467": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Deuteronomy 6:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p05006005.01-1\">You shall love the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"468": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 73:25</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19073025.01-1\">Whom have I in heaven but you?<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>And there is nothing on earth that I desire besides you. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"469": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Isaiah 8:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p23008013.01-1\">But the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> of hosts, him you shall honor as holy. Let him be your fear, and let him be your dread. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"470": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Exodus 14:31</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p02014031.01-1\">Israel saw the great power that the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> used against the Egyptians, so the people feared the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, and they believed in the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> and in his servant Moses. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"471": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Isaiah 26:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23026004.01-1\">Trust in the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> forever,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> <span class=\"small-caps\">God</span> is an everlasting rock. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"472": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 130:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19130007.01-1\">O Israel, hope in the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>!<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>For with the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> there is steadfast love,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and with him is plentiful redemption. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"473": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 37:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19037004.01-1\">Delight yourself in the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and he will give you the desires of your heart. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"474": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 32:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19032011.01-1\">Be glad in the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, and rejoice, O righteous,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and shout for joy, all you upright in heart! (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"475": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 12:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45012011.01-1\">Do not be slothful in zeal, be fervent in spirit, serve the Lord.</p>\n</div><h5>Numbers 25:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p04025011.01-2\">“Phinehas the son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, has turned back my wrath from the people of Israel, in that he was jealous with my jealousy among them, so that I did not consume the people of Israel in my jealousy. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"476": "<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>",
"477": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Jeremiah 7:23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p24007023.01-1\">But this command I gave them: ‘Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people. And walk in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.’</p>\n</div><h5>James 4:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p59004007.01-2\">Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"478": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 John 3:22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p62003022.01-1\">and whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do what pleases him. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"479": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 119:136</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119136.01-1\">My eyes shed streams of tears,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>because people do not keep your law.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Jeremiah 31:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p24031018.01-2\">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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"480": "<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? (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"458": "I Chronicles 28:9; Deuteronomy 26:7; Isaiah 43:10; Jeremiah 14:22",
"459": "Psalms 95:6-7; Matthew 4:10; Psalms 29:2",
"460": "Malachi 3:16",
"461": "Psalms 63:6",
"462": "Ecclesiastes 12:1",
"463": "Psalms 71:19",
"464": "Malachi 1:6",
"465": "Isaiah 45:23; Psalms 96",
"466": "Joshua 24:15,22",
"467": "Deuteronomy 6:5",
"468": "Psalms 73:25",
"469": "Isaiah 8:13",
"470": "Ex 14:31",
"471": "Isaiah 26:4",
"472": "Psalms 130:7",
"473": "Psalms 37:4",
"474": "Psalms 32:11",
"475": "Romans 12:11; Numbers 25:11",
"476": "Philippians 4:6",
"477": "Jeremiah 7:23; James 4:7",
"478": "I John 3:22",
"479": "Psalms 119:136; Jeremiah 31:18",
"480": "Micah 6:8"
},
"question": "What are the duties required in the first commandment?"
},
"105": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Psalms 14:1; Ephesians 2:12' data-prooftexts-index='481'>The sins forbidden in the first commandment are, atheism, in denying or not having a God;</span><span data-prooftexts='Jeremiah 2:27-28; I Thessalonians 1:9' data-prooftexts-index='482'> idolatry, in having or worshiping more gods than one, or any with or instead of the true God;</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 81:10-11; Romans 1:21' data-prooftexts-index='483'> the not having and avouching him for God, and our God;</span><span data-prooftexts='Isaiah 43:22-24' data-prooftexts-index='484'> the omission or neglect of anything due to him, required in this commandment;</span><span data-prooftexts='Jeremiah 4:22; Hosea 4:1,6' data-prooftexts-index='485'> ignorance,</span><span data-prooftexts='Jeremiah 2:32' data-prooftexts-index='486'> forgetfulness,</span><span data-prooftexts='Acts 17:23,29' data-prooftexts-index='487'> misapprehensions,</span><span data-prooftexts='Isaiah 40:18' data-prooftexts-index='488'> false opinions,</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 50:21' data-prooftexts-index='489'> unworthy and wicked thoughts of him;</span><span data-prooftexts='Deuteronomy 29:29' data-prooftexts-index='490'> bold and curious searching into his secrets;</span><span data-prooftexts='Titus 1:16; Hebrews 12:16' data-prooftexts-index='491'> all profaneness,</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 1:30' data-prooftexts-index='492'> hatred of God;</span><span data-prooftexts='II Timothy 3:2' data-prooftexts-index='493'> self-love,</span><span data-prooftexts='Philippians 2:21' data-prooftexts-index='494'> self-seeking,</span><span data-prooftexts='I John 2:15-16; Colossians 3:2,5; I Samuel 2:29' data-prooftexts-index='495'> and all other inordinate and immoderate setting of our mind, will, or affections upon other things, and taking them off from him in whole or in part;</span><span data-prooftexts='I John 4:1' data-prooftexts-index='496'> vain credulity,</span><span data-prooftexts='Hebrews 3:12' data-prooftexts-index='497'> unbelief,</span><span data-prooftexts='Galatians 5:20; Titus 3:10' data-prooftexts-index='498'> heresy,</span><span data-prooftexts='Acts 26:9' data-prooftexts-index='499'> misbelief,</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 78:22' data-prooftexts-index='500'> distrust,</span><span data-prooftexts='Genesis 4:13' data-prooftexts-index='501'> despair,</span><span data-prooftexts='Jeremiah 5:3' data-prooftexts-index='502'> incorrigibleness,</span><span data-prooftexts='Isaiah 42:25' data-prooftexts-index='503'> and insensibleness under judgments,</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 2:5' data-prooftexts-index='504'> hardness of heart,</span><span data-prooftexts='Jeremiah 13:15' data-prooftexts-index='505'> pride,</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 19:13' data-prooftexts-index='506'> presumption,</span><span data-prooftexts='Zephaniah 1:12' data-prooftexts-index='507'> carnal security,</span><span data-prooftexts='Matthew 4:7' data-prooftexts-index='508'> tempting of God;</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 3:8' data-prooftexts-index='509'> using unlawful means,</span><span data-prooftexts='Jeremiah 17:5' data-prooftexts-index='510'> and trusting in lawful means;</span><span data-prooftexts='II Timothy 3:4' data-prooftexts-index='511'> carnal delights and joys;</span><span data-prooftexts='Galatians 4:17; Romans 10:2; John 16:2; Luke 9:54-55' data-prooftexts-index='512'> corrupt, blind, and indiscreet zeal;</span><span data-prooftexts='Rev 3:16' data-prooftexts-index='513'> lukewarmness,</span><span data-prooftexts='Rev 3:1' data-prooftexts-index='514'> and deadness in the things of God;</span><span data-prooftexts='Ezek 14:5; Isa 1:4-5' data-prooftexts-index='515'> estranging ourselves, and apostatizing from God;</span><span data-prooftexts='Hos 4:12; Acts 10:25-26; Rev 19:10; Matt 4:10; Col 2:18; Rom 1:25' data-prooftexts-index='516'> praying, or giving any religious worship, to saints, angels, or any other creatures;</span><span data-prooftexts='Lev 20:6; 1 Sam 28:7,11; 1 Chron 10:13-14' data-prooftexts-index='517'> all compacts and consulting with the devil,</span><span data-prooftexts='Acts 5:3' data-prooftexts-index='518'> and hearkening to his suggestions;</span><span data-prooftexts='2 Cor 1:24; Matt 23:9' data-prooftexts-index='519'> making men the lords of our faith and conscience;</span><span data-prooftexts='Deut 32:15; Prov 13:13; 2 Sam 12:9' data-prooftexts-index='520'> slighting and despising God and his commands;</span><span data-prooftexts='Acts 7:51; Eph 4:30' data-prooftexts-index='521'> resisting and grieving of his Spirit,</span><span data-prooftexts='Job 1:22; Ps 73:2-3,13-15,22' data-prooftexts-index='522'> discontent and impatience at his dispensations, charging him foolishly for the evils he inflicts on us;</span><span data-prooftexts='1 Sam 6:7-9' data-prooftexts-index='523'> and ascribing the praise of any good we either are, have, or can do, to fortune,</span><span data-prooftexts='Dan 5:23' data-prooftexts-index='524'> idols,</span><span data-prooftexts='Deut 8:17; Dan 4:30' data-prooftexts-index='525'> ourselves,</span><span data-prooftexts='Hab 1:16' data-prooftexts-index='526'> or any other creature.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"481": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 14:1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19014001.13-1\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v19014001-1\">14:1 </span>The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.”<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>there is none who does good.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 2:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49002012.01-2\">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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"482": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Jeremiah 2:27-28</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p24002027.01-1\">who say to a tree, ‘You are my father,’<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and to a stone, ‘You gave me birth.’<br />\nFor they have turned their back to me,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and not their face.<br />\nBut in the time of their trouble they say,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>‘Arise and save us!’<br />\n But where are your gods<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that you made for yourself?<br />\nLet them arise, if they can save you,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>in your time of trouble;<br />\nfor as many as your cities<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>are your gods, O Judah.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>1 Thessalonians 1:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p52001009.01-2\">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, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"483": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 81:10-11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19081010.01-1\">I am the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.</p>\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.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Romans 1:21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45001021.01-2\">For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"484": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Isaiah 43:22-24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23043022.01-1\">“Yet you did not call upon me, O Jacob;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but you have been weary of me, O Israel!<br />\n You have not brought me your sheep for burnt offerings,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>or honored me with your sacrifices.<br />\nI have not burdened you with offerings,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>or wearied you with frankincense.<br />\n You have not bought me sweet cane with money,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>or satisfied me with the fat of your sacrifices.<br />\nBut you have burdened me with your sins;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>you have wearied me with your iniquities. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"485": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Jeremiah 4:22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p24004022.01-1\">“For my people are foolish;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>they know me not;<br />\nthey are stupid children;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>they have no understanding.<br />\nThey are ‘wise’—in doing evil!<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>But how to do good they know not.”</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Hosea 4:1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p28004001.05-2\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v28004001-2\">4:1 </span>Hear the word of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, O children of Israel,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land.<br />\nThere is no faithfulness or steadfast love,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and no knowledge of God in the land;</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Hosea 4:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p28004006.01-3\">My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>because you have rejected knowledge,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I reject you from being a priest to me.<br />\nAnd since you have forgotten the law of your God,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I also will forget your children. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"486": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Jeremiah 2:32</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p24002032.01-1\">Can a virgin forget her ornaments,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>or a bride her attire?<br />\nYet my people have forgotten me<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>days without number. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"487": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Acts 17:23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44017023.01-1\">For as I passed along and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription, ‘To the unknown god.’ What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you.</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 17:29</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p class=\"same-paragraph\" id=\"p44017029.01-2\">Being then God's offspring, we ought not to think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of man. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"488": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Isaiah 40:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23040018.01-1\">To whom then will you liken God,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>or what likeness compare with him? (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"489": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 50:21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19050021.01-1\">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>",
"490": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Deuteronomy 29:29</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p05029029.01-1\">“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>",
"491": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Titus 1:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p56001016.01-1\">They profess to know God, but they deny him by their works. They are detestable, disobedient, unfit for any good work.</p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 12:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58012016.01-2\">that no one is sexually immoral or unholy like Esau, who sold his birthright for a single meal. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"492": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 1:30</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45001030.01-1\">slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"493": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>2 Timothy 3:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p55003002.01-1\">For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"494": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Philippians 2:21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p50002021.01-1\">For they all seek their own interests, not those of Jesus Christ. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"495": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 John 2:15-16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p62002015.06-1\">Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 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>Colossians 3:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p51003002.01-2\">Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.</p>\n</div><h5>Colossians 3:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p51003005.01-3\">Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Samuel 2:29</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p09002029.01-4\">Why then do you scorn my sacrifices and my offerings that I commanded, and honor your sons above me by fattening yourselves on the choicest parts of every offering of my people Israel?’ (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"496": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 John 4:1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p62004001.04-1\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v62004001-1\">4:1 </span>Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"497": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Hebrews 3:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p class=\"same-paragraph\" id=\"p58003012.01-1\">Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"498": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Galatians 5:20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p48005020.01-1\">idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions,</p>\n</div><h5>Titus 3:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p56003010.01-2\">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>",
"499": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Acts 26:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44026009.01-1\">“I myself was convinced that I ought to do many things in opposing the name of Jesus of Nazareth. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"500": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 78:22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19078022.01-1\">because they did not believe in God<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and did not trust his saving power. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"501": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Genesis 4:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p01004013.01-1\">Cain said to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, “My punishment is greater than I can bear. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"502": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Jeremiah 5:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p24005003.01-1\">O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, do not your eyes look for truth?<br />\nYou have struck them down,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but they felt no anguish;<br />\nyou have consumed them,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but they refused to take correction.<br />\nThey have made their faces harder than rock;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>they have refused to repent. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"503": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Isaiah 42:25</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23042025.01-1\">So he poured on him the heat of his anger<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and the might of battle;<br />\nit set him on fire all around, but he did not understand;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>it burned him up, but he did not take it to heart. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"504": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 2:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45002005.01-1\">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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"505": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Jeremiah 13:15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p24013015.03-1\">Hear and give ear; be not proud,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> has spoken. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"506": "<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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"507": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Zephaniah 1:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p36001012.01-1\">At that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and I will punish the men<br />\nwho are complacent,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>those who say in their hearts,<br />\n‘The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> will not do good,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>nor will he do ill.’ (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"508": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 4:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p class=\"same-paragraph\" id=\"p40004007.01-1\">Jesus said to him, <span class=\"woc\">“Again it is written, ‘You shall not put the Lord your God to the test.’”</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"509": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 3:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45003008.01-1\">And why not do evil that good may come?—as some people slanderously charge us with saying. Their condemnation is just. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"510": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Jeremiah 17:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p24017005.01-1\">Thus says the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>:<br />\n“Cursed is the man who trusts in man<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and makes flesh his strength,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>whose heart turns away from the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"511": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>2 Timothy 3:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p55003004.01-1\">treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"512": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Galatians 4:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p48004017.01-1\">They make much of you, but for no good purpose. They want to shut you out, that you may make much of them.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 10:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45010002.01-2\">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=\"p43016002.01-3\"><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>Luke 9:54-55</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42009054.01-4\">And when his disciples James and John saw it, they said, “Lord, do you want us to tell fire to come down from heaven and consume them?” But he turned and rebuked them. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"513": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Revelation 3:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p66003016.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth.</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"514": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Revelation 3:1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\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> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"515": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ezekiel 14:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p26014005.01-1\">that I may lay hold of the hearts of the house of Israel, who are all estranged from me through their idols.</p>\n</div><h5>Isaiah 1:4-5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23001004.01-2\">Ah, sinful nation,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>a people laden with iniquity,<br />\noffspring of evildoers,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>children who deal corruptly!<br />\nThey have forsaken the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>they have despised the Holy One of Israel,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>they are utterly estranged.</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23001005.01-2\">Why will you still be struck down?<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Why will you continue to rebel?<br />\nThe whole head is sick,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and the whole heart faint. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"516": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Hosea 4:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p28004012.01-1\">My people inquire of a piece of wood,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and their walking staff gives them oracles.<br />\nFor a spirit of whoredom has led them astray,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and they have left their God to play the whore.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Acts 10:25-26</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44010025.01-2\">When Peter entered, Cornelius met him and fell down at his feet and worshiped him. But Peter lifted him up, saying, “Stand up; I too am a man.”</p>\n</div><h5>Revelation 19:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p66019010.01-3\">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>Matthew 4:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40004010.01-4\">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>Colossians 2:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p51002018.01-5\">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>Romans 1:25</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45001025.01-6\">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>",
"517": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Leviticus 20:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p03020006.01-1\">“If a person turns to mediums and necromancers, whoring after them, I will set my face against that person and will cut him off from among his people.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Samuel 28:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p09028007.01-2\">Then Saul said to his servants, “Seek out for me a woman who is a medium, that I may go to her and inquire of her.” And his servants said to him, “Behold, there is a medium at En-dor.”</p>\n</div><h5>1 Samuel 28:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p09028011.01-3\">Then the woman said, “Whom shall I bring up for you?” He said, “Bring up Samuel for me.”</p>\n</div><h5>1 Chronicles 10:13-14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p13010013.01-4\">So Saul died for his breach of faith. He broke faith with the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> in that he did not keep the command of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, and also consulted a medium, seeking guidance. He did not seek guidance from the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>. Therefore the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> put him to death and turned the kingdom over to David the son of Jesse. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"518": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Acts 5:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44005003.01-1\">But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back for yourself part of the proceeds of the land? (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"519": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>2 Corinthians 1:24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p47001024.01-1\">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 23:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40023009.01-2\"><span class=\"woc\">And call no man your father on earth, for you have one Father, who is in heaven.</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"520": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Deuteronomy 32:15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p05032015.01-1\">“But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>you grew fat, stout, and sleek;<br />\nthen he forsook God who made him<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and scoffed at the Rock of his salvation.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Proverbs 13:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20013013.01-2\">Whoever despises the word brings destruction on himself,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but he who reveres the commandment will be rewarded.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>2 Samuel 12:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p10012009.01-3\">Why have you despised the word of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, to do what is evil in his sight? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and have taken his wife to be your wife and have killed him with the sword of the Ammonites. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"521": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Acts 7:51</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44007051.01-1\">“You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers did, so do you.</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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"522": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Job 1:22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p18001022.01-1\">In all this Job did not sin or charge God with wrong.</p>\n</div><h5>Psalm 73:2-3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19073002.01-2\">But as for me, my feet had almost stumbled,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>my steps had nearly slipped.<br />\n For I was envious of the arrogant<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 73:13-15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19073013.01-3\">All in vain have I kept my heart clean<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and washed my hands in innocence.<br />\n For all the day long I have been stricken<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and rebuked every morning.<br />\n 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 73:22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19073022.01-4\">I was brutish and ignorant;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I was like a beast toward you. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"523": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Samuel 6:7-9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p09006007.01-1\">Now then, take and prepare a new cart and two milk cows on which there has never come a yoke, and yoke the cows to the cart, but take their calves home, away from them. And take the ark of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> and place it on the cart and put in a box at its side the figures of gold, which you are returning to him as a guilt offering. Then send it off and let it go its way and watch. If it goes up on the way to its own land, to Beth-shemesh, then it is he who has done us this great harm, but if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that struck us; it happened to us by coincidence.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"524": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Daniel 5:23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p27005023.01-1\">but you have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven. And the vessels of his house have been brought in before you, and you and your lords, your wives, and your concubines have drunk wine from them. And you have praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which do not see or hear or know, but the God in whose hand is your breath, and whose are all your ways, you have not honored. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"525": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Deuteronomy 8:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p05008017.01-1\">Beware lest you say in your heart, ‘My power and the might of my hand have gotten me this wealth.’</p>\n</div><h5>Daniel 4:30</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p27004030.01-2\">and the king answered and said, “Is not this great Babylon, which I have built by my mighty power as a royal residence and for the glory of my majesty?” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"526": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Habakkuk 1:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p35001016.01-1\">Therefore he sacrifices to his net<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and makes offerings to his dragnet;<br />\nfor by them he lives in luxury,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and his food is rich. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"481": "Psalms 14:1; Ephesians 2:12",
"482": "Jeremiah 2:27-28; I Thessalonians 1:9",
"483": "Psalms 81:10-11; Romans 1:21",
"484": "Isaiah 43:22-24",
"485": "Jeremiah 4:22; Hosea 4:1,6",
"486": "Jeremiah 2:32",
"487": "Acts 17:23,29",
"488": "Isaiah 40:18",
"489": "Psalms 50:21",
"490": "Deuteronomy 29:29",
"491": "Titus 1:16; Hebrews 12:16",
"492": "Romans 1:30",
"493": "II Timothy 3:2",
"494": "Philippians 2:21",
"495": "I John 2:15-16; Colossians 3:2,5; I Samuel 2:29",
"496": "I John 4:1",
"497": "Hebrews 3:12",
"498": "Galatians 5:20; Titus 3:10",
"499": "Acts 26:9",
"500": "Psalms 78:22",
"501": "Genesis 4:13",
"502": "Jeremiah 5:3",
"503": "Isaiah 42:25",
"504": "Romans 2:5",
"505": "Jeremiah 13:15",
"506": "Psalms 19:13",
"507": "Zephaniah 1:12",
"508": "Matthew 4:7",
"509": "Romans 3:8",
"510": "Jeremiah 17:5",
"511": "II Timothy 3:4",
"512": "Galatians 4:17; Romans 10:2; John 16:2; Luke 9:54-55",
"513": "Rev 3:16",
"514": "Rev 3:1",
"515": "Ezek 14:5; Isa 1:4-5",
"516": "Hos 4:12; Acts 10:25-26; Rev 19:10; Matt 4:10; Col 2:18; Rom 1:25",
"517": "Lev 20:6; 1 Sam 28:7,11; 1 Chron 10:13-14",
"518": "Acts 5:3",
"519": "2 Cor 1:24; Matt 23:9",
"520": "Deut 32:15; Prov 13:13; 2 Sam 12:9",
"521": "Acts 7:51; Eph 4:30",
"522": "Job 1:22; Ps 73:2-3,13-15,22",
"523": "1 Sam 6:7-9",
"524": "Dan 5:23",
"525": "Deut 8:17; Dan 4:30",
"526": "Hab 1:16"
},
"question": "What are the sins forbidden in the first commandment?"
},
"106": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Psalms 44:20-21; Deuteronomy 30:17-18; Ezekiel 8:5-6,12' data-prooftexts-index='527'>These words before me or before my face, in the first commandment, teach us, that God, who seeth all things, taketh special notice of, and is much displeased with, the sin of having any other God: that so it may be an argument to dissuade from it, and to aggravate it as a most impudent provocation:</span><span data-prooftexts='I Chronicles 28:9' data-prooftexts-index='528'> as also to persuade us to do as in his sight, whatever we do in his service.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"527": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 44:20-21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19044020.01-1\">If we had forgotten the name of our God<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>or spread out our hands to a foreign god,<br />\n would not God discover this?<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>For he knows the secrets of the heart.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Deuteronomy 30:17-18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p05030017.01-2\">But if your heart turns away, and you will not hear, but are drawn away to worship other gods and serve them, I declare to you today, that you shall surely perish. You shall not live long in the land that you are going over the Jordan to enter and possess.</p>\n</div><h5>Ezekiel 8:5-6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p26008005.01-3\">Then he said to me, “Son of man, lift up your eyes now toward the north.” So I lifted up my eyes toward the north, and behold, north of the altar gate, in the entrance, was this image of jealousy. And he said to me, “Son of man, do you see what they are doing, the great abominations that the house of Israel are committing here, to drive me far from my sanctuary? But you will see still greater abominations.”</p>\n</div><h5>Ezekiel 8:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p26008012.01-4\">Then he said to me, “Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the dark, each in his room of pictures? For they say, ‘The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> does not see us, the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> has forsaken the land.’” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"528": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Chronicles 28:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p13028009.05-1\">“And you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve him with a whole heart and with a willing mind, for the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> searches all hearts and understands every plan and thought. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"527": "Psalms 44:20-21; Deuteronomy 30:17-18; Ezekiel 8:5-6,12",
"528": "I Chronicles 28:9"
},
"question": "What are we specially taught by these words before me in the first commandment?"
},
"107": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Ex 20:4-6; Deuteronomy 5:8-10' data-prooftexts-index='529'>The second commandment is, Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; and shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"529": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Exodus 20:4-6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p02020004.01-1\">“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>Deuteronomy 5:8-10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p05005008.01-2\">“‘You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on 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 fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"529": "Ex 20:4-6; Deuteronomy 5:8-10"
},
"question": "Which is the second commandment?"
},
"108": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Deuteronomy 12:32; Deuteronomy 32:46-47; Matthew 28:20; I Timothy 6:13-14; Acts 2:42' data-prooftexts-index='530'>The duties required in the second commandment are, the receiving, observing, and keeping pure and entire, all such religious worship and ordinances as God hath instituted in his Word;</span><span data-prooftexts='Philippians 4:6; Ephesians 5:20' data-prooftexts-index='531'> particularly prayer and thanksgiving in the name of Christ;</span><span data-prooftexts='Deuteronomy 17:18-19; Acts 15:21; II Timothy 4:2; James 1:21-22; Acts 10:33' data-prooftexts-index='532'> the reading, preaching, and hearing of the Word;</span><span data-prooftexts='Matthew 28:19; I Corinthians 11:23-30' data-prooftexts-index='533'> the administration and receiving of the sacraments;</span><span data-prooftexts='Matthew 18:15-17; Matthew 16:19; I Corinthians 12:28; I Corinthians 5' data-prooftexts-index='534'> church government and discipline;</span><span data-prooftexts='Ephesians 4:11-12; I Timothy 5:17-18; I Corinthians 9:7-15' data-prooftexts-index='535'> the ministry and maintainance thereof;</span><span data-prooftexts='Joel 2:12-13; I Corinthians 7:5' data-prooftexts-index='536'> religious fasting;</span><span data-prooftexts='Deuteronomy 6:13' data-prooftexts-index='537'> swearing by the name of God,</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 76:11; Isaiah 19:21; Psalms 116:14,18' data-prooftexts-index='538'> and vowing unto him:</span><span data-prooftexts='Acts 17:16-17; Psalms 16:4' data-prooftexts-index='539'> as also the disapproving, detesting, opposing all false worship;</span><span data-prooftexts='Deuteronomy 7:5; Isaiah 30:22' data-prooftexts-index='540'> and, according to each one's place and calling, removing it, and all monuments of idolatry.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"530": "<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>Deuteronomy 32:46-47</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p05032046.01-2\">he said to them, “Take to heart all the words by which I am warning you today, that you may command them to your children, that they may be careful to do all the words of this law. For it is no empty word for you, but your very life, and by this word you shall live long in the land that you are going over the Jordan to possess.”</p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 28:20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40028020.01-3\"><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 Timothy 6:13-14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p54006013.01-4\">I charge you in the presence of God, who gives life to all things, and of Christ Jesus, who in his testimony before Pontius Pilate made the good confession, to keep the commandment unstained and free from reproach until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ,</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 2:42</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p44002042.06-5\">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>",
"531": "<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.</p>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 5:20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49005020.01-2\">giving thanks always and for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"532": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Deuteronomy 17:18-19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p05017018.01-1\">“And when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, he shall write for himself in a book a copy of this law, approved by the Levitical priests. And it shall be with him, and he shall read in it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> his God by keeping all the words of this law and these statutes, and doing them,</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 15:21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44015021.01-2\">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>2 Timothy 4:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p55004002.01-3\">preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching.</p>\n</div><h5>James 1:21-22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p59001021.01-4\">Therefore put away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.</p>\n <p id=\"p59001022.01-4\">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=\"p44010033.01-5\">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.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"533": "<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 11:23-30</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. 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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"534": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 18:15-17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p40018015.07-1\"><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>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</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.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p46005001.06-4\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v46005001-4\">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=\"p46005003.01-4\">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=\"p46005006.01-4\">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=\"p46005009.01-4\">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.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"535": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ephesians 4:11-12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49004011.01-1\">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,</p>\n</div><h5>1 Timothy 5:17-18</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. For the Scripture says, “You shall not muzzle an ox when it treads out the grain,” and, <span class=\"woc\">“The laborer deserves his wages.”</span></p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 9:7-15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46009007.01-3\">Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard without eating any of its fruit? Or who tends a flock without getting some of the milk?</p>\n <p id=\"p46009008.01-3\">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. If we have sown spiritual things among you, is it too much if we reap material things from you? If others share this rightful claim on you, do not we even more?</p>\n<p id=\"p46009012.14-3\">Nevertheless, we have not made use of this right, but we endure anything rather than put an obstacle in the way of the gospel of Christ. Do you not know that those who are employed in the temple service get their food from the temple, and those who serve at the altar share in the sacrificial offerings? In the same way, the Lord commanded that those who proclaim the gospel should get their living by the gospel.</p>\n <p id=\"p46009015.01-3\">But I have made no use of any of these rights, nor am I writing these things to secure any such provision. For I would rather die than have anyone deprive me of my ground for boasting. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"536": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Joel 2:12-13</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;<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>1 Corinthians 7:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46007005.01-2\">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>",
"537": "<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>",
"538": "<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>Isaiah 19:21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p23019021.01-2\">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>Psalm 116:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19116014.01-3\">I will pay my vows to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span><br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>in the presence of all his people.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 116:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19116018.01-4\">I will pay my vows to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span><br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>in the presence of all his people, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"539": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Acts 17:16-17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p44017016.04-1\">Now while Paul was waiting for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he saw that the city was full of idols. So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout persons, and in the marketplace every day with those who happened to be there.</p>\n</div><h5>Psalm 16:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19016004.01-2\">The sorrows of those who run after another god shall multiply;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>their drink offerings of blood I will not pour out<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>or take their names on my lips. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"540": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Deuteronomy 7:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p05007005.01-1\">But thus shall you deal with them: you shall break down their altars and dash in pieces their pillars and chop down their Asherim and burn their carved images with fire.</p>\n</div><h5>Isaiah 30:22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p23030022.01-2\">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!” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"530": "Deuteronomy 12:32; Deuteronomy 32:46-47; Matthew 28:20; I Timothy 6:13-14; Acts 2:42",
"531": "Philippians 4:6; Ephesians 5:20",
"532": "Deuteronomy 17:18-19; Acts 15:21; II Timothy 4:2; James 1:21-22; Acts 10:33",
"533": "Matthew 28:19; I Corinthians 11:23-30",
"534": "Matthew 18:15-17; Matthew 16:19; I Corinthians 12:28; I Corinthians 5",
"535": "Ephesians 4:11-12; I Timothy 5:17-18; I Corinthians 9:7-15",
"536": "Joel 2:12-13; I Corinthians 7:5",
"537": "Deuteronomy 6:13",
"538": "Psalms 76:11; Isaiah 19:21; Psalms 116:14,18",
"539": "Acts 17:16-17; Psalms 16:4",
"540": "Deuteronomy 7:5; Isaiah 30:22"
},
"question": "What are the duties required in the second commandment?"
},
"109": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Numbers 15:39' data-prooftexts-index='541'>The sins forbidden in the second commandment are, all devising,</span><span data-prooftexts='Deuteronomy 13:6-8' data-prooftexts-index='542'> counseling,</span><span data-prooftexts='Hosea 5:11; Micah 6:16' data-prooftexts-index='543'> commanding,</span><span data-prooftexts='I Kings 11:33; I Kings 12:33' data-prooftexts-index='544'> using,</span><span data-prooftexts='Deuteronomy 12:30-32; Leviticus 10:1-2; Jeremiah 19:5' data-prooftexts-index='545'> and anywise approving, any religious worship not instituted by God himself;</span><span data-prooftexts='Deuteronomy 4:15-19; Acts 17:29; Romans 1:21-23,25' data-prooftexts-index='546'> the making any representation of God, of all or of any of the three persons, either inwardly in our mind, or outwardly in any kind of image or likeness of any creature whatsoever;</span><span data-prooftexts='Galatians 4:8; Daniel 3:18' data-prooftexts-index='547'> all worshiping of it,</span><span data-prooftexts='Ex 32:5' data-prooftexts-index='548'> or God in it or by it;</span><span data-prooftexts='Ex 32:8' data-prooftexts-index='549'> the making of any representation of feigned deities,</span><span data-prooftexts='I Kings 18:26,28; Isaiah 65:11' data-prooftexts-index='550'> and all worship of them, or service belonging to them;</span><span data-prooftexts='Acts 17:22; Colossians 2:21-23' data-prooftexts-index='551'> all superstitious devices,</span><span data-prooftexts='Malachi 1:7-8, 14' data-prooftexts-index='552'> corrupting the worship of God,</span><span data-prooftexts='Deuteronomy 4:2' data-prooftexts-index='553'> adding to it, or taking from it,</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 106:39' data-prooftexts-index='554'> whether invented and taken up of ourselves,</span><span data-prooftexts='Matthew 15:9' data-prooftexts-index='555'> or received by tradition from others,</span><span data-prooftexts='I Peter 1:18' data-prooftexts-index='556'> though under the title of antiquity,</span><span data-prooftexts='Jeremiah 44:17' data-prooftexts-index='557'> custom,</span><span data-prooftexts='Isaiah 65:3-5; Galatians 1:13-14' data-prooftexts-index='558'> devotion,</span><span data-prooftexts='I Samuel 13:11-12; I Samuel 15:21' data-prooftexts-index='559'> good intent, or any other pretense whatsoever;</span><span data-prooftexts='Acts 8:18-19' data-prooftexts-index='560'> simony;</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 2:22; Malachi 3:8' data-prooftexts-index='561'> sacrilege;</span><span data-prooftexts='Ex 4:24-26' data-prooftexts-index='562'> all neglect,</span><span data-prooftexts='Matthew 22:5; Malachi 1:7,13' data-prooftexts-index='563'> contempt,</span><span data-prooftexts='Matthew 23:13' data-prooftexts-index='564'> hindering,</span><span data-prooftexts='Acts 13:44-45; I Thessalonians 2:15-16' data-prooftexts-index='565'> and opposing the worship and ordinances which God hath appointed.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"541": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Numbers 15:39</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p04015039.01-1\">And it shall be a tassel for you to look at and remember all the commandments of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, to do them, not to follow after your own heart and your own eyes, which you are inclined to whore after. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"542": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Deuteronomy 13:6-8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p05013006.01-1\">“If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son or your daughter or the wife you embrace or your friend who is as your own soul entices you secretly, saying, ‘Let us go and serve other gods,’ which neither you nor your fathers have known, some of the gods of the peoples who are around you, whether near you or far off from you, from the one end of the earth to the other, you shall not yield to him or listen to him, nor shall your eye pity him, nor shall you spare him, nor shall you conceal him. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"543": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Hosea 5:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p28005011.01-1\">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>Micah 6:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p33006016.01-2\">For you have kept the statutes of Omri,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and all the works of the house of Ahab;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and you have walked in their counsels,<br />\nthat I may make you a desolation, and your inhabitants a hissing;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>so you shall bear the scorn of my people.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"544": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Kings 11:33</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p11011033.01-1\">because they have forsaken me and worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of Moab, and Milcom the god of the Ammonites, and they have not walked in my ways, doing what is right in my sight and keeping my statutes and my rules, as David his father did.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Kings 12:33</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p11012033.01-2\">He went up to the altar that he had made in Bethel on the fifteenth day in the eighth month, in the month that he had devised from his own heart. And he instituted a feast for the people of Israel and went up to the altar to make offerings. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"545": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Deuteronomy 12:30-32</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p05012030.01-1\">take care that you be not ensnared to follow them, after they have been destroyed before you, and that you do not inquire about their gods, saying, ‘How did these nations serve their gods?—that I also may do the same.’ You shall not worship the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God in that way, for every abominable thing that the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> hates they have done for their gods, for they even burn their sons and their daughters in the fire to their gods.</p>\n <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>Leviticus 10:1-2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p03010001.07-2\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v03010001-2\">10:1 </span>Now Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, each took his censer and put fire in it and laid incense on it and offered unauthorized fire before the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, which he had not commanded them. And fire came out from before the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> and consumed them, and they died before the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>.</p>\n</div><h5>Jeremiah 19:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p24019005.01-3\">and have built the high places of Baal to burn their sons in the fire as burnt offerings to Baal, which I did not command or decree, nor did it come into my mind— (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"546": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Deuteronomy 4:15-19</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, the likeness of any animal that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the air, the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth. And beware lest you raise your eyes to heaven, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, all the host of heaven, you be drawn away and bow down to them and serve them, things that the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole heaven.</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 17:29</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p class=\"same-paragraph\" id=\"p44017029.01-2\">Being then God's offspring, we ought not to think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of man.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 1:21-23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45001021.01-3\">For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Claiming to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 1:25</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45001025.01-4\">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>",
"547": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Galatians 4:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p48004008.06-1\">Formerly, when you did not know God, you were enslaved to those that by nature are not gods.</p>\n</div><h5>Daniel 3:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p27003018.01-2\">But if not, be it known to you, O king, that we will not serve your gods or worship the golden image that you have set up.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"548": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Exodus 32:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p02032005.01-1\">When Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it. And Aaron made proclamation and said, “Tomorrow shall be a feast to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"549": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Exodus 32:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p02032008.01-1\">They have turned aside quickly out of the way that I commanded them. They have made for themselves a golden calf and have worshiped it and sacrificed to it and said, ‘These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!’” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"550": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Kings 18:26</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p11018026.01-1\">And they took the bull that was given them, and they prepared it and called upon the name of Baal from morning until noon, saying, “O Baal, answer us!” But there was no voice, and no one answered. And they limped around the altar that they had made.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Kings 18:28</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p11018028.01-2\">And they cried aloud and cut themselves after their custom with swords and lances, until the blood gushed out upon them.</p>\n</div><h5>Isaiah 65:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23065011.01-3\">But you who forsake the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>who forget my holy mountain,<br />\nwho set a table for Fortune<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and fill cups of mixed wine for Destiny, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"551": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Acts 17:22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p44017022.05-1\">So Paul, standing in the midst of the Areopagus, said: “Men of Athens, I perceive that in every way you are very religious.</p>\n</div><h5>Colossians 2:21-23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p51002021.01-2\">“Do not handle, Do not taste, Do not touch” (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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"552": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Malachi 1:7-8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p39001007.01-1\">By offering polluted food upon my altar. But you say, ‘How have we polluted you?’ By saying that the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>'s table may be despised. When you offer blind animals in sacrifice, is that not evil? And when you offer those that are lame or sick, is that not evil? Present that to your governor; will he accept you or show you favor? says the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> of hosts.</p>\n</div><h5>Malachi 1:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p39001014.01-2\">Cursed be the cheat who has a male in his flock, and vows it, and yet sacrifices to the Lord what is blemished. For I am a great King, says the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> of hosts, and my name will be feared among the nations. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"553": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Deuteronomy 4:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p05004002.01-1\">You shall not add to the word that I command you, nor take from it, that you may keep the commandments of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God that I command you. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"554": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 106:39</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19106039.01-1\">Thus they became unclean by their acts,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and played the whore in their deeds. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"555": "<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>",
"556": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Peter 1:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p60001018.01-1\">knowing that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"557": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Jeremiah 44:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p24044017.01-1\">But we will do everything that we have vowed, make offerings to the queen of heaven and pour out drink offerings to her, as we did, both we and our fathers, our kings and our officials, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. For then we had plenty of food, and prospered, and saw no disaster. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"558": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Isaiah 65:3-5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23065003.01-1\">a people who provoke me<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>to my face continually,<br />\nsacrificing in gardens<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and making offerings on bricks;<br />\n who sit in tombs,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and spend the night in secret places;<br />\nwho eat pig's flesh,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and broth of tainted meat is in their vessels;<br />\n who say, “Keep to yourself,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>do not come near me, for I am too holy for you.”<br />\nThese are a smoke in my nostrils,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>a fire that burns all the day.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Galatians 1:13-14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p48001013.01-2\">For you have heard of my former life in Judaism, how I persecuted the church of God violently and tried to destroy it. And I was advancing in Judaism beyond many of my own age among my people, so extremely zealous was I for the traditions of my fathers. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"559": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Samuel 13:11-12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p09013011.01-1\">Samuel said, “What have you done?” And Saul said, “When I saw that the people were scattering from me, and that you did not come within the days appointed, and that the Philistines had mustered at Michmash, I said, ‘Now the Philistines will come down against me at Gilgal, and I have not sought the favor of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>.’ So I forced myself, and offered the burnt offering.”</p>\n</div><h5>1 Samuel 15:21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p09015021.01-2\">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.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"560": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Acts 8:18-19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44008018.01-1\">Now when Simon saw that the Spirit was given through the laying on of the apostles' hands, he offered them money, saying, “Give me this power also, so that anyone on whom I lay my hands may receive the Holy Spirit.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"561": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 2:22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45002022.01-1\">You who say that one must not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?</p>\n</div><h5>Malachi 3:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p39003008.01-2\">Will man rob God? Yet you are robbing me. But you say, ‘How have we robbed you?’ In your tithes and contributions. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"562": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Exodus 4:24-26</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p02004024.01-1\">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>",
"563": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 22:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40022005.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">But they paid no attention and went off, one to his farm, another to his business,</span></p>\n</div><h5>Malachi 1:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p39001007.01-2\">By offering polluted food upon my altar. But you say, ‘How have we polluted you?’ By saying that the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>'s table may be despised.</p>\n</div><h5>Malachi 1:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p39001013.01-3\">But you say, ‘What a weariness this is,’ and you snort at it, says the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> of hosts. You bring what has been taken by violence or is lame or sick, and this you bring as your offering! Shall I accept that from your hand? says the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"564": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 23:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40023013.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut the kingdom of heaven in people's faces. For you neither enter yourselves nor allow those who would enter to go in.</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"565": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Acts 13:44-45</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44013044.01-1\">The next Sabbath almost the whole city gathered to hear the word of the Lord. But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy and began to contradict what was spoken by Paul, reviling him.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Thessalonians 2:15-16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p52002015.01-2\">who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out, and displease God and oppose all mankind by hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles that they might be saved—so as always to fill up the measure of their sins. But God's wrath has come upon them at last! (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"541": "Numbers 15:39",
"542": "Deuteronomy 13:6-8",
"543": "Hosea 5:11; Micah 6:16",
"544": "I Kings 11:33; I Kings 12:33",
"545": "Deuteronomy 12:30-32; Leviticus 10:1-2; Jeremiah 19:5",
"546": "Deuteronomy 4:15-19; Acts 17:29; Romans 1:21-23,25",
"547": "Galatians 4:8; Daniel 3:18",
"548": "Ex 32:5",
"549": "Ex 32:8",
"550": "I Kings 18:26,28; Isaiah 65:11",
"551": "Acts 17:22; Colossians 2:21-23",
"552": "Malachi 1:7-8, 14",
"553": "Deuteronomy 4:2",
"554": "Psalms 106:39",
"555": "Matthew 15:9",
"556": "I Peter 1:18",
"557": "Jeremiah 44:17",
"558": "Isaiah 65:3-5; Galatians 1:13-14",
"559": "I Samuel 13:11-12; I Samuel 15:21",
"560": "Acts 8:18-19",
"561": "Romans 2:22; Malachi 3:8",
"562": "Ex 4:24-26",
"563": "Matthew 22:5; Malachi 1:7,13",
"564": "Matthew 23:13",
"565": "Acts 13:44-45; I Thessalonians 2:15-16"
},
"question": "What are the sins forbidden in the second commandment?"
},
"11": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Isaiah 6:3,5,8; John 12:41; Acts 28:25; I John 5:20; Acts 5:3-4' data-prooftexts-index='42'>The Scriptures manifest that the Son and the Holy Ghost are God equal with the Father, ascribing unto them such names,</span><span data-prooftexts='John 1:1; Isaiah 9:6; John 2:24-25; I Corinthians 2:10-11' data-prooftexts-index='43'> attributes,</span><span data-prooftexts='Colossians 1:16; Genesis 1:2' data-prooftexts-index='44'> works,</span><span data-prooftexts='Matthew 28:19; II Corinthians 13:14' data-prooftexts-index='45'> and worship,</span> as are proper to God only.",
"prooftext_verses": {
"42": "<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>Isaiah 6:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p23006005.01-2\">And I said: “Woe is me! For I am lost; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> of hosts!”</p>\n</div><h5>Isaiah 6:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p23006008.06-3\">And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?” Then I said, “Here am I! Send me.”</p>\n</div><h5>John 12:41</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p class=\"same-paragraph\" id=\"p43012041.01-4\">Isaiah said these things because he saw his glory and spoke of him.</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 28:25</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44028025.01-5\">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:</p>\n</div><h5>1 John 5:20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p62005020.01-6\">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>Acts 5:3-4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44005003.01-7\">But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back for yourself part of the proceeds of the land? 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>",
"43": "<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>Isaiah 9:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23009006.01-2\">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.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>John 2:24-25</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43002024.01-3\">But Jesus on his part did not entrust himself to them, because he knew all people and needed no one to bear witness about man, for he himself knew what was in man.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 2:10-11</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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"44": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Colossians 1:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p51001016.01-1\">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>Genesis 1:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p01001002.01-2\">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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"45": "<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>2 Corinthians 13:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p47013014.01-2\">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>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"42": "Isaiah 6:3,5,8; John 12:41; Acts 28:25; I John 5:20; Acts 5:3-4",
"43": "John 1:1; Isaiah 9:6; John 2:24-25; I Corinthians 2:10-11",
"44": "Colossians 1:16; Genesis 1:2",
"45": "Matthew 28:19; II Corinthians 13:14"
},
"question": "How doth it appear that the Son and the Holy Ghost are God equal with the Father?"
},
"110": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Ex 20:5-6' data-prooftexts-index='566'>The reasons annexed to the second commandment, the more to enforce it, contained in these words, For I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; and shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments;</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 45:11; Revelation 15:3-4; Psalms 95:2-3,6-7; Ex 19:5; Isaiah 54:5' data-prooftexts-index='567'> are, besides God's sovereignty over us, and propriety in us,</span><span data-prooftexts='Ex 34:13-14' data-prooftexts-index='568'> his fervent zeal for his own worship,</span><span data-prooftexts='I Corinthians 10:20-22; Ezekiel 16:26-27; Jeremiah 7:18-20; Deuteronomy 32:16-20' data-prooftexts-index='569'> and his revengeful indignation against all false worship, as being a spiritual whoredom;</span><span data-prooftexts='Hosea 2:2-4' data-prooftexts-index='570'> accounting the breakers of this commandment such as hate him, and threatening to punish them unto divers generations;</span><span data-prooftexts='Deuteronomy 5:29' data-prooftexts-index='571'> and esteeming the observers of it such as love him and keep his commandments, and promising mercy to them unto many generations.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"566": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Exodus 20:5-6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p02020005.01-1\">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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"567": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 45:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19045011.01-1\"><span class=\"indent\"></span>and the king will desire your beauty.<br />\nSince he is your lord, bow to him.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Revelation 15:3-4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p66015003.01-2\">And they sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying,</p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p66015003.19-2\">“Great and amazing are your deeds,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>O Lord God the Almighty!<br />\nJust and true are your ways,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>O King of the nations!<br />\n Who will not fear, O Lord,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and glorify your name?<br />\nFor you alone are holy.<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>All nations will come<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and worship you,<br />\nfor your righteous acts have been revealed.”</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 95:2-3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19095002.01-3\">Let us come into his presence with thanksgiving;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>let us make a joyful noise to him with songs of praise!<br />\n For the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> is a great God,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and a great King above all gods.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 95:6-7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19095006.01-4\">Oh come, let us worship and bow down;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>let us kneel before the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, our Maker!<br />\n For he is our God,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and we are the people of his pasture,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and the sheep of his hand.<br />\nToday, if you hear his voice,</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Exodus 19:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p02019005.01-5\">Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my treasured possession among all peoples, for all the earth is mine;</p>\n</div><h5>Isaiah 54:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23054005.01-6\">For your Maker is your husband,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> of hosts is his name;<br />\nand the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>the God of the whole earth he is called. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"568": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Exodus 34:13-14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p02034013.01-1\">You shall tear down their altars and break their pillars and cut down their Asherim (for you shall worship no other god, for the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God), (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"569": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Corinthians 10:20-22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46010020.01-1\">No, I imply that what pagans sacrifice they offer to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be participants with demons. 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. Shall we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?</p>\n</div><h5>Ezekiel 16:26-27</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p26016026.01-2\">You also played the whore with the Egyptians, your lustful neighbors, multiplying your whoring, to provoke me to anger. Behold, therefore, I stretched out my hand against you and diminished your allotted portion and delivered you to the greed of your enemies, the daughters of the Philistines, who were ashamed of your lewd behavior.</p>\n</div><h5>Jeremiah 7:18-20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p24007018.01-3\">The children gather wood, the fathers kindle fire, and the women knead dough, to make cakes for the queen of heaven. And they pour out drink offerings to other gods, to provoke me to anger. Is it I whom they provoke? declares the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>. Is it not themselves, to their own shame? Therefore thus says the Lord <span class=\"small-caps\">God</span>: behold, my anger and my wrath will be poured out on this place, upon man and beast, upon the trees of the field and the fruit of the ground; it will burn and not be quenched.”</p>\n</div><h5>Deuteronomy 32:16-20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p05032016.01-4\">They stirred him to jealousy with strange gods;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>with abominations they provoked him to anger.<br />\n They sacrificed to demons that were no gods,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>to gods they had never known,<br />\nto new gods that had come recently,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>whom your fathers had never dreaded.<br />\n You were unmindful of the Rock that bore you,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and you forgot the God who gave you birth.</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p05032019.01-4\">“The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> saw it and spurned them,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters.<br />\n And he said, ‘I will hide my face from them;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I will see what their end will be,<br />\nFor they are a perverse generation,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>children in whom is no faithfulness. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"570": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Hosea 2:2-4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p28002002.01-1\">“Plead with your mother, plead—<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for she is not my wife,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and I am not her husband—<br />\nthat she put away her whoring from her face,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and her adultery from between her breasts;<br />\n lest I strip her naked<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and make her as in the day she was born,<br />\nand make her like a wilderness,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and make her like a parched land,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and kill her with thirst.<br />\n Upon her children also I will have no mercy,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>because they are children of whoredom. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"571": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Deuteronomy 5:29</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p05005029.01-1\">Oh that they had such a mind as this always, to fear me and to keep all my commandments, that it might go well with them and with their descendants forever! (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"566": "Ex 20:5-6",
"567": "Psalms 45:11; Revelation 15:3-4; Psalms 95:2-3,6-7; Ex 19:5; Isaiah 54:5",
"568": "Ex 34:13-14",
"569": "I Corinthians 10:20-22; Ezekiel 16:26-27; Jeremiah 7:18-20; Deuteronomy 32:16-20",
"570": "Hosea 2:2-4",
"571": "Deuteronomy 5:29"
},
"question": "What are the reasons annexed to the second commandment, the more to enforce it?"
},
"111": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Ex 20:7; Deuteronomy 5:11' data-prooftexts-index='572'>The third commandment is, Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"572": "<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>Deuteronomy 5:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p05005011.01-2\">“‘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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"572": "Ex 20:7; Deuteronomy 5:11"
},
"question": "Which is the third commandment?"
},
"112": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Matthew 6:9; Deuteronomy 28:58; Psalms 68:4; Psalms 29:2; I Chronicles 29:10-13; Revelation 15:3-4' data-prooftexts-index='573'>The third commandment requires, that the name of God, his titles, attributes,</span><span data-prooftexts='Ecclesiastes 5:1; Luke 1:6; Malachi 1:11,14' data-prooftexts-index='574'> ordinances,</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 138:2' data-prooftexts-index='575'> the Word,</span><span data-prooftexts='I Corinthians 11:24-25,28-29' data-prooftexts-index='576'> sacraments,</span><span data-prooftexts='I Timothy 2:8' data-prooftexts-index='577'> prayer,</span><span data-prooftexts='Jeremiah 4:2' data-prooftexts-index='578'> oaths,</span><span data-prooftexts='Ecclesiastes 5:2,4-6' data-prooftexts-index='579'> vows,</span><span data-prooftexts='Acts 1:24,26' data-prooftexts-index='580'> lots,</span><span data-prooftexts='Job 36:24' data-prooftexts-index='581'> his works,</span><span data-prooftexts='Malachi 3:16' data-prooftexts-index='582'> and whatsoever else there is whereby he makes himself known, be holily and reverently used in thought,</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 8:1,3-4' data-prooftexts-index='583'> meditation,</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 105:2,5; Colossians 3:17' data-prooftexts-index='584'> word,</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 102:18' data-prooftexts-index='585'> and writing;</span><span data-prooftexts='I Peter 3:15; Micah 4:5' data-prooftexts-index='586'> by an holy profession,</span><span data-prooftexts='Philippians 1:27' data-prooftexts-index='587'> and answerable conversation,</span><span data-prooftexts='I Corinthians 10:31' data-prooftexts-index='588'> to the glory of God,</span><span data-prooftexts='Jeremiah 32:39' data-prooftexts-index='589'> and the good of ourselves,</span><span data-prooftexts='I Peter 2:12' data-prooftexts-index='590'> and others.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"573": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 6:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40006009.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">Pray then like this:</span></p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p40006009.05-1\"><span class=\"woc\">“Our Father in heaven,<br />\nhallowed be your name.</span></p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Deuteronomy 28:58</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p05028058.01-2\">“If you are not careful to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and awesome name, the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God,</p>\n</div><h5>Psalm 68:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19068004.01-3\">Sing to God, sing praises to his name;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>lift up a song to him who rides through the deserts;<br />\nhis name is the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>exult before him!</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 29:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19029002.01-4\">Ascribe to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> the glory due his name;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>worship the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> in the splendor of holiness.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>1 Chronicles 29:10-13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p13029010.06-5\">Therefore David blessed the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> in the presence of all the assembly. And David said: “Blessed are you, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, the God of Israel our father, forever and ever. Yours, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, for all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, and you are exalted as head above all. Both riches and honor come from you, and you rule over all. In your hand are power and might, and in your hand it is to make great and to give strength to all. And now we thank you, our God, and praise your glorious name.</p>\n</div><h5>Revelation 15:3-4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p66015003.01-6\">And they sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying,</p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p66015003.19-6\">“Great and amazing are your deeds,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>O Lord God the Almighty!<br />\nJust and true are your ways,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>O King of the nations!<br />\n Who will not fear, O Lord,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and glorify your name?<br />\nFor you alone are holy.<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>All nations will come<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and worship you,<br />\nfor your righteous acts have been revealed.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"574": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ecclesiastes 5:1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p21005001.03-1\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v21005001-1\">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.</p>\n</div><h5>Luke 1:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42001006.01-2\">And they were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and statutes of the Lord.</p>\n</div><h5>Malachi 1:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p39001011.01-3\">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>Malachi 1:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p39001014.01-4\">Cursed be the cheat who has a male in his flock, and vows it, and yet sacrifices to the Lord what is blemished. For I am a great King, says the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> of hosts, and my name will be feared among the nations. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"575": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 138:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19138002.01-1\">I bow down toward your holy temple<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and give thanks to your name for your steadfast love and your faithfulness,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for you have exalted above all things<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>your name and your word. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"576": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Corinthians 11:24-25</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></p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 11:28-29</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46011028.01-2\">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>",
"577": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Timothy 2:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p54002008.01-1\">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>",
"578": "<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.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"579": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ecclesiastes 5:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p21005002.01-1\"> 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>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? (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"580": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Acts 1:24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44001024.01-1\">And they prayed and said, “You, Lord, who know the hearts of all, show which one of these two you have chosen</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 1:26</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44001026.01-2\">And they cast lots for them, and the lot fell on Matthias, and he was numbered with the eleven apostles. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"581": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Job 36:24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p18036024.01-1\">“Remember to extol his work,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>of which men have sung. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"582": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Malachi 3:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p39003016.05-1\">Then those who feared the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> spoke with one another. The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> paid attention and heard them, and a book of remembrance was written before him of those who feared the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> and esteemed his name. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"583": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 8:1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19008001.17-1\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v19008001-1\">8:1 </span>O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, our Lord,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>how majestic is your name in all the earth!<br />\nYou have set your glory above the heavens.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 8:3-4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19008003.01-2\">When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,<br />\n what is man that you are mindful of him,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and the son of man that you care for him? (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"584": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 105:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19105002.01-1\">Sing to him, sing praises to him;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>tell of all his wondrous works!</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 105:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19105005.01-2\">Remember the wondrous works that he has done,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>his miracles, and the judgments he uttered,</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Colossians 3:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p51003017.01-3\">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>",
"585": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 102:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19102018.01-1\">Let this be recorded for a generation to come,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>so that a people yet to be created may praise the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>: (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"586": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Peter 3:15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p60003015.01-1\">but in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect,</p>\n</div><h5>Micah 4:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p33004005.01-2\">For all the peoples walk<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>each in the name of its god,<br />\nbut we will walk in the name of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> our God<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>forever and ever. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"587": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Philippians 1:27</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p50001027.01-1\">Only let your manner of life be worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of you that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one mind striving side by side for the faith of the gospel, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"588": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Corinthians 10:31</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46010031.01-1\">So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"589": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Jeremiah 32:39</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p24032039.01-1\">I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me forever, for their own good and the good of their children after them. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"590": "<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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"573": "Matthew 6:9; Deuteronomy 28:58; Psalms 68:4; Psalms 29:2; I Chronicles 29:10-13; Revelation 15:3-4",
"574": "Ecclesiastes 5:1; Luke 1:6; Malachi 1:11,14",
"575": "Psalms 138:2",
"576": "I Corinthians 11:24-25,28-29",
"577": "I Timothy 2:8",
"578": "Jeremiah 4:2",
"579": "Ecclesiastes 5:2,4-6",
"580": "Acts 1:24,26",
"581": "Job 36:24",
"582": "Malachi 3:16",
"583": "Psalms 8:1,3-4",
"584": "Psalms 105:2,5; Colossians 3:17",
"585": "Psalms 102:18",
"586": "I Peter 3:15; Micah 4:5",
"587": "Philippians 1:27",
"588": "I Corinthians 10:31",
"589": "Jeremiah 32:39",
"590": "I Peter 2:12"
},
"question": "What is required in the third commandment?"
},
"113": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Malachi 2:2' data-prooftexts-index='591'>The sins forbidden in the third commandment are, the not using of God's name as is required;</span><span data-prooftexts='Acts 17:23' data-prooftexts-index='592'> and the abuse of it in an ignorant,</span><span data-prooftexts='Proverbs 30:9' data-prooftexts-index='593'> vain,</span><span data-prooftexts='Malachi 1:6-7,12; Malachi 3:14' data-prooftexts-index='594'> irreverent, profane,</span><span data-prooftexts='I Samuel 4:3-5; Jeremiah 7:4,9-10,14,31; Colossians 2:20-22' data-prooftexts-index='595'> superstitious,</span><span data-prooftexts='II Kings 18:30,35; Ex 5:2; Psalms 139:20' data-prooftexts-index='596'> or wicked mentioning or otherwise using his titles, attributes,</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 50:16-17' data-prooftexts-index='597'> ordinances,</span><span data-prooftexts='Isaiah 5:12' data-prooftexts-index='598'> or works,</span><span data-prooftexts='II Kings 19:22; Leviticus 24:11' data-prooftexts-index='599'> by blasphemy,</span><span data-prooftexts='Zechariah 5:4; Zechariah 8:17' data-prooftexts-index='600'> perjury;</span><span data-prooftexts='I Samuel 17:43; II Samuel 16:5' data-prooftexts-index='601'> all sinful cursings,</span><span data-prooftexts='Jeremiah 5:7; Jeremiah 23:10' data-prooftexts-index='602'> oaths,</span><span data-prooftexts='Deuteronomy 23:18; Acts 23:12, 14' data-prooftexts-index='603'> vows,</span><span data-prooftexts='Est 3:7; Est 9:24; Psalms 22:18' data-prooftexts-index='604'> and lots;</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 24:4; Ezekiel 17:16,18-19' data-prooftexts-index='605'> violating of our oaths and vows, if lawful,</span><span data-prooftexts='Mark 6:26; I Samuel 25:22,32-34' data-prooftexts-index='606'> and fulfilling them, if of things unlawful;</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 9:14,19-20' data-prooftexts-index='607'> murmuring and quarreling at,</span><span data-prooftexts='Deuteronomy 29:29' data-prooftexts-index='608'> curious prying into,</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 3:5,7; Romans 6:1-2' data-prooftexts-index='609'> and misapplying of God's decrees</span><span data-prooftexts='Ecclesiastes 8:11; Ecclesiastes 9:3; Psalms 39' data-prooftexts-index='610'> and providences;</span><span data-prooftexts='Matthew 5:21-22,27-28,31-35,38-39,43-44' data-prooftexts-index='611'> misinterpreting,</span><span data-prooftexts='Ezekiel 13:22' data-prooftexts-index='612'> misapplying,</span><span data-prooftexts='II Peter 3:16; Matthew 22:24-31' data-prooftexts-index='613'> or anyway perverting the Word, or any part of it,</span><span data-prooftexts='Isaiah 22:13; Jeremiah 23:34,36,38' data-prooftexts-index='614'> to profane jests,</span><span data-prooftexts='I Timothy 1:4,6-7; I Timothy 6:4-5,20; II Timothy 2:14; Titus 3:9' data-prooftexts-index='615'> curious or unprofitable questions, vain janglings, or the maintaining of false doctrines;</span><span data-prooftexts='Deuteronomy 18:10-14; Acts 19:13' data-prooftexts-index='616'> abusing it, the creatures, or anything contained under the name of God, to charms,</span><span data-prooftexts='II Timothy 4:3-4; I Kings 21:9-10; Jude 4; Romans 13:13-14' data-prooftexts-index='617'> or sinful lusts and practices;</span><span data-prooftexts='Acts 13:45; I John 3:12' data-prooftexts-index='618'> the maligning,</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 1:1; II Peter 3:3' data-prooftexts-index='619'> scorning,</span><span data-prooftexts='1 Peter 4:4' data-prooftexts-index='620'> reviling,</span><span data-prooftexts='Acts 13:45-46,50; Acts 4:18; 1 Thess 2:16; Hebrews 10:29; Acts 19:9' data-prooftexts-index='621'> or anywise opposing of God's truth, grace, and ways;</span><span data-prooftexts='2 Tim 3:5; Matt 23:14; Matt 6:1-2,5,16' data-prooftexts-index='622'> making profession of religion in hypocrisy, or for sinister ends;</span><span data-prooftexts='Mark 8:38' data-prooftexts-index='623'> being ashamed of it,</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalm 73:14-15' data-prooftexts-index='624'> or a shame to it, by unconformable,</span><span data-prooftexts='Eph 5:15-17; 1 Cor 6:5-6' data-prooftexts-index='625'> unwise,</span><span data-prooftexts='Isa 5:4; 2 Peter 1:8-9' data-prooftexts-index='626'> unfruitful,</span><span data-prooftexts='Rom 2:23-24' data-prooftexts-index='627'> and offensive walking,</span><span data-prooftexts='Gal 3:1,3; Heb 6:6' data-prooftexts-index='628'> or backsliding from it.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"591": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Malachi 2:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p39002002.01-1\">If you will not listen, if you will not take it to heart to give honor to my name, says the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> of hosts, then I will send the curse upon you and I will curse your blessings. Indeed, I have already cursed them, because you do not lay it to heart. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"592": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Acts 17:23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44017023.01-1\">For as I passed along and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription, ‘To the unknown god.’ What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"593": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Proverbs 30:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20030009.01-1\">lest I be full and deny you<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and say, “Who is the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>?”<br />\nor lest I be poor and steal<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and profane the name of my God. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"594": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Malachi 1:6-7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p39001006.05-1\">“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If then I am a father, where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is my fear? says the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> of hosts to you, O priests, who despise my name. But you say, ‘How have we despised your name?’ By offering polluted food upon my altar. But you say, ‘How have we polluted you?’ By saying that the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>'s table may be despised.</p>\n</div><h5>Malachi 1:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p39001012.01-2\">But you profane it when you say that the Lord's table is polluted, and its fruit, that is, its food may be despised.</p>\n</div><h5>Malachi 3:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p39003014.01-3\">You have said, ‘It is vain to serve God. What is the profit of our keeping his charge or of walking as in mourning before the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> of hosts? (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"595": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Samuel 4:3-5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p09004003.01-1\">And when the troops came to the camp, the elders of Israel said, “Why has the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> defeated us today before the Philistines? Let us bring the ark of the covenant of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> here from Shiloh, that it may come among us and save us from the power of our enemies.” So the people sent to Shiloh and brought from there the ark of the covenant of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> of hosts, who is enthroned on the cherubim. And the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God.</p>\n <p id=\"p09004005.01-1\">As soon as the ark of the covenant of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> came into the camp, all Israel gave a mighty shout, so that the earth resounded.</p>\n</div><h5>Jeremiah 7:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p24007004.01-2\">Do not trust in these deceptive words: ‘This is the temple of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, the temple of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, the temple of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>.’</p>\n</div><h5>Jeremiah 7:9-10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p24007009.01-3\">Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, make offerings to Baal, and go after other gods that you have not known, and then come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, ‘We are delivered!’—only to go on doing all these abominations?</p>\n</div><h5>Jeremiah 7:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p24007014.01-4\">therefore I will do to the house that is called by my name, and in which you trust, and to the place that I gave to you and to your fathers, as I did to Shiloh.</p>\n</div><h5>Jeremiah 7:31</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p24007031.01-5\">And they have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire, which I did not command, nor did it come into my mind.</p>\n</div><h5>Colossians 2:20-22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p51002020.01-6\">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— “Do not handle, Do not taste, Do not touch” (referring to things that all perish as they are used)—according to human precepts and teachings? (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"596": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>2 Kings 18:30</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p12018030.01-1\">Do not let Hezekiah make you trust in the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> by saying, The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> will surely deliver us, and this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.’</p>\n</div><h5>2 Kings 18:35</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p12018035.01-2\">Who among all the gods of the lands have delivered their lands out of my hand, that the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?’”</p>\n</div><h5>Exodus 5:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p02005002.01-3\">But Pharaoh said, “Who is the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, that I should obey his voice and let Israel go? I do not know the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, and moreover, I will not let Israel go.”</p>\n</div><h5>Psalm 139:20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19139020.01-4\">They speak against you with malicious intent;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>your enemies take your name in vain! (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"597": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 50:16-17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19050016.01-1\">But to the wicked God says:<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>“What right have you to recite my statutes<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>or take my covenant on your lips?<br />\n For you hate discipline,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and you cast my words behind you. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"598": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Isaiah 5:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23005012.01-1\">They have lyre and harp,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>tambourine and flute and wine at their feasts,<br />\nbut they do not regard the deeds of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>or see the work of his hands. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"599": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>2 Kings 19:22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p12019022.01-1\">“Whom have you mocked and reviled?<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Against whom have you raised your voice<br />\nand lifted your eyes to the heights?<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Against the Holy One of Israel!</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Leviticus 24:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p03024011.01-2\">and the Israelite woman's son blasphemed the Name, and cursed. Then they brought him to Moses. His mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"600": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Zechariah 5:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p38005004.01-1\">I will send it out, declares the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> of hosts, and it shall enter the house of the thief, and the house of him who swears falsely by my name. And it shall remain in his house and consume it, both timber and stones.”</p>\n</div><h5>Zechariah 8:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p38008017.01-2\">do not devise evil in your hearts against one another, and love no false oath, for all these things I hate, declares the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"601": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Samuel 17:43</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p09017043.01-1\">And the Philistine said to David, “Am I a dog, that you come to me with sticks?” And the Philistine cursed David by his gods.</p>\n</div><h5>2 Samuel 16:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p10016005.04-2\">When King David came to Bahurim, there came out a man of the family of the house of Saul, whose name was Shimei, the son of Gera, and as he came he cursed continually. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"602": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Jeremiah 5:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p24005007.01-1\">“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>Jeremiah 23:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p24023010.01-2\">For the land is full of adulterers;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>because of the curse the land mourns,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and the pastures of the wilderness are dried up.<br />\nTheir course is evil,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and their might is not right. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"603": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Deuteronomy 23:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p05023018.01-1\">You shall not bring the fee of a prostitute or the wages of a dog into the house of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God in payment for any vow, for both of these are an abomination to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God.</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 23:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p44023012.06-2\">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=\"p44023014.01-3\">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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"604": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Esther 3:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p17003007.01-1\">In the first month, which is the month of Nisan, in the twelfth year of King Ahasuerus, they cast Pur (that is, they cast lots) before Haman day after day; and they cast it month after month till the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar.</p>\n</div><h5>Esther 9:24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p17009024.01-2\">For Haman the Agagite, the son of Hammedatha, the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast Pur (that is, cast lots), to crush and to destroy them.</p>\n</div><h5>Psalm 22:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19022018.01-3\">they divide my garments among them,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and for my clothing they cast lots. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"605": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 24:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19024004.01-1\">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.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Ezekiel 17:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p26017016.01-2\">“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=\"p26017018.01-3\">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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"606": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Mark 6:26</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p41006026.01-1\">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>1 Samuel 25:22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p09025022.01-2\">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=\"p09025032.01-3\">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.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"607": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 9:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45009014.01-1\">What shall we say then? Is there injustice on God's part? By no means!</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 9:19-20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45009019.01-2\">You will say to me then, “Why does he still find fault? For who can resist his will?” 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?” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"608": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Deuteronomy 29:29</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p05029029.01-1\">“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>",
"609": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 3:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p class=\"same-paragraph\" id=\"p45003005.01-1\">But if our unrighteousness serves to show the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unrighteous to inflict wrath on us? (I speak in a human way.)</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 3:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45003007.01-2\">But if through my lie God's truth abounds to his glory, why am I still being condemned as a sinner?</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 6:1-2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p45006001.07-3\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v45006001-3\">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? (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"610": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ecclesiastes 8:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p21008011.01-1\">Because the sentence against an evil deed is not executed speedily, the heart of the children of man is fully set to do evil.</p>\n</div><h5>Ecclesiastes 9:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p21009003.01-2\">This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that the same event happens to all. Also, the hearts of the children of man are full of evil, and madness is in their hearts while they live, and after that they go to the dead.</p>\n</div><h5>Psalm 39</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19039001.17-3\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v19039001-3\">39:1 </span>I said, “I will guard my ways,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that I may not sin with my tongue;<br />\nI will guard my mouth with a muzzle,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>so long as the wicked are in my presence.”<br />\n I was mute and silent;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I held my peace to no avail,<br />\nand my distress grew worse.<br />\n <span class=\"indent\"></span>My heart became hot within me.<br />\nAs I mused, the fire burned;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>then I spoke with my tongue:</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19039004.01-3\">“O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, make me know my end<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and what is the measure of my days;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>let me know how fleeting I am!<br />\n Behold, you have made my days a few handbreadths,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and my lifetime is as nothing before you.<br />\nSurely all mankind stands as a mere breath! <span class=\"selah\">Selah</span><br />\n <span class=\"indent\"></span>Surely a man goes about as a shadow!<br />\nSurely for nothing they are in turmoil;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>man heaps up wealth and does not know who will gather!</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19039007.01-3\">“And now, O Lord, for what do I wait?<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>My hope is in you.<br />\n Deliver me from all my transgressions.<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Do not make me the scorn of the fool!<br />\n I am mute; I do not open my mouth,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for it is you who have done it.<br />\n Remove your stroke from me;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I am spent by the hostility of your hand.<br />\n When you discipline a man<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>with rebukes for sin,<br />\nyou consume like a moth what is dear to him;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>surely all mankind is a mere breath! <span class=\"selah\">Selah</span></p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19039012.01-3\">“Hear my prayer, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and give ear to my cry;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>hold not your peace at my tears!<br />\nFor I am a sojourner with you,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>a guest, like all my fathers.<br />\n Look away from me, that I may smile again,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>before I depart and am no more!” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"611": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 5:21-22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p40005021.02-1\"><span class=\"woc\">“You have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not murder; and whoever murders will be liable to judgment.’</span> <span class=\"woc\">But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment; whoever insults his brother will be liable to the council; and whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be liable to the hell of fire.</span></p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 5:27-28</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p40005027.02-2\"><span class=\"woc\">“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’</span> <span class=\"woc\">But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.</span></p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 5:31-35</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p40005031.02-3\"><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></p>\n \n<p id=\"p40005033.02-3\"><span class=\"woc\">“Again you have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not swear falsely, but shall perform to the Lord what you have sworn.’</span> <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> <span class=\"woc\">or by the earth, for it is his footstool, or by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King.</span></p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 5:38-39</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p40005038.02-4\"><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>Matthew 5:43-44</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p40005043.04-5\"><span class=\"woc\">“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’</span> <span class=\"woc\">But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"612": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ezekiel 13:22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p26013022.01-1\">Because you have disheartened the righteous falsely, although I have not grieved him, and you have encouraged the wicked, that he should not turn from his evil way to save his life, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"613": "<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.</p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 22:24-31</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40022024.01-2\">saying, “Teacher, Moses said, ‘If a man dies having no children, his brother must marry the widow and raise up children for his brother.’ Now there were seven brothers among us. The first married and died, and having no children left his wife to his brother. So too the second and third, down to the seventh. After them all, the woman died. In the resurrection, therefore, of the seven, whose wife will she be? For they all had her.”</p>\n <p id=\"p40022029.01-2\">But Jesus answered them, <span class=\"woc\">“You are wrong, because you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God.</span> <span class=\"woc\">For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.</span> <span class=\"woc\">And as for the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was said to you by God:</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"614": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Isaiah 22:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23022013.01-1\">and behold, joy and gladness,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>killing oxen and slaughtering sheep,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>eating flesh and drinking wine.<br />\n“Let us eat and drink,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for tomorrow we die.”</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Jeremiah 23:34</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p24023034.01-2\">And as for the prophet, priest, or one of the people who says, ‘The burden of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,’ I will punish that man and his household.</p>\n</div><h5>Jeremiah 23:36</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p24023036.01-3\">But ‘the burden of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>’ you shall mention no more, for the burden is every man's own word, and you pervert the words of the living God, the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> of hosts, our God.</p>\n</div><h5>Jeremiah 23:38</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p24023038.01-4\">But if you say, ‘The burden of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,’ thus says the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, ‘Because you have said these words, “The burden of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,” when I sent to you, saying, “You shall not say, ‘The burden of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,’” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"615": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Timothy 1:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p54001004.01-1\">nor to devote themselves to myths and endless genealogies, which promote speculations rather than the stewardship from God that is by faith.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Timothy 1:6-7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p54001006.01-2\">Certain persons, by swerving from these, have wandered away into vain discussion, desiring to be teachers of the law, without understanding either what they are saying or the things about which they make confident assertions.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Timothy 6:4-5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p54006004.01-3\">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>1 Timothy 6:20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p54006020.01-4\">O Timothy, guard the deposit entrusted to you. Avoid the irreverent babble and contradictions of what is falsely called “knowledge,”</p>\n</div><h5>2 Timothy 2:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p55002014.06-5\">Remind them of these things, and charge them before God not to quarrel about words, which does no good, but only ruins the hearers.</p>\n</div><h5>Titus 3:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p56003009.01-6\">But avoid foolish controversies, genealogies, dissensions, and quarrels about the law, for they are unprofitable and worthless. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"616": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Deuteronomy 18:10-14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p05018010.01-1\">There shall not be found among you anyone who burns his son or his daughter as an offering, anyone who practices divination or tells fortunes or interprets omens, or a sorcerer or a charmer or a medium or a necromancer or one who inquires of the dead, for whoever does these things is an abomination to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>. And because of these abominations the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God is driving them out before you. You shall be blameless before the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God, for these nations, which you are about to dispossess, listen to fortune-tellers and to diviners. But as for you, the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God has not allowed you to do this.</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 19:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44019013.01-2\">Then some of the itinerant Jewish exorcists undertook to invoke the name of the Lord Jesus over those who had evil spirits, saying, “I adjure you by the Jesus whom Paul proclaims.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"617": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>2 Timothy 4:3-4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p55004003.01-1\">For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Kings 21:9-10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p11021009.01-2\">And she wrote in the letters, “Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth at the head of the people. And set two worthless men opposite him, and let them bring a charge against him, saying, ‘You have cursed God and the king.’ Then take him out and stone him to death.”</p>\n</div><h5>Jude 1:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p65001004.01-3\">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>Romans 13:13-14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45013013.01-4\">Let us walk properly as in the daytime, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in quarreling and jealousy. But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"618": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Acts 13:45</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44013045.01-1\">But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy and began to contradict what was spoken by Paul, reviling him.</p>\n</div><h5>1 John 3:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p62003012.01-2\">We should not be like Cain, who was of the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own deeds were evil and his brother's righteous. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"619": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 1:1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19001001.11-1\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v19001001-1\">1:1 </span>Blessed is the man<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>who walks not in the counsel of the wicked,<br />\nnor stands in the way of sinners,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>nor sits in the seat of scoffers;</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>2 Peter 3:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p61003003.01-2\">knowing this first of all, that scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own sinful desires. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"620": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Peter 4:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p60004004.01-1\">With respect to this they are surprised when you do not join them in the same flood of debauchery, and they malign you; (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"621": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Acts 13:45-46</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44013045.01-1\">But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy and began to contradict what was spoken by Paul, reviling him. And Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, saying, “It was necessary that the word of God be spoken first to you. Since you thrust it aside and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we are turning to the Gentiles.</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 13:50</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44013050.01-2\">But the Jews incited the devout women of high standing and the leading men of the city, stirred up persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and drove them out of their district.</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 4:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44004018.01-3\">So they called them and charged them not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Thessalonians 2:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p52002016.01-4\">by hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles that they might be saved—so as always to fill up the measure of their sins. But God's wrath has come upon them at last!</p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 10:29</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58010029.01-5\">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?</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 19:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44019009.01-6\">But when some became stubborn and continued in unbelief, speaking evil of the Way before the congregation, he withdrew from them and took the disciples with him, reasoning daily in the hall of Tyrannus. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"622": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>2 Timothy 3:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p55003005.01-1\">having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people.</p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 23:13-15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40023013.01-2\"><span class=\"woc\">“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut the kingdom of heaven in people's faces. For you neither enter yourselves nor allow those who would enter to go in.</span> <span class=\"woc\">Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel across sea and land to make a single proselyte, and when he becomes a proselyte, you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves.</span></p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 6:1-2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p40006001.05-3\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v40006001-3\">6:1 </span><span class=\"woc\">“Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.</span></p>\n <p class=\"chapter-first\" id=\"p40006002.01-3\"><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=\"p40006005.04-4\"><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=\"p40006016.02-5\"><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>",
"623": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Mark 8:38</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p41008038.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">For whoever is ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him will the Son of Man also be ashamed when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.”</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"624": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 73:14-15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19073014.01-1\">For all the day long I have been stricken<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and rebuked every morning.<br />\n If I had said, “I will speak thus,”<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I would have betrayed the generation of your children. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"625": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ephesians 5:15-17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49005015.01-1\">Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, making the best use of the time, because the days are evil. Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 6:5-6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46006005.01-2\">I say this to your shame. Can it be that there is no one among you wise enough to settle a dispute between the brothers, but brother goes to law against brother, and that before unbelievers? (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"626": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Isaiah 5:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23005004.01-1\">What more was there to do for my vineyard,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that I have not done in it?<br />\nWhen I looked for it to yield grapes,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>why did it yield wild grapes?</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>2 Peter 1:8-9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p61001008.01-2\">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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"627": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 2:23-24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45002023.01-1\">You who boast in the law dishonor God by breaking the law. For, as it is written, “The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"628": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Galatians 3:1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p48003001.09-1\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v48003001-1\">3:1 </span>O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? It was before your eyes that Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified.</p>\n</div><h5>Galatians 3:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p48003003.01-2\">Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh?</p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 6:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58006006.01-3\">and then have fallen away, to restore them again to repentance, since they are crucifying once again the Son of God to their own harm and holding him up to contempt. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"591": "Malachi 2:2",
"592": "Acts 17:23",
"593": "Proverbs 30:9",
"594": "Malachi 1:6-7,12; Malachi 3:14",
"595": "I Samuel 4:3-5; Jeremiah 7:4,9-10,14,31; Colossians 2:20-22",
"596": "II Kings 18:30,35; Ex 5:2; Psalms 139:20",
"597": "Psalms 50:16-17",
"598": "Isaiah 5:12",
"599": "II Kings 19:22; Leviticus 24:11",
"600": "Zechariah 5:4; Zechariah 8:17",
"601": "I Samuel 17:43; II Samuel 16:5",
"602": "Jeremiah 5:7; Jeremiah 23:10",
"603": "Deuteronomy 23:18; Acts 23:12, 14",
"604": "Est 3:7; Est 9:24; Psalms 22:18",
"605": "Psalms 24:4; Ezekiel 17:16,18-19",
"606": "Mark 6:26; I Samuel 25:22,32-34",
"607": "Romans 9:14,19-20",
"608": "Deuteronomy 29:29",
"609": "Romans 3:5,7; Romans 6:1-2",
"610": "Ecclesiastes 8:11; Ecclesiastes 9:3; Psalms 39",
"611": "Matthew 5:21-22,27-28,31-35,38-39,43-44",
"612": "Ezekiel 13:22",
"613": "II Peter 3:16; Matthew 22:24-31",
"614": "Isaiah 22:13; Jeremiah 23:34,36,38",
"615": "I Timothy 1:4,6-7; I Timothy 6:4-5,20; II Timothy 2:14; Titus 3:9",
"616": "Deuteronomy 18:10-14; Acts 19:13",
"617": "II Timothy 4:3-4; I Kings 21:9-10; Jude 4; Romans 13:13-14",
"618": "Acts 13:45; I John 3:12",
"619": "Psalms 1:1; II Peter 3:3",
"620": "1 Peter 4:4",
"621": "Acts 13:45-46,50; Acts 4:18; 1 Thess 2:16; Hebrews 10:29; Acts 19:9",
"622": "2 Tim 3:5; Matt 23:14; Matt 6:1-2,5,16",
"623": "Mark 8:38",
"624": "Psalm 73:14-15",
"625": "Eph 5:15-17; 1 Cor 6:5-6",
"626": "Isa 5:4; 2 Peter 1:8-9",
"627": "Rom 2:23-24",
"628": "Gal 3:1,3; Heb 6:6"
},
"question": "What are the sins forbidden in the third commandment?"
},
"114": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Ex 20:7' data-prooftexts-index='629'>The reasons annexed to the third commandment, in these words, The LORD thy God, and, For the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain,</span><span data-prooftexts='Leviticus 19:12' data-prooftexts-index='630'> are, because he is the Lord and our God, therefore his name is not to be profaned, or anyway abused by us;</span><span data-prooftexts='Deuteronomy 28:58-59; Ezekiel 36:21-23' data-prooftexts-index='631'> especially because he will be so far from acquitting and sparing the transgressors of this commandment, as that he will not suffer them to escape his righteous judgment,</span><span data-prooftexts='I Samuel 2:29; I Samuel 3:13; I Samuel 2:12-17,22-25' data-prooftexts-index='632'> albeit many such escape the censures and punishments of men.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"629": "<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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"630": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Leviticus 19:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p03019012.01-1\">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>. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"631": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Deuteronomy 28:58-59</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p05028058.01-1\">“If you are not careful to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and awesome name, the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God, then the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> will bring on you and your offspring extraordinary afflictions, afflictions severe and lasting, and sicknesses grievous and lasting.</p>\n</div><h5>Ezekiel 36:21-23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p26036021.01-2\">But I had concern for my holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations to which they came.</p>\n \n<p id=\"p26036022.08-2\">“Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord <span class=\"small-caps\">God</span>: It is not for your sake, O house of Israel, that I am about to act, but for the sake of my holy name, which you have profaned among the nations to which you came. And I will vindicate the holiness of my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, and which you have profaned among them. And the nations will know that I am the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, declares the Lord <span class=\"small-caps\">God</span>, when through you I vindicate my holiness before their eyes. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"632": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Samuel 2:29</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p09002029.01-1\">Why then do you scorn my sacrifices and my offerings that I commanded, and honor your sons above me by fattening yourselves on the choicest parts of every offering of my people Israel?’</p>\n</div><h5>1 Samuel 3:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p09003013.01-2\">And I declare to him that I am about to punish his house forever, for the iniquity that he knew, because his sons were blaspheming God, and he did not restrain them.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Samuel 2:12-17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p09002012.04-3\">Now the sons of Eli were worthless men. They did not know the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>. The custom of the priests with the people was that when any man offered sacrifice, the priest's servant would come, while the meat was boiling, with a three-pronged fork in his hand, and he would thrust it into the pan or kettle or cauldron or pot. All that the fork brought up the priest would take for himself. This is what they did at Shiloh to all the Israelites who came there. Moreover, before the fat was burned, the priest's servant would come and say to the man who was sacrificing, “Give meat for the priest to roast, for he will not accept boiled meat from you but only raw.” And if the man said to him, “Let them burn the fat first, and then take as much as you wish,” he would say, “No, you must give it now, and if not, I will take it by force.” Thus the sin of the young men was very great in the sight of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, for the men treated the offering of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> with contempt.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Samuel 2:22-25</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p09002022.05-4\">Now Eli was very old, and he kept hearing all that his sons were doing to all Israel, and how they lay with the women who were serving at the entrance to the tent of meeting. And he said to them, “Why do you do such things? For I hear of your evil dealings from all the people. No, my sons; it is no good report that I hear the people of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> spreading abroad. 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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"629": "Ex 20:7",
"630": "Leviticus 19:12",
"631": "Deuteronomy 28:58-59; Ezekiel 36:21-23",
"632": "I Samuel 2:29; I Samuel 3:13; I Samuel 2:12-17,22-25"
},
"question": "What reasons are annexed to the third commandment?"
},
"115": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Ex 20:8-11; Deuteronomy 5:12-15' data-prooftexts-index='633'>The fourth commandment is, Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: but the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day and hallowed it.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"633": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Exodus 20:8-11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p02020008.01-1\">“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, 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>Deuteronomy 5:12-15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p05005012.01-2\">“‘Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, as the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God commanded you. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 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 or your male servant or your female servant, or your ox or your donkey or any of your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates, that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you. You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God brought you out from there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. Therefore the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"633": "Ex 20:8-11; Deuteronomy 5:12-15"
},
"question": "Which is the fourth commandment?"
},
"116": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Deuteronomy 5:12-14; Genesis 2:2-3; I Corinthians 16:1-2; Acts 20:7; John 20:19,26; Matthew 5:17-18; Isaiah 56:2,4,6-7' data-prooftexts-index='634'>The fourth commandment requireth of all men the sanctifying or keeping holy to God such set times as he hath appointed in his Word, expressly one whole day in seven; which was the seventh from the beginning of the world to the resurrection of Christ, and the first day of the week ever since, and so to continue to the end of the world; which is the Christian sabbath,</span><span data-prooftexts='Revelation 1:10' data-prooftexts-index='635'> and in the New Testament called the Lord's Day.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"634": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Deuteronomy 5:12-14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p05005012.01-1\">“‘Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, as the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God commanded you. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 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 or your male servant or your female servant, or your ox or your donkey or any of your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates, that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you.</p>\n</div><h5>Genesis 2:2-3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p01002002.01-2\">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=\"p46016001.06-3\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v46016001-3\">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=\"p44020007.06-4\">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>John 20:19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p43020019.06-5\">On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the doors being locked where the disciples were for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said to them, <span class=\"woc\">“Peace be with you.”</span></p>\n</div><h5>John 20:26</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43020026.01-6\">Eight days later, his disciples were inside again, and Thomas was with them. Although the doors were locked, Jesus came and stood among them and said, <span class=\"woc\">“Peace be with you.”</span></p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 5:17-18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p40005017.07-7\"><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></p>\n</div><h5>Isaiah 56:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23056002.01-8\">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=\"p23056004.01-9\">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=\"p23056006.01-10\">“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>",
"635": "<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>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"634": "Deuteronomy 5:12-14; Genesis 2:2-3; I Corinthians 16:1-2; Acts 20:7; John 20:19,26; Matthew 5:17-18; Isaiah 56:2,4,6-7",
"635": "Revelation 1:10"
},
"question": "What is required in the fourth commandment?"
},
"117": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Ex 20:8,10' data-prooftexts-index='636'>The Sabbath or Lord's Day is to be sanctified by an holy resting all the day,</span><span data-prooftexts='Ex 16:25-28; Jeremiah 17:21-22; Nehemiah 13:15-22' data-prooftexts-index='637'> not only from such works as are at all times sinful, but even from such worldly employments and recreations as are on other days lawful;</span><span data-prooftexts='Matthew 12:1-13' data-prooftexts-index='638'> and making it our delight to spend the whole time (except so much of it as is to be taken up in works of necessity and mercy</span><span data-prooftexts='Isaiah 58:13-14; Luke 4:16; Acts 20:7; I Corinthians 16:1-2; Leviticus 23:3; Psalms 92; Isaiah 66:23' data-prooftexts-index='639'>) in the public and private exercises of God's worship:</span><span data-prooftexts='Ex 20:8; Luke 23:54; Ex 16:22,25-26,29; Nehemiah 13:19' data-prooftexts-index='640'> and, to that end, we are to prepare our hearts, and with such foresight, diligence, and moderation, to dispose and seasonably dispatch our worldly business, that we may be the more free and fit for the duties of that day.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"636": "<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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"637": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Exodus 16:25-28</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p02016025.01-1\">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 <p id=\"p02016027.01-1\">On the seventh day some of the people went out to gather, but they found none. And the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> said to Moses, “How long will you refuse to keep my commandments and my laws?</p>\n</div><h5>Jeremiah 17:21-22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p24017021.01-2\">Thus says the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>: Take care for the sake of your lives, and do not bear a burden on the Sabbath day or bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem. And do not carry a burden out of your houses on the Sabbath or do any work, but keep the Sabbath day holy, as I commanded your fathers.</p>\n</div><h5>Nehemiah 13:15-22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p16013015.01-3\">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=\"p16013019.01-3\">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. Then the merchants and sellers of all kinds of wares lodged outside Jerusalem once or twice. 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>",
"638": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 12:1-13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p40012001.07-1\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v40012001-1\">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=\"p40012009.07-1\">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>",
"639": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Isaiah 58:13-14</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;<br />\n then you shall take delight in the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and I will make you ride on the heights of the earth;<br />\nI will feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for the mouth of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> has spoken.”</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Luke 4:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p42004016.05-2\">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 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.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 16:1-2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p46016001.06-4\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v46016001-4\">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>Leviticus 23:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p03023003.03-5\">“Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation. You shall do no work. It is a Sabbath to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> in all your dwelling places.</p>\n</div><h5>Psalm 92</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19092001.13-6\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v19092001-6\">92:1 </span>It is good to give thanks to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>to sing praises to your name, O Most High;<br />\n to declare your steadfast love in the morning,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and your faithfulness by night,<br />\n to the music of the lute and the harp,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>to the melody of the lyre.<br />\n For you, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, have made me glad by your work;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>at the works of your hands I sing for joy.</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19092005.01-6\">How great are your works, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>!<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Your thoughts are very deep!<br />\n The stupid man cannot know;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>the fool cannot understand this:<br />\n that though the wicked sprout like grass<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and all evildoers flourish,<br />\nthey are doomed to destruction forever;<br />\n <span class=\"indent\"></span>but you, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, are on high forever.<br />\n For behold, your enemies, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for behold, your enemies shall perish;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>all evildoers shall be scattered.</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19092010.01-6\">But you have exalted my horn like that of the wild ox;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>you have poured over me fresh oil.<br />\n My eyes have seen the downfall of my enemies;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>my ears have heard the doom of my evil assailants.</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19092012.01-6\">The righteous flourish like the palm tree<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and grow like a cedar in Lebanon.<br />\n They are planted in the house of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>they flourish in the courts of our God.<br />\n They still bear fruit in old age;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>they are ever full of sap and green,<br />\n to declare that the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> is upright;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Isaiah 66:23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23066023.01-7\">From new moon to new moon,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and from Sabbath to Sabbath,<br />\nall flesh shall come to worship before me,<br />\ndeclares the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"640": "<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>Luke 23:54</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42023054.01-2\">It was the day of Preparation, and the Sabbath was beginning.</p>\n</div><h5>Exodus 16:22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p02016022.01-3\">On the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers each. And when all the leaders of the congregation came and told Moses,</p>\n</div><h5>Exodus 16:25-26</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p02016025.01-4\">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</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p02016029.01-5\">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.”</p>\n</div><h5>Nehemiah 13:19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p16013019.01-6\">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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"636": "Ex 20:8,10",
"637": "Ex 16:25-28; Jeremiah 17:21-22; Nehemiah 13:15-22",
"638": "Matthew 12:1-13",
"639": "Isaiah 58:13-14; Luke 4:16; Acts 20:7; I Corinthians 16:1-2; Leviticus 23:3; Psalms 92; Isaiah 66:23",
"640": "Ex 20:8; Luke 23:54; Ex 16:22,25-26,29; Nehemiah 13:19"
},
"question": "How is the Sabbath or the Lord's Day to be sanctified?"
},
"118": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Ex 20:10; Ex 23:12; Joshua 24:15; Nehemiah 13:15-17; Jeremiah 17:20-22' data-prooftexts-index='641'>The charge of keeping the Sabbath is more specially directed to governors of families, and other superiors, because they are bound not only to keep it themselves, but to see that it be observed by all those that are under their charge; and because they are prone ofttimes to hinder them by employments of their own.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"641": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Exodus 20:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p02020010.01-1\">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>Exodus 23:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p02023012.01-2\">“Six days you shall do your work, but on the seventh day you shall rest; that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and the son of your servant woman, and the alien, may be refreshed.</p>\n</div><h5>Joshua 24:15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p06024015.01-3\">And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>.”</p>\n</div><h5>Nehemiah 13:15-17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p16013015.01-4\">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?</p>\n</div><h5>Jeremiah 17:20-22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p24017020.01-5\">and say: ‘Hear the word of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, you kings of Judah, and all Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, who enter by these gates. Thus says the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>: Take care for the sake of your lives, and do not bear a burden on the Sabbath day or bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem. And do not carry a burden out of your houses on the Sabbath or do any work, but keep the Sabbath day holy, as I commanded your fathers. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"641": "Ex 20:10; Ex 23:12; Joshua 24:15; Nehemiah 13:15-17; Jeremiah 17:20-22"
},
"question": "Why is the charge of keeping the Sabbath more specially directed to governors of families, and other superiors?"
},
"119": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Ezekiel 22:26' data-prooftexts-index='642'>The sins forbidden in the fourth commandment are, all omissions of the duties required,</span><span data-prooftexts='Amos 8:5; Acts 20:7,9; Ezekiel 33:30-32; Malachi 1:13' data-prooftexts-index='643'> all careless, negligent, and unprofitable performing of them, and being weary of them;</span><span data-prooftexts='Ezekiel 23:38' data-prooftexts-index='644'> all profaning the day by idleness, and doing that which is in itself sinful;</span><span data-prooftexts='Jeremiah 17:24,27; Isaiah 58:13-14' data-prooftexts-index='645'> and by all needless works, words, and thoughts, about our worldly employments and recreations.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"642": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ezekiel 22:26</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p26022026.01-1\">Her priests have done violence to my law and have profaned my holy things. They have made no distinction between the holy and the common, neither have they taught the difference between the unclean and the clean, and they have disregarded my Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"643": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Amos 8:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p30008005.01-1\">saying, “When will the new moon be over,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that we may sell grain?<br />\nAnd the Sabbath,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that we may offer wheat for sale,<br />\nthat we may make the ephah small and the shekel great<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and deal deceitfully with false balances,</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Acts 20:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p44020007.06-2\">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>Acts 20:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44020009.01-3\">And a young man named Eutychus, sitting at the window, sank into a deep sleep as Paul talked still longer. And being overcome by sleep, he fell down from the third story and was taken up dead.</p>\n</div><h5>Ezekiel 33:30-32</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p26033030.01-4\">“As for you, son of man, your people who talk together about you by the walls and at the doors of the houses, say to one another, each to his brother, ‘Come, and hear what the word is that comes from the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>.’ And they come to you as people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear what you say but they will not do it; for with lustful talk in their mouths they act; their heart is set on their gain. And behold, you are to them like one who sings lustful songs with a beautiful voice and plays well on an instrument, for they hear what you say, but they will not do it.</p>\n</div><h5>Malachi 1:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p39001013.01-5\">But you say, ‘What a weariness this is,’ and you snort at it, says the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> of hosts. You bring what has been taken by violence or is lame or sick, and this you bring as your offering! Shall I accept that from your hand? says the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"644": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ezekiel 23:38</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p26023038.01-1\">Moreover, this they have done to me: they have defiled my sanctuary on the same day and profaned my Sabbaths. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"645": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Jeremiah 17:24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p24017024.01-1\">“‘But if you listen to me, declares the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, and bring in no burden by the gates of this city on the Sabbath day, but keep the Sabbath day holy and do no work on it,</p>\n</div><h5>Jeremiah 17:27</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p24017027.01-2\">But if you do not listen to me, to keep the Sabbath day holy, and not to bear a burden and enter by the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then I will kindle a fire in its gates, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem and shall not be quenched.’”</p>\n</div><h5>Isaiah 58:13-14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23058013.01-3\">“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;<br />\n then you shall take delight in the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and I will make you ride on the heights of the earth;<br />\nI will feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for the mouth of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> has spoken.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"642": "Ezekiel 22:26",
"643": "Amos 8:5; Acts 20:7,9; Ezekiel 33:30-32; Malachi 1:13",
"644": "Ezekiel 23:38",
"645": "Jeremiah 17:24,27; Isaiah 58:13-14"
},
"question": "What are the sins forbidden in the fourth commandment?"
},
"12": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Isaiah 45:6-7; Ephesians 1:11; Romans 11:33; Romans 9:14-15,18' data-prooftexts-index='46'>God's decrees are the wise, free, and holy acts of the counsel of his will,</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 33:11; Isaiah 14:24; Acts 2:23; Acts 4:27-28; Romans 9:22-23; Ephesians 1:4,11' data-prooftexts-index='47'> whereby, from all eternity, he hath, for his own glory, unchangeably foreordained whatsoever comes to pass in time,</span> especially concerning angels and men.",
"prooftext_verses": {
"46": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Isaiah 45:6-7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23045006.01-1\">that people may know, from the rising of the sun<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and from the west, that there is none besides me;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I am the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, and there is no other.<br />\n I form light and create darkness,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I make well-being and create calamity,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I am the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, who does all these things.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 1:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49001011.01-2\">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=\"p45011033.01-3\">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>Romans 9:14-15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45009014.01-4\">What shall we say then? Is there injustice on God's part? By no means! 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>",
"47": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 33:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19033011.01-1\">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.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Isaiah 14:24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23014024.05-2\">The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> of hosts has sworn:<br />\n“As I have planned,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>so shall it be,<br />\nand as I have purposed,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>so shall it stand,</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Acts 2:23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44002023.01-3\">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=\"p44004027.01-4\">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>Romans 9:22-23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45009022.01-5\">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 1:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49001004.01-6\">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 1:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49001011.01-7\">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>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"46": "Isaiah 45:6-7; Ephesians 1:11; Romans 11:33; Romans 9:14-15,18",
"47": "Psalms 33:11; Isaiah 14:24; Acts 2:23; Acts 4:27-28; Romans 9:22-23; Ephesians 1:4,11"
},
"question": "What are the decrees of God?"
},
"120": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Ex 20:9' data-prooftexts-index='646'>The reasons annexed to the fourth commandment, the more to enforce it, are taken from the equity of it, God allowing us six days of seven for our own affairs, and reserving but one for himself, in these words, Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:</span><span data-prooftexts='Ex 20:10' data-prooftexts-index='647'> from God's challenging a special propriety in that day, The seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God:</span><span data-prooftexts='Ex 20:11' data-prooftexts-index='648'> from the example of God, who in six days ... made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: and from that blessing which God put upon that day, not only in sanctifying it to be a day for his service, but in ordaining it to be a means of blessing to us in our sanctifying it; Wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"646": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Exodus 20:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p02020009.01-1\">Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"647": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Exodus 20:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p02020010.01-1\">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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"648": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Exodus 20:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p02020011.01-1\">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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"646": "Ex 20:9",
"647": "Ex 20:10",
"648": "Ex 20:11"
},
"question": "What are the reasons annexed to the fourth commandment, the more to enforce it?"
},
"121": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Ex 20:8' data-prooftexts-index='649'>The word Remember is set in the beginning of the fourth commandment,</span><span data-prooftexts='Ex 16:23; Luke 23:54; Mark 15:42; Nehemiah 13:19' data-prooftexts-index='650'> partly, because of the great benefit of remembering it, we being thereby helped in our preparation to keep it,</span><span data-prooftexts='Ezekiel 20:12,19-20; Psalms 92:13-14; Psalms 92' data-prooftexts-index='651'> and, in keeping it, better to keep all the rest of the commandments,</span><span data-prooftexts='Genesis 2:2-3; Psalms 118:22,24; Revelation 1:10' data-prooftexts-index='652'> and to continue a thankful remembrance of the two great benefits of creation and redemption, which contain a short abridgment of religion;</span><span data-prooftexts='Ezekiel 22:26' data-prooftexts-index='653'> and partly, because we are very ready to forget it,</span><span data-prooftexts='Nehemiah 9:14' data-prooftexts-index='654'> for that there is less light of nature for it,</span><span data-prooftexts='Ex 34:21' data-prooftexts-index='655'> and yet it restraineth our natural liberty in things at other times lawful;</span><span data-prooftexts='Deuteronomy 5:14-15; Amos 8:5' data-prooftexts-index='656'> that it cometh but once in seven days, and many worldly businesses come between, and too often take off our minds from thinking of it, either to prepare for it, or to sanctify it;</span><span data-prooftexts='Lamentations 1:7; Jeremiah 17:21-23; Nehemiah 13:15-22' data-prooftexts-index='657'> and that Satan with his instruments much labor to blot out the glory, and even the memory of it, to bring in all irreligion and impiety.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"649": "<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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"650": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Exodus 16:23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p02016023.01-1\">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>Luke 23:54</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42023054.01-2\">It was the day of Preparation, and the Sabbath was beginning.</p>\n</div><h5>Mark 15:42</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p41015042.04-3\">And when evening had come, since it was the day of Preparation, that is, the day before the Sabbath,</p>\n</div><h5>Nehemiah 13:19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p16013019.01-4\">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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"651": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ezekiel 20:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p26020012.01-1\">Moreover, I gave them my Sabbaths, as a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> who sanctifies them.</p>\n</div><h5>Ezekiel 20:19-20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p26020019.01-2\">I am the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God; walk in my statutes, and be careful to obey my rules, and keep my Sabbaths holy that they may be a sign between me and you, that you may know that I am the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God.</p>\n</div><h5>Psalm 92:13-14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19092013.01-3\">They are planted in the house of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>they flourish in the courts of our God.<br />\n They still bear fruit in old age;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>they are ever full of sap and green,</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 92</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19092001.13-4\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v19092001-4\">92:1 </span>It is good to give thanks to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>to sing praises to your name, O Most High;<br />\n to declare your steadfast love in the morning,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and your faithfulness by night,<br />\n to the music of the lute and the harp,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>to the melody of the lyre.<br />\n For you, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, have made me glad by your work;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>at the works of your hands I sing for joy.</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19092005.01-4\">How great are your works, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>!<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Your thoughts are very deep!<br />\n The stupid man cannot know;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>the fool cannot understand this:<br />\n that though the wicked sprout like grass<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and all evildoers flourish,<br />\nthey are doomed to destruction forever;<br />\n <span class=\"indent\"></span>but you, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, are on high forever.<br />\n For behold, your enemies, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for behold, your enemies shall perish;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>all evildoers shall be scattered.</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19092010.01-4\">But you have exalted my horn like that of the wild ox;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>you have poured over me fresh oil.<br />\n My eyes have seen the downfall of my enemies;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>my ears have heard the doom of my evil assailants.</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19092012.01-4\">The righteous flourish like the palm tree<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and grow like a cedar in Lebanon.<br />\n They are planted in the house of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>they flourish in the courts of our God.<br />\n They still bear fruit in old age;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>they are ever full of sap and green,<br />\n to declare that the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> is upright;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"652": "<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>Psalm 118:22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19118022.01-2\">The stone that the builders rejected<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>has become the cornerstone.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 118:24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19118024.01-3\">This is the day that the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> has made;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>let us rejoice and be glad in it.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Revelation 1:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p66001010.01-4\">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>",
"653": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ezekiel 22:26</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p26022026.01-1\">Her priests have done violence to my law and have profaned my holy things. They have made no distinction between the holy and the common, neither have they taught the difference between the unclean and the clean, and they have disregarded my Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"654": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Nehemiah 9:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p16009014.01-1\">and you made known to them your holy Sabbath and commanded them commandments and statutes and a law by Moses your servant. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"655": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Exodus 34:21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p02034021.01-1\">“Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest. In plowing time and in harvest you shall rest. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"656": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Deuteronomy 5:14-15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p05005014.01-1\">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 or your male servant or your female servant, or your ox or your donkey or any of your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates, that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you. You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God brought you out from there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. Therefore the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.</p>\n</div><h5>Amos 8:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p30008005.01-2\">saying, “When will the new moon be over,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that we may sell grain?<br />\nAnd the Sabbath,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that we may offer wheat for sale,<br />\nthat we may make the ephah small and the shekel great<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and deal deceitfully with false balances, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"657": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Lamentations 1:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p25001007.01-1\">Jerusalem remembers<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>in the days of her affliction and wandering<br />\nall the precious things<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that were hers from days of old.<br />\nWhen her people fell into the hand of the foe,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and there was none to help her,<br />\nher foes gloated over her;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>they mocked at her downfall.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Jeremiah 17:21-23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p24017021.01-2\">Thus says the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>: Take care for the sake of your lives, and do not bear a burden on the Sabbath day or bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem. And do not carry a burden out of your houses on the Sabbath or do any work, but keep the Sabbath day holy, as I commanded your fathers. Yet they did not listen or incline their ear, but stiffened their neck, that they might not hear and receive instruction.</p>\n</div><h5>Nehemiah 13:15-22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p16013015.01-3\">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=\"p16013019.01-3\">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. Then the merchants and sellers of all kinds of wares lodged outside Jerusalem once or twice. 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>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"649": "Ex 20:8",
"650": "Ex 16:23; Luke 23:54; Mark 15:42; Nehemiah 13:19",
"651": "Ezekiel 20:12,19-20; Psalms 92:13-14; Psalms 92",
"652": "Genesis 2:2-3; Psalms 118:22,24; Revelation 1:10",
"653": "Ezekiel 22:26",
"654": "Nehemiah 9:14",
"655": "Ex 34:21",
"656": "Deuteronomy 5:14-15; Amos 8:5",
"657": "Lamentations 1:7; Jeremiah 17:21-23; Nehemiah 13:15-22"
},
"question": "Why is the word Remember set in the beginning of the fourth commandment?"
},
"122": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Matthew 22:39' data-prooftexts-index='658'>The sum of the six commandments which contain our duty to man is, to love our neighbor as ourselves,</span><span data-prooftexts='Matthew 7:12' data-prooftexts-index='659'> and to do to others what we would have them to do to us.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"658": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 22:39</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40022039.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"659": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 7:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p40007012.04-1\"><span class=\"woc\">“So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"658": "Matthew 22:39",
"659": "Matthew 7:12"
},
"question": "What is the sum of the six commandments which contain our duty to man?"
},
"123": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Ex 20:12; Deuteronomy 5:16' data-prooftexts-index='660'>The fifth commandment is, Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"660": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Exodus 20:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p02020012.01-1\">“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God is giving you.</p>\n</div><h5>Deuteronomy 5:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p05005016.01-2\">“‘Honor your father and your mother, as the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God commanded you, that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you in the land that the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God is giving you. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"660": "Ex 20:12; Deuteronomy 5:16"
},
"question": "Which is the fifth commandment?"
},
"124": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Proverbs 23:22, 25; Ephesians 6:1-2' data-prooftexts-index='661'>By father and mother, in the fifth commandment, are meant, not only natural parents,</span><span data-prooftexts='I Timothy 5:1-2' data-prooftexts-index='662'> but all superiors in age</span><span data-prooftexts='Genesis 4:20-21; Genesis 45:8' data-prooftexts-index='663'> and gifts;</span><span data-prooftexts='II Kings 5:13' data-prooftexts-index='664'> and especially such as, by God's ordinance, are over us in place of authority, whether in family,</span><span data-prooftexts='II Kings 2:12; Galatians 4:19; II Kings 13:14' data-prooftexts-index='665'> church,</span><span data-prooftexts='Isaiah 49:23' data-prooftexts-index='666'> or commonwealth.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"661": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Proverbs 23:22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20023022.01-1\">Listen to your father who gave you life,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and do not despise your mother when she is old.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Proverbs 23:25</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20023025.01-2\">Let your father and mother be glad;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>let her who bore you rejoice.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 6:1-2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p49006001.04-3\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v49006001-3\">6:1 </span>Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"662": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Timothy 5:1-2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p54005001.05-1\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v54005001-1\">5:1 </span>Do not rebuke an older man but encourage him as you would a father, younger men as brothers, older women as mothers, younger women as sisters, in all purity. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"663": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Genesis 4:20-21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p01004020.01-1\">Adah bore Jabal; he was the father of those who dwell in tents and have livestock. His brother's name was Jubal; he was the father of all those who play the lyre and pipe.</p>\n</div><h5>Genesis 45:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p01045008.01-2\">So it was not you who sent me here, but God. He has made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house and ruler over all the land of Egypt. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"664": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>2 Kings 5:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p12005013.01-1\">But his servants came near and said to him, “My father, it is a great word the prophet has spoken to you; will you not do it? Has he actually said to you, ‘Wash, and be clean’?” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"665": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>2 Kings 2:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p12002012.01-1\">And Elisha saw it and he cried, “My father, my father! The chariots of Israel and its horsemen!” And he saw him no more.</p>\n<p id=\"p12002012.25-1\">Then he took hold of his own clothes and tore them in two pieces.</p>\n</div><h5>Galatians 4:19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p48004019.01-2\">my little children, for whom I am again in the anguish of childbirth until Christ is formed in you!</p>\n</div><h5>2 Kings 13:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p12013014.05-3\">Now when Elisha had fallen sick with the illness of which he was to die, Joash king of Israel went down to him and wept before him, crying, “My father, my father! The chariots of Israel and its horsemen!” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"666": "<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.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"661": "Proverbs 23:22, 25; Ephesians 6:1-2",
"662": "I Timothy 5:1-2",
"663": "Genesis 4:20-21; Genesis 45:8",
"664": "II Kings 5:13",
"665": "II Kings 2:12; Galatians 4:19; II Kings 13:14",
"666": "Isaiah 49:23"
},
"question": "Who are meant by father and mother in the fifth commandment?"
},
"125": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Ephesians 6:4; II Corinthians 12:14; I Thessalonians 2:7-8,11; Numbers 11:11-12' data-prooftexts-index='667'>Superiors are styled father and mother, both to teach them in all duties toward their inferiors, like natural parents, to express love and tenderness to them, according to their several relations;</span><span data-prooftexts='I Corinthians 4:14-16; II Kings 5:13' data-prooftexts-index='668'> and to work inferiors to a greater willingness and cheerfulness in performing their duties to their superiors, as to their parents.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"667": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ephesians 6:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49006004.01-1\">Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.</p>\n</div><h5>2 Corinthians 12:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p47012014.01-2\">Here for the third time I am ready to come to you. And I will not be a burden, for I seek not what is yours but you. For children are not obligated to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Thessalonians 2:7-8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p52002007.01-3\">But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother taking care of her own children. So, being affectionately desirous of you, we were ready to share with you not only the gospel of God but also our own selves, because you had become very dear to us.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Thessalonians 2:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p52002011.01-4\">For you know how, like a father with his children,</p>\n</div><h5>Numbers 11:11-12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p04011011.01-5\">Moses said to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, “Why have you dealt ill with your servant? And why have I not found favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of all this people on me? Did I conceive all this people? Did I give them birth, that you should say to me, ‘Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries a nursing child,’ to the land that you swore to give their fathers? (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"668": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Corinthians 4:14-16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46004014.01-1\">I do not write these things to make you ashamed, but to admonish you as my beloved children. For though you have countless guides in Christ, you do not have many fathers. For I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel. I urge you, then, be imitators of me.</p>\n</div><h5>2 Kings 5:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p12005013.01-2\">But his servants came near and said to him, “My father, it is a great word the prophet has spoken to you; will you not do it? Has he actually said to you, ‘Wash, and be clean’?” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"667": "Ephesians 6:4; II Corinthians 12:14; I Thessalonians 2:7-8,11; Numbers 11:11-12",
"668": "I Corinthians 4:14-16; II Kings 5:13"
},
"question": "Why are superiors styled father and mother?"
},
"126": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Ephesians 5:21; I Peter 2:17; Romans 12:10; Romans 13:1,7; Ephesians 5:22,24; Ephesians 6:1,4-5,9' data-prooftexts-index='669'>The general scope of the fifth commandment is, the performance of those duties which we mutually owe in our several relations, as inferiors, superiors, or equals.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"669": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ephesians 5:21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49005021.01-1\">submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Peter 2:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p60002017.01-2\">Honor everyone. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the emperor.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 12:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45012010.01-3\">Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 13:1</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.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 13:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45013007.01-5\">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</div><h5>Ephesians 5:22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p49005022.04-6\">Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.</p>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 5:24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49005024.01-7\">Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.</p>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 6:1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p49006001.04-8\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v49006001-8\">6:1 </span>Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.</p>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 6:4-5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49006004.01-9\">Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.</p>\n \n<p id=\"p49006005.04-9\">Slaves, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, with a sincere heart, as you would Christ,</p>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 6:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49006009.01-10\">Masters, do the same to them, and stop your threatening, knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and that there is no partiality with him. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"669": "Ephesians 5:21; I Peter 2:17; Romans 12:10; Romans 13:1,7; Ephesians 5:22,24; Ephesians 6:1,4-5,9"
},
"question": "What is the general scope of the fifth commandment?"
},
"127": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Malachi 1:6; Leviticus 19:3' data-prooftexts-index='670'>The honor which inferiors owe to their superiors is, all due reverence in heart,</span><span data-prooftexts='Proverbs 31:28; I Peter 3:6' data-prooftexts-index='671'> word,</span><span data-prooftexts='Leviticus 19:32; I Kings 2:19' data-prooftexts-index='672'> and behavior;</span><span data-prooftexts='I Timothy 2:1-2' data-prooftexts-index='673'> prayer and thanksgiving for them;</span><span data-prooftexts='Hebrews 13:7; Philippians 3:17' data-prooftexts-index='674'> imitation of their virtues and graces;</span><span data-prooftexts='Ephesians 6:1-2,5-7; I Peter 2:13-14; Hebrews 13:17; Romans 13:1-5; Proverbs 4:3-4; Proverbs 23:22; Ex 18:19,24' data-prooftexts-index='675'> willing obedience to their lawful commands and counsels;</span><span data-prooftexts='Hebrews 12:9; I Peter 2:18-20' data-prooftexts-index='676'> due submission to their corrections;</span><span data-prooftexts='Titus 2:9-10' data-prooftexts-index='677'> fidelity to,</span><span data-prooftexts='I Samuel 26:15-16; II Samuel 18:3; Est 6:2' data-prooftexts-index='678'> defense,</span><span data-prooftexts='Matthew 22:21; Romans 13:6-7; I Timothy 5:17-18; Galatians 6:6; Genesis 45:11; Genesis 47:12' data-prooftexts-index='679'> and maintenance of their persons and authority, according to their several ranks, and the nature of their places;</span><span data-prooftexts='Genesis 9:23; I Peter 2:18; Proverbs 23:22' data-prooftexts-index='680'> bearing with their infirmities, and covering them in love,</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 127:3-5; Proverbs 31:23' data-prooftexts-index='681'> that so they may be an honor to them and to their government.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"670": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Malachi 1:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p39001006.05-1\">“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If then I am a father, where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is my fear? says the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> of hosts to you, O priests, who despise my name. But you say, ‘How have we despised your name?’</p>\n</div><h5>Leviticus 19:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p03019003.01-2\">Every one of you shall revere his mother and his father, and you shall keep my Sabbaths: I am the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"671": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Proverbs 31:28</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20031028.01-1\">Her children rise up and call her blessed;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>her husband also, and he praises her:</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>1 Peter 3:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p60003006.01-2\">as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord. And you are her children, if you do good and do not fear anything that is frightening. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"672": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Leviticus 19:32</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p03019032.01-1\">“You shall stand up before the gray head and honor the face of an old man, and you shall fear your God: I am the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Kings 2:19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p11002019.01-2\">So Bathsheba went to King Solomon to speak to him on behalf of Adonijah. And the king rose to meet her and bowed down to her. Then he sat on his throne and had a seat brought for the king's mother, and she sat on his right. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"673": "<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>",
"674": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Hebrews 13:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58013007.01-1\">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>Philippians 3:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p50003017.01-2\">Brothers, join in imitating me, and keep your eyes on those who walk according to the example you have in us. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"675": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ephesians 6:1-2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p49006001.04-1\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v49006001-1\">6:1 </span>Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise),</p>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 6:5-7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p49006005.04-2\">Slaves, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, with a sincere heart, as you would Christ, not by the way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart, rendering service with a good will as to the Lord and not to man,</p>\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>Hebrews 13:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58013017.01-4\">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>Romans 13:1-5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p45013001.05-5\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v45013001-5\">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.</p>\n</div><h5>Proverbs 4:3-4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20004003.01-6\">When I was a son with my father,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>tender, the only one in the sight of my mother,<br />\n he taught me and said to me,<br />\n“Let your heart hold fast my words;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>keep my commandments, and live.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Proverbs 23:22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20023022.01-7\">Listen to your father who gave you life,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and do not despise your mother when she is old.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Exodus 18:19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p02018019.01-8\">Now obey my voice; I will give you advice, and God be with you! You shall represent the people before God and bring their cases to God,</p>\n</div><h5>Exodus 18:24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p02018024.01-9\">So Moses listened to the voice of his father-in-law and did all that he had said. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"676": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Hebrews 12:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58012009.01-1\">Besides this, we have had earthly fathers who disciplined us and we respected them. Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live?</p>\n</div><h5>1 Peter 2:18-20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p60002018.01-2\">Servants, be subject to your masters with all respect, not only to the good and gentle but also to the unjust. For this is a gracious thing, when, mindful of God, one endures sorrows while suffering unjustly. For what credit is it if, when you sin and are beaten for it, you endure? But if when you do good and suffer for it you endure, this is a gracious thing in the sight of God. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"677": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Titus 2:9-10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p56002009.01-1\">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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"678": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Samuel 26:15-16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p09026015.01-1\">And David said to Abner, “Are you not a man? Who is like you in Israel? Why then have you not kept watch over your lord the king? For one of the people came in to destroy the king your lord. This thing that you have done is not good. As the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> lives, you deserve to die, because you have not kept watch over your lord, the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>'s anointed. And now see where the king's spear is and the jar of water that was at his head.”</p>\n</div><h5>2 Samuel 18:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p10018003.01-2\">But the men said, “You shall not go out. For if we flee, they will not care about us. If half of us die, they will not care about us. But you are worth ten thousand of us. Therefore it is better that you send us help from the city.”</p>\n</div><h5>Esther 6:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p17006002.01-3\">And it was found written how Mordecai had told about Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king's eunuchs, who guarded the threshold, and who had sought to lay hands on King Ahasuerus. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"679": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 22:21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40022021.01-1\">They said, “Caesar's.” Then he said to them, <span class=\"woc\">“Therefore render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's.”</span></p>\n</div><h5>Romans 13:6-7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45013006.01-2\">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</div><h5>1 Timothy 5:17-18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p54005017.01-3\">Let the elders who rule well be considered worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in preaching and teaching. For the Scripture says, “You shall not muzzle an ox when it treads out the grain,” and, <span class=\"woc\">“The laborer deserves his wages.”</span></p>\n</div><h5>Galatians 6:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p48006006.01-4\">One who is taught the word must share all good things with the one who teaches.</p>\n</div><h5>Genesis 45:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p01045011.01-5\">There I will provide for you, for there are yet five years of famine to come, so that you and your household, and all that you have, do not come to poverty.’</p>\n</div><h5>Genesis 47:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p01047012.01-6\">And Joseph provided his father, his brothers, and all his father's household with food, according to the number of their dependents. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"680": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Genesis 9:23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p01009023.01-1\">Then Shem and Japheth took a garment, laid it on both their shoulders, and walked backward and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were turned backward, and they did not see their father's nakedness.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Peter 2:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p60002018.01-2\">Servants, be subject to your masters with all respect, not only to the good and gentle but also to the unjust.</p>\n</div><h5>Proverbs 23:22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20023022.01-3\">Listen to your father who gave you life,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and do not despise your mother when she is old. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"681": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 127:3-5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19127003.01-1\">Behold, children are a heritage from the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>the fruit of the womb a reward.<br />\n Like arrows in the hand of a warrior<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>are the children of one's youth.<br />\n Blessed is the man<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>who fills his quiver with them!<br />\nHe shall not be put to shame<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>when he speaks with his enemies in the gate.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Proverbs 31:23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20031023.01-2\">Her husband is known in the gates<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>when he sits among the elders of the land. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"670": "Malachi 1:6; Leviticus 19:3",
"671": "Proverbs 31:28; I Peter 3:6",
"672": "Leviticus 19:32; I Kings 2:19",
"673": "I Timothy 2:1-2",
"674": "Hebrews 13:7; Philippians 3:17",
"675": "Ephesians 6:1-2,5-7; I Peter 2:13-14; Hebrews 13:17; Romans 13:1-5; Proverbs 4:3-4; Proverbs 23:22; Ex 18:19,24",
"676": "Hebrews 12:9; I Peter 2:18-20",
"677": "Titus 2:9-10",
"678": "I Samuel 26:15-16; II Samuel 18:3; Est 6:2",
"679": "Matthew 22:21; Romans 13:6-7; I Timothy 5:17-18; Galatians 6:6; Genesis 45:11; Genesis 47:12",
"680": "Genesis 9:23; I Peter 2:18; Proverbs 23:22",
"681": "Psalms 127:3-5; Proverbs 31:23"
},
"question": "What is the honor that inferiors owe to their superiors?"
},
"128": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Matthew 15:4-6; Romans 13:8' data-prooftexts-index='682'>The sins of inferiors against their superiors are, all neglect of the duties required toward them;</span><span data-prooftexts='Numbers 11:28-29' data-prooftexts-index='683'> envying at,</span><span data-prooftexts='I Samuel 8:7; Isaiah 3:5' data-prooftexts-index='684'> contempt of,</span><span data-prooftexts='II Samuel 15:1-12' data-prooftexts-index='685'> and rebellion</span><span data-prooftexts='Ex 21:15' data-prooftexts-index='686'> against, their persons</span><span data-prooftexts='I Samuel 10:27' data-prooftexts-index='687'> and places,</span><span data-prooftexts='I Samuel 2:25' data-prooftexts-index='688'> in their lawful counsels,</span><span data-prooftexts='Deuteronomy 21:18-21' data-prooftexts-index='689'> commands, and corrections;</span><span data-prooftexts='Proverbs 30:11,17' data-prooftexts-index='690'> cursing, mocking,</span><span data-prooftexts='Proverbs 19:26' data-prooftexts-index='691'> and all such refractory and scandalous carriage, as proves a shame and dishonor to them and their government.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"682": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 15:4-6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40015004.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.’</span> <span class=\"woc\">But you say, ‘If anyone tells his father or his mother, “What you would have gained from me is given to God,”</span> <span class=\"woc\">he need not honor his father.’</span> <span class=\"woc\">So for the sake of your tradition you have made void the word of God.</span></p>\n</div><h5>Romans 13:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p45013008.06-2\">Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"683": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Numbers 11:28-29</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p04011028.01-1\">And Joshua the son of Nun, the assistant of Moses from his youth, said, “My lord Moses, stop them.” But Moses said to him, “Are you jealous for my sake? Would that all the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>'s people were prophets, that the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> would put his Spirit on them!” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"684": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Samuel 8:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p09008007.01-1\">And the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> said to Samuel, “Obey the voice of the people in all that they say to you, for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me from being king over them.</p>\n</div><h5>Isaiah 3:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23003005.01-2\">And the people will oppress one another,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>every one his fellow<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and every one his neighbor;<br />\nthe youth will be insolent to the elder,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and the despised to the honorable. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"685": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>2 Samuel 15:1-12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p10015001.03-1\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v10015001-1\">15:1 </span>After this Absalom got himself a chariot and horses, and fifty men to run before him. And Absalom used to rise early and stand beside the way of the gate. And when any man had a dispute to come before the king for judgment, Absalom would call to him and say, “From what city are you?” And when he said, “Your servant is of such and such a tribe in Israel,” Absalom would say to him, “See, your claims are good and right, but there is no man designated by the king to hear you.” Then Absalom would say, “Oh that I were judge in the land! Then every man with a dispute or cause might come to me, and I would give him justice.” And whenever a man came near to pay homage to him, he would put out his hand and take hold of him and kiss him. Thus Absalom did to all of Israel who came to the king for judgment. So Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel.</p>\n <p id=\"p10015007.01-1\">And at the end of four years Absalom said to the king, “Please let me go and pay my vow, which I have vowed to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, in Hebron. For your servant vowed a vow while I lived at Geshur in Aram, saying, ‘If the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> will indeed bring me back to Jerusalem, then I will offer worship to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>.’” The king said to him, “Go in peace.” So he arose and went to Hebron. But Absalom sent secret messengers throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, “As soon as you hear the sound of the trumpet, then say, ‘Absalom is king at Hebron!’” With Absalom went two hundred men from Jerusalem who were invited guests, and they went in their innocence and knew nothing. And while Absalom was offering the sacrifices, he sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David's counselor, from his city Giloh. And the conspiracy grew strong, and the people with Absalom kept increasing. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"686": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Exodus 21:15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p02021015.01-1\">“Whoever strikes his father or his mother shall be put to death. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"687": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Samuel 10:27</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p09010027.01-1\">But some worthless fellows said, “How can this man save us?” And they despised him and brought him no present. But he held his peace. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"688": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Samuel 2:25</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p09002025.01-1\">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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"689": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Deuteronomy 21:18-21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p05021018.04-1\">“If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and, though they discipline him, will not listen to them, then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city at the gate of the place where he lives, and they shall say to the elders of his city, ‘This our son is stubborn and rebellious; he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton and a drunkard.’ Then all the men of the city shall stone him to death with stones. So you shall purge the evil from your midst, and all Israel shall hear, and fear. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"690": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Proverbs 30:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20030011.01-1\">There are those who curse their fathers<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and do not bless their mothers.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Proverbs 30:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20030017.01-2\">The eye that mocks a father<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and scorns to obey a mother<br />\nwill be picked out by the ravens of the valley<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and eaten by the vultures. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"691": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Proverbs 19:26</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20019026.01-1\">He who does violence to his father and chases away his mother<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>is a son who brings shame and reproach. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"682": "Matthew 15:4-6; Romans 13:8",
"683": "Numbers 11:28-29",
"684": "I Samuel 8:7; Isaiah 3:5",
"685": "II Samuel 15:1-12",
"686": "Ex 21:15",
"687": "I Samuel 10:27",
"688": "I Samuel 2:25",
"689": "Deuteronomy 21:18-21",
"690": "Proverbs 30:11,17",
"691": "Proverbs 19:26"
},
"question": "What are the sins of inferiors against their superiors?"
},
"129": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Colossians 3:19; Titus 2:4' data-prooftexts-index='692'>It is required of superiors, according to that power they receive from God, and that relation wherein they stand, to love,</span><span data-prooftexts='I Samuel 12:23; Job 1:5' data-prooftexts-index='693'> pray for,</span><span data-prooftexts='I Kings 8:55-56; Hebrews 7:7; Genesis 49:28' data-prooftexts-index='694'> and bless their inferiors;</span><span data-prooftexts='Deuteronomy 6:6-7' data-prooftexts-index='695'> to instruct,</span><span data-prooftexts='Ephesians 6:4' data-prooftexts-index='696'> counsel, and admonish them;</span><span data-prooftexts='I Peter 3:7' data-prooftexts-index='697'> countenancing,</span><span data-prooftexts='I Peter 2:14; Romans 13:3' data-prooftexts-index='698'> commending,</span><span data-prooftexts='Est 6:3' data-prooftexts-index='699'> and rewarding such as do well;</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 13:3-4' data-prooftexts-index='700'> and discountenancing,</span><span data-prooftexts='Proverbs 29:15; I Peter 2:14' data-prooftexts-index='701'> reproving, and chastising such as do ill;</span><span data-prooftexts='Isaiah 1:10,17; Job 29:12-17' data-prooftexts-index='702'> protecting,</span><span data-prooftexts='Ephesians 6:4' data-prooftexts-index='703'> and providing for them all things necessary for soul</span><span data-prooftexts='I Timothy 5:8' data-prooftexts-index='704'> and body:</span><span data-prooftexts='I Timothy 4:12; Titus 2:3-5' data-prooftexts-index='705'> and by grave, wise, holy, and exemplary carriage, to procure glory to God,</span><span data-prooftexts='I Kings 3:28' data-prooftexts-index='706'> honor to themselves,</span><span data-prooftexts='Titus 2:15' data-prooftexts-index='707'> and so to preserve that authority which God hath put upon them.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"692": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Colossians 3:19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p51003019.01-1\">Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them.</p>\n</div><h5>Titus 2:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p56002004.01-2\">and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"693": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Samuel 12:23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p09012023.01-1\">Moreover, as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> by ceasing to pray for you, and I will instruct you in the good and the right way.</p>\n</div><h5>Job 1:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p18001005.01-2\">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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"694": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Kings 8:55-56</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p11008055.01-1\">And he stood and blessed all the assembly of Israel with a loud voice, saying, “Blessed be the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> who has given rest to his people Israel, according to all that he promised. Not one word has failed of all his good promise, which he spoke by Moses his servant.</p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 7:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58007007.01-2\">It is beyond dispute that the inferior is blessed by the superior.</p>\n</div><h5>Genesis 49:28</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p01049028.05-3\">All these are the twelve tribes of Israel. This is what their father said to them as he blessed them, blessing each with the blessing suitable to him. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"695": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Deuteronomy 6:6-7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p05006006.01-1\">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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"696": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ephesians 6:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49006004.01-1\">Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"697": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Peter 3:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p60003007.01-1\">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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"698": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Peter 2:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p60002014.01-1\">or to governors as sent by him to punish those who do evil and to praise those who do good.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 13:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45013003.01-2\">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, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"699": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Esther 6:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p17006003.01-1\">And the king said, “What honor or distinction has been bestowed on Mordecai for this?” The king's young men who attended him said, “Nothing has been done for him.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"700": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 13:3-4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45013003.01-1\">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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"701": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Proverbs 29:15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20029015.01-1\">The rod and reproof give wisdom,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but a child left to himself brings shame to his mother.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>1 Peter 2:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p60002014.01-2\">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>",
"702": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Isaiah 1:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23001010.01-1\">Hear the word of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>you rulers of Sodom!<br />\nGive ear to the teaching of our God,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>you people of Gomorrah!</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Isaiah 1:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23001017.01-2\"><span class=\"indent\"></span>learn to do good;<br />\nseek justice,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>correct oppression;<br />\nbring justice to the fatherless,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>plead the widow's cause.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Job 29:12-17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p18029012.01-3\">because I delivered the poor who cried for help,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and the fatherless who had none to help him.<br />\n The blessing of him who was about to perish came upon me,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.<br />\n I put on righteousness, and it clothed me;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>my justice was like a robe and a turban.<br />\n I was eyes to the blind<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and feet to the lame.<br />\n I was a father to the needy,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and I searched out the cause of him whom I did not know.<br />\n I broke the fangs of the unrighteous<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and made him drop his prey from his teeth. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"703": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ephesians 6:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49006004.01-1\">Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"704": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Timothy 5:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p54005008.01-1\">But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"705": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Timothy 4:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p54004012.01-1\">Let no one despise you for your youth, but set the believers an example in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.</p>\n</div><h5>Titus 2:3-5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p56002003.01-2\">Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"706": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Kings 3:28</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p11003028.01-1\">And all Israel heard of the judgment that the king had rendered, and they stood in awe of the king, because they perceived that the wisdom of God was in him to do justice. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"707": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Titus 2:15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p56002015.01-1\">Declare these things; exhort and rebuke with all authority. Let no one disregard you. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"692": "Colossians 3:19; Titus 2:4",
"693": "I Samuel 12:23; Job 1:5",
"694": "I Kings 8:55-56; Hebrews 7:7; Genesis 49:28",
"695": "Deuteronomy 6:6-7",
"696": "Ephesians 6:4",
"697": "I Peter 3:7",
"698": "I Peter 2:14; Romans 13:3",
"699": "Est 6:3",
"700": "Romans 13:3-4",
"701": "Proverbs 29:15; I Peter 2:14",
"702": "Isaiah 1:10,17; Job 29:12-17",
"703": "Ephesians 6:4",
"704": "I Timothy 5:8",
"705": "I Timothy 4:12; Titus 2:3-5",
"706": "I Kings 3:28",
"707": "Titus 2:15"
},
"question": "What is required of superiors towards their inferiors?"
},
"13": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='I Timothy 5:21' data-prooftexts-index='48'>God, by an eternal and immutable decree, out of his mere love, for the praise of his glorious grace, to be manifested in due time, hath elected some angels to glory;</span><span data-prooftexts='Ephesians 1:4-6; Ephesians 2:10; II Thessalonians 2:13-14; I Peter 1:2' data-prooftexts-index='49'> and in Christ hath chosen some men to eternal life, and the means thereof:</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 9:17-18,21-22; Matthew 11:25-26; II Timothy 2:20; Jude 4; I Peter 2:8' data-prooftexts-index='50'> and also, according to his sovereign power, and the unsearchable counsel of his own will, (whereby he extendeth or withholdeth favor as he pleaseth,) hath passed by and foreordained the rest to dishonor and wrath, to be for their sin inflicted, to the praise of the glory of his justice.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"48": "<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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"49": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ephesians 1:4-6</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 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>Ephesians 2:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49002010.01-2\">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 2:13-14</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. To this he called you through our gospel, so that you may obtain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Peter 1:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p60001002.01-4\">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=\"p60001002.26-4\">May grace and peace be multiplied to you. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"50": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 9:17-18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45009017.01-1\">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=\"p45009021.01-2\">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>Matthew 11:25-26</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p40011025.10-3\">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>2 Timothy 2:20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><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>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"48": "I Timothy 5:21",
"49": "Ephesians 1:4-6; Ephesians 2:10; II Thessalonians 2:13-14; I Peter 1:2",
"50": "Romans 9:17-18,21-22; Matthew 11:25-26; II Timothy 2:20; Jude 4; I Peter 2:8"
},
"question": "What hath God especially decreed concerning angels and men?"
},
"130": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Ezekiel 34:2-4' data-prooftexts-index='708'>The sins of superiors are, besides the neglect of the duties required of them,</span><span data-prooftexts='Philippians 2:21' data-prooftexts-index='709'> an inordinate seeking of themselves,</span><span data-prooftexts='John 5:44; John 7:18' data-prooftexts-index='710'> their own glory,</span><span data-prooftexts='Isaiah 56:10-11; Deuteronomy 17:17' data-prooftexts-index='711'> ease, profit, or pleasure;</span><span data-prooftexts='Acts 4:17-18; Daniel 3:4-6' data-prooftexts-index='712'> commanding things unlawful,</span><span data-prooftexts='Ex 5:10-19; Matthew 23:2,4' data-prooftexts-index='713'> or not in the power of inferiors to perform;</span><span data-prooftexts='Matthew 14:8; Mark 6:24' data-prooftexts-index='714'> counseling,</span><span data-prooftexts='II Samuel 13:28' data-prooftexts-index='715'> encouraging,</span><span data-prooftexts='Jeremiah 6:13-14; Judges 20:13-14' data-prooftexts-index='716'> or favoring them in that which is evil;</span><span data-prooftexts='John 7:46-49; Ex 5:17; Colossians 3:21; John 9:28' data-prooftexts-index='717'> dissuading, discouraging, or discountenancing them in that which is good;</span><span data-prooftexts='I Peter 2:18-20; Deuteronomy 25:3' data-prooftexts-index='718'> correcting them unduly;</span><span data-prooftexts='Genesis 38:11,26; Acts 18:17; I Samuel 23:15-17; Leviticus 19:29; Isaiah 58:7' data-prooftexts-index='719'> careless exposing, or leaving them to wrong, temptation, and danger;</span><span data-prooftexts='Ephesians 6:4' data-prooftexts-index='720'> provoking them to wrath;</span><span data-prooftexts='Genesis 9:21; I Kings 12:13-16; I Kings 1:6; I Samuel 2:29-31; I Samuel 3:13' data-prooftexts-index='721'> or anyway dishonoring themselves, or lessening their authority, by an unjust, indiscreet, rigorous, or remiss behavior.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"708": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ezekiel 34:2-4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p26034002.01-1\">“Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel; prophesy, and say to them, even to the shepherds, Thus says the Lord <span class=\"small-caps\">God</span>: Ah, shepherds of Israel who have been feeding yourselves! Should not shepherds feed the sheep? You eat the fat, you clothe yourselves with the wool, you slaughter the fat ones, but you do not feed the sheep. The weak you have not strengthened, the sick you have not healed, the injured you have not bound up, the strayed you have not brought back, the lost you have not sought, and with force and harshness you have ruled them. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"709": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Philippians 2:21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p50002021.01-1\">For they all seek their own interests, not those of Jesus Christ. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"710": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>John 5:44</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43005044.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">How can you believe, when you receive glory from one another and do not seek the glory that comes from the only God?</span></p>\n</div><h5>John 7:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43007018.01-2\"><span class=\"woc\">The one who speaks on his own authority seeks his own glory; but the one who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and in him there is no falsehood.</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"711": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Isaiah 56:10-11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23056010.01-1\">His watchmen are blind;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>they are all without knowledge;<br />\nthey are all silent dogs;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>they cannot bark,<br />\ndreaming, lying down,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>loving to slumber.<br />\n The dogs have a mighty appetite;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>they never have enough.<br />\nBut they are shepherds who have no understanding;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>they have all turned to their own way,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>each to his own gain, one and all.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Deuteronomy 17:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p05017017.01-2\">And he shall not acquire many wives for himself, lest his heart turn away, nor shall he acquire for himself excessive silver and gold. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"712": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Acts 4:17-18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44004017.01-1\">But in order that it may spread no further among the people, let us warn them to speak no more to anyone in this name.” So they called them and charged them not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus.</p>\n</div><h5>Daniel 3:4-6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p27003004.01-2\">And the herald proclaimed aloud, “You are commanded, O peoples, nations, and languages, that when you hear the sound of the horn, pipe, lyre, trigon, harp, bagpipe, and every kind of music, you are to fall down and worship the golden image that King Nebuchadnezzar has set up. And whoever does not fall down and worship shall immediately be cast into a burning fiery furnace.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"713": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Exodus 5:10-19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p02005010.01-1\">So the taskmasters and the foremen of the people went out and said to the people, “Thus says Pharaoh, ‘I will not give you straw. Go and get your straw yourselves wherever you can find it, but your work will not be reduced in the least.’” So the people were scattered throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw. The taskmasters were urgent, saying, “Complete your work, your daily task each day, as when there was straw.” And the foremen of the people of Israel, whom Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over them, were beaten and were asked, “Why have you not done all your task of making bricks today and yesterday, as in the past?”</p>\n <p id=\"p02005015.01-1\">Then the foremen of the people of Israel came and cried to Pharaoh, “Why do you treat your servants like this? No straw is given to your servants, yet they say to us, ‘Make bricks!’ And behold, your servants are beaten; but the fault is in your own people.” But he said, “You are idle, you are idle; that is why you say, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>.’ Go now and work. No straw will be given you, but you must still deliver the same number of bricks.” The foremen of the people of Israel saw that they were in trouble when they said, “You shall by no means reduce your number of bricks, your daily task each day.”</p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 23:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40023002.01-2\"><span class=\"woc\">“The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses' seat,</span></p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 23:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40023004.01-3\"><span class=\"woc\">They tie up heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on people's shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to move them with their finger.</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"714": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 14:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40014008.01-1\">Prompted by her mother, she said, “Give me the head of John the Baptist here on a platter.”</p>\n</div><h5>Mark 6:24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p41006024.01-2\">And she went out and said to her mother, “For what should I ask?” And she said, “The head of John the Baptist.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"715": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>2 Samuel 13:28</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p10013028.01-1\">Then Absalom commanded his servants, “Mark when Amnon's heart is merry with wine, and when I say to you, ‘Strike Amnon,’ then kill him. Do not fear; have I not commanded you? Be courageous and be valiant.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"716": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Jeremiah 6:13-14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p24006013.01-1\">“For from the least to the greatest of them,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>everyone is greedy for unjust gain;<br />\nand from prophet to priest,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>everyone deals falsely.<br />\n They have healed the wound of my people lightly,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>saying, ‘Peace, peace,’<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>when there is no peace.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Judges 20:13-14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p07020013.01-2\">Now therefore give up the men, the worthless fellows in Gibeah, that we may put them to death and purge evil from Israel.” But the Benjaminites would not listen to the voice of their brothers, the people of Israel. Then the people of Benjamin came together out of the cities to Gibeah to go out to battle against the people of Israel. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"717": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>John 7:46-49</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43007046.01-1\">The officers answered, “No one ever spoke like this man!” The Pharisees answered them, “Have you also been deceived? Have any of the authorities or the Pharisees believed in him? But this crowd that does not know the law is accursed.”</p>\n</div><h5>Exodus 5:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p02005017.01-2\">But he said, “You are idle, you are idle; that is why you say, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>.’</p>\n</div><h5>Colossians 3:21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p51003021.01-3\">Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.</p>\n</div><h5>John 9:28</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43009028.01-4\">And they reviled him, saying, “You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"718": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Peter 2:18-20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p60002018.01-1\">Servants, be subject to your masters with all respect, not only to the good and gentle but also to the unjust. For this is a gracious thing, when, mindful of God, one endures sorrows while suffering unjustly. For what credit is it if, when you sin and are beaten for it, you endure? But if when you do good and suffer for it you endure, this is a gracious thing in the sight of God.</p>\n</div><h5>Deuteronomy 25:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p05025003.01-2\">Forty stripes may be given him, but not more, lest, if one should go on to beat him with more stripes than these, your brother be degraded in your sight. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"719": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Genesis 38:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p01038011.01-1\">Then Judah said to Tamar his daughter-in-law, “Remain a widow in your father's house, till Shelah my son grows up”—for he feared that he would die, like his brothers. So Tamar went and remained in her father's house.</p>\n</div><h5>Genesis 38:26</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p01038026.01-2\">Then Judah identified them and said, “She is more righteous than I, since I did not give her to my son Shelah.” And he did not know her again.</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 18:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44018017.01-3\">And they all seized Sosthenes, the ruler of the synagogue, and beat him in front of the tribunal. But Gallio paid no attention to any of this.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Samuel 23:15-17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p09023015.04-4\">David saw that Saul had come out to seek his life. David was in the wilderness of Ziph at Horesh. And Jonathan, Saul's son, rose and went to David at Horesh, and strengthened his hand in God. And he said to him, “Do not fear, for the hand of Saul my father shall not find you. You shall be king over Israel, and I shall be next to you. Saul my father also knows this.”</p>\n</div><h5>Leviticus 19:29</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p03019029.01-5\">“Do not profane your daughter by making her a prostitute, lest the land fall into prostitution and the land become full of depravity.</p>\n</div><h5>Isaiah 58:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23058007.01-6\">Is it not to share your bread with the hungry<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and bring the homeless poor into your house;<br />\nwhen you see the naked, to cover him,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and not to hide yourself from your own flesh? (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"720": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ephesians 6:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49006004.01-1\">Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"721": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Genesis 9:21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p01009021.01-1\">He drank of the wine and became drunk and lay uncovered in his tent.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Kings 12:13-16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p11012013.01-2\">And the king answered the people harshly, and forsaking the counsel that the old men had given him, he spoke to them according to the counsel of the young men, saying, “My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke. My father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions.” So the king did not listen to the people, for it was a turn of affairs brought about by the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> that he might fulfill his word, which the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> spoke by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.</p>\n \n<p id=\"p11012016.04-2\">And when all Israel saw that the king did not listen to them, the people answered the king, “What portion do we have in David? We have no inheritance in the son of Jesse. To your tents, O Israel! Look now to your own house, David.” So Israel went to their tents.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Kings 1:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p11001006.01-3\">His father had never at any time displeased him by asking, “Why have you done thus and so?” He was also a very handsome man, and he was born next after Absalom.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Samuel 2:29-31</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p09002029.01-4\">Why then do you scorn my sacrifices and my offerings that I commanded, and honor your sons above me by fattening yourselves on the choicest parts of every offering of my people Israel?’ Therefore the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, the God of Israel, declares: ‘I promised that your house and the house of your father should go in and out before me forever,’ but now the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> declares: ‘Far be it from me, for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me shall be lightly esteemed. Behold, the days are coming when I will cut off your strength and the strength of your father's house, so that there will not be an old man in your house.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Samuel 3:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p09003013.01-5\">And I declare to him that I am about to punish his house forever, for the iniquity that he knew, because his sons were blaspheming God, and he did not restrain them. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"708": "Ezekiel 34:2-4",
"709": "Philippians 2:21",
"710": "John 5:44; John 7:18",
"711": "Isaiah 56:10-11; Deuteronomy 17:17",
"712": "Acts 4:17-18; Daniel 3:4-6",
"713": "Ex 5:10-19; Matthew 23:2,4",
"714": "Matthew 14:8; Mark 6:24",
"715": "II Samuel 13:28",
"716": "Jeremiah 6:13-14; Judges 20:13-14",
"717": "John 7:46-49; Ex 5:17; Colossians 3:21; John 9:28",
"718": "I Peter 2:18-20; Deuteronomy 25:3",
"719": "Genesis 38:11,26; Acts 18:17; I Samuel 23:15-17; Leviticus 19:29; Isaiah 58:7",
"720": "Ephesians 6:4",
"721": "Genesis 9:21; I Kings 12:13-16; I Kings 1:6; I Samuel 2:29-31; I Samuel 3:13"
},
"question": "What are the sins of superiors?"
},
"131": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='I Peter 2:17' data-prooftexts-index='722'>The duties of equals are, to regard the dignity and worth of each other,</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 12:10; Philippians 2:3' data-prooftexts-index='723'> in giving honor to go one before another;</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 12:15-16; Philippians 2:3' data-prooftexts-index='724'> and to rejoice in each other's gifts and advancement, as their own.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"722": "<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>",
"723": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 12:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45012010.01-1\">Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor.</p>\n</div><h5>Philippians 2:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p50002003.01-2\">Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"724": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 12:15-16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45012015.01-1\">Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep. Live in harmony with one another. Do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly. Never be wise in your own sight.</p>\n</div><h5>Philippians 2:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p50002003.01-2\">Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"722": "I Peter 2:17",
"723": "Romans 12:10; Philippians 2:3",
"724": "Romans 12:15-16; Philippians 2:3"
},
"question": "What are the duties of equals?"
},
"132": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Romans 13:8' data-prooftexts-index='725'>The sins of equals are, besides the neglect of the duties required,</span><span data-prooftexts='II Timothy 3:3; Proverbs 14:21; Isaiah 65:5' data-prooftexts-index='726'> the undervaluing of the worth,</span><span data-prooftexts='Acts 7:9; Galatians 5:26' data-prooftexts-index='727'> envying the gifts,</span><span data-prooftexts='Numbers 12:2' data-prooftexts-index='728'> grieving at the advancement of prosperity one of another;</span><span data-prooftexts='III John 9; Luke 22:24' data-prooftexts-index='729'> and usurping preeminence one over another.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"725": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 13:8</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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"726": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>2 Timothy 3:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p55003003.01-1\">heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good,</p>\n</div><h5>Proverbs 14:21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20014021.01-2\">Whoever despises his neighbor is a sinner,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but blessed is he who is generous to the poor.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Isaiah 65:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23065005.01-3\">who say, “Keep to yourself,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>do not come near me, for I am too holy for you.”<br />\nThese are a smoke in my nostrils,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>a fire that burns all the day. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"727": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Acts 7:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44007009.01-1\">“And the patriarchs, jealous of Joseph, sold him into Egypt; but God was with him</p>\n</div><h5>Galatians 5:26</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p48005026.01-2\">Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"728": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Numbers 12:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p04012002.01-1\">And they said, “Has the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> indeed spoken only through Moses? Has he not spoken through us also?” And the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> heard it. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"729": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>3 John 1:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p64001009.01-1\">I have written something to the church, but Diotrephes, who likes to put himself first, does not acknowledge our authority.</p>\n</div><h5>Luke 22:24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p42022024.05-2\">A dispute also arose among them, as to which of them was to be regarded as the greatest. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"725": "Romans 13:8",
"726": "II Timothy 3:3; Proverbs 14:21; Isaiah 65:5",
"727": "Acts 7:9; Galatians 5:26",
"728": "Numbers 12:2",
"729": "III John 9; Luke 22:24"
},
"question": "What are the sins of equals?"
},
"133": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Ex 20:12' data-prooftexts-index='730'>The reason annexed to the fifth commandment, in these words, That thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee,</span><span data-prooftexts='Ephesians 6:2-3; Deuteronomy 5:16; I Kings 8:25' data-prooftexts-index='731'> is an express promise of long life and prosperity, as far as it shall serve for God's glory and their own good, to all such as keep this commandment.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"730": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Exodus 20:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p02020012.01-1\">“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God is giving you. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"731": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ephesians 6:2-3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49006002.01-1\">“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>Deuteronomy 5:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p05005016.01-2\">“‘Honor your father and your mother, as the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God commanded you, that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you in the land that the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God is giving you.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Kings 8:25</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p11008025.01-3\">Now therefore, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, God of Israel, keep for your servant David my father what you have promised him, saying, ‘You shall not lack a man to sit before me on the throne of Israel, if only your sons pay close attention to their way, to walk before me as you have walked before me.’ (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"730": "Ex 20:12",
"731": "Ephesians 6:2-3; Deuteronomy 5:16; I Kings 8:25"
},
"question": "What is the reason annexed to the fifth commandment, the more to enforce it?"
},
"134": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Ex 20:13; Deuteronomy 5:17' data-prooftexts-index='732'>The sixth commandment is, Thou shalt not kill.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"732": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Exodus 20:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p02020013.01-1\">“You shall not murder.</p>\n</div><h5>Deuteronomy 5:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p05005017.01-2\">“‘You shall not murder. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"732": "Ex 20:13; Deuteronomy 5:17"
},
"question": "Which is the sixth commandment?"
},
"135": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Ephesians 5:28-29' data-prooftexts-index='733'>The duties required in the sixth commandment are, all careful studies, and lawful endeavors, to preserve the life of ourselves</span><span data-prooftexts='I Kings 18:4' data-prooftexts-index='734'> and others</span><span data-prooftexts='Jeremiah 26:15-16; Acts 23:12, 16-17,21,27' data-prooftexts-index='735'> by resisting all thoughts and purposes,</span><span data-prooftexts='Ephesians 4:26-27' data-prooftexts-index='736'> subduing all passions,</span><span data-prooftexts='II Samuel 2:22-23; Deuteronomy 22:8' data-prooftexts-index='737'> and avoiding all occasions,</span><span data-prooftexts='Matthew 4:6-7; Proverbs 1:10-11,15-16' data-prooftexts-index='738'> temptations,</span><span data-prooftexts='Genesis 37:21-22; I Samuel 24:12; I Samuel 26:9-11' data-prooftexts-index='739'> and practices, which tend to the unjust taking away the life of any;</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 82:4; Proverbs 24:11-12; I Samuel 14:45; Jeremiah 38:7-13' data-prooftexts-index='740'> by just defense thereof against violence,</span><span data-prooftexts='James 5:10-11; Hebrews 12:9; II Samuel 16:10-12' data-prooftexts-index='741'> patient bearing of the hand of God,</span><span data-prooftexts='I Thessalonians 4:11; I Peter 3:3-4; Psalms 37:8,11' data-prooftexts-index='742'> quietness of mind,</span><span data-prooftexts='Proverbs 17:22' data-prooftexts-index='743'> cheerfulness of spirit;</span><span data-prooftexts='Proverbs 23:20; Proverbs 25:16,27' data-prooftexts-index='744'> a sober use of meat,</span><span data-prooftexts='I Timothy 5:23' data-prooftexts-index='745'> drink,</span><span data-prooftexts='Isaiah 38:21' data-prooftexts-index='746'> physic,</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 127:2' data-prooftexts-index='747'> sleep,</span><span data-prooftexts='II Thessalonians 3:12; Ecclesiastes 5:12' data-prooftexts-index='748'> labor,</span><span data-prooftexts='Ecclesiastes 3:4,11; Mark 6:31' data-prooftexts-index='749'> and recreations;</span><span data-prooftexts='I Samuel 19:4-5; I Samuel 22:13-14' data-prooftexts-index='750'> by charitable thoughts,</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 13:10' data-prooftexts-index='751'> love,</span><span data-prooftexts='Luke 10:33-34' data-prooftexts-index='752'> compassion,</span><span data-prooftexts='Colossians 3:12-13' data-prooftexts-index='753'> meekness, gentleness, kindness;</span><span data-prooftexts='James 3:17' data-prooftexts-index='754'> peaceable,</span><span data-prooftexts='I Peter 3:8-11; I Corinthians 4:12-13; Proverbs 15:1; Judges 8:1-3' data-prooftexts-index='755'> mild, and courteous speeches and behavior;</span><span data-prooftexts='Matthew 5:24; Ephesians 4:2,32; Romans 12:17,20-21' data-prooftexts-index='756'> forbearance, readiness to be reconciled, patient bearing and forgiving of injuries, and requiting good for evil;</span><span data-prooftexts='I Thessalonians 5:14; Matthew 25:35-36; Proverbs 31:8-9; Job 31:19-20; Isaiah 58:7' data-prooftexts-index='757'> comforting and succoring the distressed, and protecting and defending the innocent.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"733": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ephesians 5:28-29</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49005028.01-1\">In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"734": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Kings 18:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p11018004.01-1\">and when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, Obadiah took a hundred prophets and hid them by fifties in a cave and fed them with bread and water.) (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"735": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Jeremiah 26:15-16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p24026015.01-1\">Only know for certain that if you put me to death, you will bring innocent blood upon yourselves and upon this city and its inhabitants, for in truth the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> sent me to you to speak all these words in your ears.”</p>\n \n<p id=\"p24026016.05-1\">Then the officials and all the people said to the priests and the prophets, “This man does not deserve the sentence of death, for he has spoken to us in the name of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> our God.”</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 23:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p44023012.06-2\">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 23:16-17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44023016.01-3\">Now the son of Paul's sister heard of their ambush, so he went and entered the barracks and told Paul. Paul called one of the centurions and said, “Take this young man to the tribune, for he has something to tell him.”</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 23:21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44023021.01-4\">But do not be persuaded by them, for more than forty of their men are lying in ambush for him, who have bound themselves by an oath neither to eat nor drink till they have killed him. And now they are ready, waiting for your consent.”</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 23:27</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44023027.01-5\">This man was seized by the Jews and was about to be killed by them when I came upon them with the soldiers and rescued him, having learned that he was a Roman citizen. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"736": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ephesians 4:26-27</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49004026.01-1\">Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, and give no opportunity to the devil. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"737": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>2 Samuel 2:22-23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p10002022.01-1\">And Abner said again to Asahel, “Turn aside from following me. Why should I strike you to the ground? How then could I lift up my face to your brother Joab?” But he refused to turn aside. Therefore Abner struck him in the stomach with the butt of his spear, so that the spear came out at his back. And he fell there and died where he was. And all who came to the place where Asahel had fallen and died, stood still.</p>\n</div><h5>Deuteronomy 22:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p05022008.01-2\">“When you build a new house, you shall make a parapet for your roof, that you may not bring the guilt of blood upon your house, if anyone should fall from it. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"738": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 4:6-7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40004006.01-1\">and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down, for it is written,</p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p40004006.19-1\">“‘He will command his angels concerning you,’</p>\n</div>\n<p class=\"same-paragraph\" id=\"p40004006.26-1\">and</p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p40004006.27-1\">“‘On their hands they will bear you up,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>lest you strike your foot against a stone.’”</p>\n</div>\n <p class=\"same-paragraph\" id=\"p40004007.01-1\">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>Proverbs 1:10-11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20001010.01-2\">My son, if sinners entice you,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>do not consent.<br />\n If they say, “Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>let us ambush the innocent without reason;</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Proverbs 1:15-16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20001015.01-3\">my son, do not walk in the way with them;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>hold back your foot from their paths,<br />\n for their feet run to evil,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and they make haste to shed blood. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"739": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Genesis 37:21-22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p01037021.01-1\">But when Reuben heard it, he rescued him out of their hands, saying, “Let us not take his life.” And Reuben said to them, “Shed no blood; throw him into this pit here in the wilderness, but do not lay a hand on him”—that he might rescue him out of their hand to restore him to his father.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Samuel 24:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p09024012.01-2\">May the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> judge between me and you, may the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> avenge me against you, but my hand shall not be against you.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Samuel 26:9-11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p09026009.01-3\">But David said to Abishai, “Do not destroy him, for who can put out his hand against the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>'s anointed and be guiltless?” And David said, “As the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> lives, the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> will strike him, or his day will come to die, or he will go down into battle and perish. The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> forbid that I should put out my hand against the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>'s anointed. But take now the spear that is at his head and the jar of water, and let us go.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"740": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 82:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19082004.01-1\">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>Proverbs 24:11-12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20024011.01-2\">Rescue those who are being taken away to death;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>hold back those who are stumbling to the slaughter.<br />\n If you say, “Behold, we did not know this,”<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>does not he who weighs the heart perceive it?<br />\nDoes not he who keeps watch over your soul know it,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and will he not repay man according to his work?</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>1 Samuel 14:45</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p09014045.01-3\">Then the people said to Saul, “Shall Jonathan die, who has worked this great salvation in Israel? Far from it! As the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> lives, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground, for he has worked with God this day.” So the people ransomed Jonathan, so that he did not die.</p>\n</div><h5>Jeremiah 38:7-13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p24038007.06-4\">When Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, a eunuch who was in the king's house, heard that they had put Jeremiah into the cistern—the king was sitting in the Benjamin Gate— Ebed-melech went from the king's house and said to the king, “My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they did to Jeremiah the prophet by casting him into the cistern, and he will die there of hunger, for there is no bread left in the city.” Then the king commanded Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, “Take thirty men with you from here, and lift Jeremiah the prophet out of the cistern before he dies.” So Ebed-melech took the men with him and went to the house of the king, to a wardrobe in the storehouse, and took from there old rags and worn-out clothes, which he let down to Jeremiah in the cistern by ropes. Then Ebed-melech the Ethiopian said to Jeremiah, “Put the rags and clothes between your armpits and the ropes.” Jeremiah did so. Then they drew Jeremiah up with ropes and lifted him out of the cistern. And Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"741": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>James 5:10-11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p59005010.01-1\">As an example of suffering and patience, brothers, take the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord. Behold, we consider those blessed who remained steadfast. You have heard of the steadfastness of Job, and you have seen the purpose of the Lord, how the Lord is compassionate and merciful.</p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 12:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58012009.01-2\">Besides this, we have had earthly fathers who disciplined us and we respected them. Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live?</p>\n</div><h5>2 Samuel 16:10-12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p10016010.01-3\">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?’” And David said to Abishai and to all his servants, “Behold, my own son seeks my life; how much more now may this Benjaminite! Leave him alone, and let him curse, for the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> has told him to. It may be that the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> will look on the wrong done to me, and that the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> will repay me with good for his cursing today.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"742": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Thessalonians 4:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p52004011.01-1\">and to aspire to live quietly, and to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we instructed you,</p>\n</div><h5>1 Peter 3:3-4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p60003003.01-2\">Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear— but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God's sight is very precious.</p>\n</div><h5>Psalm 37:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19037008.01-3\">Refrain from anger, and forsake wrath!<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Fret not yourself; it tends only to evil.</p>\n</div>\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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"743": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Proverbs 17:22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20017022.01-1\">A joyful heart is good medicine,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but a crushed spirit dries up the bones. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"744": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Proverbs 23:20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20023020.01-1\">Be not among drunkards<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>or among gluttonous eaters of meat,</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Proverbs 25:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20025016.01-2\">If you have found honey, eat only enough for you,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>lest you have your fill of it and vomit it.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Proverbs 25:27</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20025027.01-3\">It is not good to eat much honey,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>nor is it glorious to seek one's own glory. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"745": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Timothy 5:23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p54005023.01-1\">(No longer drink only water, but use a little wine for the sake of your stomach and your frequent ailments.) (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"746": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Isaiah 38:21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p23038021.01-1\">Now Isaiah had said, “Let them take a cake of figs and apply it to the boil, that he may recover.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"747": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 127:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19127002.01-1\">It is in vain that you rise up early<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and go late to rest,<br />\neating the bread of anxious toil;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for he gives to his beloved sleep. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"748": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>2 Thessalonians 3:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p53003012.01-1\">Now such persons we command and encourage in the Lord Jesus Christ to do their work quietly and to earn their own living.</p>\n</div><h5>Ecclesiastes 5:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p21005012.01-2\">Sweet is the sleep of a laborer, whether he eats little or much, but the full stomach of the rich will not let him sleep. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"749": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ecclesiastes 3:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p21003004.01-1\">a time to weep, and a time to laugh;<br />\na time to mourn, and a time to dance;</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Ecclesiastes 3:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p21003011.01-2\">He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man's heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.</p>\n</div><h5>Mark 6:31</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p41006031.01-3\">And he said to them, <span class=\"woc\">“Come away by yourselves to a desolate place and rest a while.”</span> For many were coming and going, and they had no leisure even to eat. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"750": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Samuel 19:4-5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p09019004.01-1\">And Jonathan spoke well of David to Saul his father and said to him, “Let not the king sin against his servant David, because he has not sinned against you, and because his deeds have brought good to you. For he took his life in his hand and he struck down the Philistine, and the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> worked a great salvation for all Israel. You saw it, and rejoiced. Why then will you sin against innocent blood by killing David without cause?”</p>\n</div><h5>1 Samuel 22:13-14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p09022013.01-2\">And Saul said to him, “Why have you conspired against me, you and the son of Jesse, in that you have given him bread and a sword and have inquired of God for him, so that he has risen against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?” Then Ahimelech answered the king, “And who among all your servants is so faithful as David, who is the king's son-in-law, and captain over your bodyguard, and honored in your house? (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"751": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 13:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45013010.01-1\">Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"752": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Luke 10:33-34</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42010033.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">But a Samaritan, as he journeyed, came to where he was, and when he saw him, he had compassion.</span> <span class=\"woc\">He went to him and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Then he set him on his own animal and brought him to an inn and took care of him.</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"753": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Colossians 3:12-13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p51003012.01-1\">Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"754": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>James 3:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p59003017.01-1\">But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"755": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Peter 3:8-11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p60003008.05-1\">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=\"p60003010.02-1\">“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.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 4:12-13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46004012.01-2\">and we labor, working with our own hands. When reviled, we bless; when persecuted, we endure; when slandered, we entreat. We have become, and are still, like the scum of the world, the refuse of all things.</p>\n</div><h5>Proverbs 15:1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20015001.01-3\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v20015001-3\">15:1 </span>A soft answer turns away wrath,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but a harsh word stirs up anger.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Judges 8:1-3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p07008001.06-4\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v07008001-4\">8:1 </span>Then the men of Ephraim said to him, “What is this that you have done to us, not to call us when you went to fight against Midian?” And they accused him fiercely. And he said to them, “What have I done now in comparison with you? Is not the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the grape harvest of Abiezer? God has given into your hands the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb. What have I been able to do in comparison with you?” Then their anger against him subsided when he said this. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"756": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 5:24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40005024.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">leave your gift there before the altar and go. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.</span></p>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 4:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49004002.01-2\">with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,</p>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 4:32</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49004032.01-3\">Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 12:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45012017.01-4\">Repay no one evil for evil, but give thought to do what is honorable in the sight of all.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 12:20-21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45012020.01-5\">To the contrary, “if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; for by so doing you will heap burning coals on his head.” Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"757": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Thessalonians 5:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p52005014.01-1\">And we urge you, brothers, admonish the idle, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with them all.</p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 25:35-36</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40025035.01-2\"><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></p>\n</div><h5>Proverbs 31:8-9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20031008.01-3\">Open your mouth for the mute,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for the rights of all who are destitute.<br />\n Open your mouth, judge righteously,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>defend the rights of the poor and needy.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Job 31:19-20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p18031019.01-4\">if I have seen anyone perish for lack of clothing,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>or the needy without covering,<br />\n if his body has not blessed me,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and if he was not warmed with the fleece of my sheep,</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Isaiah 58:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23058007.01-5\">Is it not to share your bread with the hungry<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and bring the homeless poor into your house;<br />\nwhen you see the naked, to cover him,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and not to hide yourself from your own flesh? (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"733": "Ephesians 5:28-29",
"734": "I Kings 18:4",
"735": "Jeremiah 26:15-16; Acts 23:12, 16-17,21,27",
"736": "Ephesians 4:26-27",
"737": "II Samuel 2:22-23; Deuteronomy 22:8",
"738": "Matthew 4:6-7; Proverbs 1:10-11,15-16",
"739": "Genesis 37:21-22; I Samuel 24:12; I Samuel 26:9-11",
"740": "Psalms 82:4; Proverbs 24:11-12; I Samuel 14:45; Jeremiah 38:7-13",
"741": "James 5:10-11; Hebrews 12:9; II Samuel 16:10-12",
"742": "I Thessalonians 4:11; I Peter 3:3-4; Psalms 37:8,11",
"743": "Proverbs 17:22",
"744": "Proverbs 23:20; Proverbs 25:16,27",
"745": "I Timothy 5:23",
"746": "Isaiah 38:21",
"747": "Psalms 127:2",
"748": "II Thessalonians 3:12; Ecclesiastes 5:12",
"749": "Ecclesiastes 3:4,11; Mark 6:31",
"750": "I Samuel 19:4-5; I Samuel 22:13-14",
"751": "Romans 13:10",
"752": "Luke 10:33-34",
"753": "Colossians 3:12-13",
"754": "James 3:17",
"755": "I Peter 3:8-11; I Corinthians 4:12-13; Proverbs 15:1; Judges 8:1-3",
"756": "Matthew 5:24; Ephesians 4:2,32; Romans 12:17,20-21",
"757": "I Thessalonians 5:14; Matthew 25:35-36; Proverbs 31:8-9; Job 31:19-20; Isaiah 58:7"
},
"question": "What are the duties required in the sixth commandment?"
},
"136": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Acts 16:28' data-prooftexts-index='758'>The sins forbidden in the sixth commandment are, all taking away the life of ourselves,</span><span data-prooftexts='Genesis 9:6' data-prooftexts-index='759'> or of others,</span><span data-prooftexts='Numbers 35:31,33; Romans 13:4' data-prooftexts-index='760'> except in case of public justice,</span><span data-prooftexts='Deuteronomy 20; Hebrews 11:32-34' data-prooftexts-index='761'> lawful war,</span><span data-prooftexts='Ex 22:2' data-prooftexts-index='762'> or necessary defense;</span><span data-prooftexts='Matthew 25:42-43; James 2:15-16' data-prooftexts-index='763'> the neglecting or withdrawing the lawful and necessary means of preservation of life;</span><span data-prooftexts='Matthew 5:22' data-prooftexts-index='764'> sinful anger,</span><span data-prooftexts='I John 3:15; Leviticus 19:17' data-prooftexts-index='765'> hatred,</span><span data-prooftexts='Proverbs 14:30' data-prooftexts-index='766'> envy,</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 12:19' data-prooftexts-index='767'> desire of revenge;</span><span data-prooftexts='Ephesians 4:31' data-prooftexts-index='768'> all excessive passions,</span><span data-prooftexts='Matthew 6:31,34' data-prooftexts-index='769'> distracting cares;</span><span data-prooftexts='Luke 21:34; Romans 13:13' data-prooftexts-index='770'> immoderate use of meat, drink,</span><span data-prooftexts='Ecclesiastes 12:12; Ecclesiastes 2:22-23' data-prooftexts-index='771'> labor,</span><span data-prooftexts='Isaiah 5:12' data-prooftexts-index='772'> and recreations;</span><span data-prooftexts='Proverbs 15:1; Proverbs 12:18' data-prooftexts-index='773'> provoking words,</span><span data-prooftexts='Ex 1:14; Isaiah 3:15' data-prooftexts-index='774'> oppression,</span><span data-prooftexts='Galatians 5:15; Proverbs 23:29' data-prooftexts-index='775'> quarreling,</span><span data-prooftexts='Numbers 35:16-21' data-prooftexts-index='776'> striking, wounding,</span><span data-prooftexts='Ex 21:18-36' data-prooftexts-index='777'> and whatsoever else tends to the destruction of the life of any.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"758": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Acts 16:28</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44016028.01-1\">But Paul cried with a loud voice, “Do not harm yourself, for we are all here.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"759": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Genesis 9:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p01009006.01-1\">“Whoever sheds the blood of man,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>by man shall his blood be shed,<br />\nfor God made man in his own image. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"760": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Numbers 35:31</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p04035031.01-1\">Moreover, you shall accept no ransom for the life of a murderer, who is guilty of death, but he shall be put to death.</p>\n</div><h5>Numbers 35:33</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p04035033.01-2\">You shall not pollute the land in which you live, for blood pollutes the land, and no atonement can be made for the land for the blood that is shed in it, except by the blood of the one who shed it.</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>",
"761": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Deuteronomy 20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p05020001.04-1\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v05020001-1\">20:1 </span>“When you go out to war against your enemies, and see horses and chariots and an army larger than your own, you shall not be afraid of them, for the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God is with you, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. And when you draw near to the battle, the priest shall come forward and speak to the people and shall say to them, ‘Hear, O Israel, today you are drawing near for battle against your enemies: let not your heart faint. Do not fear or panic or be in dread of them, for the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God is he who goes with you to fight for you against your enemies, to give you the victory.’ Then the officers shall speak to the people, saying, ‘Is there any man who has built a new house and has not dedicated it? Let him go back to his house, lest he die in the battle and another man dedicate it. And is there any man who has planted a vineyard and has not enjoyed its fruit? Let him go back to his house, lest he die in the battle and another man enjoy its fruit. And is there any man who has betrothed a wife and has not taken her? Let him go back to his house, lest he die in the battle and another man take her.’ And the officers shall speak further to the people, and say, ‘Is there any man who is fearful and fainthearted? Let him go back to his house, lest he make the heart of his fellows melt like his own.’ And when the officers have finished speaking to the people, then commanders shall be appointed at the head of the people.</p>\n <p id=\"p05020010.01-1\">“When you draw near to a city to fight against it, offer terms of peace to it. And if it responds to you peaceably and it opens to you, then all the people who are found in it shall do forced labor for you and shall serve you. But if it makes no peace with you, but makes war against you, then you shall besiege it. And when the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God gives it into your hand, you shall put all its males to the sword, but the women and the little ones, the livestock, and everything else in the city, all its spoil, you shall take as plunder for yourselves. And you shall enjoy the spoil of your enemies, which the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God has given you. Thus you shall do to all the cities that are very far from you, which are not cities of the nations here. But in the cities of these peoples that the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God is giving you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes, but you shall devote them to complete destruction, the Hittites and the Amorites, the Canaanites and the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites, as the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God has commanded, that they may not teach you to do according to all their abominable practices that they have done for their gods, and so you sin against the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God.</p>\n <p id=\"p05020019.01-1\">“When you besiege a city for a long time, making war against it in order to take it, you shall not destroy its trees by wielding an axe against them. You may eat from them, but you shall not cut them down. Are the trees in the field human, that they should be besieged by you? Only the trees that you know are not trees for food you may destroy and cut down, that you may build siegeworks against the city that makes war with you, until it falls.</p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 11:32-34</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58011032.01-2\">And what more shall I say? For time would fail me to tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets— who through faith conquered kingdoms, enforced justice, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, were made strong out of weakness, became mighty in war, put foreign armies to flight. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"762": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Exodus 22:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p02022002.01-1\"> If a thief is found breaking in and is struck so that he dies, there shall be no bloodguilt for him, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"763": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 25:42-43</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40025042.01-1\"><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>James 2:15-16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p59002015.01-2\">If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that? (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"764": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 5:22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40005022.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment; whoever insults his brother will be liable to the council; and whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be liable to the hell of fire.</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"765": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 John 3:15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p62003015.01-1\">Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.</p>\n</div><h5>Leviticus 19:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p03019017.01-2\">“You shall not hate your brother in your heart, but you shall reason frankly with your neighbor, lest you incur sin because of him. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"766": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Proverbs 14:30</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20014030.01-1\">A tranquil heart gives life to the flesh,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but envy makes the bones rot. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"767": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 12:19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45012019.01-1\">Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"768": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ephesians 4:31</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49004031.01-1\">Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"769": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 6:31</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40006031.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’</span></p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 6:34</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40006034.01-2\"><span class=\"woc\">“Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"770": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Luke 21:34</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p42021034.03-1\"><span class=\"woc\">“But watch yourselves lest your hearts be weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and cares of this life, and that day come upon you suddenly like a trap.</span></p>\n</div><h5>Romans 13:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45013013.01-2\">Let us walk properly as in the daytime, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in quarreling and jealousy. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"771": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ecclesiastes 12:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p21012012.01-1\">My son, beware of anything beyond these. Of making many books there is no end, and much study is a weariness of the flesh.</p>\n</div><h5>Ecclesiastes 2:22-23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p21002022.01-2\">What has a man from all the toil and striving of heart with which he toils beneath the sun? For all his days are full of sorrow, and his work is a vexation. Even in the night his heart does not rest. This also is vanity. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"772": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Isaiah 5:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23005012.01-1\">They have lyre and harp,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>tambourine and flute and wine at their feasts,<br />\nbut they do not regard the deeds of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>or see the work of his hands. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"773": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Proverbs 15:1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20015001.01-1\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v20015001-1\">15:1 </span>A soft answer turns away wrath,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but a harsh word stirs up anger.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Proverbs 12:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20012018.01-2\">There is one whose rash words are like sword thrusts,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but the tongue of the wise brings healing. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"774": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Exodus 1:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p02001014.01-1\">and made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and brick, and in all kinds of work in the field. In all their work they ruthlessly made them work as slaves.</p>\n</div><h5>Isaiah 3:15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23003015.01-2\">What do you mean by crushing my people,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>by grinding the face of the poor?”<br />\n<span class=\"declares-line\"></span>\ndeclares the Lord <span class=\"small-caps\">God</span> of hosts. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"775": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Galatians 5:15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p48005015.01-1\">But if you bite and devour one another, watch out that you are not consumed by one another.</p>\n</div><h5>Proverbs 23:29</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20023029.01-2\">Who has woe? Who has sorrow?<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Who has strife? Who has complaining?<br />\nWho has wounds without cause?<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Who has redness of eyes? (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"776": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Numbers 35:16-21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p04035016.01-1\">“But if he struck him down with an iron object, so that he died, he is a murderer. The murderer shall be put to death. And if he struck him down with a stone tool that could cause death, and he died, he is a murderer. The murderer shall be put to death. Or if he struck him down with a wooden tool that could cause death, and he died, he is a murderer. The murderer shall be put to death. The avenger of blood shall himself put the murderer to death; when he meets him, he shall put him to death. And if he pushed him out of hatred or hurled something at him, lying in wait, so that he died, or in enmity struck him down with his hand, so that he died, then he who struck the blow shall be put to death. He is a murderer. The avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death when he meets him. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"777": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Exodus 21:18-36</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"758": "Acts 16:28",
"759": "Genesis 9:6",
"760": "Numbers 35:31,33; Romans 13:4",
"761": "Deuteronomy 20; Hebrews 11:32-34",
"762": "Ex 22:2",
"763": "Matthew 25:42-43; James 2:15-16",
"764": "Matthew 5:22",
"765": "I John 3:15; Leviticus 19:17",
"766": "Proverbs 14:30",
"767": "Romans 12:19",
"768": "Ephesians 4:31",
"769": "Matthew 6:31,34",
"770": "Luke 21:34; Romans 13:13",
"771": "Ecclesiastes 12:12; Ecclesiastes 2:22-23",
"772": "Isaiah 5:12",
"773": "Proverbs 15:1; Proverbs 12:18",
"774": "Ex 1:14; Isaiah 3:15",
"775": "Galatians 5:15; Proverbs 23:29",
"776": "Numbers 35:16-21",
"777": "Ex 21:18-36"
},
"question": "What are the sins forbidden in the sixth commandment?"
},
"137": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Ex 20:14; Deuteronomy 5:18' data-prooftexts-index='778'>The seventh commandment is, Thou shalt not commit adultery.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"778": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Exodus 20:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p02020014.01-1\">“You shall not commit adultery.</p>\n</div><h5>Deuteronomy 5:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p05005018.01-2\">“‘And you shall not commit adultery. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"778": "Ex 20:14; Deuteronomy 5:18"
},
"question": "Which is the seventh commandment?"
},
"138": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='I Thessalonians 4:4-5; Job 31:1; I Corinthians 7:34' data-prooftexts-index='779'>The duties required in the seventh commandment are, chastity in body, mind, affections,</span><span data-prooftexts='Ephesians 4:29; Colossians 4:6' data-prooftexts-index='780'> words,</span><span data-prooftexts='I Peter 3:2' data-prooftexts-index='781'> and behavior;</span><span data-prooftexts='I Corinthians 7:2-5,34-36' data-prooftexts-index='782'> and the preservation of it in ourselves and others;</span><span data-prooftexts='Matthew 5:28; Job 31:1' data-prooftexts-index='783'> watchfulness over the eyes and all the senses;</span><span data-prooftexts='Acts 24:24-25' data-prooftexts-index='784'> temperance,</span><span data-prooftexts='Proverbs 2:16-20' data-prooftexts-index='785'> keeping of chaste company,</span><span data-prooftexts='I Timothy 2:9' data-prooftexts-index='786'> modesty in apparel;</span><span data-prooftexts='I Corinthians 7:2,9' data-prooftexts-index='787'> marriage by those that have not the gift of continency,</span><span data-prooftexts='Proverbs 5:19-20' data-prooftexts-index='788'> conjugal love,</span><span data-prooftexts='I Peter 3:7; I Corinthians 7:5' data-prooftexts-index='789'> and cohabitation;</span><span data-prooftexts='Proverbs 31:11,27-28' data-prooftexts-index='790'> diligent labor in our callings;</span><span data-prooftexts='Proverbs 5:8; Genesis 39:8-10' data-prooftexts-index='791'> shunning all occasions of uncleanness, and resisting temptations thereunto.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"779": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Thessalonians 4:4-5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p52004004.01-1\">that each one of you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor, not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God;</p>\n</div><h5>Job 31:1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p18031001.04-2\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v18031001-2\">31:1 </span>“I have made a covenant with my eyes;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>how then could I gaze at a virgin?</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 7:34</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46007034.01-3\">and his interests are divided. And the unmarried or betrothed woman is anxious about the things of the Lord, how to be holy in body and spirit. But the married woman is anxious about worldly things, how to please her husband. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"780": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ephesians 4:29</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49004029.01-1\">Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.</p>\n</div><h5>Colossians 4:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p51004006.01-2\">Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"781": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Peter 3:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p60003002.01-1\">when they see your respectful and pure conduct. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"782": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Corinthians 7:2-5</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. The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband. For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. 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.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 7:34-36</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46007034.01-2\">and his interests are divided. And the unmarried or betrothed woman is anxious about the things of the Lord, how to be holy in body and spirit. But the married woman is anxious about worldly things, how to please her husband. I say this for your own benefit, not to lay any restraint upon you, but to promote good order and to secure your undivided devotion to the Lord.</p>\n <p id=\"p46007036.01-2\">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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"783": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 5:28</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40005028.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.</span></p>\n</div><h5>Job 31:1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p18031001.04-2\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v18031001-2\">31:1 </span>“I have made a covenant with my eyes;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>how then could I gaze at a virgin? (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"784": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Acts 24:24-25</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44024024.01-1\">After some days Felix came with his wife Drusilla, who was Jewish, and he sent for Paul and heard him speak about faith in Christ Jesus. And as he reasoned about righteousness and self-control and the coming judgment, Felix was alarmed and said, “Go away for the present. When I get an opportunity I will summon you.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"785": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Proverbs 2:16-20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20002016.01-1\">So you will be delivered from the forbidden woman,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>from the adulteress with her smooth words,<br />\n who forsakes the companion of her youth<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and forgets the covenant of her God;<br />\n for her house sinks down to death,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and her paths to the departed;<br />\n none who go to her come back,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>nor do they regain the paths of life.</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20002020.01-1\">So you will walk in the way of the good<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and keep to the paths of the righteous. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"786": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Timothy 2:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p54002009.01-1\">likewise also that women should adorn themselves in respectable apparel, with modesty and self-control, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly attire, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"787": "<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>",
"788": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Proverbs 5:19-20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20005019.01-1\"><span class=\"indent\"></span>a lovely deer, a graceful doe.<br />\nLet her breasts fill you at all times with delight;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>be intoxicated always in her love.<br />\n Why should you be intoxicated, my son, with a forbidden woman<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and embrace the bosom of an adulteress? (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"789": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Peter 3:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p60003007.01-1\">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>1 Corinthians 7:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46007005.01-2\">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>",
"790": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Proverbs 31:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20031011.01-1\">The heart of her husband trusts in her,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and he will have no lack of gain.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Proverbs 31:27-28</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20031027.01-2\">She looks well to the ways of her household<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and does not eat the bread of idleness.<br />\n Her children rise up and call her blessed;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>her husband also, and he praises her: (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"791": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Proverbs 5:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20005008.01-1\">Keep your way far from her,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and do not go near the door of her house,</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Genesis 39:8-10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p01039008.01-2\">But he refused and said to his master's wife, “Behold, because of me my master has no concern about anything in the house, and he has put everything that he has in my charge. He is not greater in this house than I am, nor has he kept back anything from me except yourself, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness and sin against God?” And as she spoke to Joseph day after day, he would not listen to her, to lie beside her or to be with her. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"779": "I Thessalonians 4:4-5; Job 31:1; I Corinthians 7:34",
"780": "Ephesians 4:29; Colossians 4:6",
"781": "I Peter 3:2",
"782": "I Corinthians 7:2-5,34-36",
"783": "Matthew 5:28; Job 31:1",
"784": "Acts 24:24-25",
"785": "Proverbs 2:16-20",
"786": "I Timothy 2:9",
"787": "I Corinthians 7:2,9",
"788": "Proverbs 5:19-20",
"789": "I Peter 3:7; I Corinthians 7:5",
"790": "Proverbs 31:11,27-28",
"791": "Proverbs 5:8; Genesis 39:8-10"
},
"question": "What are the duties required in the seventh commandment?"
},
"139": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Proverbs 5:7; Proverbs 4:23,27' data-prooftexts-index='792'>The sins forbidden in the seventh commandment, besides the neglect of the duties required,</span><span data-prooftexts='Hebrews 13:4; Ephesians 5:5; Galatians 5:19' data-prooftexts-index='793'> are, adultery, fornication,</span><span data-prooftexts='II Samuel 13:14; I Corinthians 5:1; Mark 6:18' data-prooftexts-index='794'> rape, incest,</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 1:24,26-27; Leviticus 20:15-16' data-prooftexts-index='795'> sodomy, and all unnatural lusts;</span><span data-prooftexts='Matthew 5:28; Matthew 15:19; Colossians 3:5' data-prooftexts-index='796'> all unclean imaginations, thoughts, purposes, and affections;</span><span data-prooftexts='Ephesians 5:3-4; Proverbs 7:5,21-22' data-prooftexts-index='797'> all corrupt or filthy communications, or listening thereunto;</span><span data-prooftexts='Isaiah 3:16; II Peter 2:14' data-prooftexts-index='798'> wanton looks,</span><span data-prooftexts='Proverbs 7:10,13' data-prooftexts-index='799'> impudent or light behavior, immodest apparel;</span><span data-prooftexts='I Timothy 4:3' data-prooftexts-index='800'> prohibiting of lawful,</span><span data-prooftexts='Mark 6:18; Malachi 2:11-12; Leviticus 18:1-21' data-prooftexts-index='801'> and dispensing with unlawful marriages;</span><span data-prooftexts='I Kings 15:12; II Kings 23:7; Leviticus 19:29; Jeremiah 5:7; Deuteronomy 23:17-18; Proverbs 7:24-27' data-prooftexts-index='802'> allowing, tolerating, keeping of stews, and resorting to them;</span><span data-prooftexts='Matthew 19:10-11' data-prooftexts-index='803'> entangling vows of single life,</span><span data-prooftexts='I Corinthians 7:7-9; Genesis 38:26' data-prooftexts-index='804'> undue delay of marriage,</span><span data-prooftexts='Malachi 2:14-15; Matthew 19:5' data-prooftexts-index='805'> having more wives or husbands than one at the same time;</span><span data-prooftexts='Malachi 2:16; Matthew 5:32; Matthew 19:8-9' data-prooftexts-index='806'> unjust divorce,</span><span data-prooftexts='I Corinthians 7:12-13' data-prooftexts-index='807'> or desertion;</span><span data-prooftexts='Ezekiel 16:49; Proverbs 23:30-33' data-prooftexts-index='808'> idleness, gluttony, drunkenness,</span><span data-prooftexts='Genesis 39:19; Proverbs 5:8' data-prooftexts-index='809'> unchaste company;</span><span data-prooftexts='Ephesians 5:4; Romans 13:13; I Peter 4:3; Ezekiel 23:14-16; Isaiah 3:16; Isaiah 23:15-17; Mark 6:22' data-prooftexts-index='810'> lascivious songs, books, pictures, dancings, stage plays;</span><span data-prooftexts='II Kings 9:30; Jeremiah 4:30; Ezekiel 23:40' data-prooftexts-index='811'> and all other provocations to, or acts of uncleanness, either in ourselves or others.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"792": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Proverbs 5:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20005007.01-1\">And now, O sons, listen to me,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and do not depart from the words of my mouth.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Proverbs 4:23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20004023.01-2\">Keep your heart with all vigilance,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for from it flow the springs of life.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Proverbs 4:27</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20004027.01-3\">Do not swerve to the right or to the left;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>turn your foot away from evil. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"793": "<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>Ephesians 5:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49005005.01-2\">For you may be sure of this, that everyone who is sexually immoral or impure, or who is covetous (that is, an idolater), has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.</p>\n</div><h5>Galatians 5:19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p48005019.01-3\">Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"794": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>2 Samuel 13:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p10013014.01-1\">But he would not listen to her, and being stronger than she, he violated her and lay with her.</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>Mark 6:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p41006018.01-3\">For John had been saying to Herod, “It is not lawful for you to have your brother's wife.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"795": "<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 1:26-27</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; and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.</p>\n</div><h5>Leviticus 20:15-16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p03020015.01-3\">If a man lies with an animal, he shall surely be put to death, and you shall kill the animal. If a woman approaches any animal and lies with it, you shall kill the woman and the animal; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"796": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 5:28</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40005028.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.</span></p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 15:19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40015019.01-2\"><span class=\"woc\">For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander.</span></p>\n</div><h5>Colossians 3:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p51003005.01-3\">Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"797": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ephesians 5:3-4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49005003.01-1\">But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints. Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, which are out of place, but instead let there be thanksgiving.</p>\n</div><h5>Proverbs 7:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20007005.01-2\">to keep you from the forbidden woman,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>from the adulteress with her smooth words.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Proverbs 7:21-22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20007021.01-3\">With much seductive speech she persuades him;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>with her smooth talk she compels him.<br />\n All at once he follows her,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>as an ox goes to the slaughter,<br />\nor as a stag is caught fast (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"798": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Isaiah 3:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23003016.01-1\">The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> said:<br />\nBecause the daughters of Zion are haughty<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and walk with outstretched necks,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>glancing wantonly with their eyes,<br />\nmincing along as they go,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>tinkling with their feet,</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>2 Peter 2:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p61002014.01-2\">They have eyes full of adultery, insatiable for sin. They entice unsteady souls. They have hearts trained in greed. Accursed children! (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"799": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Proverbs 7:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20007010.01-1\">And behold, the woman meets him,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>dressed as a prostitute, wily of heart.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Proverbs 7:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20007013.01-2\">She seizes him and kisses him,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and with bold face she says to him, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"800": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Timothy 4:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p54004003.01-1\">who forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"801": "<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>Malachi 2:11-12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p39002011.01-2\">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>Leviticus 18:1-21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p03018001.04-3\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v03018001-3\">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=\"p03018006.01-3\">“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=\"p03018019.01-3\">“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>. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"802": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Kings 15:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p11015012.01-1\">He put away the male cult prostitutes out of the land and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.</p>\n</div><h5>2 Kings 23:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p12023007.01-2\">And he broke down the houses of the male cult prostitutes who were in the house of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, where the women wove hangings for the Asherah.</p>\n</div><h5>Leviticus 19:29</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p03019029.01-3\">“Do not profane your daughter by making her a prostitute, lest the land fall into prostitution and the land become full of depravity.</p>\n</div><h5>Jeremiah 5:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p24005007.01-4\">“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>Deuteronomy 23:17-18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p05023017.01-5\">“None of the daughters of Israel shall be a cult prostitute, and none of the sons of Israel shall be a cult prostitute. You shall not bring the fee of a prostitute or the wages of a dog into the house of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God in payment for any vow, for both of these are an abomination to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God.</p>\n</div><h5>Proverbs 7:24-27</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20007024.01-6\">And now, O sons, listen to me,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and be attentive to the words of my mouth.<br />\n Let not your heart turn aside to her ways;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>do not stray into her paths,<br />\n for many a victim has she laid low,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and all her slain are a mighty throng.<br />\n Her house is the way to Sheol,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>going down to the chambers of death. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"803": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 19:10-11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40019010.01-1\">The disciples said to him, “If such is the case of a man with his wife, it is better not to marry.” But he said to them, <span class=\"woc\">“Not everyone can receive this saying, but only those to whom it is given.</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"804": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Corinthians 7:7-9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46007007.01-1\">I wish that all were as I myself am. But each has his own gift from God, one of one kind and one of another.</p>\n <p id=\"p46007008.01-1\">To the unmarried and the widows I say that it is good for them to remain single as I am. 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>Genesis 38:26</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p01038026.01-2\">Then Judah identified them and said, “She is more righteous than I, since I did not give her to my son Shelah.” And he did not know her again. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"805": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Malachi 2:14-15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p39002014.01-1\">But you say, “Why does he not?” Because the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> was witness between you and the wife of your youth, to whom you have been faithless, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant. 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.</p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 19:5</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> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"806": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Malachi 2:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p39002016.01-1\">“For the man who does not love his wife but divorces her, says the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, the God of Israel, covers his garment with violence, says the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> of hosts. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and do not be faithless.”</p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 5:32</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40005032.01-2\"><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></p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 19:8-9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40019008.01-3\">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> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"807": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Corinthians 7:12-13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46007012.01-1\">To the rest I say (I, not the Lord) that if any brother has a wife who is an unbeliever, and she consents to live with him, he should not divorce her. If any woman has a husband who is an unbeliever, and he consents to live with her, she should not divorce him. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"808": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ezekiel 16:49</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p26016049.01-1\">Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy.</p>\n</div><h5>Proverbs 23:30-33</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20023030.01-2\">Those who tarry long over wine;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>those who go to try mixed wine.<br />\n Do not look at wine when it is red,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>when it sparkles in the cup<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and goes down smoothly.<br />\n In the end it bites like a serpent<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and stings like an adder.<br />\n Your eyes will see strange things,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and your heart utter perverse things. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"809": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Genesis 39:19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p01039019.01-1\">As soon as his master heard the words that his wife spoke to him, “This is the way your servant treated me,” his anger was kindled.</p>\n</div><h5>Proverbs 5:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20005008.01-2\">Keep your way far from her,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and do not go near the door of her house, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"810": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ephesians 5:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49005004.01-1\">Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, which are out of place, but instead let there be thanksgiving.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 13:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45013013.01-2\">Let us walk properly as in the daytime, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in quarreling and jealousy.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Peter 4:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p60004003.01-3\">For the time that is past suffices for doing what the Gentiles want to do, living in sensuality, passions, drunkenness, orgies, drinking parties, and lawless idolatry.</p>\n</div><h5>Ezekiel 23:14-16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p26023014.01-4\">But she carried her whoring further. She saw men portrayed on the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed in vermilion, wearing belts on their waists, with flowing turbans on their heads, all of them having the appearance of officers, a likeness of Babylonians whose native land was Chaldea. When she saw them, she lusted after them and sent messengers to them in Chaldea.</p>\n</div><h5>Isaiah 3:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23003016.01-5\">The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> said:<br />\nBecause the daughters of Zion are haughty<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and walk with outstretched necks,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>glancing wantonly with their eyes,<br />\nmincing along as they go,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>tinkling with their feet,</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Isaiah 23:15-17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p class=\"same-paragraph\" id=\"p23023015.01-6\">In that day Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years, like the days of one king. At the end of seventy years, it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the prostitute:</p>\n <div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23023016.01-6\">“Take a harp;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>go about the city,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>O forgotten prostitute!<br />\nMake sweet melody;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>sing many songs,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that you may be remembered.”</p>\n</div>\n <p class=\"same-paragraph\" id=\"p23023017.01-6\">At the end of seventy years, the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> will visit Tyre, and she will return to her wages and will prostitute herself with all the kingdoms of the world on the face of the earth.</p>\n</div><h5>Mark 6:22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p41006022.01-7\">For when Herodias's daughter came in and danced, she pleased Herod and his guests. And the king said to the girl, “Ask me for whatever you wish, and I will give it to you.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"811": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>2 Kings 9:30</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p12009030.04-1\">When Jehu came to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it. And she painted her eyes and adorned her head and looked out of the window.</p>\n</div><h5>Jeremiah 4:30</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p24004030.01-2\">And you, O desolate one,<br />\nwhat do you mean that you dress in scarlet,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that you adorn yourself with ornaments of gold,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that you enlarge your eyes with paint?<br />\nIn vain you beautify yourself.<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Your lovers despise you;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>they seek your life.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Ezekiel 23:40</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p26023040.01-3\">They even sent for men to come from afar, to whom a messenger was sent; and behold, they came. For them you bathed yourself, painted your eyes, and adorned yourself with ornaments. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"792": "Proverbs 5:7; Proverbs 4:23,27",
"793": "Hebrews 13:4; Ephesians 5:5; Galatians 5:19",
"794": "II Samuel 13:14; I Corinthians 5:1; Mark 6:18",
"795": "Romans 1:24,26-27; Leviticus 20:15-16",
"796": "Matthew 5:28; Matthew 15:19; Colossians 3:5",
"797": "Ephesians 5:3-4; Proverbs 7:5,21-22",
"798": "Isaiah 3:16; II Peter 2:14",
"799": "Proverbs 7:10,13",
"800": "I Timothy 4:3",
"801": "Mark 6:18; Malachi 2:11-12; Leviticus 18:1-21",
"802": "I Kings 15:12; II Kings 23:7; Leviticus 19:29; Jeremiah 5:7; Deuteronomy 23:17-18; Proverbs 7:24-27",
"803": "Matthew 19:10-11",
"804": "I Corinthians 7:7-9; Genesis 38:26",
"805": "Malachi 2:14-15; Matthew 19:5",
"806": "Malachi 2:16; Matthew 5:32; Matthew 19:8-9",
"807": "I Corinthians 7:12-13",
"808": "Ezekiel 16:49; Proverbs 23:30-33",
"809": "Genesis 39:19; Proverbs 5:8",
"810": "Ephesians 5:4; Romans 13:13; I Peter 4:3; Ezekiel 23:14-16; Isaiah 3:16; Isaiah 23:15-17; Mark 6:22",
"811": "II Kings 9:30; Jeremiah 4:30; Ezekiel 23:40"
},
"question": "What are the sins forbidden in the seventh commandment?"
},
"14": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Revelation 4:11; Isaiah 40:12-31' data-prooftexts-index='51'>God executeth his decrees in the works of creation and providence,</span><span data-prooftexts='Ephesians 1:11; Psalms 148:8; Daniel 4:35; Acts 4:24-28' data-prooftexts-index='52'> according to his infallible foreknowledge, and the free and immutable counsel of his own will.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"51": "<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>Isaiah 40:12-31</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23040012.01-2\">Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and marked off the heavens with a span,<br />\nenclosed the dust of the earth in a measure<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and weighed the mountains in scales<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and the hills in a balance?<br />\n 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 <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23040018.01-2\">To whom then will you liken God,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>or what likeness compare with him?<br />\n An idol! A craftsman casts it,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and a goldsmith overlays it with gold<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and casts for it silver chains.<br />\n He who is too impoverished for an offering<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>chooses wood that will not rot;<br />\nhe seeks out a skillful craftsman<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>to set up an idol that will not move.</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23040021.01-2\">Do you not know? Do you not hear?<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Has it not been told you from the beginning?<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth?<br />\n It is he who sits above the circle of the earth,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers;<br />\nwho stretches out the heavens like a curtain,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and spreads them like a tent to dwell in;<br />\n who brings princes to nothing,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and makes the rulers of the earth as emptiness.</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23040024.01-2\">Scarcely are they planted, scarcely sown,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>scarcely has their stem taken root in the earth,<br />\nwhen he blows on them, and they wither,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and the tempest carries them off like stubble.</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23040025.01-2\">To whom then will you compare me,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that I should be like him? says the Holy One.<br />\n Lift up your eyes on high and see:<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>who created these?<br />\nHe who brings out their host by number,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>calling them all by name,<br />\nby the greatness of his might,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and because he is strong in power<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>not one is missing.</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23040027.01-2\">Why do you say, O Jacob,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and speak, O Israel,<br />\n“My way is hidden from the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and my right is disregarded by my God”?<br />\n Have you not known? Have you not heard?<br />\nThe <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> is the everlasting God,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>the Creator of the ends of the earth.<br />\nHe does not faint or grow weary;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>his understanding is unsearchable.<br />\n He gives power to the faint,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and to him who has no might he increases strength.<br />\n Even youths shall faint and be weary,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and young men shall fall exhausted;<br />\n but they who wait for the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> shall renew their strength;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>they shall mount up with wings like eagles;<br />\nthey shall run and not be weary;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>they shall walk and not faint. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"52": "<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 148:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19148008.01-2\">fire and hail, snow and mist,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>stormy wind fulfilling his word!</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Daniel 4:35</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p27004035.01-3\">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>Acts 4:24-28</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44004024.01-4\">And when they heard it, they lifted their voices together to God and said, “Sovereign Lord, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and everything in them, who through the mouth of our father David, your servant, said by the Holy Spirit,</p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p44004025.16-4\">“‘Why did the Gentiles rage,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and the peoples plot in vain?<br />\n The kings of the earth set themselves,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and the rulers were gathered together,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>against the Lord and against his Anointed’—</p>\n</div>\n <p class=\"same-paragraph\" id=\"p44004027.01-4\">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>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"51": "Revelation 4:11; Isaiah 40:12-31",
"52": "Ephesians 1:11; Psalms 148:8; Daniel 4:35; Acts 4:24-28"
},
"question": "How doth God execute his decrees?"
},
"140": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Deuteronomy 5:19' data-prooftexts-index='812'>The eighth commandment is, Thou shalt not steal.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"812": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Deuteronomy 5:19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p05005019.01-1\">“‘And you shall not steal. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"812": "Deuteronomy 5:19"
},
"question": "Which is the eighth commandment?"
},
"141": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Psalms 15:2,4; Micah 6:8; Zechariah 8:16-17; Zechariah 7:4,10' data-prooftexts-index='813'>The duties required in the eighth commandment are, truth, faithfulness, and justice in contracts and commerce between man and man;</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 13:7' data-prooftexts-index='814'> rendering to everyone his due;</span><span data-prooftexts='Leviticus 6:2-5; Luke 19:8' data-prooftexts-index='815'> restitution of goods unlawfully detained from the right owners thereof;</span><span data-prooftexts='Luke 6:30,38; I John 3:17; Ephesians 4:28; Galatians 6:10' data-prooftexts-index='816'> giving and lending freely, according to our abilities, and the necessities of others;</span><span data-prooftexts='I Timothy 6:6-9; Galatians 6:14' data-prooftexts-index='817'> moderation of our judgments, wills, and affections concerning worldly goods;</span><span data-prooftexts='I Timothy 5:8' data-prooftexts-index='818'> a provident care and study to get,</span><span data-prooftexts='Proverbs 27:23-27; Ecclesiastes 2:24; Ecclesiastes 3:12-13; I Timothy 6:17-18; Isaiah 38:1; Matthew 11:8' data-prooftexts-index='819'> keep, use, and dispose these things which are necessary and convenient for the sustentation of our nature, and suitable to our condition;</span><span data-prooftexts='I Corinthians 7:20; Genesis 2:15; Genesis 3:19' data-prooftexts-index='820'> a lawful calling,</span><span data-prooftexts='Ephesians 4:28; Proverbs 10:4; Romans 12:11' data-prooftexts-index='821'> and diligence in it;</span><span data-prooftexts='John 6:12; Proverbs 21:20' data-prooftexts-index='822'> frugality;</span><span data-prooftexts='I Corinthians 6:1-9' data-prooftexts-index='823'> avoiding unnecessary lawsuits,</span><span data-prooftexts='Proverbs 11:15; Proverbs 6:1-6' data-prooftexts-index='824'> and suretyship, or other like engagements;</span><span data-prooftexts='Leviticus 25:35; Philippians 2:4; Deuteronomy 22:1-4; Ex 23:4-5; Genesis 47:14,20; Matthew 22:39' data-prooftexts-index='825'> and an endeavor, by all just and lawful means, to procure, preserve, and further the wealth and outward estate of others, as well as our own.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"813": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 15:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19015002.01-1\">He who walks blamelessly and does what is right<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and speaks truth in his heart;</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 15:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19015004.01-2\">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;</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Micah 6:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p33006008.01-3\">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>Zechariah 8:16-17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p38008016.01-4\">These are the things that you shall do: Speak the truth to one another; render in your gates judgments that are true and make for peace; do not devise evil in your hearts against one another, and love no false oath, for all these things I hate, declares the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>.”</p>\n</div><h5>Zechariah 7:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p38007004.01-5\">Then the word of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> of hosts came to me:</p>\n</div><h5>Zechariah 7:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p38007010.01-6\">do not oppress the widow, the fatherless, the sojourner, or the poor, and let none of you devise evil against another in your heart.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"814": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 13:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45013007.01-1\">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>",
"815": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Leviticus 6:2-5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p03006002.01-1\">“If anyone sins and commits a breach of faith against the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> by deceiving his neighbor in a matter of deposit or security, or through robbery, or if he has oppressed his neighbor or has found something lost and lied about it, swearing falsely—in any of all the things that people do and sin thereby— if he has sinned and has realized his guilt and will restore what he took by robbery or what he got by oppression or the deposit that was committed to him or the lost thing that he found or anything about which he has sworn falsely, he shall restore it in full and shall add a fifth to it, and give it to him to whom it belongs on the day he realizes his guilt.</p>\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.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"816": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Luke 6:30</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42006030.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">Give to everyone who begs from you, and from one who takes away your goods do not demand them back.</span></p>\n</div><h5>Luke 6:38</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42006038.01-2\"><span class=\"woc\">give, and it will be given to you. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For with the measure you use it will be measured back to you.”</span></p>\n</div><h5>1 John 3:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p62003017.01-3\">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>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>Galatians 6:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p48006010.01-5\">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>",
"817": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Timothy 6:6-9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p54006006.01-1\">Now there is great gain in godliness with contentment, for we brought nothing into the world, and we cannot take anything out of the world. But if we have food and clothing, with these we will be content. But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, into a snare, into many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.</p>\n</div><h5>Galatians 6:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p48006014.01-2\">But far be it from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"818": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Timothy 5:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p54005008.01-1\">But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"819": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Proverbs 27:23-27</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20027023.01-1\">Know well the condition of your flocks,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and give attention to your herds,<br />\n for riches do not last forever;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and does a crown endure to all generations?<br />\n When the grass is gone and the new growth appears<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and the vegetation of the mountains is gathered,<br />\n the lambs will provide your clothing,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and the goats the price of a field.<br />\n There will be enough goats' milk for your food,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for the food of your household<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and maintenance for your girls.<br />\n</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Ecclesiastes 2:24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p21002024.01-2\">There is nothing better for a person than that he should eat and drink and find enjoyment in his toil. This also, I saw, is from the hand of God,</p>\n</div><h5>Ecclesiastes 3:12-13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p21003012.01-3\">I perceived that there is nothing better for them than to be joyful and to do good as long as they live; also that everyone should eat and drink and take pleasure in all his toil—this is God's gift to man.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Timothy 6:17-18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p54006017.01-4\">As for the rich in this present age, charge them not to be haughty, nor to set their hopes on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy. They are to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous and ready to share,</p>\n</div><h5>Isaiah 38:1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p23038001.05-5\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v23038001-5\">38:1 </span>In those days Hezekiah became sick and was at the point of death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him, and said to him, “Thus says the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>: Set your house in order, for you shall die, you shall not recover.”</p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 11:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40011008.01-6\"><span class=\"woc\">What then did you go out to see? A man dressed in soft clothing? Behold, those who wear soft clothing are in kings' houses.</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"820": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Corinthians 7:20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46007020.01-1\">Each one should remain in the condition in which he was called.</p>\n</div><h5>Genesis 2:15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p01002015.01-2\">The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it.</p>\n</div><h5>Genesis 3:19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p01003019.01-3\">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.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"821": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ephesians 4:28</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49004028.01-1\">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>Proverbs 10:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20010004.01-2\">A slack hand causes poverty,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but the hand of the diligent makes rich.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Romans 12:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45012011.01-3\">Do not be slothful in zeal, be fervent in spirit, serve the Lord. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"822": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>John 6:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43006012.01-1\">And when they had eaten their fill, he told his disciples, <span class=\"woc\">“Gather up the leftover fragments, that nothing may be lost.”</span></p>\n</div><h5>Proverbs 21:20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20021020.01-2\">Precious treasure and oil are in a wise man's dwelling,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but a foolish man devours it. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"823": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Corinthians 6:1-9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p46006001.04-1\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v46006001-1\">6:1 </span>When one of you has a grievance against another, does he dare go to law before the unrighteous instead of the saints? Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you incompetent to try trivial cases? Do you not know that we are to judge angels? How much more, then, matters pertaining to this life! So if you have such cases, why do you lay them before those who have no standing in the church? I say this to your shame. Can it be that there is no one among you wise enough to settle a dispute between the brothers, but brother goes to law against brother, and that before unbelievers? To have lawsuits at all with one another is already a defeat for you. Why not rather suffer wrong? Why not rather be defrauded? But you yourselves wrong and defraud—even your own brothers!</p>\n <p id=\"p46006009.01-1\">Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"824": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Proverbs 11:15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20011015.01-1\">Whoever puts up security for a stranger will surely suffer harm,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but he who hates striking hands in pledge is secure.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Proverbs 6:1-6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20006001.03-2\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v20006001-2\">6:1 </span>My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>have given your pledge for a stranger,<br />\n if you are snared in the words of your mouth,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>caught in the words of your mouth,<br />\n then do this, my son, and save yourself,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for you have come into the hand of your neighbor:<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>go, hasten, and plead urgently with your neighbor.<br />\n Give your eyes no sleep<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and your eyelids no slumber;<br />\n save yourself like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>like a bird from the hand of the fowler.</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20006006.01-2\">Go to the ant, O sluggard;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>consider her ways, and be wise. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"825": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Leviticus 25:35</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p03025035.05-1\">“If your brother becomes poor and cannot maintain himself with you, you shall support him as though he were a stranger and a sojourner, and he shall live with you.</p>\n</div><h5>Philippians 2:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p50002004.01-2\">Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.</p>\n</div><h5>Deuteronomy 22:1-4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p05022001.03-3\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v05022001-3\">22:1 </span>“You shall not see your brother's ox or his sheep going astray and ignore them. You shall take them back to your brother. And if he does not live near you and you do not know who he is, you shall bring it home to your house, and it shall stay with you until your brother seeks it. Then you shall restore it to him. And you shall do the same with his donkey or with his garment, or with any lost thing of your brother's, which he loses and you find; you may not ignore it. You shall not see your brother's donkey or his ox fallen down by the way and ignore them. You shall help him to lift them up again.</p>\n</div><h5>Exodus 23:4-5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p02023004.01-4\">“If you meet your enemy's ox or his donkey going astray, you shall bring it back to him. If you see the donkey of one who hates you lying down under its burden, you shall refrain from leaving him with it; you shall rescue it with him.</p>\n</div><h5>Genesis 47:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p01047014.01-5\">And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan, in exchange for the grain that they bought. And Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh's house.</p>\n</div><h5>Genesis 47:20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p01047020.01-6\">So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, for all the Egyptians sold their fields, because the famine was severe on them. The land became Pharaoh's.</p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 22:39</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40022039.01-7\"><span class=\"woc\">And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"813": "Psalms 15:2,4; Micah 6:8; Zechariah 8:16-17; Zechariah 7:4,10",
"814": "Romans 13:7",
"815": "Leviticus 6:2-5; Luke 19:8",
"816": "Luke 6:30,38; I John 3:17; Ephesians 4:28; Galatians 6:10",
"817": "I Timothy 6:6-9; Galatians 6:14",
"818": "I Timothy 5:8",
"819": "Proverbs 27:23-27; Ecclesiastes 2:24; Ecclesiastes 3:12-13; I Timothy 6:17-18; Isaiah 38:1; Matthew 11:8",
"820": "I Corinthians 7:20; Genesis 2:15; Genesis 3:19",
"821": "Ephesians 4:28; Proverbs 10:4; Romans 12:11",
"822": "John 6:12; Proverbs 21:20",
"823": "I Corinthians 6:1-9",
"824": "Proverbs 11:15; Proverbs 6:1-6",
"825": "Leviticus 25:35; Philippians 2:4; Deuteronomy 22:1-4; Ex 23:4-5; Genesis 47:14,20; Matthew 22:39"
},
"question": "What are the duties required in the eighth commandment?"
},
"142": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='James 2:15-16; I John 3:17' data-prooftexts-index='826'>The sins forbidden in the eighth commandment, besides the neglect of the duties required,</span><span data-prooftexts='Ephesians 4:28' data-prooftexts-index='827'> are, theft,</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 62:10' data-prooftexts-index='828'> robbery,</span><span data-prooftexts='I Timothy 1:10' data-prooftexts-index='829'> manstealing,</span><span data-prooftexts='Proverbs 29:24; Psalms 50:18' data-prooftexts-index='830'> and receiving anything that is stolen;</span><span data-prooftexts='I Thessalonians 4:6; Leviticus 19:13' data-prooftexts-index='831'> fraudulent dealing,</span><span data-prooftexts='Proverbs 11:1; Proverbs 20:10' data-prooftexts-index='832'> false weights and measures,</span><span data-prooftexts='Deuteronomy 19:14; Proverbs 23:10' data-prooftexts-index='833'> removing landmarks,</span><span data-prooftexts='Amos 8:5; Psalms 37:21' data-prooftexts-index='834'> injustice and unfaithfulness in contracts between man and man,</span><span data-prooftexts='Luke 16:10-12' data-prooftexts-index='835'> or in matters of trust;</span><span data-prooftexts='Ezekiel 22:29; Leviticus 25:17' data-prooftexts-index='836'> oppression,</span><span data-prooftexts='Matthew 23:25; Ezekiel 22:12' data-prooftexts-index='837'> extortion,</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 15:5' data-prooftexts-index='838'> usury,</span><span data-prooftexts='Job 15:34' data-prooftexts-index='839'> bribery,</span><span data-prooftexts='I Corinthians 6:6-8; Proverbs 3:29-30' data-prooftexts-index='840'> vexatious lawsuits,</span><span data-prooftexts='Isaiah 5:8; Micah 2:2' data-prooftexts-index='841'> unjust enclosures and depredation;</span><span data-prooftexts='Proverbs 11:26' data-prooftexts-index='842'> engrossing commodities to enhance the price;</span><span data-prooftexts='Acts 19:19,24-25' data-prooftexts-index='843'> unlawful callings,</span><span data-prooftexts='James 5:4; Proverbs 21:6; Job 20:19' data-prooftexts-index='844'> and all other unjust or sinful ways of taking or withholding from our neighbor what belongs to him, or of enriching ourselves;</span><span data-prooftexts='Luke 12:15' data-prooftexts-index='845'> covetousness;</span><span data-prooftexts='I Timothy 6:5; Colossians 3:2; I John 2:15-16; Proverbs 23:5; Psalms 62:10' data-prooftexts-index='846'> inordinate prizing and affecting worldly goods;</span><span data-prooftexts='Matthew 6:25,31,34; Ecclesiastes 5:12' data-prooftexts-index='847'> distrustful and distracting cares and studies in getting, keeping, and using them;</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 73:3; Psalms 37:1,7' data-prooftexts-index='848'> envying at the prosperity of others;</span><span data-prooftexts='II Thessalonians 3:10-11; Proverbs 18:9' data-prooftexts-index='849'> as likewise idleness,</span><span data-prooftexts='Proverbs 21:17; Proverbs 23:20-21; Proverbs 28:19' data-prooftexts-index='850'> prodigality, wasteful gaming; and all other ways whereby we do unduly prejudice our own outward estate,</span><span data-prooftexts='Ecclesiastes 4:8; Ecclesiastes 6:2; I Timothy 4:3-5; I Timothy 5:8' data-prooftexts-index='851'> and defrauding ourselves of the due use and comfort of that estate which God hath given us.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"826": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>James 2:15-16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p59002015.01-1\">If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that?</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? (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"827": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ephesians 4:28</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49004028.01-1\">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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"828": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 62:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19062010.01-1\">Put no trust in extortion;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>set no vain hopes on robbery;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>if riches increase, set not your heart on them. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"829": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Timothy 1:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p54001010.01-1\">the sexually immoral, men who practice homosexuality, enslavers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"830": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Proverbs 29:24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20029024.01-1\">The partner of a thief hates his own life;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>he hears the curse, but discloses nothing.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 50:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19050018.01-2\">If you see a thief, you are pleased with him,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and you keep company with adulterers. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"831": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Thessalonians 4:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p52004006.01-1\">that no one transgress and wrong his brother in this matter, because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as we told you beforehand and solemnly warned you.</p>\n</div><h5>Leviticus 19:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p03019013.01-2\">“You shall not oppress your neighbor or rob him. The wages of a hired servant shall not remain with you all night until the morning. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"832": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Proverbs 11:1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20011001.01-1\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v20011001-1\">11:1 </span>A false balance is an abomination to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but a just weight is his delight.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Proverbs 20:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20020010.01-2\">Unequal weights and unequal measures<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>are both alike an abomination to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"833": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Deuteronomy 19:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p05019014.03-1\">“You shall not move your neighbor's landmark, which the men of old have set, in the inheritance that you will hold in the land that the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God is giving you to possess.</p>\n</div><h5>Proverbs 23:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20023010.01-2\">Do not move an ancient landmark<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>or enter the fields of the fatherless, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"834": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Amos 8:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p30008005.01-1\">saying, “When will the new moon be over,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that we may sell grain?<br />\nAnd the Sabbath,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that we may offer wheat for sale,<br />\nthat we may make the ephah small and the shekel great<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and deal deceitfully with false balances,</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 37:21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19037021.01-2\">The wicked borrows but does not pay back,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but the righteous is generous and gives; (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"835": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Luke 16:10-12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42016010.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">“One who is faithful in a very little is also faithful in much, and one who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much.</span> <span class=\"woc\">If then you have not been faithful in the unrighteous wealth, who will entrust to you the true riches?</span> <span class=\"woc\">And if you have not been faithful in that which is another's, who will give you that which is your own?</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"836": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ezekiel 22:29</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p26022029.01-1\">The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery. They have oppressed the poor and needy, and have extorted from the sojourner without justice.</p>\n</div><h5>Leviticus 25:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p03025017.01-2\">You shall not wrong one another, but you shall fear your God, for I am the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"837": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 23:25</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40023025.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.</span></p>\n</div><h5>Ezekiel 22:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p26022012.01-2\">In you they take bribes to shed blood; you take interest and profit and make gain of your neighbors by extortion; but me you have forgotten, declares the Lord <span class=\"small-caps\">God</span>. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"838": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 15:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19015005.01-1\">who does not put out his money at interest<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and does not take a bribe against the innocent.<br />\nHe who does these things shall never be moved. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"839": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Job 15:34</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p18015034.01-1\">For the company of the godless is barren,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and fire consumes the tents of bribery. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"840": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Corinthians 6:6-8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46006006.01-1\">but brother goes to law against brother, and that before unbelievers? To have lawsuits at all with one another is already a defeat for you. Why not rather suffer wrong? Why not rather be defrauded? But you yourselves wrong and defraud—even your own brothers!</p>\n</div><h5>Proverbs 3:29-30</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20003029.01-2\">Do not plan evil against your neighbor,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>who dwells trustingly beside you.<br />\n Do not contend with a man for no reason,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>when he has done you no harm. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"841": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Isaiah 5:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23005008.05-1\">Woe to those who join house to house,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>who add field to field,<br />\nuntil there is no more room,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and you are made to dwell alone<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>in the midst of the land.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Micah 2:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p33002002.01-2\">They covet fields and seize them,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and houses, and take them away;<br />\nthey oppress a man and his house,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>a man and his inheritance. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"842": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Proverbs 11:26</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20011026.01-1\">The people curse him who holds back grain,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but a blessing is on the head of him who sells it. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"843": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Acts 19:19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44019019.01-1\">And a number of those who had practiced magic arts brought their books together and burned them in the sight of all. And they counted the value of them and found it came to fifty thousand pieces of silver.</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 19:24-25</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44019024.01-2\">For a man named Demetrius, a silversmith, who made silver shrines of Artemis, brought no little business to the craftsmen. These he gathered together, with the workmen in similar trades, and said, “Men, you know that from this business we have our wealth. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"844": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>James 5:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p59005004.01-1\">Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, are crying out against you, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.</p>\n</div><h5>Proverbs 21:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20021006.01-2\">The getting of treasures by a lying tongue<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>is a fleeting vapor and a snare of death.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Job 20:19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p18020019.01-3\">For he has crushed and abandoned the poor;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>he has seized a house that he did not build. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"845": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Luke 12:15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42012015.01-1\">And he said to them, <span class=\"woc\">“Take care, and be on your guard against all covetousness, for one's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.”</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"846": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Timothy 6:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p54006005.01-1\">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>Colossians 3:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p51003002.01-2\">Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.</p>\n</div><h5>1 John 2:15-16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p62002015.06-3\">Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 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>Proverbs 23:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20023005.01-4\">When your eyes light on it, it is gone,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for suddenly it sprouts wings,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>flying like an eagle toward heaven.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 62:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19062010.01-5\">Put no trust in extortion;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>set no vain hopes on robbery;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>if riches increase, set not your heart on them. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"847": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 6:25</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p40006025.05-1\"><span class=\"woc\">“Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?</span></p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 6:31</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40006031.01-2\"><span class=\"woc\">Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’</span></p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 6:34</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40006034.01-3\"><span class=\"woc\">“Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.</span></p>\n</div><h5>Ecclesiastes 5:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p21005012.01-4\">Sweet is the sleep of a laborer, whether he eats little or much, but the full stomach of the rich will not let him sleep. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"848": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 73:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19073003.01-1\">For I was envious of the arrogant<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 37:1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19037001.09-2\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v19037001-2\">37:1 </span>Fret not yourself because of evildoers;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>be not envious of wrongdoers!</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 37:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19037007.01-3\">Be still before the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> and wait patiently for him;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>fret not yourself over the one who prospers in his way,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>over the man who carries out evil devices! (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"849": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>2 Thessalonians 3:10-11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p53003010.01-1\">For even when we were with you, we would give you this command: If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat. For we hear that some among you walk in idleness, not busy at work, but busybodies.</p>\n</div><h5>Proverbs 18:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20018009.01-2\">Whoever is slack in his work<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>is a brother to him who destroys. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"850": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Proverbs 21:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20021017.01-1\">Whoever loves pleasure will be a poor man;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>he who loves wine and oil will not be rich.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Proverbs 23:20-21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20023020.01-2\">Be not among drunkards<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>or among gluttonous eaters of meat,<br />\n for the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and slumber will clothe them with rags.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Proverbs 28:19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20028019.01-3\">Whoever works his land will have plenty of bread,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but he who follows worthless pursuits will have plenty of poverty. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"851": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ecclesiastes 4:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p21004008.01-1\">one person who has no other, either son or brother, yet there is no end to all his toil, and his eyes are never satisfied with riches, so that he never asks, “For whom am I toiling and depriving myself of pleasure?” This also is vanity and an unhappy business.</p>\n</div><h5>Ecclesiastes 6:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p21006002.01-2\">a man to whom God gives wealth, possessions, and honor, so that he lacks nothing of all that he desires, yet God does not give him power to enjoy them, but a stranger enjoys them. This is vanity; it is a grievous evil.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Timothy 4:3-5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p54004003.01-3\">who forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth. For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving, for it is made holy by the word of God and prayer.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Timothy 5:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p54005008.01-4\">But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"826": "James 2:15-16; I John 3:17",
"827": "Ephesians 4:28",
"828": "Psalms 62:10",
"829": "I Timothy 1:10",
"830": "Proverbs 29:24; Psalms 50:18",
"831": "I Thessalonians 4:6; Leviticus 19:13",
"832": "Proverbs 11:1; Proverbs 20:10",
"833": "Deuteronomy 19:14; Proverbs 23:10",
"834": "Amos 8:5; Psalms 37:21",
"835": "Luke 16:10-12",
"836": "Ezekiel 22:29; Leviticus 25:17",
"837": "Matthew 23:25; Ezekiel 22:12",
"838": "Psalms 15:5",
"839": "Job 15:34",
"840": "I Corinthians 6:6-8; Proverbs 3:29-30",
"841": "Isaiah 5:8; Micah 2:2",
"842": "Proverbs 11:26",
"843": "Acts 19:19,24-25",
"844": "James 5:4; Proverbs 21:6; Job 20:19",
"845": "Luke 12:15",
"846": "I Timothy 6:5; Colossians 3:2; I John 2:15-16; Proverbs 23:5; Psalms 62:10",
"847": "Matthew 6:25,31,34; Ecclesiastes 5:12",
"848": "Psalms 73:3; Psalms 37:1,7",
"849": "II Thessalonians 3:10-11; Proverbs 18:9",
"850": "Proverbs 21:17; Proverbs 23:20-21; Proverbs 28:19",
"851": "Ecclesiastes 4:8; Ecclesiastes 6:2; I Timothy 4:3-5; I Timothy 5:8"
},
"question": "What are the sins forbidden in the eighth commandment?"
},
"143": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Ex 20:16; Deuteronomy 5:20' data-prooftexts-index='852'>The ninth commandment is,Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"852": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Exodus 20:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p02020016.01-1\">“You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.</p>\n</div><h5>Deuteronomy 5:20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p05005020.01-2\">“‘And you shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"852": "Ex 20:16; Deuteronomy 5:20"
},
"question": "Which is the ninth commandment?"
},
"144": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Zechariah 8:16; Ephesians 4:25' data-prooftexts-index='853'>The duties required in the ninth commandment are, the preserving and promoting of truth between man and man,</span><span data-prooftexts='III John 12' data-prooftexts-index='854'> and the good name of our neighbor, as well as our own;</span><span data-prooftexts='Proverbs 31:8-9' data-prooftexts-index='855'> appearing and standing for the truth;</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 15:2' data-prooftexts-index='856'> and from the heart,</span><span data-prooftexts='II Chronicles 19:9' data-prooftexts-index='857'> sincerely,</span><span data-prooftexts='I Samuel 19:4-5' data-prooftexts-index='858'> freely,</span><span data-prooftexts='Joshua 7:15-20' data-prooftexts-index='859'> clearly,</span><span data-prooftexts='II Samuel 14:18-20; Acts 20:27' data-prooftexts-index='860'> and fully,</span><span data-prooftexts='Leviticus 19:15; Proverbs 14:5,25' data-prooftexts-index='861'> speaking the truth, and only the truth, in matters of judgment and justice,</span><span data-prooftexts='II Corinthians 1:17-18; Ephesians 4:25; Colossians 3:9' data-prooftexts-index='862'> and in all other things whatsoever;</span><span data-prooftexts='Hebrews 6:9; I Corinthians 13:7' data-prooftexts-index='863'> a charitable esteem of our neighbors;</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 1:8; II John 4; III John 3-4' data-prooftexts-index='864'> loving, desiring, and rejoicing in their good name;</span><span data-prooftexts='II Corinthians 2:4; II Corinthians 12:21; Psalms 119:158' data-prooftexts-index='865'> sorrowing for,</span><span data-prooftexts='Proverbs 17:9; I Peter 4:8' data-prooftexts-index='866'> and covering of their infirmities;</span><span data-prooftexts='I Corinthians 1:4-5,7; II Timothy 1:4-5' data-prooftexts-index='867'> freely acknowledging of their gifts and graces,</span><span data-prooftexts='I Samuel 22:14' data-prooftexts-index='868'> defending their innocency;</span><span data-prooftexts='I Corinthians 13:6-7' data-prooftexts-index='869'> a ready receiving of a good report,</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 15:3' data-prooftexts-index='870'> and unwillingness to admit of an evil report,</span><span data-prooftexts='Proverbs 25:23' data-prooftexts-index='871'> concerning them; discouraging talebearers,</span><span data-prooftexts='Proverbs 26:24-25' data-prooftexts-index='872'> flatterers,</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 101:5' data-prooftexts-index='873'> and slanderers;</span><span data-prooftexts='Proverbs 22:1; John 8:49; II Corinthians 11:1-12:13' data-prooftexts-index='874'> love and care of our own good name, and defending it when need requireth;</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 15:4' data-prooftexts-index='875'> keeping of lawful promises;</span><span data-prooftexts='Philippians 4:8' data-prooftexts-index='876'> studying and practicing of whatsoever things are true, honest, lovely, and of good report.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"853": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Zechariah 8:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p38008016.01-1\">These are the things that you shall do: Speak the truth to one another; render in your gates judgments that are true and make for peace;</p>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 4:25</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49004025.01-2\">Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"854": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>3 John 1:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p64001012.01-1\">Demetrius has received a good testimony from everyone, and from the truth itself. We also add our testimony, and you know that our testimony is true. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"855": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Proverbs 31:8-9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20031008.01-1\">Open your mouth for the mute,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for the rights of all who are destitute.<br />\n Open your mouth, judge righteously,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>defend the rights of the poor and needy. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"856": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 15:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19015002.01-1\">He who walks blamelessly and does what is right<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and speaks truth in his heart; (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"857": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>2 Chronicles 19:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p14019009.01-1\">And he charged them: “Thus you shall do in the fear of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, in faithfulness, and with your whole heart: (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"858": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Samuel 19:4-5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p09019004.01-1\">And Jonathan spoke well of David to Saul his father and said to him, “Let not the king sin against his servant David, because he has not sinned against you, and because his deeds have brought good to you. For he took his life in his hand and he struck down the Philistine, and the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> worked a great salvation for all Israel. You saw it, and rejoiced. Why then will you sin against innocent blood by killing David without cause?” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"859": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Joshua 7:15-20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p06007015.01-1\">And he who is taken with the devoted things shall be burned with fire, he and all that he has, because he has transgressed the covenant of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, and because he has done an outrageous thing in Israel.’”</p>\n <p id=\"p06007016.01-1\">So Joshua rose early in the morning and brought Israel near tribe by tribe, and the tribe of Judah was taken. And he brought near the clans of Judah, and the clan of the Zerahites was taken. And he brought near the clan of the Zerahites man by man, and Zabdi was taken. And he brought near his household man by man, and Achan the son of Carmi, son of Zabdi, son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, was taken. 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.” And Achan answered Joshua, “Truly I have sinned against the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> God of Israel, and this is what I did: (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"860": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>2 Samuel 14:18-20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p10014018.01-1\">Then the king answered the woman, “Do not hide from me anything I ask you.” And the woman said, “Let my lord the king speak.” The king said, “Is the hand of Joab with you in all this?” The woman answered and said, “As surely as you live, my lord the king, one cannot turn to the right hand or to the left from anything that my lord the king has said. It was your servant Joab who commanded me; it was he who put all these words in the mouth of your servant. In order to change the course of things your servant Joab did this. But my lord has wisdom like the wisdom of the angel of God to know all things that are on the earth.”</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 20:27</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44020027.01-2\">for I did not shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"861": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Leviticus 19:15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p03019015.01-1\">“You shall do no injustice in court. You shall not be partial to the poor or defer to the great, but in righteousness shall you judge your neighbor.</p>\n</div><h5>Proverbs 14:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20014005.01-2\">A faithful witness does not lie,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but a false witness breathes out lies.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Proverbs 14:25</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20014025.01-3\">A truthful witness saves lives,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but one who breathes out lies is deceitful. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"862": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>2 Corinthians 1:17-18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p47001017.01-1\">Was I vacillating when I wanted to do this? Do I make my plans according to the flesh, ready to say “Yes, yes” and “No, no” at the same time? As surely as God is faithful, our word to you has not been Yes and No.</p>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 4:25</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49004025.01-2\">Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another.</p>\n</div><h5>Colossians 3:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p51003009.01-3\">Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"863": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Hebrews 6:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58006009.01-1\">Though we speak in this way, yet in your case, beloved, we feel sure of better things—things that belong to salvation.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 13:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46013007.01-2\">Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"864": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 1:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p45001008.06-1\">First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is proclaimed in all the world.</p>\n</div><h5>2 John 1:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p63001004.06-2\">I rejoiced greatly to find some of your children walking in the truth, just as we were commanded by the Father.</p>\n</div><h5>3 John 1:3-4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p64001003.01-3\">For I rejoiced greatly when the brothers came and testified to your truth, as indeed you are walking in the truth. I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"865": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>2 Corinthians 2:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p47002004.01-1\">For I wrote to you out of much affliction and anguish of heart and with many tears, not to cause you pain but to let you know the abundant love that I have for you.</p>\n</div><h5>2 Corinthians 12:21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p47012021.01-2\">I fear that when I come again my God may humble me before you, and I may have to mourn over many of those who sinned earlier and have not repented of the impurity, sexual immorality, and sensuality that they have practiced.</p>\n</div><h5>Psalm 119:158</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119158.01-3\">I look at the faithless with disgust,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>because they do not keep your commands. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"866": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Proverbs 17:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20017009.01-1\">Whoever covers an offense seeks love,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but he who repeats a matter separates close friends.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>1 Peter 4:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p60004008.01-2\">Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"867": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Corinthians 1:4-5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p46001004.02-1\">I give thanks to my God always for you because of the grace of God that was given you in Christ Jesus, that in every way you were enriched in him in all speech and all knowledge—</p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 1:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46001007.01-2\">so that you are not lacking in any spiritual gift, as you wait for the revealing of our Lord Jesus Christ,</p>\n</div><h5>2 Timothy 1:4-5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p55001004.01-3\">As I remember your tears, I long to see you, that I may be filled with joy. I am reminded of your sincere faith, a faith that dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice and now, I am sure, dwells in you as well. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"868": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Samuel 22:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p09022014.01-1\">Then Ahimelech answered the king, “And who among all your servants is so faithful as David, who is the king's son-in-law, and captain over your bodyguard, and honored in your house? (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"869": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Corinthians 13:6-7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46013006.01-1\">it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"870": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 15:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19015003.01-1\">who does not slander with his tongue<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and does no evil to his neighbor,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>nor takes up a reproach against his friend; (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"871": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Proverbs 25:23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20025023.01-1\">The north wind brings forth rain,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and a backbiting tongue, angry looks. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"872": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Proverbs 26:24-25</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20026024.01-1\">Whoever hates disguises himself with his lips<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and harbors deceit in his heart;<br />\n when he speaks graciously, believe him not,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for there are seven abominations in his heart; (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"873": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 101:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19101005.01-1\">Whoever slanders his neighbor secretly<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I will destroy.<br />\nWhoever has a haughty look and an arrogant heart<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I will not endure. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"874": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Proverbs 22:1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20022001.01-1\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v20022001-1\">22:1 </span>A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and favor is better than silver or gold.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>John 8:49</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43008049.01-2\">Jesus answered, <span class=\"woc\">“I do not have a demon, but I honor my Father, and you dishonor me.</span></p>\n</div><h5>2 Corinthians 11:1-12:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p47011001.06-3\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v47011001-3\">11:1 </span>I wish you would bear with me in a little foolishness. Do bear with me! For I feel a divine jealousy for you, since I betrothed you to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ. 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. For if someone comes and proclaims another Jesus than the one we proclaimed, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received, or if you accept a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it readily enough. Indeed, I consider that I am not in the least inferior to these super-apostles. Even if I am unskilled in speaking, I am not so in knowledge; indeed, in every way we have made this plain to you in all things.</p>\n <p id=\"p47011007.01-3\">Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself so that you might be exalted, because I preached God's gospel to you free of charge? I robbed other churches by accepting support from them in order to serve you. And when I was with you and was in need, I did not burden anyone, for the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied my need. So I refrained and will refrain from burdening you in any way. As the truth of Christ is in me, this boasting of mine will not be silenced in the regions of Achaia. And why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do!</p>\n <p id=\"p47011012.01-3\">And what I do I will continue to do, in order to undermine the claim of those who would like to claim that in their boasted mission they work on the same terms as we do. For such men are false apostles, deceitful workmen, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ. And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. So it is no surprise if his servants, also, disguise themselves as servants of righteousness. Their end will correspond to their deeds.</p>\n \n<p id=\"p47011016.06-3\">I repeat, let no one think me foolish. But even if you do, accept me as a fool, so that I too may boast a little. What I am saying with this boastful confidence, I say not with the Lord's authority but as a fool. Since many boast according to the flesh, I too will boast. For you gladly bear with fools, being wise yourselves! For you bear it if someone makes slaves of you, or devours you, or takes advantage of you, or puts on airs, or strikes you in the face. To my shame, I must say, we were too weak for that!</p>\n<p id=\"p47011021.13-3\">But whatever anyone else dares to boast of—I am speaking as a fool—I also dare to boast of that. Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they offspring of Abraham? So am I. Are they servants of Christ? I am a better one—I am talking like a madman—with far greater labors, far more imprisonments, with countless beatings, and often near death. Five times I received at the hands of the Jews the forty lashes less one. Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I was shipwrecked; a night and a day I was adrift at sea; on frequent journeys, in danger from rivers, danger from robbers, danger from my own people, danger from Gentiles, danger in the city, danger in the wilderness, danger at sea, danger from false brothers; in toil and hardship, through many a sleepless night, in hunger and thirst, often without food, in cold and exposure. And, apart from other things, there is the daily pressure on me of my anxiety for all the churches. Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is made to fall, and I am not indignant?</p>\n <p id=\"p47011030.01-3\">If I must boast, I will boast of the things that show my weakness. The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, he who is blessed forever, knows that I am not lying. At Damascus, the governor under King Aretas was guarding the city of Damascus in order to seize me, but I was let down in a basket through a window in the wall and escaped his hands.</p>\n \n<p id=\"p47012001.06-3\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v47012001-3\">12:1 </span>I must go on boasting. Though there is nothing to be gained by it, I will go on to visions and revelations of the Lord. I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven—whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows. And I know that this man was caught up into paradise—whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows— and he heard things that cannot be told, which man may not utter. On behalf of this man I will boast, but on my own behalf I will not boast, except of my weaknesses. Though if I should wish to boast, I would not be a fool, for I would be speaking the truth. But I refrain from it, so that no one may think more of me than he sees in me or hears from me. 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. For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.</p>\n \n<p id=\"p47012011.06-3\">I have been a fool! You forced me to it, for I ought to have been commended by you. For I was not at all inferior to these super-apostles, even though I am nothing. The signs of a true apostle were performed among you with utmost patience, with signs and wonders and mighty works. For in what were you less favored than the rest of the churches, except that I myself did not burden you? Forgive me this wrong! (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"875": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 15:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19015004.01-1\">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>",
"876": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Philippians 4:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p50004008.01-1\">Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"853": "Zechariah 8:16; Ephesians 4:25",
"854": "III John 12",
"855": "Proverbs 31:8-9",
"856": "Psalms 15:2",
"857": "II Chronicles 19:9",
"858": "I Samuel 19:4-5",
"859": "Joshua 7:15-20",
"860": "II Samuel 14:18-20; Acts 20:27",
"861": "Leviticus 19:15; Proverbs 14:5,25",
"862": "II Corinthians 1:17-18; Ephesians 4:25; Colossians 3:9",
"863": "Hebrews 6:9; I Corinthians 13:7",
"864": "Romans 1:8; II John 4; III John 3-4",
"865": "II Corinthians 2:4; II Corinthians 12:21; Psalms 119:158",
"866": "Proverbs 17:9; I Peter 4:8",
"867": "I Corinthians 1:4-5,7; II Timothy 1:4-5",
"868": "I Samuel 22:14",
"869": "I Corinthians 13:6-7",
"870": "Psalms 15:3",
"871": "Proverbs 25:23",
"872": "Proverbs 26:24-25",
"873": "Psalms 101:5",
"874": "Proverbs 22:1; John 8:49; II Corinthians 11:1-12:13",
"875": "Psalms 15:4",
"876": "Philippians 4:8"
},
"question": "What are the duties required in the ninth commandment?"
},
"145": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Luke 3:14; I Samuel 17:28; II Samuel 16:3; II Samuel 1:9-10,15-16' data-prooftexts-index='877'>The sins forbidden in the ninth commandment are, all prejudicing the truth, and the good name of our neighbors, as well as our own,</span><span data-prooftexts='Leviticus 19:15; Habakkuk 1:4' data-prooftexts-index='878'> especially in public judicature;</span><span data-prooftexts='Proverbs 19:5; Proverbs 6:16' data-prooftexts-index='879'> giving false evidence,</span><span data-prooftexts='Acts 6:13' data-prooftexts-index='880'> suborning false witnesses,</span><span data-prooftexts='Jeremiah 9:3,5; Psalms 12:3-4; Acts 24:2,5; Psalms 52:1-4' data-prooftexts-index='881'> wittingly appearing and pleading for an evil cause, outfacing and overbearing the truth;</span><span data-prooftexts='Proverbs 17:15; I Kings 21:9-14' data-prooftexts-index='882'> passing unjust sentence,</span><span data-prooftexts='Isaiah 5:23' data-prooftexts-index='883'> calling evil good, and good evil; rewarding the wicked according to the work of the righteous, and the righteous according to the work of the wicked;</span><span data-prooftexts='I Kings 21:8' data-prooftexts-index='884'> forgery,</span><span data-prooftexts='Leviticus 5:1; Acts 5:3,8-9; Deuteronomy 13:8; II Timothy 4:16' data-prooftexts-index='885'> concealing the truth, undue silence in a just cause,</span><span data-prooftexts='I Kings 1:6; Leviticus 19:17' data-prooftexts-index='886'> and holding our peace when iniquity calleth for either a reproof from ourselves,</span><span data-prooftexts='Isaiah 59:4' data-prooftexts-index='887'> or complaint to others;</span><span data-prooftexts='Proverbs 29:11' data-prooftexts-index='888'> speaking the truth unseasonably,</span><span data-prooftexts='I Samuel 22:9-10; Psalms 52:1-5' data-prooftexts-index='889'> or maliciously to a wrong end,</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 56:5; Matthew 26:60-61; John 2:19' data-prooftexts-index='890'> or perverting it to a wrong meaning,</span><span data-prooftexts='Genesis 3:5; Genesis 26:7,9' data-prooftexts-index='891'> or in doubtful and equivocal expressions, to the prejudice of truth or justice;</span><span data-prooftexts='Isaiah 59:13' data-prooftexts-index='892'> speaking untruth,</span><span data-prooftexts='Colossians 3:9; Leviticus 19:11' data-prooftexts-index='893'> lying,</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 50:20' data-prooftexts-index='894'> slandering,</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 15:3' data-prooftexts-index='895'> backbiting,</span><span data-prooftexts='James 4:11; Jeremiah 38:4' data-prooftexts-index='896'> detracting,</span><span data-prooftexts='Leviticus 19:16' data-prooftexts-index='897'> talebearing,</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 1:29-30' data-prooftexts-index='898'> whispering,</span><span data-prooftexts='Genesis 21:9; Galatians 4:29' data-prooftexts-index='899'> scoffing,</span><span data-prooftexts='I Corinthians 6:10' data-prooftexts-index='900'> reviling,</span><span data-prooftexts='Matthew 7:1' data-prooftexts-index='901'> rash,</span><span data-prooftexts='Acts 28:4; James 2:13' data-prooftexts-index='902'> harsh,</span><span data-prooftexts='Genesis 38:24; Romans 2:1' data-prooftexts-index='903'> and partial censuring;</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 3:8; Psalms 69:10; Nehemiah 6:6-8; I Samuel 1:13-15; II Samuel 10:3' data-prooftexts-index='904'> misconstructing intentions, words, and actions;</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 12:2-3' data-prooftexts-index='905'> flattering,</span><span data-prooftexts='2 Timothy 3:2' data-prooftexts-index='906'> vainglorious boasting;</span><span data-prooftexts='Luke 18:9,11; Acts 12:22; Ex 4:10-14; Rom 12:16; Gal 5:26; I Cor 4:6' data-prooftexts-index='907'> thinking or speaking too highly or too meanly of ourselves or others;</span><span data-prooftexts='Luke 9:49-50; 2 Cor 10:10; Acts 2:13; Job 27:5-6; Job 4:6' data-prooftexts-index='908'> denying the gifts and graces of God;</span><span data-prooftexts='Matt 7:3-5' data-prooftexts-index='909'> aggravating smaller faults;</span><span data-prooftexts='Prov 28:13; Gen 3:12-13; Prov 30:20; Jer 2:35; 2 Kings 5:25; Gen 4:9' data-prooftexts-index='910'> hiding, excusing, or extenuating of sins, when called to a free confession;</span><span data-prooftexts='Prov 25:9-10; Gen 9:22' data-prooftexts-index='911'> unnecessary discovering of infirmities;</span><span data-prooftexts='Ex 23:1' data-prooftexts-index='912'> raising false rumors,</span><span data-prooftexts='Prov 29:12; Ps 41:7-8' data-prooftexts-index='913'> receiving and countenancing evil reports,</span><span data-prooftexts='Acts 7:56-57; Job 31:13-14' data-prooftexts-index='914'> and stopping our ears against just defense;</span><span data-prooftexts='1 Cor 13:5; 1 Tim 6:4' data-prooftexts-index='915'> evil suspicion;</span><span data-prooftexts='Matt 21:15; Num 11:29' data-prooftexts-index='916'> envying or grieving at the deserved credit of any,</span><span data-prooftexts='Ezra 4:12-13; Dan 6:3-4' data-prooftexts-index='917'> endeavoring or desiring to impair it,</span><span data-prooftexts='Jer 48:27' data-prooftexts-index='918'> rejoicing in their disgrace and infamy;</span><span data-prooftexts='Matt 27:28-29; Ps 35:15-16,21' data-prooftexts-index='919'> scornful contempt,</span><span data-prooftexts='Jude 16; Acts 12:22' data-prooftexts-index='920'> fond admiration;</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 1:31; II Timothy 3:3' data-prooftexts-index='921'> breach of lawful promises;</span><span data-prooftexts='I Samuel 2:24' data-prooftexts-index='922'> neglecting such things as are of good report,</span><span data-prooftexts='II Samuel 13:12-13; Proverbs 5:8-9; Proverbs 6:33' data-prooftexts-index='923'> and practicing, or not avoiding ourselves, or not hindering what we can in others, such things as procure an ill name.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"877": "<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>1 Samuel 17:28</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p09017028.01-2\">Now Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spoke to the men. And Eliab's anger was kindled against David, and he said, “Why have you come down? And with whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your presumption and the evil of your heart, for you have come down to see the battle.”</p>\n</div><h5>2 Samuel 16:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p10016003.01-3\">And the king said, “And where is your master's son?” Ziba said to the king, “Behold, he remains in Jerusalem, for he said, ‘Today the house of Israel will give me back the kingdom of my father.’”</p>\n</div><h5>2 Samuel 1:9-10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p10001009.01-4\">And he said to me ‘Stand beside me and kill me, for anguish has seized me, and yet my life still lingers.’ So I stood beside him and killed him, because I was sure that he could not live after he had fallen. And I took the crown that was on his head and the armlet that was on his arm, and I have brought them here to my lord.”</p>\n</div><h5>2 Samuel 1:15-16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p10001015.01-5\">Then David called one of the young men and said, “Go, execute him.” And he struck him down so that he died. And David said to him, “Your blood be on your head, for your own mouth has testified against you, saying, ‘I have killed the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>'s anointed.’” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"878": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Leviticus 19:15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p03019015.01-1\">“You shall do no injustice in court. You shall not be partial to the poor or defer to the great, but in righteousness shall you judge your neighbor.</p>\n</div><h5>Habakkuk 1:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p35001004.01-2\">So the law is paralyzed,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and justice never goes forth.<br />\nFor the wicked surround the righteous;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>so justice goes forth perverted. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"879": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Proverbs 19:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20019005.01-1\">A false witness will not go unpunished,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and he who breathes out lies will not escape.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Proverbs 6:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20006016.01-2\">There are six things that the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> hates,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>seven that are an abomination to him: (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"880": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Acts 6:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44006013.01-1\">and they set up false witnesses who said, “This man never ceases to speak words against this holy place and the law, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"881": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Jeremiah 9:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p24009003.01-1\">They bend their tongue like a bow;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>falsehood and not truth has grown strong in the land;<br />\nfor they proceed from evil to evil,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and they do not know me, declares the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Jeremiah 9:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p24009005.01-2\">Everyone deceives his neighbor,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and no one speaks the truth;<br />\nthey have taught their tongue to speak lies;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>they weary themselves committing iniquity.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 12:3-4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19012003.01-3\">May the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> cut off all flattering lips,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>the tongue that makes great boasts,<br />\n those who say, “With our tongue we will prevail,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>our lips are with us; who is master over us?”</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Acts 24:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44024002.01-4\">And when he had been summoned, Tertullus began to accuse him, saying:</p>\n<p id=\"p44024002.13-4\">“Since through you we enjoy much peace, and since by your foresight, most excellent Felix, reforms are being made for this nation,</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 24:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44024005.01-5\">For we have found this man a plague, one who stirs up riots among all the Jews throughout the world and is a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.</p>\n</div><h5>Psalm 52:1-4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19052001.30-6\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v19052001-6\">52:1 </span>Why do you boast of evil, O mighty man?<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>The steadfast love of God endures all the day.<br />\n Your tongue plots destruction,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>like a sharp razor, you worker of deceit.<br />\n You love evil more than good,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and lying more than speaking what is right. <span class=\"selah\">Selah</span><br />\n You love all words that devour,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>O deceitful tongue. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"882": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Proverbs 17:15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20017015.01-1\">He who justifies the wicked and he who condemns the righteous<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>are both alike an abomination to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>1 Kings 21:9-14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p11021009.01-2\">And she wrote in the letters, “Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth at the head of the people. And set two worthless men opposite him, and let them bring a charge against him, saying, ‘You have cursed God and the king.’ Then take him out and stone him to death.” And the men of his city, the elders and the leaders who lived in his city, did as Jezebel had sent word to them. As it was written in the letters that she had sent to them, they proclaimed a fast and set Naboth at the head of the people. And the two worthless men came in and sat opposite him. And the worthless men brought a charge against Naboth in the presence of the people, saying, “Naboth cursed God and the king.” So they took him outside the city and stoned him to death with stones. Then they sent to Jezebel, saying, “Naboth has been stoned; he is dead.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"883": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Isaiah 5:23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23005023.01-1\">who acquit the guilty for a bribe,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and deprive the innocent of his right! (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"884": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Kings 21:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p11021008.01-1\">So she wrote letters in Ahab's name and sealed them with his seal, and she sent the letters to the elders and the leaders who lived with Naboth in his city. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"885": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Leviticus 5:1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p03005001.01-1\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v03005001-1\">5:1 </span>“If anyone sins in that he hears a public adjuration to testify, and though he is a witness, whether he has seen or come to know the matter, yet does not speak, he shall bear his iniquity;</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 5:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44005003.01-2\">But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back for yourself part of the proceeds of the land?</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 5:8-9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44005008.01-3\">And Peter said to her, “Tell me whether you sold the land for so much.” And she said, “Yes, for so much.” But Peter said to her, “How is it that you have agreed together to test the Spirit of the Lord? Behold, the feet of those who have buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out.”</p>\n</div><h5>Deuteronomy 13:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p05013008.01-4\">you shall not yield to him or listen to him, nor shall your eye pity him, nor shall you spare him, nor shall you conceal him.</p>\n</div><h5>2 Timothy 4:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p55004016.01-5\">At my first defense no one came to stand by me, but all deserted me. May it not be charged against them! (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"886": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Kings 1:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p11001006.01-1\">His father had never at any time displeased him by asking, “Why have you done thus and so?” He was also a very handsome man, and he was born next after Absalom.</p>\n</div><h5>Leviticus 19:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p03019017.01-2\">“You shall not hate your brother in your heart, but you shall reason frankly with your neighbor, lest you incur sin because of him. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"887": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Isaiah 59:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23059004.01-1\">No one enters suit justly;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>no one goes to law honestly;<br />\nthey rely on empty pleas, they speak lies,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>they conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"888": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Proverbs 29:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20029011.01-1\">A fool gives full vent to his spirit,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but a wise man quietly holds it back. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"889": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Samuel 22:9-10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p09022009.01-1\">Then answered Doeg the Edomite, who stood by the servants of Saul, “I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub, and he inquired of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> for him and gave him provisions and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.”</p>\n</div><h5>Psalm 52:1-5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19052001.30-2\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v19052001-2\">52:1 </span>Why do you boast of evil, O mighty man?<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>The steadfast love of God endures all the day.<br />\n Your tongue plots destruction,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>like a sharp razor, you worker of deceit.<br />\n You love evil more than good,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and lying more than speaking what is right. <span class=\"selah\">Selah</span><br />\n You love all words that devour,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>O deceitful tongue.</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19052005.01-2\">But God will break you down forever;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>he will snatch and tear you from your tent;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>he will uproot you from the land of the living. <span class=\"selah\">Selah</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"890": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 56:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19056005.01-1\">All day long they injure my cause;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>all their thoughts are against me for evil.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Matthew 26:60-61</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40026060.01-2\">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.’”</p>\n</div><h5>John 2:19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43002019.01-3\">Jesus answered them, <span class=\"woc\">“Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"891": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Genesis 3:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p01003005.01-1\">For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”</p>\n</div><h5>Genesis 26:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p01026007.01-2\">When the men of the place asked him about his wife, he said, “She is my sister,” for he feared to say, “My wife,” thinking, “lest the men of the place should kill me because of Rebekah,” because she was attractive in appearance.</p>\n</div><h5>Genesis 26:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p01026009.01-3\">So Abimelech called Isaac and said, “Behold, she is your wife. How then could you say, ‘She is my sister’?” Isaac said to him, “Because I thought, ‘Lest I die because of her.’” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"892": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Isaiah 59:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23059013.01-1\">transgressing, and denying the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and turning back from following our God,<br />\nspeaking oppression and revolt,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>conceiving and uttering from the heart lying words. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"893": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Colossians 3:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p51003009.01-1\">Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices</p>\n</div><h5>Leviticus 19:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p03019011.01-2\">“You shall not steal; you shall not deal falsely; you shall not lie to one another. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"894": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 50:20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19050020.01-1\">You sit and speak against your brother;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>you slander your own mother's son. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"895": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 15:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19015003.01-1\">who does not slander with his tongue<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and does no evil to his neighbor,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>nor takes up a reproach against his friend; (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"896": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>James 4:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p59004011.01-1\">Do not speak evil against one another, brothers. The one who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks evil against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.</p>\n</div><h5>Jeremiah 38:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p24038004.01-2\">Then the officials said to the king, “Let this man be put to death, for he is weakening the hands of the soldiers who are left in this city, and the hands of all the people, by speaking such words to them. For this man is not seeking the welfare of this people, but their harm.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"897": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Leviticus 19:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p03019016.01-1\">You shall not go around as a slanderer among your people, and you shall not stand up against the life of your neighbor: I am the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"898": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 1:29-30</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45001029.01-1\">They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips, slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"899": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Genesis 21:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p01021009.01-1\">But Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, laughing.</p>\n</div><h5>Galatians 4:29</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p48004029.01-2\">But just as at that time he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so also it is now. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"900": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Corinthians 6:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46006010.01-1\">nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"901": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 7:1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p40007001.03-1\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v40007001-1\">7:1 </span><span class=\"woc\">“Judge not, that you be not judged.</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"902": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Acts 28:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44028004.01-1\">When the native people saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, “No doubt this man is a murderer. Though he has escaped from the sea, Justice has not allowed him to live.”</p>\n</div><h5>James 2:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p59002013.01-2\">For judgment is without mercy to one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"903": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Genesis 38:24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p01038024.01-1\">About three months later Judah was told, “Tamar your daughter-in-law has been immoral. Moreover, she is pregnant by immorality.” And Judah said, “Bring her out, and let her be burned.”</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 2:1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p45002001.04-2\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v45002001-2\">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>",
"904": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 3:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45003008.01-1\">And why not do evil that good may come?—as some people slanderously charge us with saying. Their condemnation is just.</p>\n</div><h5>Psalm 69:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19069010.01-2\">When I wept and humbled my soul with fasting,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>it became my reproach.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Nehemiah 6:6-8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p16006006.01-3\">In it was written, “It is reported among the nations, and Geshem also says it, that you and the Jews intend to rebel; that is why you are building the wall. And according to these reports you wish to become their king. And you have also set up prophets to proclaim concerning you in Jerusalem, ‘There is a king in Judah.’ And now the king will hear of these reports. So now come and let us take counsel together.” Then I sent to him, saying, “No such things as you say have been done, for you are inventing them out of your own mind.”</p>\n</div><h5>1 Samuel 1:13-15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p09001013.01-4\">Hannah was speaking in her heart; only her lips moved, and her voice was not heard. Therefore Eli took her to be a drunken woman. And Eli said to her, “How long will you go on being drunk? Put your wine away from you.” But Hannah answered, “No, my lord, I am a woman troubled in spirit. I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but I have been pouring out my soul before the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>.</p>\n</div><h5>2 Samuel 10:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p10010003.01-5\">But the princes of the Ammonites said to Hanun their lord, “Do you think, because David has sent comforters to you, that he is honoring your father? Has not David sent his servants to you to search the city and to spy it out and to overthrow it?” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"905": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 12:2-3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19012002.01-1\">Everyone utters lies to his neighbor;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>with flattering lips and a double heart they speak.</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19012003.01-1\">May the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> cut off all flattering lips,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>the tongue that makes great boasts, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"906": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>2 Timothy 3:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p55003002.01-1\">For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"907": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Luke 18:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p42018009.07-1\">He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and treated others with contempt:</p>\n</div><h5>Luke 18:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42018011.01-2\"><span class=\"woc\">The Pharisee, standing by himself, prayed thus: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.</span></p>\n</div><h5>Acts 12:22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44012022.01-3\">And the people were shouting, “The voice of a god, and not of a man!”</p>\n</div><h5>Exodus 4:10-14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p02004010.01-4\">But Moses said to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, “Oh, my Lord, I am not eloquent, either in the past or since you have spoken to your servant, but I am slow of speech and of tongue.” Then the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> said to him, “Who has made man's mouth? Who makes him mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Is it not I, the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>? Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth and teach you what you shall speak.” But he said, “Oh, my Lord, please send someone else.” Then the anger of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> was kindled against Moses and he said, “Is there not Aaron, your brother, the Levite? I know that he can speak well. Behold, he is coming out to meet you, and when he sees you, he will be glad in his heart.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 12:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45012016.01-5\">Live in harmony with one another. Do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly. Never be wise in your own sight.</p>\n</div><h5>Galatians 5:26</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p48005026.01-6\">Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 4:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46004006.01-7\">I have applied all these things to myself and Apollos for your benefit, brothers, that you may learn by us not to go beyond what is written, that none of you may be puffed up in favor of one against another. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"908": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Luke 9:49-50</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p42009049.08-1\">John answered, “Master, we saw someone casting out demons in your name, and we tried to stop him, because he does not follow with us.” But Jesus said to him, <span class=\"woc\">“Do not stop him, for the one who is not against you is for you.”</span></p>\n</div><h5>2 Corinthians 10:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p47010010.01-2\">For they say, “His letters are weighty and strong, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech of no account.”</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 2:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44002013.01-3\">But others mocking said, “They are filled with new wine.”</p>\n</div><h5>Job 27:5-6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p18027005.01-4\">Far be it from me to say that you are right;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>till I die I will not put away my integrity from me.<br />\n I hold fast my righteousness and will not let it go;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>my heart does not reproach me for any of my days.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Job 4:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p18004006.01-5\">Is not your fear of God your confidence,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and the integrity of your ways your hope? (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"909": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 7:3-5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40007003.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?</span> <span class=\"woc\">Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye?</span> <span class=\"woc\">You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye.</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"910": "<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>Genesis 3:12-13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p01003012.01-2\">The man said, “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit of the tree, and I ate.” 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>Proverbs 30:20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20030020.01-3\">This is the way of an adulteress:<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>she eats and wipes her mouth<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and says, “I have done no wrong.”</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Jeremiah 2:35</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p24002035.01-4\">you say, ‘I am innocent;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>surely his anger has turned from me.’<br />\nBehold, I will bring you to judgment<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for saying, ‘I have not sinned.’</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>2 Kings 5:25</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p12005025.01-5\">He went in and stood before his master, and Elisha said to him, “Where have you been, Gehazi?” And he said, “Your servant went nowhere.”</p>\n</div><h5>Genesis 4:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p01004009.01-6\">Then the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> said to Cain, “Where is Abel your brother?” He said, “I do not know; am I my brother's keeper?” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"911": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Proverbs 25:9-10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20025009.01-1\">Argue your case with your neighbor himself,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and do not reveal another's secret,<br />\n lest he who hears you bring shame upon you,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and your ill repute have no end.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Genesis 9:22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p01009022.01-2\">And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father and told his two brothers outside. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"912": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Exodus 23:1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p02023001.01-1\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v02023001-1\">23:1 </span>“You shall not spread a false report. You shall not join hands with a wicked man to be a malicious witness. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"913": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Proverbs 29:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20029012.01-1\">If a ruler listens to falsehood,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>all his officials will be wicked.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 41:7-8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19041007.01-2\">All who hate me whisper together about me;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>they imagine the worst for me.</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19041008.01-2\">They say, “A deadly thing is poured out on him;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>he will not rise again from where he lies.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"914": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Acts 7:56-57</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44007056.01-1\">And he said, “Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God.” But they cried out with a loud voice and stopped their ears and rushed together at him.</p>\n</div><h5>Job 31:13-14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p18031013.01-2\">“If I have rejected the cause of my manservant or my maidservant,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>when they brought a complaint against me,<br />\n what then shall I do when God rises up?<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>When he makes inquiry, what shall I answer him? (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"915": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Corinthians 13:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46013005.01-1\">or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;</p>\n</div><h5>1 Timothy 6:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p54006004.01-2\">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, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"916": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 21:15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40021015.01-1\">But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying out in the temple, “Hosanna to the Son of David!” they were indignant,</p>\n</div><h5>Numbers 11:29</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p04011029.01-2\">But Moses said to him, “Are you jealous for my sake? Would that all the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>'s people were prophets, that the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> would put his Spirit on them!” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"917": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ezra 4:12-13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p15004012.01-1\">be it known to the king that the Jews who came up from you to us have gone to Jerusalem. They are rebuilding that rebellious and wicked city. They are finishing the walls and repairing the foundations. Now be it known to the king that if this city is rebuilt and the walls finished, they will not pay tribute, custom, or toll, and the royal revenue will be impaired.</p>\n</div><h5>Daniel 6:3-4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p27006003.01-2\">Then this Daniel became distinguished above all the other presidents and satraps, because an excellent spirit was in him. And the king planned to set him over the whole kingdom. Then the presidents and the satraps sought to find a ground for complaint against Daniel with regard to the kingdom, but they could find no ground for complaint or any fault, because he was faithful, and no error or fault was found in him. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"918": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Jeremiah 48:27</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p24048027.01-1\">Was not Israel a derision to you? Was he found among thieves, that whenever you spoke of him you wagged your head? (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"919": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 27:28-29</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40027028.01-1\">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!”</p>\n</div><h5>Psalm 35:15-16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19035015.01-2\">But at my stumbling they rejoiced and gathered;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>they gathered together against me;<br />\nwretches whom I did not know<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>tore at me without ceasing;<br />\n like profane mockers at a feast,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>they gnash at me with their teeth.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 35:21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19035021.01-3\">They open wide their mouths against me;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>they say, “Aha, Aha!<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Our eyes have seen it!” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"920": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Jude 1:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p65001016.01-1\">These are grumblers, malcontents, following their own sinful desires; they are loud-mouthed boasters, showing favoritism to gain advantage.</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 12:22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44012022.01-2\">And the people were shouting, “The voice of a god, and not of a man!” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"921": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 1:31</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45001031.01-1\">foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless.</p>\n</div><h5>2 Timothy 3:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p55003003.01-2\">heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"922": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Samuel 2:24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p09002024.01-1\">No, my sons; it is no good report that I hear the people of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> spreading abroad. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"923": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>2 Samuel 13:12-13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p10013012.01-1\">She answered him, “No, my brother, do not violate me, for such a thing is not done in Israel; do not do this outrageous thing. As for me, where could I carry my shame? And as for you, you would be as one of the outrageous fools in Israel. Now therefore, please speak to the king, for he will not withhold me from you.”</p>\n</div><h5>Proverbs 5:8-9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20005008.01-2\">Keep your way far from her,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and do not go near the door of her house,<br />\n lest you give your honor to others<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and your years to the merciless,</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Proverbs 6:33</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20006033.01-3\">He will get wounds and dishonor,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and his disgrace will not be wiped away. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"877": "Luke 3:14; I Samuel 17:28; II Samuel 16:3; II Samuel 1:9-10,15-16",
"878": "Leviticus 19:15; Habakkuk 1:4",
"879": "Proverbs 19:5; Proverbs 6:16",
"880": "Acts 6:13",
"881": "Jeremiah 9:3,5; Psalms 12:3-4; Acts 24:2,5; Psalms 52:1-4",
"882": "Proverbs 17:15; I Kings 21:9-14",
"883": "Isaiah 5:23",
"884": "I Kings 21:8",
"885": "Leviticus 5:1; Acts 5:3,8-9; Deuteronomy 13:8; II Timothy 4:16",
"886": "I Kings 1:6; Leviticus 19:17",
"887": "Isaiah 59:4",
"888": "Proverbs 29:11",
"889": "I Samuel 22:9-10; Psalms 52:1-5",
"890": "Psalms 56:5; Matthew 26:60-61; John 2:19",
"891": "Genesis 3:5; Genesis 26:7,9",
"892": "Isaiah 59:13",
"893": "Colossians 3:9; Leviticus 19:11",
"894": "Psalms 50:20",
"895": "Psalms 15:3",
"896": "James 4:11; Jeremiah 38:4",
"897": "Leviticus 19:16",
"898": "Romans 1:29-30",
"899": "Genesis 21:9; Galatians 4:29",
"900": "I Corinthians 6:10",
"901": "Matthew 7:1",
"902": "Acts 28:4; James 2:13",
"903": "Genesis 38:24; Romans 2:1",
"904": "Romans 3:8; Psalms 69:10; Nehemiah 6:6-8; I Samuel 1:13-15; II Samuel 10:3",
"905": "Psalms 12:2-3",
"906": "2 Timothy 3:2",
"907": "Luke 18:9,11; Acts 12:22; Ex 4:10-14; Rom 12:16; Gal 5:26; I Cor 4:6",
"908": "Luke 9:49-50; 2 Cor 10:10; Acts 2:13; Job 27:5-6; Job 4:6",
"909": "Matt 7:3-5",
"910": "Prov 28:13; Gen 3:12-13; Prov 30:20; Jer 2:35; 2 Kings 5:25; Gen 4:9",
"911": "Prov 25:9-10; Gen 9:22",
"912": "Ex 23:1",
"913": "Prov 29:12; Ps 41:7-8",
"914": "Acts 7:56-57; Job 31:13-14",
"915": "1 Cor 13:5; 1 Tim 6:4",
"916": "Matt 21:15; Num 11:29",
"917": "Ezra 4:12-13; Dan 6:3-4",
"918": "Jer 48:27",
"919": "Matt 27:28-29; Ps 35:15-16,21",
"920": "Jude 16; Acts 12:22",
"921": "Romans 1:31; II Timothy 3:3",
"922": "I Samuel 2:24",
"923": "II Samuel 13:12-13; Proverbs 5:8-9; Proverbs 6:33"
},
"question": "What are the sins forbidden in the ninth commandment?"
},
"146": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Ex 20:17; Deuteronomy 5:21' data-prooftexts-index='924'>The tenth commandment is, Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shall not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"924": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Exodus 20:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p02020017.01-1\">“You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, or his male servant, or his female servant, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor's.”</p>\n</div><h5>Deuteronomy 5:21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p05005021.01-2\">“‘And you shall not covet your neighbor's wife. And you shall not desire your neighbor's house, his field, or his male servant, or his female servant, his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor's.’ (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"924": "Ex 20:17; Deuteronomy 5:21"
},
"question": "Which is the tenth commandment?"
},
"147": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Hebrews 13:5; I Timothy 6:6; Philippians 4:11' data-prooftexts-index='925'>The duties required in the tenth commandment are, such a full contentment with our own condition,</span><span data-prooftexts='Job 31:29; Romans 12:15; Psalms 122:7-9; I Timothy 1:5; Est 10:3; I Corinthians 13:4-7' data-prooftexts-index='926'> and such a charitable frame of the whole soul toward our neighbor, as that all our inward motions and affections touching him, tend unto, and further all that good which is his.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"925": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Hebrews 13:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58013005.01-1\">Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”</p>\n</div><h5>1 Timothy 6:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p54006006.01-2\">Now there is great gain in godliness with contentment,</p>\n</div><h5>Philippians 4:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p50004011.01-3\">Not that I am speaking of being in need, for I have learned in whatever situation I am to be content. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"926": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Job 31:29</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p18031029.01-1\">“If I have rejoiced at the ruin of him who hated me,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>or exulted when evil overtook him</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Romans 12:15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45012015.01-2\">Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep.</p>\n</div><h5>Psalm 122:7-9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19122007.01-3\">Peace be within your walls<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and security within your towers!”<br />\n For my brothers and companions' sake<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I will say, “Peace be within you!”<br />\n For the sake of the house of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> our God,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I will seek your good.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>1 Timothy 1:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p54001005.01-4\">The aim of our charge is love that issues from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.</p>\n</div><h5>Esther 10:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p17010003.01-5\">For Mordecai the Jew was second in rank to King Ahasuerus, and he was great among the Jews and popular with the multitude of his brothers, for he sought the welfare of his people and spoke peace to all his people.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 13:4-7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46013004.01-6\">Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"925": "Hebrews 13:5; I Timothy 6:6; Philippians 4:11",
"926": "Job 31:29; Romans 12:15; Psalms 122:7-9; I Timothy 1:5; Est 10:3; I Corinthians 13:4-7"
},
"question": "What are the duties required in the tenth commandment?"
},
"148": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='I Corinthians 10:10; I Kings 21:4; Est 5:13' data-prooftexts-index='927'>The sins forbidden in the tenth commandment are, discontentment with our own estate;</span><span data-prooftexts='Galatians 5:26; James 3:14,16' data-prooftexts-index='928'> envying</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 112:9-10; Nehemiah 2:10' data-prooftexts-index='929'> and grieving at the good of our neighbor,</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 7:7-8; Romans 13:9; Colossians 3:5; Deuteronomy 5:21' data-prooftexts-index='930'> together with all inordinate motions and affections to anything that is his.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"927": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Corinthians 10:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46010010.01-1\">nor grumble, as some of them did and were destroyed by the Destroyer.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Kings 21:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p11021004.01-2\">And Ahab went into his house vexed and sullen because of what Naboth the Jezreelite had said to him, for he had said, “I will not give you the inheritance of my fathers.” And he lay down on his bed and turned away his face and would eat no food.</p>\n</div><h5>Esther 5:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p17005013.01-3\">Yet all this is worth nothing to me, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"928": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Galatians 5:26</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p48005026.01-1\">Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.</p>\n</div><h5>James 3:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p59003014.01-2\">But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and be false to the truth.</p>\n</div><h5>James 3:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p59003016.01-3\">For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every vile practice. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"929": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 112:9-10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19112009.01-1\">He has distributed freely; he has given to the poor;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>his righteousness endures forever;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>his horn is exalted in honor.<br />\n The wicked man sees it and is angry;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>he gnashes his teeth and melts away;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>the desire of the wicked will perish!</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Nehemiah 2:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p16002010.01-2\">But when Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite servant heard this, it displeased them greatly that someone had come to seek the welfare of the people of Israel. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"930": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 7:7-8</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.” 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 13:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45013009.01-2\">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>Colossians 3:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p51003005.01-3\">Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.</p>\n</div><h5>Deuteronomy 5:21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p05005021.01-4\">“‘And you shall not covet your neighbor's wife. And you shall not desire your neighbor's house, his field, or his male servant, or his female servant, his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor's.’ (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"927": "I Corinthians 10:10; I Kings 21:4; Est 5:13",
"928": "Galatians 5:26; James 3:14,16",
"929": "Psalms 112:9-10; Nehemiah 2:10",
"930": "Romans 7:7-8; Romans 13:9; Colossians 3:5; Deuteronomy 5:21"
},
"question": "What are the sins forbidden in the tenth commandment?"
},
"149": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='James 3:2; John 15:5; Romans 8:3' data-prooftexts-index='931'>No man is able, either of himself,</span><span data-prooftexts='Ecclesiastes 7:20; I John 1:8, 10; Galatians 5:17; Romans 7:18-19' data-prooftexts-index='932'> or by any grace received in this life, perfectly to keep the commandments of God;</span><span data-prooftexts='Genesis 6:5; Genesis 8:21; James 1:14' data-prooftexts-index='933'> but doth daily break them in thought,</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 3:9-19; James 3:2-13' data-prooftexts-index='934'> word, and deed.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"931": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>James 3:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p59003002.01-1\">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>John 15:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43015005.01-2\"><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></p>\n</div><h5>Romans 8:3</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, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"932": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ecclesiastes 7:20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p21007020.01-1\">Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and never sins.</p>\n</div><h5>1 John 1:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p62001008.01-2\">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=\"p62001010.01-3\">If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.</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.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 7:18-19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45007018.01-5\">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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"933": "<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>James 1:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p59001014.01-3\">But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"934": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 3:9-19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p45003009.05-1\">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, 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;<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.”</p>\n</div>\n <p id=\"p45003019.01-1\">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.</p>\n</div><h5>James 3:2-13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p59003002.01-2\">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. If we put bits into the mouths of horses so that they obey us, we guide their whole bodies as well. Look at the ships also: though they are so large and are driven by strong winds, they are guided by a very small rudder wherever the will of the pilot directs. So also the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great things.</p>\n<p id=\"p59003005.15-2\">How great a forest is set ablaze by such a small fire! And the tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness. The tongue is set among our members, staining the whole body, setting on fire the entire course of life, and set on fire by hell. For every kind of beast and bird, of reptile and sea creature, can be tamed and has been tamed by mankind, but no human being can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison. With it we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse people who are made in the likeness of God. From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so. Does a spring pour forth from the same opening both fresh and salt water? Can a fig tree, my brothers, bear olives, or a grapevine produce figs? Neither can a salt pond yield fresh water.</p>\n \n<p id=\"p59003013.04-2\">Who is wise and understanding among you? By his good conduct let him show his works in the meekness of wisdom. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"931": "James 3:2; John 15:5; Romans 8:3",
"932": "Ecclesiastes 7:20; I John 1:8, 10; Galatians 5:17; Romans 7:18-19",
"933": "Genesis 6:5; Genesis 8:21; James 1:14",
"934": "Romans 3:9-19; James 3:2-13"
},
"question": "Is any man able perfectly to keep the commandments of God?"
},
"15": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Genesis 1:1; Psalms 33:6,9; Hebrews 11:3; Revelation 4:11; Romans 11:36' data-prooftexts-index='53'>The work of creation is that wherein God did in the beginning, by the word of his power, make of nothing the world, and all things therein, for himself, within the space of six days, and all very good.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"53": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Genesis 1:1</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.</p>\n</div><h5>Psalm 33:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19033006.01-2\">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.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 33:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19033009.01-3\">For he spoke, and it came to be;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>he commanded, and it stood firm.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 11:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58011003.01-4\">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>Revelation 4:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p66004011.01-5\">“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>Romans 11:36</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p class=\"same-paragraph\" id=\"p45011036.01-6\">For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"53": "Genesis 1:1; Psalms 33:6,9; Hebrews 11:3; Revelation 4:11; Romans 11:36"
},
"question": "What is the work of creation?"
},
"150": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='John 19:11; I John 5:16; Hebrews 2:2-3; Psalms 78:17,32,56; Ezekiel 8:6,13,15' data-prooftexts-index='935'>All transgressions of the law of God are not equally heinous; but some sins in themselves, and by reason of several aggravations, are more heinous in the sight of God than others.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"935": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>John 19:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43019011.01-1\">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>1 John 5:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p62005016.01-2\">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.</p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 2:2-3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58002002.01-3\">For since the message declared by angels proved to be reliable, and every transgression or disobedience received a just retribution, how shall we escape if we neglect such a great salvation? It was declared at first by the Lord, and it was attested to us by those who heard,</p>\n</div><h5>Psalm 78:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19078017.01-4\">Yet they sinned still more against him,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>rebelling against the Most High in the desert.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 78:32</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19078032.01-5\">In spite of all this, they still sinned;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>despite his wonders, they did not believe.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 78:56</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19078056.01-6\">Yet they tested and rebelled against the Most High God<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and did not keep his testimonies,</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Ezekiel 8:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p26008006.01-7\">And he said to me, “Son of man, do you see what they are doing, the great abominations that the house of Israel are committing here, to drive me far from my sanctuary? But you will see still greater abominations.”</p>\n</div><h5>Ezekiel 8:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p26008013.01-8\">He said also to me, “You will see still greater abominations that they commit.”</p>\n</div><h5>Ezekiel 8:15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p26008015.01-9\">Then he said to me, “Have you seen this, O son of man? You will see still greater abominations than these.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"935": "John 19:11; I John 5:16; Hebrews 2:2-3; Psalms 78:17,32,56; Ezekiel 8:6,13,15"
},
"question": "Are all transgressions of the law of God equally heinous in themselves, and in the sight of God?"
},
"151": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Jeremiah 2:8' data-prooftexts-index='936'>Sins receive their aggravations,<ol><li>From the persons offending:</span><span data-prooftexts='Job 32:7,9; Ecclesiastes 4:13' data-prooftexts-index='937'> if they be of riper age,</span><span data-prooftexts='I Kings 11:4,9' data-prooftexts-index='938'> greater experience or grace,</span><span data-prooftexts='II Samuel 12:14; I Corinthians 5:1' data-prooftexts-index='939'> eminent for profession,</span><span data-prooftexts='James 4:17; Luke 12:47-48' data-prooftexts-index='940'> gifts,</span><span data-prooftexts='Jeremiah 5:4-5' data-prooftexts-index='941'> place,</span><span data-prooftexts='II Samuel 12:7-9; Ezekiel 8:11-12' data-prooftexts-index='942'> office,</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 2:17-24' data-prooftexts-index='943'> guides to others,</span><span data-prooftexts='Galatians 2:11-14' data-prooftexts-index='944'> and whose example is likely to be followed by others.</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 2:12; Matthew 21:38-39' data-prooftexts-index='945'></li><li>From the parties offended:</span><span data-prooftexts='I Samuel 2:25; Acts 5:4; Psalms 5:4' data-prooftexts-index='946'> if immediately against God,</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 2:4' data-prooftexts-index='947'> his attributes,</span><span data-prooftexts='Malachi 1:8,14' data-prooftexts-index='948'> and worship;</span><span data-prooftexts='Hebrews 2:2-3; Hebrews 12:25' data-prooftexts-index='949'> against Christ, and his grace;</span><span data-prooftexts='Hebrews 10:28-29; Matthew 12:31-32' data-prooftexts-index='950'> the Holy Spirit,</span><span data-prooftexts='Ephesians 4:30' data-prooftexts-index='951'> his witness,</span><span data-prooftexts='Hebrews 6:4-6' data-prooftexts-index='952'> and workings;</span><span data-prooftexts='Jude 8; Numbers 12:8-9; Isaiah 3:5' data-prooftexts-index='953'> against superiors, men of eminency,</span><span data-prooftexts='Proverbs 30:17; II Corinthians 12:15; Psalms 55:12-15' data-prooftexts-index='954'> and such as we stand especially related and engaged unto;</span><span data-prooftexts='Zephaniah 2:8,10-11; Matthew 18:6; I Corinthians 6:8; Revelation 17:6' data-prooftexts-index='955'> against any of the saints,</span><span data-prooftexts='I Corinthians 8:11-12; Romans 14:13,15,21' data-prooftexts-index='956'> particularly weak brethren,</span><span data-prooftexts='Ezekiel 13:19; I Corinthians 8:12; Revelation 18:12-13; Matthew 23:15' data-prooftexts-index='957'> the souls of them, or any other,</span><span data-prooftexts='I Thessalonians 2:15-16; Joshua 22:20' data-prooftexts-index='958'> and the common good of all or many.</span><span data-prooftexts='Proverbs 6:30-33' data-prooftexts-index='959'></li><li>From the nature and quality of the offense:</span><span data-prooftexts='Ezra 9:10-12; I Kings 11:9-10' data-prooftexts-index='960'> if it be against the express letter of the law,</span><span data-prooftexts='Colossians 3:5; I Timothy 6:10; Proverbs 5:8-12; Proverbs 6:32-33; Joshua 7:21' data-prooftexts-index='961'> break many commandments, contain in it many sins:</span><span data-prooftexts='James 1:14-15; Matthew 5:22; Micah 2:1' data-prooftexts-index='962'> if not only conceived in the heart, but breaks forth in words and actions,</span><span data-prooftexts='Matthew 18:7; Romans 2:23-24' data-prooftexts-index='963'> scandalize others,</span><span data-prooftexts='Deuteronomy 22:22,28-29; Proverbs 6:32-35' data-prooftexts-index='964'> and admit of no reparation:</span><span data-prooftexts='Matthew 11:21-24; John 15:22' data-prooftexts-index='965'> if against means,</span><span data-prooftexts='Isaiah 1:3; Deuteronomy 32:6' data-prooftexts-index='966'> mercies,</span><span data-prooftexts='Amos 4:8-11; Jeremiah 5:3' data-prooftexts-index='967'> judgments,</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 1:26-27' data-prooftexts-index='968'> light of nature,</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 1:32; Daniel 5:22; Titus 3:10-11' data-prooftexts-index='969'> conviction of conscience,</span><span data-prooftexts='Proverbs 29:1' data-prooftexts-index='970'> public or private admonition,</span><span data-prooftexts='Titus 3:10; Matthew 18:17' data-prooftexts-index='971'> censures of the church,</span><span data-prooftexts='Proverbs 27:22; Proverbs 23:35' data-prooftexts-index='972'> civil punishments;</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 78:34-37; Jeremiah 2:20; Jeremiah 13:5-6,20-21' data-prooftexts-index='973'> and our prayers, purposes, promises,</span><span data-prooftexts='Ecclesiastes 5:4-6; Proverbs 20:25' data-prooftexts-index='974'> vows,</span><span data-prooftexts='Leviticus 26:25' data-prooftexts-index='975'> covenants,</span><span data-prooftexts='Proverbs 2:17; Ezekiel 7:18-19' data-prooftexts-index='976'> and engagements to God or men:</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 36:4' data-prooftexts-index='977'> if done deliberately,</span><span data-prooftexts='Jeremiah 6:16' data-prooftexts-index='978'> willfully,</span><span data-prooftexts='Numbers 15:30; Ex 21:14' data-prooftexts-index='979'> presumptuously,</span><span data-prooftexts='Jeremiah 3:3; Proverbs 7:13' data-prooftexts-index='980'> impudently,</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 52:1' data-prooftexts-index='981'> boastingly,</span><span data-prooftexts='III John 10' data-prooftexts-index='982'> maliciously,</span><span data-prooftexts='Numbers 14:22' data-prooftexts-index='983'> frequently,</span><span data-prooftexts='Zechariah 7:11-12' data-prooftexts-index='984'> obstinately,</span><span data-prooftexts='Proverbs 2:14' data-prooftexts-index='985'> with delight,</span><span data-prooftexts='Isaiah 57:17' data-prooftexts-index='986'> continuance,</span><span data-prooftexts='Jeremiah 34:8-11; II Peter 2:20-22' data-prooftexts-index='987'> or relapsing after repentance.</span><span data-prooftexts='II Kings 5:26' data-prooftexts-index='988'></li><li>From circumstances of time</span><span data-prooftexts='Jeremiah 7:10; Isaiah 26:10' data-prooftexts-index='989'> and place:</span><span data-prooftexts='Ezekiel 23:37-39' data-prooftexts-index='990'> if on the Lord's Day,</span><span data-prooftexts='Isaiah 58:3-5; Numbers 25:6-7' data-prooftexts-index='991'> or other times of divine worship;</span><span data-prooftexts='I Corinthians 11:20-21; Jeremiah 7:8-10' data-prooftexts-index='992'> or immediately before</span><span data-prooftexts='Proverbs 7:14-15; John 13:27,30' data-prooftexts-index='993'> or after these,</span><span data-prooftexts='Ezra 9:13-14' data-prooftexts-index='994'> or other helps to prevent or remedy such miscarriages:</span><span data-prooftexts='II Samuel 16:22; I Samuel 2:22-24' data-prooftexts-index='995'> if in public, or in the presence of others, who are thereby likely to be provoked or defiled.</span></li></ol>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"936": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Jeremiah 2:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p24002008.01-1\">The priests did not say, ‘Where is the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>?’<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Those who handle the law did not know me;<br />\nthe shepherds transgressed against me;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>the prophets prophesied by Baal<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and went after things that do not profit. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"937": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Job 32:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p18032007.01-1\">I said, ‘Let days speak,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and many years teach wisdom.’</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Job 32:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p18032009.01-2\">It is not the old who are wise,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>nor the aged who understand what is right.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Ecclesiastes 4:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p21004013.01-3\">Better was a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king who no longer knew how to take advice. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"938": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Kings 11:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p11011004.01-1\">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>1 Kings 11:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p11011009.05-2\">And the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> was angry with Solomon, because his heart had turned away from the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"939": "<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.”</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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"940": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>James 4:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p59004017.01-1\">So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.</p>\n</div><h5>Luke 12:47-48</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42012047.01-2\"><span class=\"woc\">And that servant who knew his master's will but did not get ready or act according to his will, will receive a severe beating.</span> <span class=\"woc\">But the one who did not know, and did what deserved a beating, will receive a light beating. Everyone to whom much was given, of him much will be required, and from him to whom they entrusted much, they will demand the more.</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"941": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Jeremiah 5:4-5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p24005004.01-1\">Then I said, “These are only the poor;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>they have no sense;<br />\nfor they do not know the way of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>the justice of their God.<br />\n I will go to the great<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and will speak to them,<br />\nfor they know the way of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>the justice of their God.”<br />\nBut they all alike had broken the yoke;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>they had burst the bonds. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"942": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>2 Samuel 12:7-9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p10012007.01-1\">Nathan said to David, “You are the man! Thus says the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, the God of Israel, ‘I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you out of the hand of Saul. And I gave you your master's house and your master's wives into your arms and gave you the house of Israel and of Judah. And if this were too little, I would add to you as much more. Why have you despised the word of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, to do what is evil in his sight? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and have taken his wife to be your wife and have killed him with the sword of the Ammonites.</p>\n</div><h5>Ezekiel 8:11-12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p26008011.01-2\">And before them stood seventy men of the elders of the house of Israel, with Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan standing among them. Each had his censer in his hand, and the smoke of the cloud of incense went up. Then he said to me, “Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the dark, each in his room of pictures? For they say, ‘The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> does not see us, the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> has forsaken the land.’” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"943": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 2:17-24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45002017.01-1\">But if you call yourself a Jew and rely on the law and boast in God and know his will and approve what is excellent, because you are instructed from the law; and if you are sure that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness, an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of children, having in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth— you then who teach others, do you not teach yourself? While you preach against stealing, do you steal? You who say that one must not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples? You who boast in the law dishonor God by breaking the law. For, as it is written, “The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"944": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Galatians 2:11-14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p48002011.04-1\">But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned. For before certain men came from James, he was eating with the Gentiles; but when they came he drew back and separated himself, fearing the circumcision party. And the rest of the Jews acted hypocritically along with him, so that even Barnabas was led astray by their hypocrisy. But when I saw that their conduct was not in step with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas before them all, “If you, though a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you force the Gentiles to live like Jews?” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"945": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 2:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19002012.01-1\">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>Matthew 21:38-39</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40021038.01-2\"><span class=\"woc\">But when the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him and have his inheritance.’</span> <span class=\"woc\">And they took him and threw him out of the vineyard and killed him.</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"946": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Samuel 2:25</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p09002025.01-1\">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>Acts 5:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44005004.01-2\">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.”</p>\n</div><h5>Psalm 5:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19005004.01-3\">For you are not a God who delights in wickedness;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>evil may not dwell with you. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"947": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 2:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45002004.01-1\">Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God's kindness is meant to lead you to repentance? (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"948": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Malachi 1:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p39001008.01-1\">When you offer blind animals in sacrifice, is that not evil? And when you offer those that are lame or sick, is that not evil? Present that to your governor; will he accept you or show you favor? says the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> of hosts.</p>\n</div><h5>Malachi 1:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p39001014.01-2\">Cursed be the cheat who has a male in his flock, and vows it, and yet sacrifices to the Lord what is blemished. For I am a great King, says the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> of hosts, and my name will be feared among the nations. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"949": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Hebrews 2:2-3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58002002.01-1\">For since the message declared by angels proved to be reliable, and every transgression or disobedience received a just retribution, how shall we escape if we neglect such a great salvation? It was declared at first by the Lord, and it was attested to us by those who heard,</p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 12:25</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58012025.01-2\">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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"950": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Hebrews 10:28-29</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58010028.01-1\">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?</p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 12:31-32</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40012031.01-2\"><span class=\"woc\">Therefore I tell you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven people, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven.</span> <span class=\"woc\">And whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come.</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"951": "<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>",
"952": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Hebrews 6:4-6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58006004.01-1\">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, and then have fallen away, to restore them again to repentance, since they are crucifying once again the Son of God to their own harm and holding him up to contempt. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"953": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Jude 1:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p65001008.01-1\">Yet in like manner these people also, relying on their dreams, defile the flesh, reject authority, and blaspheme the glorious ones.</p>\n</div><h5>Numbers 12:8-9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p04012008.01-2\">With him I speak mouth to mouth, clearly, and not in riddles, and he beholds the form of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?” And the anger of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> was kindled against them, and he departed.</p>\n</div><h5>Isaiah 3:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23003005.01-3\">And the people will oppress one another,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>every one his fellow<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and every one his neighbor;<br />\nthe youth will be insolent to the elder,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and the despised to the honorable. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"954": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Proverbs 30:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20030017.01-1\">The eye that mocks a father<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and scorns to obey a mother<br />\nwill be picked out by the ravens of the valley<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and eaten by the vultures.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>2 Corinthians 12:15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p47012015.01-2\">I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more, am I to be loved less?</p>\n</div><h5>Psalm 55:12-15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19055012.01-3\">For it is not an enemy who taunts me—<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>then I could bear it;<br />\nit is not an adversary who deals insolently with me—<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>then I could hide from him.<br />\n But it is you, a man, my equal,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>my companion, my familiar friend.<br />\n We used to take sweet counsel together;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>within God's house we walked in the throng.<br />\n Let death steal over them;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>let them go down to Sheol alive;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for evil is in their dwelling place and in their heart. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"955": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Zephaniah 2:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p36002008.01-1\">“I have heard the taunts of Moab<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and the revilings of the Ammonites,<br />\nhow they have taunted my people<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and made boasts against their territory.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Zephaniah 2:10-11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p36002010.01-2\">This shall be their lot in return for their pride,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>because they taunted and boasted<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>against the people of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> of hosts.<br />\n The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> will be awesome against them;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for he will famish all the gods of the earth,<br />\nand to him shall bow down,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>each in its place,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>all the lands of the nations.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Matthew 18:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40018006.01-3\"><span class=\"woc\">but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened around his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.</span></p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 6:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46006008.01-4\">But you yourselves wrong and defraud—even your own brothers!</p>\n</div><h5>Revelation 17:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p66017006.01-5\">And I saw the woman, drunk with the blood of the saints, the blood of the martyrs of Jesus.</p>\n<p id=\"p66017006.20-5\">When I saw her, I marveled greatly. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"956": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Corinthians 8:11-12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46008011.01-1\">And so by your knowledge this weak person is destroyed, the brother for whom Christ died. Thus, sinning against your brothers and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 14:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p45014013.07-2\">Therefore let us not pass judgment on one another any longer, but rather decide never to put a stumbling block or hindrance in the way of a brother.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 14:15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45014015.01-3\">For if your brother is grieved by what you eat, you are no longer walking in love. By what you eat, do not destroy the one for whom Christ died.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 14:21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45014021.01-4\">It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything that causes your brother to stumble. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"957": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ezekiel 13:19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p26013019.01-1\">You have profaned me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, putting to death souls who should not die and keeping alive souls who should not live, by your lying to my people, who listen to lies.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 8:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46008012.01-2\">Thus, sinning against your brothers and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.</p>\n</div><h5>Revelation 18:12-13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p66018012.01-3\">cargo of gold, silver, jewels, pearls, fine linen, purple cloth, silk, scarlet cloth, all kinds of scented wood, all kinds of articles of ivory, all kinds of articles of costly wood, bronze, iron and marble, cinnamon, spice, incense, myrrh, frankincense, wine, oil, fine flour, wheat, cattle and sheep, horses and chariots, and slaves, that is, human souls.</p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 23:15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40023015.01-4\"><span class=\"woc\">Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel across sea and land to make a single proselyte, and when he becomes a proselyte, you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves.</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"958": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Thessalonians 2:15-16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p52002015.01-1\">who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out, and displease God and oppose all mankind by hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles that they might be saved—so as always to fill up the measure of their sins. But God's wrath has come upon them at last!</p>\n</div><h5>Joshua 22:20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p06022020.01-2\">Did not Achan the son of Zerah break faith in the matter of the devoted things, and wrath fell upon all the congregation of Israel? And he did not perish alone for his iniquity.’” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"959": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Proverbs 6:30-33</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20006030.01-1\">People do not despise a thief if he steals<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>to satisfy his appetite when he is hungry,<br />\n but if he is caught, he will pay sevenfold;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>he will give all the goods of his house.<br />\n He who commits adultery lacks sense;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>he who does it destroys himself.<br />\n He will get wounds and dishonor,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and his disgrace will not be wiped away. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"960": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ezra 9:10-12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p15009010.01-1\">“And now, O our God, what shall we say after this? For we have forsaken your commandments, which you commanded by your servants the prophets, saying, ‘The land that you are entering, to take possession of it, is a land impure with the impurity of the peoples of the lands, with their abominations that have filled it from end to end with their uncleanness. Therefore do not give your daughters to their sons, neither take their daughters for your sons, and never seek their peace or prosperity, that you may be strong and eat the good of the land and leave it for an inheritance to your children forever.’</p>\n</div><h5>1 Kings 11:9-10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p11011009.05-2\">And the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> was angry with Solomon, because his heart had turned away from the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice and had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods. But he did not keep what the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> commanded. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"961": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Colossians 3:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p51003005.01-1\">Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Timothy 6:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p54006010.01-2\">For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs.</p>\n</div><h5>Proverbs 5:8-12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20005008.01-3\">Keep your way far from her,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and do not go near the door of her house,<br />\n lest you give your honor to others<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and your years to the merciless,<br />\n lest strangers take their fill of your strength,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and your labors go to the house of a foreigner,<br />\n and at the end of your life you groan,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>when your flesh and body are consumed,<br />\n and you say, “How I hated discipline,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and my heart despised reproof!</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Proverbs 6:32-33</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20006032.01-4\">He who commits adultery lacks sense;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>he who does it destroys himself.<br />\n He will get wounds and dishonor,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and his disgrace will not be wiped away.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Joshua 7:21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p06007021.01-5\">when I saw among the spoil a beautiful cloak from Shinar, and 200 shekels of silver, and a bar of gold weighing 50 shekels, then I coveted them and took them. And see, they are hidden in the earth inside my tent, with the silver underneath.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"962": "<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>Matthew 5:22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40005022.01-2\"><span class=\"woc\">But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment; whoever insults his brother will be liable to the council; and whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be liable to the hell of fire.</span></p>\n</div><h5>Micah 2:1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p33002001.05-3\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v33002001-3\">2:1 </span>Woe to those who devise wickedness<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and work evil on their beds!<br />\nWhen the morning dawns, they perform it,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>because it is in the power of their hand. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"963": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 18:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p40018007.04-1\"><span class=\"woc\">“Woe to the world for temptations to sin! For it is necessary that temptations come, but woe to the one by whom the temptation comes!</span></p>\n</div><h5>Romans 2:23-24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45002023.01-2\">You who boast in the law dishonor God by breaking the law. For, as it is written, “The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"964": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Deuteronomy 22:22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p05022022.01-1\">“If a man is found lying with the wife of another man, both of them shall die, the man who lay with the woman, and the woman. So you shall purge the evil from Israel.</p>\n</div><h5>Deuteronomy 22:28-29</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p05022028.01-2\">“If a man meets a virgin who is not betrothed, and seizes her and lies with her, and they are found, then the man who lay with her shall give to the father of the young woman fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife, because he has violated her. He may not divorce her all his days.</p>\n</div><h5>Proverbs 6:32-35</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20006032.01-3\">He who commits adultery lacks sense;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>he who does it destroys himself.<br />\n He will get wounds and dishonor,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and his disgrace will not be wiped away.<br />\n For jealousy makes a man furious,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and he will not spare when he takes revenge.<br />\n He will accept no compensation;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>he will refuse though you multiply gifts. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"965": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 11:21-24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40011021.01-1\"><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> <span class=\"woc\">But I tell you, it will be more bearable on the day of judgment for Tyre and Sidon than for you.</span> <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> <span class=\"woc\">But I tell you that it will be more tolerable on the day of judgment for the land of Sodom than for you.”</span></p>\n</div><h5>John 15:22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43015022.01-2\"><span class=\"woc\">If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have been guilty of sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin.</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"966": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Isaiah 1:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23001003.01-1\">The ox knows its owner,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and the donkey its master's crib,<br />\nbut Israel does not know,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>my people do not understand.”</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Deuteronomy 32:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p05032006.01-2\">Do you thus repay the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>you foolish and senseless people?<br />\nIs not he your father, who created you,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>who made you and established you? (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"967": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Amos 4:8-11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p30004008.01-1\">so two or three cities would wander to another city<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>to drink water, and would not be satisfied;<br />\nyet you did not return to me,”<br />\n<span class=\"declares-line\"></span>\ndeclares the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>.</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p30004009.01-1\">“I struck you with blight and mildew;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>your many gardens and your vineyards,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>your fig trees and your olive trees the locust devoured;<br />\nyet you did not return to me,”<br />\n<span class=\"declares-line\"></span>\ndeclares the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>.</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p30004010.01-1\">“I sent among you a pestilence after the manner of Egypt;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I killed your young men with the sword,<br />\nand carried away your horses,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and I made the stench of your camp go up into your nostrils;<br />\nyet you did not return to me,”<br />\n<span class=\"declares-line\"></span>\ndeclares the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>.</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p30004011.01-1\">“I overthrew some of you,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and you were as a brand plucked out of the burning;<br />\nyet you did not return to me,”<br />\n<span class=\"declares-line\"></span>\ndeclares the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Jeremiah 5:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p24005003.01-2\">O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, do not your eyes look for truth?<br />\nYou have struck them down,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but they felt no anguish;<br />\nyou have consumed them,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but they refused to take correction.<br />\nThey have made their faces harder than rock;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>they have refused to repent. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"968": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 1:26-27</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45001026.01-1\">For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"969": "<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>Daniel 5:22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p27005022.01-2\">And you his son, Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, though you knew all this,</p>\n</div><h5>Titus 3:10-11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p56003010.01-3\">As for a person who stirs up division, after warning him once and then twice, have nothing more to do with him, knowing that such a person is warped and sinful; he is self-condemned. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"970": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Proverbs 29:1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20029001.01-1\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v20029001-1\">29:1 </span>He who is often reproved, yet stiffens his neck,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>will suddenly be broken beyond healing. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"971": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Titus 3:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p56003010.01-1\">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 18:17</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> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"972": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Proverbs 27:22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20027022.01-1\">Crush a fool in a mortar with a pestle<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>along with crushed grain,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>yet his folly will not depart from him.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Proverbs 23:35</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20023035.01-2\">“They struck me,” you will say, “but I was not hurt;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>they beat me, but I did not feel it.<br />\nWhen shall I awake?<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I must have another drink.”<br />\n (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"973": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 78:34-37</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19078034.01-1\">When he killed them, they sought him;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>they repented and sought God earnestly.<br />\n They remembered that God was their rock,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>the Most High God their redeemer.<br />\n But they flattered him with their mouths;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>they lied to him with their tongues.<br />\n Their heart was not steadfast toward him;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>they were not faithful to his covenant.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Jeremiah 2:20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p24002020.01-2\">“For long ago I broke your yoke<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and burst your bonds;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but you said, ‘I will not serve.’<br />\nYes, on every high hill<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and under every green tree<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>you bowed down like a whore.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Jeremiah 13:5-6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p24013005.01-3\">So I went and hid it by the Euphrates, as the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> commanded me. And after many days the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> said to me, “Arise, go to the Euphrates, and take from there the loincloth that I commanded you to hide there.”</p>\n</div><h5>Jeremiah 13:20-21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p24013020.01-4\">“Lift up your eyes and see<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>those who come from the north.<br />\nWhere is the flock that was given you,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>your beautiful flock?<br />\n What will you say when they set as head over you<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>those whom you yourself have taught to be friends to you?<br />\nWill not pangs take hold of you<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>like those of a woman in labor? (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"974": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ecclesiastes 5:4-6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p21005004.01-1\">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>Proverbs 20:25</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20020025.01-2\">It is a snare to say rashly, “It is holy,”<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and to reflect only after making vows. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"975": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Leviticus 26:25</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p03026025.01-1\">And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall execute vengeance for the covenant. And if you gather within your cities, I will send pestilence among you, and you shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"976": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Proverbs 2:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20002017.01-1\">who forsakes the companion of her youth<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and forgets the covenant of her God;</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Ezekiel 7:18-19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p26007018.01-2\">They put on sackcloth, and horror covers them. Shame is on all faces, and baldness on all their heads. They cast their silver into the streets, and their gold is like an unclean thing. Their silver and gold are not able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>. They cannot satisfy their hunger or fill their stomachs with it. For it was the stumbling block of their iniquity. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"977": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 36:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19036004.01-1\">He plots trouble while on his bed;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>he sets himself in a way that is not good;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>he does not reject evil. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"978": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Jeremiah 6:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p24006016.01-1\">Thus says the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>:<br />\n“Stand by the roads, and look,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and ask for the ancient paths,<br />\nwhere the good way is; and walk in it,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and find rest for your souls.<br />\nBut they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’ (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"979": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Numbers 15:30</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p04015030.01-1\">But the person who does anything with a high hand, whether he is native or a sojourner, reviles the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, and that person shall be cut off from among his people.</p>\n</div><h5>Exodus 21:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p02021014.01-2\">But if a man willfully attacks another to kill him by cunning, you shall take him from my altar, that he may die. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"980": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Jeremiah 3:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p24003003.01-1\">Therefore the showers have been withheld,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and the spring rain has not come;<br />\nyet you have the forehead of a whore;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>you refuse to be ashamed.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Proverbs 7:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20007013.01-2\">She seizes him and kisses him,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and with bold face she says to him, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"981": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 52:1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19052001.30-1\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v19052001-1\">52:1 </span>Why do you boast of evil, O mighty man?<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>The steadfast love of God endures all the day. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"982": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>3 John 1:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p64001010.01-1\">So if I come, I will bring up what he is doing, talking wicked nonsense against us. And not content with that, he refuses to welcome the brothers, and also stops those who want to and puts them out of the church. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"983": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Numbers 14:22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p04014022.01-1\">none of the men who have seen my glory and my signs that I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and yet have put me to the test these ten times and have not obeyed my voice, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"984": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Zechariah 7:11-12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p38007011.01-1\">But they refused to pay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder and stopped their ears that they might not hear. They made their hearts diamond-hard lest they should hear the law and the words that the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> of hosts had sent by his Spirit through the former prophets. Therefore great anger came from the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> of hosts. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"985": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Proverbs 2:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20002014.01-1\">who rejoice in doing evil<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and delight in the perverseness of evil, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"986": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Isaiah 57:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23057017.01-1\">Because of the iniquity of his unjust gain I was angry,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I struck him; I hid my face and was angry,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but he went on backsliding in the way of his own heart. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"987": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Jeremiah 34:8-11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p24034008.01-1\">The word that came to Jeremiah from the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, after King Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people in Jerusalem to make a proclamation of liberty to them, that everyone should set free his Hebrew slaves, male and female, so that no one should enslave a Jew, his brother. And they obeyed, all the officials and all the people who had entered into the covenant that everyone would set free his slave, male or female, so that they would not be enslaved again. They obeyed and set them free. But afterward they turned around and took back the male and female slaves they had set free, and brought them into subjection as slaves.</p>\n</div><h5>2 Peter 2:20-22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p61002020.01-2\">For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first. For it would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than after knowing it to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them. What the true proverb says has happened to them: “The dog returns to its own vomit, and the sow, after washing herself, returns to wallow in the mire.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"988": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>2 Kings 5:26</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p12005026.01-1\">But he said to him, “Did not my heart go when the man turned from his chariot to meet you? Was it a time to accept money and garments, olive orchards and vineyards, sheep and oxen, male servants and female servants? (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"989": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Jeremiah 7:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p24007010.01-1\">and then come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, ‘We are delivered!’—only to go on doing all these abominations?</p>\n</div><h5>Isaiah 26:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23026010.01-2\">If favor is shown to the wicked,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>he does not learn righteousness;<br />\nin the land of uprightness he deals corruptly<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and does not see the majesty of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"990": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ezekiel 23:37-39</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p26023037.01-1\">For they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands. With their idols they have committed adultery, and they have even offered up to them for food the children whom they had borne to me. Moreover, this they have done to me: they have defiled my sanctuary on the same day and profaned my Sabbaths. For when they had slaughtered their children in sacrifice to their idols, on the same day they came into my sanctuary to profane it. And behold, this is what they did in my house. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"991": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Isaiah 58:3-5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23058003.01-1\">‘Why have we fasted, and you see it not?<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Why have we humbled ourselves, and you take no knowledge of it?’<br />\nBehold, in the day of your fast you seek your own pleasure,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and oppress all your workers.<br />\n Behold, you fast only to quarrel and to fight<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and to hit with a wicked fist.<br />\nFasting like yours this day<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>will not make your voice to be heard on high.<br />\n Is such the fast that I choose,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>a day for a person to humble himself?<br />\nIs it to bow down his head like a reed,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him?<br />\nWill you call this a fast,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and a day acceptable to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>?</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Numbers 25:6-7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p04025006.01-2\">And behold, one of the people of Israel came and brought a Midianite woman to his family, in the sight of Moses and in the sight of the whole congregation of the people of Israel, while they were weeping in the entrance of the tent of meeting. When Phinehas the son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose and left the congregation and took a spear in his hand (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"992": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Corinthians 11:20-21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46011020.01-1\">When you come together, it is not the Lord's supper that you eat. For in eating, each one goes ahead with his own meal. One goes hungry, another gets drunk.</p>\n</div><h5>Jeremiah 7:8-10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p24007008.01-2\">“Behold, you trust in deceptive words to no avail. Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, make offerings to Baal, and go after other gods that you have not known, and then come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, ‘We are delivered!’—only to go on doing all these abominations? (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"993": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Proverbs 7:14-15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20007014.01-1\">“I had to offer sacrifices,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and today I have paid my vows;<br />\n so now I have come out to meet you,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>to seek you eagerly, and I have found you.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>John 13:27</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43013027.01-2\">Then after he had taken the morsel, Satan entered into him. Jesus said to him, <span class=\"woc\">“What you are going to do, do quickly.”</span></p>\n</div><h5>John 13:30</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43013030.01-3\">So, after receiving the morsel of bread, he immediately went out. And it was night. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"994": "<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? (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"995": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>2 Samuel 16:22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p10016022.01-1\">So they pitched a tent for Absalom on the roof. And Absalom went in to his father's concubines in the sight of all Israel.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Samuel 2:22-24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p09002022.05-2\">Now Eli was very old, and he kept hearing all that his sons were doing to all Israel, and how they lay with the women who were serving at the entrance to the tent of meeting. And he said to them, “Why do you do such things? For I hear of your evil dealings from all the people. No, my sons; it is no good report that I hear the people of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> spreading abroad. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"936": "Jeremiah 2:8",
"937": "Job 32:7,9; Ecclesiastes 4:13",
"938": "I Kings 11:4,9",
"939": "II Samuel 12:14; I Corinthians 5:1",
"940": "James 4:17; Luke 12:47-48",
"941": "Jeremiah 5:4-5",
"942": "II Samuel 12:7-9; Ezekiel 8:11-12",
"943": "Romans 2:17-24",
"944": "Galatians 2:11-14",
"945": "Psalms 2:12; Matthew 21:38-39",
"946": "I Samuel 2:25; Acts 5:4; Psalms 5:4",
"947": "Romans 2:4",
"948": "Malachi 1:8,14",
"949": "Hebrews 2:2-3; Hebrews 12:25",
"950": "Hebrews 10:28-29; Matthew 12:31-32",
"951": "Ephesians 4:30",
"952": "Hebrews 6:4-6",
"953": "Jude 8; Numbers 12:8-9; Isaiah 3:5",
"954": "Proverbs 30:17; II Corinthians 12:15; Psalms 55:12-15",
"955": "Zephaniah 2:8,10-11; Matthew 18:6; I Corinthians 6:8; Revelation 17:6",
"956": "I Corinthians 8:11-12; Romans 14:13,15,21",
"957": "Ezekiel 13:19; I Corinthians 8:12; Revelation 18:12-13; Matthew 23:15",
"958": "I Thessalonians 2:15-16; Joshua 22:20",
"959": "Proverbs 6:30-33",
"960": "Ezra 9:10-12; I Kings 11:9-10",
"961": "Colossians 3:5; I Timothy 6:10; Proverbs 5:8-12; Proverbs 6:32-33; Joshua 7:21",
"962": "James 1:14-15; Matthew 5:22; Micah 2:1",
"963": "Matthew 18:7; Romans 2:23-24",
"964": "Deuteronomy 22:22,28-29; Proverbs 6:32-35",
"965": "Matthew 11:21-24; John 15:22",
"966": "Isaiah 1:3; Deuteronomy 32:6",
"967": "Amos 4:8-11; Jeremiah 5:3",
"968": "Romans 1:26-27",
"969": "Romans 1:32; Daniel 5:22; Titus 3:10-11",
"970": "Proverbs 29:1",
"971": "Titus 3:10; Matthew 18:17",
"972": "Proverbs 27:22; Proverbs 23:35",
"973": "Psalms 78:34-37; Jeremiah 2:20; Jeremiah 13:5-6,20-21",
"974": "Ecclesiastes 5:4-6; Proverbs 20:25",
"975": "Leviticus 26:25",
"976": "Proverbs 2:17; Ezekiel 7:18-19",
"977": "Psalms 36:4",
"978": "Jeremiah 6:16",
"979": "Numbers 15:30; Ex 21:14",
"980": "Jeremiah 3:3; Proverbs 7:13",
"981": "Psalms 52:1",
"982": "III John 10",
"983": "Numbers 14:22",
"984": "Zechariah 7:11-12",
"985": "Proverbs 2:14",
"986": "Isaiah 57:17",
"987": "Jeremiah 34:8-11; II Peter 2:20-22",
"988": "II Kings 5:26",
"989": "Jeremiah 7:10; Isaiah 26:10",
"990": "Ezekiel 23:37-39",
"991": "Isaiah 58:3-5; Numbers 25:6-7",
"992": "I Corinthians 11:20-21; Jeremiah 7:8-10",
"993": "Proverbs 7:14-15; John 13:27,30",
"994": "Ezra 9:13-14",
"995": "II Samuel 16:22; I Samuel 2:22-24"
},
"question": "What are those aggravations that make some sins more heinous than others?"
},
"152": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='James 2:10-11' data-prooftexts-index='996'>Every sin, even the least, being against the sovereignty,</span><span data-prooftexts='Ex 20:1-2' data-prooftexts-index='997'> goodness,</span><span data-prooftexts='Habakkuk 1:13; Leviticus 10:3; Leviticus 11:44-45' data-prooftexts-index='998'> and holiness of God,</span><span data-prooftexts='I John 3:4; Romans 7:12' data-prooftexts-index='999'> and against his righteous law,</span><span data-prooftexts='Ephesians 5:6; Galatians 3:10' data-prooftexts-index='1000'> deserveth his wrath and curse,</span><span data-prooftexts='Lamentations 3:39; Deuteronomy 28:15-68' data-prooftexts-index='1001'> both in this life,</span><span data-prooftexts='Matthew 25:41' data-prooftexts-index='1002'> and that which is to come;</span><span data-prooftexts='Hebrews 9:22; I Peter 1:18-19' data-prooftexts-index='1003'> and cannot be expiated but by the blood of Christ.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"1000": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ephesians 5:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49005006.01-1\">Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.</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>",
"1001": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Lamentations 3:39</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p25003039.01-1\">Why should a living man complain,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>a man, about the punishment of his sins?</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Deuteronomy 28:15-68</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p05028015.04-2\">“But if you will not obey the voice of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God or be careful to do all his commandments and his statutes that I command you today, then all these curses shall come upon you and overtake you. Cursed shall you be in the city, and cursed shall you be in the field. Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl. Cursed shall be the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock. Cursed shall you be when you come in, and cursed shall you be when you go out.</p>\n <p id=\"p05028020.01-2\">“The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> will send on you curses, confusion, and frustration in all that you undertake to do, until you are destroyed and perish quickly on account of the evil of your deeds, because you have forsaken me. The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> will make the pestilence stick to you until he has consumed you off the land that you are entering to take possession of it. The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> will strike you with wasting disease and with fever, inflammation and fiery heat, and with drought and with blight and with mildew. They shall pursue you until you perish. And the heavens over your head shall be bronze, and the earth under you shall be iron. The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> will make the rain of your land powder. From heaven dust shall come down on you until you are destroyed.</p>\n <p id=\"p05028025.01-2\">“The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You shall go out one way against them and flee seven ways before them. And you shall be a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth. And your dead body shall be food for all birds of the air and for the beasts of the earth, and there shall be no one to frighten them away. The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> will strike you with the boils of Egypt, and with tumors and scabs and itch, of which you cannot be healed. The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> will strike you with madness and blindness and confusion of mind, and you shall grope at noonday, as the blind grope in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways. And you shall be only oppressed and robbed continually, and there shall be no one to help you. You shall betroth a wife, but another man shall ravish her. You shall build a house, but you shall not dwell in it. You shall plant a vineyard, but you shall not enjoy its fruit. Your ox shall be slaughtered before your eyes, but you shall not eat any of it. Your donkey shall be seized before your face, but shall not be restored to you. Your sheep shall be given to your enemies, but there shall be no one to help you. Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people, while your eyes look on and fail with longing for them all day long, but you shall be helpless. A nation that you have not known shall eat up the fruit of your ground and of all your labors, and you shall be only oppressed and crushed continually, so that you are driven mad by the sights that your eyes see. The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> will strike you on the knees and on the legs with grievous boils of which you cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.</p>\n <p id=\"p05028036.01-2\">“The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> will bring you and your king whom you set over you to a nation that neither you nor your fathers have known. And there you shall serve other gods of wood and stone. And you shall become a horror, a proverb, and a byword among all the peoples where the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> will lead you away. You shall carry much seed into the field and shall gather in little, for the locust shall consume it. You shall plant vineyards and dress them, but you shall neither drink of the wine nor gather the grapes, for the worm shall eat them. You shall have olive trees throughout all your territory, but you shall not anoint yourself with the oil, for your olives shall drop off. You shall father sons and daughters, but they shall not be yours, for they shall go into captivity. The cricket shall possess all your trees and the fruit of your ground. The sojourner who is among you shall rise higher and higher above you, and you shall come down lower and lower. He shall lend to you, and you shall not lend to him. He shall be the head, and you shall be the tail.</p>\n <p id=\"p05028045.01-2\">“All these curses shall come upon you and pursue you and overtake you till you are destroyed, because you did not obey the voice of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes that he commanded you. They shall be a sign and a wonder against you and your offspring forever. Because you did not serve the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God with joyfulness and gladness of heart, because of the abundance of all things, therefore you shall serve your enemies whom the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> will send against you, in hunger and thirst, in nakedness, and lacking everything. And he will put a yoke of iron on your neck until he has destroyed you. The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> will bring a nation against you from far away, from the end of the earth, swooping down like the eagle, a nation whose language you do not understand, a hard-faced nation who shall not respect the old or show mercy to the young. It shall eat the offspring of your cattle and the fruit of your ground, until you are destroyed; it also shall not leave you grain, wine, or oil, the increase of your herds or the young of your flock, until they have caused you to perish.</p>\n <p id=\"p05028052.01-2\">“They shall besiege you in all your towns, until your high and fortified walls, in which you trusted, come down throughout all your land. And they shall besiege you in all your towns throughout all your land, which the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God has given you. And you shall eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of your sons and daughters, whom the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God has given you, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies shall distress you. The man who is the most tender and refined among you will begrudge food to his brother, to the wife he embraces, and to the last of the children whom he has left, so that he will not give to any of them any of the flesh of his children whom he is eating, because he has nothing else left, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in all your towns. The most tender and refined woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground because she is so delicate and tender, will begrudge to the husband she embraces, to her son and to her daughter, her afterbirth that comes out from between her feet and her children whom she bears, because lacking everything she will eat them secretly, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in your towns.</p>\n <p id=\"p05028058.01-2\">“If you are not careful to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and awesome name, the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God, then the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> will bring on you and your offspring extraordinary afflictions, afflictions severe and lasting, and sicknesses grievous and lasting. And he will bring upon you again all the diseases of Egypt, of which you were afraid, and they shall cling to you. Every sickness also and every affliction that is not recorded in the book of this law, the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> will bring upon you, until you are destroyed. Whereas you were as numerous as the stars of heaven, you shall be left few in number, because you did not obey the voice of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God. And as the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> took delight in doing you good and multiplying you, so the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> will take delight in bringing ruin upon you and destroying you. And you shall be plucked off the land that you are entering to take possession of it.</p>\n <p id=\"p05028064.01-2\">“And the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you shall serve other gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known. And among these nations you shall find no respite, and there shall be no resting place for the sole of your foot, but the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> will give you there a trembling heart and failing eyes and a languishing soul. Your life shall hang in doubt before you. Night and day you shall be in dread and have no assurance of your life. In the morning you shall say, ‘If only it were evening!’ and at evening you shall say, ‘If only it were morning!’ because of the dread that your heart shall feel, and the sights that your eyes shall see. And the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> will bring you back in ships to Egypt, a journey that I promised that you should never make again; and there you shall offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but there will be no buyer.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1002": "<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> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1003": "<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>1 Peter 1:18-19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p60001018.01-2\">knowing that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold, but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"996": "<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>",
"997": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Exodus 20:1-2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p02020001.04-1\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v02020001-1\">20:1 </span>And God spoke all these words, saying,</p>\n <p class=\"chapter-first\" id=\"p02020002.01-1\">“I am the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"998": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Habakkuk 1:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p35001013.01-1\">You who are of purer eyes than to see evil<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and cannot look at wrong,<br />\nwhy do you idly look at traitors<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and remain silent when the wicked swallows up<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>the man more righteous than he?</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Leviticus 10:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p03010003.01-2\">Then Moses said to Aaron, “This is what the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> has said, ‘Among those who are near me I will be sanctified, and before all the people I will be glorified.’” And Aaron held his peace.</p>\n</div><h5>Leviticus 11:44-45</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p03011044.01-3\">For I am the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God. Consecrate yourselves therefore, and be holy, for I am holy. You shall not defile yourselves with any swarming thing that crawls on the ground. For I am the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> who brought you up out of the land of Egypt to be your God. You shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"999": "<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.</p>\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>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"1000": "Ephesians 5:6; Galatians 3:10",
"1001": "Lamentations 3:39; Deuteronomy 28:15-68",
"1002": "Matthew 25:41",
"1003": "Hebrews 9:22; I Peter 1:18-19",
"996": "James 2:10-11",
"997": "Ex 20:1-2",
"998": "Habakkuk 1:13; Leviticus 10:3; Leviticus 11:44-45",
"999": "I John 3:4; Romans 7:12"
},
"question": "What doth every sin deserve at the hands of God?"
},
"153": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Acts 20:21; Matthew 3:7-8; Luke 13:3,5; Acts 16:30-31; John 3:16,18' data-prooftexts-index='1004'>That we may escape the wrath and curse of God due to us by reason of the transgression of the law, he requireth of us repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ,</span><span data-prooftexts='Proverbs 2:1-5; Proverbs 8:33-36' data-prooftexts-index='1005'> and the diligent use of the outward means whereby Christ communicates to us the benefits of his mediation.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"1004": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Acts 20:21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44020021.01-1\">testifying both to Jews and to Greeks of repentance toward God and of faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.</p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 3:7-8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40003007.01-2\">But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? Bear fruit in keeping with repentance.</p>\n</div><h5>Luke 13:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42013003.01-3\"><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=\"p42013005.01-4\"><span class=\"woc\">No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.”</span></p>\n</div><h5>Acts 16:30-31</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44016030.01-5\">Then he brought them out and said, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?” And they said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.”</p>\n</div><h5>John 3:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p43003016.07-6\"><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>John 3:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43003018.01-7\"><span class=\"woc\">Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1005": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Proverbs 2:1-5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20002001.05-1\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v20002001-1\">2:1 </span>My son, if you receive my words<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and treasure up my commandments with you,<br />\n making your ear attentive to wisdom<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and inclining your heart to understanding;<br />\n yes, if you call out for insight<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and raise your voice for understanding,<br />\n if you seek it like silver<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and search for it as for hidden treasures,<br />\n then you will understand the fear of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span><br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and find the knowledge of God.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Proverbs 8:33-36</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20008033.01-2\">Hear instruction and be wise,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and do not neglect it.<br />\n 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.<br />\n For whoever finds me finds life<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and obtains favor from the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,<br />\n but he who fails to find me injures himself;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>all who hate me love death.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"1004": "Acts 20:21; Matthew 3:7-8; Luke 13:3,5; Acts 16:30-31; John 3:16,18",
"1005": "Proverbs 2:1-5; Proverbs 8:33-36"
},
"question": "What doth God require of us, that we may escape his wrath and curse due to us by reason of the transgression of the law?"
},
"154": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Matthew 28:19-20; Acts 2:42,46-47' data-prooftexts-index='1006'>The outward and ordinary means whereby Christ communicates to his church the benefits of his mediation, are all his ordinances; especially the Word, sacraments, and prayer; all which are made effectual to the elect for their salvation.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"1006": "<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>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 2:46-47</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, 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>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"1006": "Matthew 28:19-20; Acts 2:42,46-47"
},
"question": "What are the outward means whereby Christ communicates to us the benefits of his mediation?"
},
"155": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Nehemiah 8:8; Acts 26:18; Psalms 19:8' data-prooftexts-index='1007'>The Spirit of God maketh the reading, but especially the preaching of the Word, an effectual means of enlightening,</span><span data-prooftexts='I Corinthians 14:24-25; II Chronicles 34:18-19,26-28' data-prooftexts-index='1008'> convincing, and humbling sinners;</span><span data-prooftexts='Acts 2:37,41; Acts 8:27-38' data-prooftexts-index='1009'> of driving them out of themselves, and drawing them unto Christ;</span><span data-prooftexts='II Corinthians 3:18; Colossians 1:27' data-prooftexts-index='1010'> of conforming them to his image,</span><span data-prooftexts='II Corinthians 10:4-6; Romans 6:17-18' data-prooftexts-index='1011'> and subduing them to his will;</span><span data-prooftexts='Ephesians 6:16-17; Colossians 1:28; Psalms 19:11; Matthew 4:4,7,10; I Corinthians 10:11' data-prooftexts-index='1012'> of strengthening them against temptations and corruptions;</span><span data-prooftexts='Ephesians 4:11-12; Acts 20:32; II Timothy 3:15-17' data-prooftexts-index='1013'> of building them up in grace,</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 16:25; I Thessalonians 3:2,10-11,13; Romans 15:4; Romans 10:13-17; Romans 1:16' data-prooftexts-index='1014'> and establishing their hearts in holiness and comfort through faith unto salvation.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"1007": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Nehemiah 8:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p16008008.01-1\">They read from the book, from the Law of God, clearly, and they gave the sense, so that the people understood the reading.</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 26:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44026018.01-2\"><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>Psalm 19:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19019008.01-3\">the precepts of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> are right,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>rejoicing the heart;<br />\nthe commandment of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> is pure,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>enlightening the eyes; (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1008": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Corinthians 14:24-25</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46014024.01-1\">But if all prophesy, and an unbeliever or outsider enters, he is convicted by all, he is called to account by all, the secrets of his heart are disclosed, and so, falling on his face, he will worship God and declare that God is really among you.</p>\n</div><h5>2 Chronicles 34:18-19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p14034018.01-2\">Then Shaphan the secretary told the king, “Hilkiah the priest has given me a book.” And Shaphan read from it before the king.</p>\n <p id=\"p14034019.01-2\">And when the king heard the words of the Law, he tore his clothes.</p>\n</div><h5>2 Chronicles 34:26-28</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p14034026.01-3\">But to the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, thus shall you say to him, Thus says the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, the God of Israel: Regarding the words that you have heard, because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before God when you heard his words against this place and its inhabitants, and you have humbled yourself before me and have torn your clothes and wept before me, I also have heard you, declares the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>. Behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you shall be gathered to your grave in peace, and your eyes shall not see all the disaster that I will bring upon this place and its inhabitants.’” And they brought back word to the king. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1009": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Acts 2:37</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44002037.01-1\">Now when they heard this they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?”</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 2:41</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44002041.01-2\">So those who received his word were baptized, and there were added that day about three thousand souls.</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 8:27-38</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44008027.01-3\">And he rose and went. And there was an Ethiopian, a eunuch, a court official of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was in charge of all her treasure. He had come to Jerusalem to worship and was returning, seated in his chariot, and he was reading the prophet Isaiah. And the Spirit said to Philip, “Go over and join this chariot.” So Philip ran to him and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet and asked, “Do you understand what you are reading?” And he said, “How can I, unless someone guides me?” And he invited Philip to come up and sit with him. Now the passage of the Scripture that he was reading was this:</p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p44008032.13-3\">“Like a sheep he was led to the slaughter<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and like a lamb before its shearer is silent,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>so he opens not his mouth.<br />\n In his humiliation justice was denied him.<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Who can describe his generation?<br />\nFor his life is taken away from the earth.”</p>\n</div>\n <p class=\"same-paragraph\" id=\"p44008034.01-3\">And the eunuch said to Philip, “About whom, I ask you, does the prophet say this, about himself or about someone else?” Then Philip opened his mouth, and beginning with this Scripture he told him the good news about Jesus. 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>",
"1010": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>2 Corinthians 3:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p47003018.01-1\">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.</p>\n</div><h5>Colossians 1:27</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p51001027.01-2\">To them God chose to make known how great among the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1011": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>2 Corinthians 10:4-6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p47010004.01-1\">For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds. We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ, being ready to punish every disobedience, when your obedience is complete.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 6:17-18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45006017.01-2\">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>",
"1012": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ephesians 6:16-17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49006016.01-1\">In all circumstances take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming darts of the evil one; and take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God,</p>\n</div><h5>Colossians 1:28</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p51001028.01-2\">Him we proclaim, warning everyone and teaching everyone with all wisdom, that we may present everyone mature in Christ.</p>\n</div><h5>Psalm 19:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19019011.01-3\">Moreover, by them is your servant warned;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>in keeping them there is great reward.</p>\n</div>\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>1 Corinthians 10:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46010011.01-7\">Now these things happened to them as an example, but they were written down for our instruction, on whom the end of the ages has come. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1013": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ephesians 4:11-12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49004011.01-1\">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,</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>2 Timothy 3:15-17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p55003015.01-3\">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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1014": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 16:25</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p45016025.02-1\">Now to him who is able to strengthen you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery that was kept secret for long ages</p>\n</div><h5>1 Thessalonians 3:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p52003002.01-2\">and we sent Timothy, our brother and God's coworker in the gospel of Christ, to establish and exhort you in your faith,</p>\n</div><h5>1 Thessalonians 3:10-11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p52003010.01-3\">as we pray most earnestly night and day that we may see you face to face and supply what is lacking in your faith?</p>\n <p id=\"p52003011.01-3\">Now may our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus, direct our way to you,</p>\n</div><h5>1 Thessalonians 3:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p52003013.01-4\">so that he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 15:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45015004.01-5\">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>Romans 10:13-17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45010013.01-6\">For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”</p>\n <p id=\"p45010014.01-6\">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? 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!” But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed what he has heard from us?” So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 1:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p45001016.07-7\">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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"1007": "Nehemiah 8:8; Acts 26:18; Psalms 19:8",
"1008": "I Corinthians 14:24-25; II Chronicles 34:18-19,26-28",
"1009": "Acts 2:37,41; Acts 8:27-38",
"1010": "II Corinthians 3:18; Colossians 1:27",
"1011": "II Corinthians 10:4-6; Romans 6:17-18",
"1012": "Ephesians 6:16-17; Colossians 1:28; Psalms 19:11; Matthew 4:4,7,10; I Corinthians 10:11",
"1013": "Ephesians 4:11-12; Acts 20:32; II Timothy 3:15-17",
"1014": "Romans 16:25; I Thessalonians 3:2,10-11,13; Romans 15:4; Romans 10:13-17; Romans 1:16"
},
"question": "How is the Word made effectual to salvation?"
},
"156": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Deuteronomy 31:9,11-13; Nehemiah 8:2-3; Nehemiah 9:3-5' data-prooftexts-index='1015'>Although all are not to be permitted to read the Word publicly to the congregation,</span><span data-prooftexts='Deuteronomy 17:19; Revelation 1:3; John 5:39; Isaiah 34:16' data-prooftexts-index='1016'> yet all sorts of people are bound to read it apart by themselves,</span><span data-prooftexts='Deuteronomy 6:6-9; Genesis 18:17,19; Psalms 78:5-7' data-prooftexts-index='1017'> and with their families:</span><span data-prooftexts='I Corinthians 14:6,9,11-12,15-16,24,27-28; Nehemiah 8:8' data-prooftexts-index='1018'> to which end, the Holy Scriptures are to be translated out of the original into vulgar languages.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"1015": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Deuteronomy 31:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p05031009.06-1\">Then Moses wrote this law and gave it to the priests, the sons of Levi, who carried the ark of the covenant of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, and to all the elders of Israel.</p>\n</div><h5>Deuteronomy 31:11-13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p05031011.01-2\">when all Israel comes to appear before the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God at the place that he will choose, you shall read this law before all Israel in their hearing. Assemble the people, men, women, and little ones, and the sojourner within your towns, that they may hear and learn to fear the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God, and be careful to do all the words of this law, and that their children, who have not known it, may hear and learn to fear the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God, as long as you live in the land that you are going over the Jordan to possess.”</p>\n</div><h5>Nehemiah 8:2-3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p16008002.01-3\">So Ezra the priest brought the Law before the assembly, both men and women and all who could understand what they heard, on the first day of the seventh month. And he read from it facing the square before the Water Gate from early morning until midday, in the presence of the men and the women and those who could understand. And the ears of all the people were attentive to the Book of the Law.</p>\n</div><h5>Nehemiah 9:3-5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p16009003.01-4\">And they stood up in their place and read from the Book of the Law of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> their God for a quarter of the day; for another quarter of it they made confession and worshiped the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> their God. On the stairs of the Levites stood Jeshua, Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani; and they cried with a loud voice to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> their God. Then the Levites, Jeshua, Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah, said, “Stand up and bless the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God from everlasting to everlasting. Blessed be your glorious name, which is exalted above all blessing and praise. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1016": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Deuteronomy 17:19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p05017019.01-1\">And it shall be with him, and he shall read in it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> his God by keeping all the words of this law and these statutes, and doing them,</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.</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>Isaiah 34:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23034016.01-4\">Seek and read from the book of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>:<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Not one of these shall be missing;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>none shall be without her mate.<br />\nFor the mouth of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> has commanded,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and his Spirit has gathered them. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1017": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Deuteronomy 6:6-9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p05006006.01-1\">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. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.</p>\n</div><h5>Genesis 18:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p01018017.01-2\">The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> said, “Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do,</p>\n</div><h5>Genesis 18:19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p01018019.01-3\">For I have chosen him, that he may command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> by doing righteousness and justice, so that the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> may bring to Abraham what he has promised him.”</p>\n</div><h5>Psalm 78:5-7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19078005.01-4\">He established a testimony in Jacob<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and appointed a law in Israel,<br />\nwhich he commanded our fathers<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>to teach to their children,<br />\n that the next generation might know them,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>the children yet unborn,<br />\nand arise and tell them to their children,<br />\n <span class=\"indent\"></span>so that they should set their hope in God<br />\nand not forget the works of God,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but keep his commandments; (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1018": "<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 14:15-16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46014015.01-4\">What am I to do? I will pray with my spirit, but I will pray with my mind also; I will sing praise with my spirit, but I will sing with my mind also. Otherwise, if you give thanks with your spirit, how can anyone in the position of an outsider say “Amen” to your thanksgiving when he does not know what you are saying?</p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 14:24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46014024.01-5\">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=\"p46014027.01-6\">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.</p>\n</div><h5>Nehemiah 8:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p16008008.01-7\">They read from the book, from the Law of God, clearly, and they gave the sense, so that the people understood the reading. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"1015": "Deuteronomy 31:9,11-13; Nehemiah 8:2-3; Nehemiah 9:3-5",
"1016": "Deuteronomy 17:19; Revelation 1:3; John 5:39; Isaiah 34:16",
"1017": "Deuteronomy 6:6-9; Genesis 18:17,19; Psalms 78:5-7",
"1018": "I Corinthians 14:6,9,11-12,15-16,24,27-28; Nehemiah 8:8"
},
"question": "Is the Word of God to be read by all?"
},
"157": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Psalms 119:97; Psalms 19:10; II Chronicles 34:27; Isaiah 66:2; Nehemiah 8:3-10' data-prooftexts-index='1019'>The Holy Scriptures are to be read with an high and reverent esteem of them;</span><span data-prooftexts='II Peter 1:19-21; Matthew 4:4; I Thessalonians 2:13; Mark 7:13' data-prooftexts-index='1020'> with a firm persuasion that they are the very Word of God,</span><span data-prooftexts='Luke 24:45; II Corinthians 3:13-16' data-prooftexts-index='1021'> and that he only can enable us to understand them;</span><span data-prooftexts='Deuteronomy 17:10,20' data-prooftexts-index='1022'> with desire to know, believe, and obey the will of God revealed in them;</span><span data-prooftexts='Acts 17:11' data-prooftexts-index='1023'> with diligence,</span><span data-prooftexts='Acts 8:30,34; Luke 10:26-28' data-prooftexts-index='1024'> and attention to the matter and scope of them;</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 1:2; Psalms 119:97' data-prooftexts-index='1025'> with meditation,</span><span data-prooftexts='II Chronicles 34:21' data-prooftexts-index='1026'> application,</span><span data-prooftexts='Proverbs 3:5; Deuteronomy 33:3; Matthew 16:24; Luke 9:23; Galatians 1:15-16' data-prooftexts-index='1027'> self-denial,</span><span data-prooftexts='Proverbs 2:1-6; Psalms 119:18; Nehemiah 8:6,8' data-prooftexts-index='1028'> and prayer.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"1019": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 119:97</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119097.02-1\">Oh how I love your law!<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>It is my meditation all the day.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 19:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19019010.01-2\">More to be desired are they than gold,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>even much fine gold;<br />\nsweeter also than honey<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and drippings of the honeycomb.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>2 Chronicles 34:27</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p14034027.01-3\">because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before God when you heard his words against this place and its inhabitants, and you have humbled yourself before me and have torn your clothes and wept before me, I also have heard you, declares the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>.</p>\n</div><h5>Isaiah 66:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23066002.01-4\">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.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Nehemiah 8:3-10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p16008003.01-5\">And he read from it facing the square before the Water Gate from early morning until midday, in the presence of the men and the women and those who could understand. And the ears of all the people were attentive to the Book of the Law. And Ezra the scribe stood on a wooden platform that they had made for the purpose. And beside him stood Mattithiah, Shema, Anaiah, Uriah, Hilkiah, and Maaseiah on his right hand, and Pedaiah, Mishael, Malchijah, Hashum, Hashbaddanah, Zechariah, and Meshullam on his left hand. And Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people, for he was above all the people, and as he opened it all the people stood. And Ezra blessed the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, the great God, and all the people answered, “Amen, Amen,” lifting up their hands. And they bowed their heads and worshiped the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> with their faces to the ground. Also Jeshua, Bani, Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, the Levites, helped the people to understand the Law, while the people remained in their places. They read from the book, from the Law of God, clearly, and they gave the sense, so that the people understood the reading.</p>\n \n<p id=\"p16008009.05-5\">And Nehemiah, who was the governor, and Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who taught the people said to all the people, “This day is holy to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God; do not mourn or weep.” For all the people wept as they heard the words of the Law. Then he said to them, “Go your way. Eat the fat and drink sweet wine and send portions to anyone who has nothing ready, for this day is holy to our Lord. And do not be grieved, for the joy of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> is your strength.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1020": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>2 Peter 1:19-21</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, 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>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>1 Thessalonians 2:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p52002013.01-3\">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>Mark 7:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p41007013.01-4\"><span class=\"woc\">thus making void the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And many such things you do.”</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1021": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Luke 24:45</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42024045.01-1\">Then he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures,</p>\n</div><h5>2 Corinthians 3:13-16</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. But their minds were hardened. For to this day, when they read the old covenant, that same veil remains unlifted, because only through Christ is it taken away. Yes, to this day whenever Moses is read a veil lies over their hearts. But when one turns to the Lord, the veil is removed. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1022": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Deuteronomy 17:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p05017010.01-1\">Then you shall do according to what they declare to you from that place that the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> will choose. And you shall be careful to do according to all that they direct you.</p>\n</div><h5>Deuteronomy 17:20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p05017020.01-2\">that his heart may not be lifted up above his brothers, and that he may not turn aside from the commandment, either to the right hand or to the left, so that he may continue long in his kingdom, he and his children, in Israel. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1023": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Acts 17:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44017011.01-1\">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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1024": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Acts 8:30</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44008030.01-1\">So Philip ran to him and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet and asked, “Do you understand what you are reading?”</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 8:34</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p class=\"same-paragraph\" id=\"p44008034.01-2\">And the eunuch said to Philip, “About whom, I ask you, does the prophet say this, about himself or about someone else?”</p>\n</div><h5>Luke 10:26-28</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42010026.01-3\">He said to him, <span class=\"woc\">“What is written in the Law? How do you read it?”</span> And he answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.” And he said to him, <span class=\"woc\">“You have answered correctly; do this, and you will live.”</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1025": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 1:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19001002.01-1\">but his delight is in the law of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and on his law he meditates day and night.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 119:97</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119097.02-2\">Oh how I love your law!<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>It is my meditation all the day. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1026": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>2 Chronicles 34:21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p14034021.01-1\">“Go, inquire of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> for me and for those who are left in Israel and in Judah, concerning the words of the book that has been found. For great is the wrath of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> that is poured out on us, because our fathers have not kept the word of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, to do according to all that is written in this book.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1027": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Proverbs 3:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20003005.01-1\">Trust in the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> with all your heart,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and do not lean on your own understanding.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Deuteronomy 33:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p05033003.01-2\">Yes, he loved his people,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>all his holy ones were in his hand;<br />\nso they followed in your steps,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>receiving direction from you,</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Matthew 16:24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p40016024.08-3\">Then Jesus told his disciples, <span class=\"woc\">“If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.</span></p>\n</div><h5>Luke 9:23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p42009023.08-4\">And he said to all, <span class=\"woc\">“If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.</span></p>\n</div><h5>Galatians 1:15-16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p48001015.01-5\">But when he who had set me apart before I was born, and who called me by his grace, was pleased to reveal his Son to me, in order that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately consult with anyone; (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1028": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Proverbs 2:1-6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20002001.05-1\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v20002001-1\">2:1 </span>My son, if you receive my words<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and treasure up my commandments with you,<br />\n making your ear attentive to wisdom<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and inclining your heart to understanding;<br />\n yes, if you call out for insight<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and raise your voice for understanding,<br />\n if you seek it like silver<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and search for it as for hidden treasures,<br />\n then you will understand the fear of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span><br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and find the knowledge of God.<br />\n For the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> gives wisdom;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>from his mouth come knowledge and understanding;</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 119:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119018.01-2\">Open my eyes, that I may behold<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>wondrous things out of your law.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Nehemiah 8:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p16008006.01-3\">And Ezra blessed the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, the great God, and all the people answered, “Amen, Amen,” lifting up their hands. And they bowed their heads and worshiped the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> with their faces to the ground.</p>\n</div><h5>Nehemiah 8:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p16008008.01-4\">They read from the book, from the Law of God, clearly, and they gave the sense, so that the people understood the reading. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"1019": "Psalms 119:97; Psalms 19:10; II Chronicles 34:27; Isaiah 66:2; Nehemiah 8:3-10",
"1020": "II Peter 1:19-21; Matthew 4:4; I Thessalonians 2:13; Mark 7:13",
"1021": "Luke 24:45; II Corinthians 3:13-16",
"1022": "Deuteronomy 17:10,20",
"1023": "Acts 17:11",
"1024": "Acts 8:30,34; Luke 10:26-28",
"1025": "Psalms 1:2; Psalms 119:97",
"1026": "II Chronicles 34:21",
"1027": "Proverbs 3:5; Deuteronomy 33:3; Matthew 16:24; Luke 9:23; Galatians 1:15-16",
"1028": "Proverbs 2:1-6; Psalms 119:18; Nehemiah 8:6,8"
},
"question": "How is the Word of God to be read?"
},
"158": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='I Timothy 3:2,6; Ephesians 4:8-11; Malachi 2:7; II Corinthians 3:6; II Timothy 2:2' data-prooftexts-index='1029'>The Word of God is to be preached only by such as are sufficiently gifted,</span><span data-prooftexts='Jeremiah 14:15; Romans 10:15; Hebrews 5:4; I Corinthians 12:28-29; I Timothy 3:10; I Timothy 4:14; I Timothy 5:22' data-prooftexts-index='1030'> and also duly approved and called to that office.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"1029": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Timothy 3:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p54003002.01-1\">Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,</p>\n</div><h5>1 Timothy 3:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p54003006.01-2\">He must not be a recent convert, or he may become puffed up with conceit and fall into the condemnation of the devil.</p>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 4:8-11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49004008.01-3\">Therefore it says,</p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p49004008.04-3\">“When he ascended on high he led a host of captives,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and he gave gifts to men.”</p>\n</div>\n <p class=\"same-paragraph\" id=\"p49004009.01-3\">(In saying, “He ascended,” what does it mean but that he had also descended into the lower regions, the earth? He who descended is the one who also ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.) And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers,</p>\n</div><h5>Malachi 2:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p39002007.01-4\">For the lips of a priest should guard knowledge, and people should seek instruction from his mouth, for he is the messenger of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> of hosts.</p>\n</div><h5>2 Corinthians 3:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p47003006.01-5\">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</div><h5>2 Timothy 2:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p55002002.01-6\">and what you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses entrust to faithful men who will be able to teach others also. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1030": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Jeremiah 14:15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p24014015.01-1\">Therefore thus says the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> concerning the prophets who prophesy in my name although I did not send them, and who say, ‘Sword and famine shall not come upon this land’: By sword and famine those prophets shall be consumed.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 10:15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45010015.01-2\">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=\"p58005004.01-3\">And no one takes this honor for himself, but only when called by God, just as Aaron was.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 12:28-29</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46012028.01-4\">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>1 Timothy 3:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p54003010.01-5\">And let them also be tested first; then let them serve as deacons if they prove themselves blameless.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Timothy 4:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p54004014.01-6\">Do not neglect the gift you have, which was given you by prophecy when the council of elders laid their hands on you.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Timothy 5:22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p54005022.01-7\">Do not be hasty in the laying on of hands, nor take part in the sins of others; keep yourself pure. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"1029": "I Timothy 3:2,6; Ephesians 4:8-11; Malachi 2:7; II Corinthians 3:6; II Timothy 2:2",
"1030": "Jeremiah 14:15; Romans 10:15; Hebrews 5:4; I Corinthians 12:28-29; I Timothy 3:10; I Timothy 4:14; I Timothy 5:22"
},
"question": "By whom is the Word of God to be preached?"
},
"159": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Titus 2:1,8' data-prooftexts-index='1031'>They that are called to labor in the ministry of the Word, are to preach sound doctrine,</span><span data-prooftexts='Acts 18:25' data-prooftexts-index='1032'> diligently,</span><span data-prooftexts='II Timothy 4:2' data-prooftexts-index='1033'> in season and out of season;</span><span data-prooftexts='I Corinthians 14:9-19' data-prooftexts-index='1034'> plainly,</span><span data-prooftexts='I Corinthians 2:4' data-prooftexts-index='1035'> not in the enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit, and of power;</span><span data-prooftexts='Jeremiah 23:28; I Corinthians 4:1-2' data-prooftexts-index='1036'> faithfully,</span><span data-prooftexts='Acts 20:27' data-prooftexts-index='1037'> making known the whole counsel of God;</span><span data-prooftexts='Colossians 1:28; II Timothy 2:15' data-prooftexts-index='1038'> wisely,</span><span data-prooftexts='I Corinthians 3:2; Hebrews 5:12-14; Luke 12:42' data-prooftexts-index='1039'> applying themselves to the necessities and capacities of the hearers;</span><span data-prooftexts='Acts 18:25; Psalms 119:139; II Timothy 4:5' data-prooftexts-index='1040'> zealously,</span><span data-prooftexts='II Corinthians 5:13-14; Philippians 1:15-17' data-prooftexts-index='1041'> with fervent love to God</span><span data-prooftexts='Colossians 4:12; II Corinthians 12:15' data-prooftexts-index='1042'> and the souls of his people;</span><span data-prooftexts='II Corinthians 2:17; II Corinthians 4:2' data-prooftexts-index='1043'> sincerely,</span><span data-prooftexts='I Thessalonians 2:4-6; John 7:18' data-prooftexts-index='1044'> aiming at his glory,</span><span data-prooftexts='I Corinthians 9:19-22' data-prooftexts-index='1045'> and their conversion,</span><span data-prooftexts='II Corinthians 12:19; Ephesians 4:12' data-prooftexts-index='1046'> edification,</span><span data-prooftexts='I Timothy 4:16; Acts 26:16-18' data-prooftexts-index='1047'> and salvation.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"1031": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Titus 2:1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p56002001.04-1\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v56002001-1\">2:1 </span>But as for you, teach what accords with sound doctrine.</p>\n</div><h5>Titus 2:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p56002008.01-2\">and sound speech that cannot be condemned, so that an opponent may be put to shame, having nothing evil to say about us. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1032": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Acts 18:25</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44018025.01-1\">He had been instructed in the way of the Lord. And being fervent in spirit, he spoke and taught accurately the things concerning Jesus, though he knew only the baptism of John. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1033": "<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>",
"1034": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Corinthians 14:9-19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46014009.01-1\">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. There are doubtless many different languages in the world, and none is without meaning, 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 <p id=\"p46014013.01-1\">Therefore, one who speaks in a tongue should pray for the power to interpret. For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays but my mind is unfruitful. What am I to do? I will pray with my spirit, but I will pray with my mind also; I will sing praise with my spirit, but I will sing with my mind also. Otherwise, if you give thanks with your spirit, how can anyone in the position of an outsider say “Amen” to your thanksgiving when he does not know what you are saying? For you may be giving thanks well enough, but the other person is not being built up. I thank God that I speak in tongues more than all of you. Nevertheless, in church I would rather speak five words with my mind in order to instruct others, than ten thousand words in a tongue. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1035": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Corinthians 2:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46002004.01-1\">and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1036": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Jeremiah 23:28</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p24023028.01-1\">Let the prophet who has a dream tell the dream, but let him who has my word speak my word faithfully. What has straw in common with wheat? declares the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 4:1-2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p46004001.05-2\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v46004001-2\">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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1037": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Acts 20:27</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44020027.01-1\">for I did not shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1038": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Colossians 1:28</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p51001028.01-1\">Him we proclaim, warning everyone and teaching everyone with all wisdom, that we may present everyone mature in Christ.</p>\n</div><h5>2 Timothy 2:15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p55002015.01-2\">Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1039": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Corinthians 3:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46003002.01-1\">I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were not ready for it. And even now you are not yet ready,</p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 5:12-14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58005012.01-2\">For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic principles of the oracles of God. You need milk, not solid food, 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>Luke 12:42</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42012042.01-3\">And the Lord said, <span class=\"woc\">“Who then is the faithful and wise manager, whom his master will set over his household, to give them their portion of food at the proper time?</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1040": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Acts 18:25</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44018025.01-1\">He had been instructed in the way of the Lord. And being fervent in spirit, he spoke and taught accurately the things concerning Jesus, though he knew only the baptism of John.</p>\n</div><h5>Psalm 119:139</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119139.01-2\">My zeal consumes me,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>because my foes forget your words.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>2 Timothy 4:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p55004005.01-3\">As for you, always be sober-minded, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1041": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>2 Corinthians 5:13-14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p47005013.01-1\">For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God; if we are in our right mind, it is for you. For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore all have died;</p>\n</div><h5>Philippians 1:15-17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p50001015.01-2\">Some indeed preach Christ from envy and rivalry, but others from good will. The latter do it out of love, knowing that I am put here for the defense of the gospel. The former proclaim Christ out of rivalry, not sincerely but thinking to afflict me in my imprisonment. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1042": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Colossians 4:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p51004012.01-1\">Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, greets you, always struggling on your behalf in his prayers, that you may stand mature and fully assured in all the will of God.</p>\n</div><h5>2 Corinthians 12:15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p47012015.01-2\">I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more, am I to be loved less? (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1043": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>2 Corinthians 2:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p47002017.01-1\">For we are not, like so many, peddlers of God's word, but as men of sincerity, as commissioned by God, in the sight of God we speak in Christ.</p>\n</div><h5>2 Corinthians 4:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p47004002.01-2\">But we have renounced disgraceful, underhanded ways. We refuse to practice cunning or to tamper with God's word, but by the open statement of the truth we would commend ourselves to everyone's conscience in the sight of God. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1044": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Thessalonians 2:4-6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p52002004.01-1\">but just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not to please man, but to please God who tests our hearts. For we never came with words of flattery, as you know, nor with a pretext for greed—God is witness. Nor did we seek glory from people, whether from you or from others, though we could have made demands as apostles of Christ.</p>\n</div><h5>John 7:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43007018.01-2\"><span class=\"woc\">The one who speaks on his own authority seeks his own glory; but the one who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and in him there is no falsehood.</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1045": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Corinthians 9:19-22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46009019.01-1\">For though I am free from all, I have made myself a servant to all, that I might win more of them. To the Jews I became as a Jew, in order to win Jews. To those under the law I became as one under the law (though not being myself under the law) that I might win those under the law. To those outside the law I became as one outside the law (not being outside the law of God but under the law of Christ) that I might win those outside the law. To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all people, that by all means I might save some. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1046": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>2 Corinthians 12:19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p47012019.01-1\">Have you been thinking all along that we have been defending ourselves to you? It is in the sight of God that we have been speaking in Christ, and all for your upbuilding, beloved.</p>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 4:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49004012.01-2\">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>",
"1047": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Timothy 4:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p54004016.01-1\">Keep a close watch on yourself and on the teaching. Persist in this, for by so doing you will save both yourself and your hearers.</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 26:16-18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44026016.01-2\"><span class=\"woc\">But rise and stand upon your feet, for I have appeared to you for this purpose, to appoint you as a servant and witness to the things in which you have seen me and to those in which I will appear to you,</span> <span class=\"woc\">delivering you from your people and from the Gentiles—to whom I am sending you</span> <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> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"1031": "Titus 2:1,8",
"1032": "Acts 18:25",
"1033": "II Timothy 4:2",
"1034": "I Corinthians 14:9-19",
"1035": "I Corinthians 2:4",
"1036": "Jeremiah 23:28; I Corinthians 4:1-2",
"1037": "Acts 20:27",
"1038": "Colossians 1:28; II Timothy 2:15",
"1039": "I Corinthians 3:2; Hebrews 5:12-14; Luke 12:42",
"1040": "Acts 18:25; Psalms 119:139; II Timothy 4:5",
"1041": "II Corinthians 5:13-14; Philippians 1:15-17",
"1042": "Colossians 4:12; II Corinthians 12:15",
"1043": "II Corinthians 2:17; II Corinthians 4:2",
"1044": "I Thessalonians 2:4-6; John 7:18",
"1045": "I Corinthians 9:19-22",
"1046": "II Corinthians 12:19; Ephesians 4:12",
"1047": "I Timothy 4:16; Acts 26:16-18"
},
"question": "How is the Word of God to be preached by those that are called thereunto?"
},
"16": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Colossians 1:16' data-prooftexts-index='54'>God created all the angels</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 104:4' data-prooftexts-index='55'> spirits,</span><span data-prooftexts='Matthew 22:30; Luke 20:36' data-prooftexts-index='56'> immortal,</span><span data-prooftexts='Matthew 25:31' data-prooftexts-index='57'> holy,</span><span data-prooftexts='II Samuel 14:17; Matthew 24:36' data-prooftexts-index='58'> excelling in knowledge,</span><span data-prooftexts='II Thessalonians 1:7' data-prooftexts-index='59'> mighty in power,</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 91:11-12; Psalms 103:20-21' data-prooftexts-index='60'> to execute his commandments, and to praise his name,</span><span data-prooftexts='II Peter 2:4' data-prooftexts-index='61'> yet subject to change.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"54": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Colossians 1:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p51001016.01-1\">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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"55": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 104:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19104004.01-1\">he makes his messengers winds,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>his ministers a flaming fire. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"56": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 22:30</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40022030.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.</span></p>\n</div><h5>Luke 20:36</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42020036.01-2\"><span class=\"woc\">for they cannot die anymore, because they are equal to angels and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection.</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"57": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 25:31</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> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"58": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>2 Samuel 14:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p10014017.01-1\">And your servant thought, ‘The word of my lord the king will set me at rest,’ for my lord the king is like the angel of God to discern good and evil. The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God be with you!”</p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 24:36</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p40024036.08-2\"><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> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"59": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>2 Thessalonians 1:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p53001007.01-1\">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 (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"60": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 91:11-12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19091011.01-1\">For he will command his angels concerning you<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>to guard you in all your ways.<br />\n On their hands they will bear you up,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>lest you strike your foot against a stone.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 103:20-21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19103020.01-2\">Bless the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, O you his angels,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>you mighty ones who do his word,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>obeying the voice of his word!<br />\n Bless the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, all his hosts,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>his ministers, who do his will! (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"61": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>2 Peter 2:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p61002004.01-1\">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>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"54": "Colossians 1:16",
"55": "Psalms 104:4",
"56": "Matthew 22:30; Luke 20:36",
"57": "Matthew 25:31",
"58": "II Samuel 14:17; Matthew 24:36",
"59": "II Thessalonians 1:7",
"60": "Psalms 91:11-12; Psalms 103:20-21",
"61": "II Peter 2:4"
},
"question": "How did God create angels?"
},
"160": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Proverbs 8:34' data-prooftexts-index='1048'>It is required of those that hear the Word preached, that they attend upon it with diligence,</span><span data-prooftexts='I Peter 2:1-2; Luke 8:18' data-prooftexts-index='1049'> preparation,</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 119:18; Ephesians 6:18-19' data-prooftexts-index='1050'> and prayer;</span><span data-prooftexts='Acts 17:11' data-prooftexts-index='1051'> examine what they hear by the Scriptures;</span><span data-prooftexts='Hebrews 4:2' data-prooftexts-index='1052'> receive the truth with faith,</span><span data-prooftexts='II Thessalonians 2:10' data-prooftexts-index='1053'> love,</span><span data-prooftexts='James 1:21' data-prooftexts-index='1054'> meekness,</span><span data-prooftexts='Acts 17:11' data-prooftexts-index='1055'> and readiness of mind,</span><span data-prooftexts='I Thessalonians 2:13' data-prooftexts-index='1056'> as the Word of God;</span><span data-prooftexts='Luke 9:44; Hebrews 2:1' data-prooftexts-index='1057'> meditate,</span><span data-prooftexts='Luke 24:14; Deuteronomy 6:6-7' data-prooftexts-index='1058'> and confer of it;</span><span data-prooftexts='Proverbs 2:1; Psalms 119:11' data-prooftexts-index='1059'> hide it in their hearts,</span><span data-prooftexts='Luke 8:15; James 1:25' data-prooftexts-index='1060'> and bring forth the fruit of it in their lives.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"1048": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Proverbs 8:34</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20008034.01-1\">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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1049": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Peter 2:1-2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p60002001.08-1\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v60002001-1\">2:1 </span>So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation—</p>\n</div><h5>Luke 8:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42008018.01-2\"><span class=\"woc\">Take care then how you hear, for to the one who has, more will be given, and from the one who has not, even what he thinks that he has will be taken away.”</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1050": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 119:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119018.01-1\">Open my eyes, that I may behold<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>wondrous things out of your law.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 6:18-19</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, and also for me, that words may be given to me in opening my mouth boldly to proclaim the mystery of the gospel, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1051": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Acts 17:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44017011.01-1\">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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1052": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Hebrews 4:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58004002.01-1\">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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1053": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>2 Thessalonians 2:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p53002010.01-1\">and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1054": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>James 1:21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p59001021.01-1\">Therefore put away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1055": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Acts 17:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44017011.01-1\">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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1056": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Thessalonians 2:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p52002013.01-1\">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>",
"1057": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Luke 9:44</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42009044.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">“Let these words sink into your ears: The Son of Man is about to be delivered into the hands of men.”</span></p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 2:1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p58002001.05-2\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v58002001-2\">2:1 </span>Therefore we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away from it. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1058": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Luke 24:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42024014.01-1\">and they were talking with each other about all these things that had happened.</p>\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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1059": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Proverbs 2:1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20002001.05-1\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v20002001-1\">2:1 </span>My son, if you receive my words<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and treasure up my commandments with you,</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 119:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119011.01-2\">I have stored up your word in my heart,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that I might not sin against you. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1060": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Luke 8:15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42008015.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">As for that in the good soil, they are those who, hearing the word, hold it fast in an honest and good heart, and bear fruit with patience.</span></p>\n</div><h5>James 1:25</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p59001025.01-2\">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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"1048": "Proverbs 8:34",
"1049": "I Peter 2:1-2; Luke 8:18",
"1050": "Psalms 119:18; Ephesians 6:18-19",
"1051": "Acts 17:11",
"1052": "Hebrews 4:2",
"1053": "II Thessalonians 2:10",
"1054": "James 1:21",
"1055": "Acts 17:11",
"1056": "I Thessalonians 2:13",
"1057": "Luke 9:44; Hebrews 2:1",
"1058": "Luke 24:14; Deuteronomy 6:6-7",
"1059": "Proverbs 2:1; Psalms 119:11",
"1060": "Luke 8:15; James 1:25"
},
"question": "What is required of those that hear the Word preached?"
},
"161": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='I Peter 3:21; Acts 8:13,23; I Corinthians 3:5-7; I Corinthians 1:12-17; I Corinthians 12:13; I Corinthians 6:11' data-prooftexts-index='1061'>The sacraments become effectual means of salvation, not by any power in themselves, or any virtue derived from the piety or intention of him by whom they are administered, but only by the working of the Holy Ghost, and the blessing of Christ, by whom they are instituted.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"1061": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Peter 3:21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p60003021.01-1\">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,</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 8:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44008013.01-2\">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=\"p44008023.01-3\">For I see that you are in the gall of bitterness and in the bond of iniquity.”</p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 3:5-7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46003005.01-4\">What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, as the Lord assigned to each. I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth. So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 1:12-17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46001012.01-5\">What I mean is that each one of you says, “I follow Paul,” or “I follow Apollos,” or “I follow Cephas,” or “I follow Christ.” Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul? I thank God that I baptized none of you except Crispus and Gaius, so that no one may say that you were baptized in my name. (I did baptize also the household of Stephanas. Beyond that, I do not know whether I baptized anyone else.) For Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel, and not with words of eloquent wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 12:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46012013.01-6\">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>1 Corinthians 6:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46006011.01-7\">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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"1061": "I Peter 3:21; Acts 8:13,23; I Corinthians 3:5-7; I Corinthians 1:12-17; I Corinthians 12:13; I Corinthians 6:11"
},
"question": "How do the sacraments become effectual means of salvation?"
},
"162": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Genesis 17:7,10; Ex 12; Matthew 28:19; Matthew 26:26-28; Mark 14:22-25; Luke 22:19-20; I Corinthians 11:22-26' data-prooftexts-index='1062'>A sacrament is an holy ordinance instituted by Christ in his church,</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 4:11; I Corinthians 11:24-25' data-prooftexts-index='1063'> to signify, seal, and exhibit</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 15:8; Romans 9:8; Galatians 3:27,29' data-prooftexts-index='1064'> unto those that are within the covenant of grace,</span><span data-prooftexts='Acts 2:38; I Corinthians 10:16' data-prooftexts-index='1065'> the benefits of his mediation;</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 4:11; Galatians 3:27' data-prooftexts-index='1066'> to strengthen and increase their faith, and all other graces;</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 6:3-4; I Corinthians 10:21' data-prooftexts-index='1067'> to oblige them to obedience;</span><span data-prooftexts='Ephesians 4:2-5; I Corinthians 12:13; I Corinthians 10:16-17' data-prooftexts-index='1068'> to testify and cherish their love and communion one with another;</span><span data-prooftexts='Ephesians 2:11-12; Genesis 34:14' data-prooftexts-index='1069'> and to distinguish them from those that are without.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"1062": "<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 17:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p01017010.01-2\">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>Exodus 12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p02012001.03-3\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v02012001-3\">12:1 </span>The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, “This month shall be for you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year for you. Tell all the congregation of Israel that on the tenth day of this month every man shall take a lamb according to their fathers' houses, a lamb for a household. And if the household is too small for a lamb, then he and his nearest neighbor shall take according to the number of persons; according to what each can eat you shall make your count for the lamb. Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old. You may take it from the sheep or from the goats, and you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month, when the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill their lambs at twilight.</p>\n <p id=\"p02012007.01-3\">“Then they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and the lintel of the houses in which they eat it. They shall eat the flesh that night, roasted on the fire; with unleavened bread and bitter herbs they shall eat it. Do not eat any of it raw or boiled in water, but roasted, its head with its legs and its inner parts. And you shall let none of it remain until the morning; anything that remains until the morning you shall burn. In this manner you shall eat it: with your belt fastened, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. And you shall eat it in haste. It is the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>'s Passover. For I will pass through the land of Egypt that night, and I will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and on all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>. The blood shall be a sign for you, on the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague will befall you to destroy you, when I strike the land of Egypt.</p>\n <p id=\"p02012014.01-3\">“This day shall be for you a memorial day, and you shall keep it as a feast to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>; throughout your generations, as a statute forever, you shall keep it as a feast. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the first day you shall remove leaven out of your houses, for if anyone eats what is leavened, from the first day until the seventh day, that person shall be cut off from Israel. On the first day you shall hold a holy assembly, and on the seventh day a holy assembly. No work shall be done on those days. But what everyone needs to eat, that alone may be prepared by you. And you shall observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread, for on this very day I brought your hosts out of the land of Egypt. Therefore you shall observe this day, throughout your generations, as a statute forever. In the first month, from the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread until the twenty-first day of the month at evening. For seven days no leaven is to be found in your houses. If anyone eats what is leavened, that person will be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is a sojourner or a native of the land. You shall eat nothing leavened; in all your dwelling places you shall eat unleavened bread.”</p>\n <p id=\"p02012021.01-3\">Then Moses called all the elders of Israel and said to them, “Go and select lambs for yourselves according to your clans, and kill the Passover lamb. Take a bunch of hyssop and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and touch the lintel and the two doorposts with the blood that is in the basin. None of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning. For the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> will pass through to strike the Egyptians, and when he sees the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> will pass over the door and will not allow the destroyer to enter your houses to strike you. You shall observe this rite as a statute for you and for your sons forever. And when you come to the land that the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> will give you, as he has promised, you shall keep this service. And when your children say to you, ‘What do you mean by this service?’ you shall say, ‘It is the sacrifice of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>'s Passover, for he passed over the houses of the people of Israel in Egypt, when he struck the Egyptians but spared our houses.’” And the people bowed their heads and worshiped.</p>\n <p id=\"p02012028.01-3\">Then the people of Israel went and did so; as the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.</p>\n \n<p id=\"p02012029.08-3\">At midnight the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of the livestock. And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he and all his servants and all the Egyptians. And there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was not a house where someone was not dead. Then he summoned Moses and Aaron by night and said, “Up, go out from among my people, both you and the people of Israel; and go, serve the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, as you have said. Take your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone, and bless me also!”</p>\n \n<p id=\"p02012033.03-3\">The Egyptians were urgent with the people to send them out of the land in haste. For they said, “We shall all be dead.” So the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading bowls being bound up in their cloaks on their shoulders. The people of Israel had also done as Moses told them, for they had asked the Egyptians for silver and gold jewelry and for clothing. And the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> had given the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have what they asked. Thus they plundered the Egyptians.</p>\n <p id=\"p02012037.01-3\">And the people of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides women and children. A mixed multitude also went up with them, and very much livestock, both flocks and herds. And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough that they had brought out of Egypt, for it was not leavened, because they were thrust out of Egypt and could not wait, nor had they prepared any provisions for themselves.</p>\n <p id=\"p02012040.01-3\">The time that the people of Israel lived in Egypt was 430 years. At the end of 430 years, on that very day, all the hosts of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> went out from the land of Egypt. It was a night of watching by the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, to bring them out of the land of Egypt; so this same night is a night of watching kept to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> by all the people of Israel throughout their generations.</p>\n \n<p id=\"p02012043.05-3\">And the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the statute of the Passover: no foreigner shall eat of it, but every slave that is bought for money may eat of it after you have circumcised him. No foreigner or hired servant may eat of it. It shall be eaten in one house; you shall not take any of the flesh outside the house, and you shall not break any of its bones. All the congregation of Israel shall keep it. 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. There shall be one law for the native and for the stranger who sojourns among you.”</p>\n <p id=\"p02012050.01-3\">All the people of Israel did just as the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> commanded Moses and Aaron. And on that very day the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> brought the people of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their hosts.</p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 28:19</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></p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 26:26-28</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p40026026.06-5\">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 14:22-25</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p41014022.06-6\">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> <span class=\"woc\">Truly, I say to you, I will not drink again of the fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new in the kingdom of God.”</span></p>\n</div><h5>Luke 22:19-20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42022019.01-7\">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 11:22-26</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46011022.01-8\">What! Do you not have houses to eat and drink in? Or do you despise the church of God and humiliate those who have nothing? What shall I say to you? Shall I commend you in this? No, I will not.</p>\n <p id=\"p46011023.01-8\">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>",
"1063": "<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>1 Corinthians 11:24-25</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> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1064": "<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>Romans 9:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45009008.01-2\">This means that it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as offspring.</p>\n</div><h5>Galatians 3:27</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p48003027.01-3\">For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.</p>\n</div><h5>Galatians 3:29</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p48003029.01-4\">And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to promise. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1065": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Acts 2:38</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44002038.01-1\">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>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? (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1066": "<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>Galatians 3:27</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p48003027.01-2\">For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1067": "<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 10:21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46010021.01-2\">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>",
"1068": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ephesians 4:2-5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49004002.01-1\">with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call— one Lord, one faith, one baptism,</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.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 10:16-17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46010016.01-3\">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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1069": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ephesians 2:11-12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p49002011.04-1\">Therefore remember that at one time you Gentiles in the flesh, called “the uncircumcision” by what is called the circumcision, which is made in the flesh by hands— 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>Genesis 34:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p01034014.01-2\">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>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"1062": "Genesis 17:7,10; Ex 12; Matthew 28:19; Matthew 26:26-28; Mark 14:22-25; Luke 22:19-20; I Corinthians 11:22-26",
"1063": "Romans 4:11; I Corinthians 11:24-25",
"1064": "Romans 15:8; Romans 9:8; Galatians 3:27,29",
"1065": "Acts 2:38; I Corinthians 10:16",
"1066": "Romans 4:11; Galatians 3:27",
"1067": "Romans 6:3-4; I Corinthians 10:21",
"1068": "Ephesians 4:2-5; I Corinthians 12:13; I Corinthians 10:16-17",
"1069": "Ephesians 2:11-12; Genesis 34:14"
},
"question": "What is a sacrament?"
},
"163": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Matthew 3:11; I Peter 3:21; Titus 3:5; Deuteronomy 10:16; Deuteronomy 30:6; Jeremiah 4:4' data-prooftexts-index='1070'>The parts of a sacrament are two; the one an outward and sensible sign, used according to Christ's own appointment; the other an inward and spiritual grace thereby signified.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"1070": "<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 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,</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,</p>\n</div><h5>Deuteronomy 10:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p05010016.01-4\">Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no longer stubborn.</p>\n</div><h5>Deuteronomy 30:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p05030006.01-5\">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>Jeremiah 4:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p24004004.01-6\">Circumcise yourselves to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>remove the foreskin of your hearts,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>O men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem;<br />\nlest my wrath go forth like fire,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and burn with none to quench it,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>because of the evil of your deeds.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"1070": "Matthew 3:11; I Peter 3:21; Titus 3:5; Deuteronomy 10:16; Deuteronomy 30:6; Jeremiah 4:4"
},
"question": "What are the parts of a sacrament?"
},
"164": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Matthew 28:19; I Corinthians 11:20,23; Matthew 26:26-28' data-prooftexts-index='1071'>Under the new testament Christ hath instituted in his church only two sacraments, baptism and the Lord's Supper.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"1071": "<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>Matthew 26:26-28</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p40026026.06-4\">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": {
"1071": "Matthew 28:19; I Corinthians 11:20,23; Matthew 26:26-28"
},
"question": "How many sacraments hath Christ instituted in his church under the new testament?"
},
"165": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Matthew 28:19' data-prooftexts-index='1072'>Baptism is a sacrament of the new testament, wherein Christ hath ordained the washing with water in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost,</span><span data-prooftexts='Galatians 3:27; Romans 6:3' data-prooftexts-index='1073'> to be a sign and seal of ingrafting into himself,</span><span data-prooftexts='Mark 1:4; Revelation 1:5; Acts 2:38; Acts 22:16; I Peter 3:21' data-prooftexts-index='1074'> of remission of sins by his blood,</span><span data-prooftexts='Titus 3:5; Ephesians 5:26; Acts 2:38' data-prooftexts-index='1075'> and regeneration by his Spirit;</span><span data-prooftexts='Galatians 3:26-27' data-prooftexts-index='1076'> of adoption,</span><span data-prooftexts='I Corinthians 15:29; Romans 6:5' data-prooftexts-index='1077'> and resurrection unto everlasting life;</span><span data-prooftexts='I Corinthians 12:13; Acts 2:41' data-prooftexts-index='1078'> and whereby the parties baptized are solemnly admitted into the visible church,</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 6:4; Acts 2:38-42' data-prooftexts-index='1079'> and enter into an open and professed engagement to be wholly and only the Lord's.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"1072": "<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>",
"1073": "<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 6:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45006003.01-2\">Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1074": "<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.</p>\n</div><h5>Revelation 1:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p66001005.01-2\">and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth.</p>\n<p id=\"p66001005.20-2\">To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 2:38</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44002038.01-3\">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 22:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44022016.01-4\">And now why do you wait? Rise and be baptized and wash away your sins, calling on his name.’</p>\n</div><h5>1 Peter 3:21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p60003021.01-5\">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>",
"1075": "<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,</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>Acts 2:38</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44002038.01-3\">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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1076": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Galatians 3:26-27</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p48003026.01-1\">for in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith. For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1077": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Corinthians 15:29</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46015029.01-1\">Otherwise, what do people mean by being baptized on behalf of the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why are people baptized on their behalf?</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>",
"1078": "<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.</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 2:41</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44002041.01-2\">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>",
"1079": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 6:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45006004.01-1\">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>Acts 2:38-42</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.” And with many other words he bore witness and continued to exhort them, saying, “Save yourselves from this crooked generation.” So those who received his word were baptized, and there were added that day about three thousand souls.</p>\n \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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"1072": "Matthew 28:19",
"1073": "Galatians 3:27; Romans 6:3",
"1074": "Mark 1:4; Revelation 1:5; Acts 2:38; Acts 22:16; I Peter 3:21",
"1075": "Titus 3:5; Ephesians 5:26; Acts 2:38",
"1076": "Galatians 3:26-27",
"1077": "I Corinthians 15:29; Romans 6:5",
"1078": "I Corinthians 12:13; Acts 2:41",
"1079": "Romans 6:4; Acts 2:38-42"
},
"question": "What is baptism?"
},
"166": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Acts 2:38-39,41; Acts 8:12,36,38; Acts 16:15' data-prooftexts-index='1080'>Baptism is not to be administered to any that are out of the visible church, and so strangers from the covenant of promise, till they profess their faith in Christ, and obedience to him,</span><span data-prooftexts='Colossians 2:11-12; Acts 2:38-39; Romans 4:11-12; I Corinthians 7:14; Luke 18:15-16; Genesis 17:7-9; Galatians 3:9-14; Romans 11:16' data-prooftexts-index='1081'> but infants descending from parents, either both, or but one of them, professing faith in Christ, and obedience to him, are in that respect within the covenant, and to be baptized.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"1080": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Acts 2:38-39</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44002038.01-1\">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>Acts 2:41</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44002041.01-2\">So those who received his word were baptized, and there were added that day about three thousand souls.</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 8:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44008012.01-3\">But when they believed Philip as he preached good news about the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 8:36</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44008036.01-4\">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?”</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 8:38</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44008038.01-5\">And he commanded the chariot to stop, and they both went down into the water, Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him.</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 16:15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44016015.01-6\">And after she was baptized, and her household as well, she urged us, saying, “If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come to my house and stay.” And she prevailed upon us. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1081": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Colossians 2:11-12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p51002011.01-1\">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=\"p44002038.01-2\">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>Romans 4:11-12</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, 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=\"p46007014.01-4\">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>Luke 18:15-16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p42018015.07-5\">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>Genesis 17:7-9</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. And I will give to you and to your offspring after you the land of your sojournings, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession, and I will be their God.”</p>\n <p id=\"p01017009.01-6\">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 3:9-14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p48003009.01-7\">So then, those who are of faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith.</p>\n \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.” Now it is evident that no one is justified before God by the law, for “The righteous shall live by faith.” But the law is not of faith, rather “The one who does them shall live by them.” 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 11:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45011016.01-8\">If the dough offered as firstfruits is holy, so is the whole lump, and if the root is holy, so are the branches. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"1080": "Acts 2:38-39,41; Acts 8:12,36,38; Acts 16:15",
"1081": "Colossians 2:11-12; Acts 2:38-39; Romans 4:11-12; I Corinthians 7:14; Luke 18:15-16; Genesis 17:7-9; Galatians 3:9-14; Romans 11:16"
},
"question": "Unto whom is baptism to be administered?"
},
"167": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Colossians 2:11-12; Romans 6:4,6,11' data-prooftexts-index='1082'>The needful but much neglected duty of improving our baptism, is to be performed by us all our life long, especially in the time of temptation, and when we are present at the administration of it to others;</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 6:3-5; I Peter 3:21' data-prooftexts-index='1083'> by serious and thankful consideration of the nature of it, and of the ends for which Christ instituted it, the privileges and benefits conferred and sealed thereby, and our solemn vow made therein;</span><span data-prooftexts='I Corinthians 1:11-13; Romans 6:2-3' data-prooftexts-index='1084'> by being humbled for our sinful defilement, our falling short of, and walking contrary to, the grace of baptism, and our engagements;</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 6:4-7,22; I Peter 3:21; Romans 5:1-2; Jeremiah 33:8' data-prooftexts-index='1085'> by growing up to assurance of pardon of sin, and of all other blessings sealed to us in that sacrament;</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 6:3-5' data-prooftexts-index='1086'> by drawing strength from the death and resurrection of Christ, into whom we are baptized, for the mortifying of sin, and quickening of grace;</span><span data-prooftexts='Galatians 3:26-27' data-prooftexts-index='1087'> and by endeavoring to live by faith,</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 6:22' data-prooftexts-index='1088'> to have our conversation in holiness and righteousness,</span><span data-prooftexts='Acts 2:38; Galatians 2:20; Revelation 2:17' data-prooftexts-index='1089'> as those that have therein given up their names to Christ;</span><span data-prooftexts='I Corinthians 12:13,25' data-prooftexts-index='1090'> and to walk in brotherly love, as being baptized by the same Spirit into one body.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"1082": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Colossians 2:11-12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p51002011.01-1\">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>Romans 6:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45006004.01-2\">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>Romans 6:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45006006.01-3\">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 6:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45006011.01-4\">So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1083": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 6:3-5</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 <p id=\"p45006005.01-1\">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.</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>",
"1084": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Corinthians 1:11-13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46001011.01-1\">For it has been reported to me by Chloe's people that there is quarreling among you, my brothers. What I mean is that each one of you says, “I follow Paul,” or “I follow Apollos,” or “I follow Cephas,” or “I follow Christ.” Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul?</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 6:2-3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45006002.01-2\">By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1085": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 6:4-7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45006004.01-1\">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 <p id=\"p45006005.01-1\">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. For one who has died has been set free from sin.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 6:22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45006022.01-2\">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.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Peter 3:21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p60003021.01-3\">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,</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 5:1-2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p45005001.06-4\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v45005001-4\">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>Jeremiah 33:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p24033008.01-5\">I will cleanse them from all the guilt of their sin against me, and I will forgive all the guilt of their sin and rebellion against me. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1086": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 6:3-5</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 <p id=\"p45006005.01-1\">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>",
"1087": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Galatians 3:26-27</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p48003026.01-1\">for in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith. For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1088": "<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>",
"1089": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Acts 2:38</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44002038.01-1\">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>Galatians 2:20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p48002020.01-2\">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>Revelation 2:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p66002017.01-3\"><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> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1090": "<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.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 12:25</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46012025.01-2\">that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"1082": "Colossians 2:11-12; Romans 6:4,6,11",
"1083": "Romans 6:3-5; I Peter 3:21",
"1084": "I Corinthians 1:11-13; Romans 6:2-3",
"1085": "Romans 6:4-7,22; I Peter 3:21; Romans 5:1-2; Jeremiah 33:8",
"1086": "Romans 6:3-5",
"1087": "Galatians 3:26-27",
"1088": "Romans 6:22",
"1089": "Acts 2:38; Galatians 2:20; Revelation 2:17",
"1090": "I Corinthians 12:13,25"
},
"question": "How is our baptism to be improved by us?"
},
"168": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Luke 22:20' data-prooftexts-index='1091'>The Lord's Supper is a sacrament of the new testament,</span><span data-prooftexts='Matthew 26:26-28; I Corinthians 11:23-26' data-prooftexts-index='1092'> wherein, by giving and receiving bread and wine according to the appointment of Jesus Christ, his death is showed forth; and they that worthily communicate feed upon his body and blood, to their spiritual nourishment and growth in grace;</span><span data-prooftexts='I Corinthians 10:16' data-prooftexts-index='1093'> have their union and communion with him confirmed;</span><span data-prooftexts='I Corinthians 11:24' data-prooftexts-index='1094'> testify and renew their thankfulness,</span><span data-prooftexts='I Corinthians 10:14-16,21; Romans 7:4' data-prooftexts-index='1095'> and engagement to God,</span><span data-prooftexts='I Corinthians 10:17' data-prooftexts-index='1096'> and their mutual love and fellowship each with other, as members of the same mystical body.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"1091": "<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>",
"1092": "<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>1 Corinthians 11:23-26</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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1093": "<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>",
"1094": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Corinthians 11:24</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> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1095": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Corinthians 10:14-16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46010014.01-1\">Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry. I speak as to sensible people; judge for yourselves what I say. 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=\"p46010021.01-2\">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>Romans 7:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45007004.01-3\">Likewise, my brothers, you also have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1096": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Corinthians 10:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46010017.01-1\">Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"1091": "Luke 22:20",
"1092": "Matthew 26:26-28; I Corinthians 11:23-26",
"1093": "I Corinthians 10:16",
"1094": "I Corinthians 11:24",
"1095": "I Corinthians 10:14-16,21; Romans 7:4",
"1096": "I Corinthians 10:17"
},
"question": "What is the Lord's Supper?"
},
"169": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='I Corinthians 11:23-24; Matthew 26:26-28; Mark 14:22-24; Luke 22:19-20' data-prooftexts-index='1097'>Christ hath appointed the ministers of his Word, in the administration of this sacrament of the Lord's Supper, to set apart the bread and wine from common use, by the word of institution, thanksgiving, and prayer; to take and break the bread, and to give both the bread and the wine to the communicants: who are, by the same appointment, to take and eat the bread, and to drink the wine, in thankful remembrance that the body of Christ was broken and given, and his blood shed, for them.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"1097": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Corinthians 11:23-24</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></p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 26:26-28</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> <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=\"p41014022.06-3\">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=\"p42022019.01-4\">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> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"1097": "I Corinthians 11:23-24; Matthew 26:26-28; Mark 14:22-24; Luke 22:19-20"
},
"question": "How hath Christ appointed bread and wine to be given and received in the sacrament of the Lord's Supper?"
},
"17": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Genesis 1:27; Matthew 19:4' data-prooftexts-index='62'>After God had made all other creatures, he created man male and female;</span><span data-prooftexts='Genesis 2:7' data-prooftexts-index='63'> formed the body of the man of the dust of the ground,</span><span data-prooftexts='Genesis 2:22' data-prooftexts-index='64'> and the woman of the rib of the man,</span><span data-prooftexts='Genesis 2:7; Job 35:11; Ecclesiastes 12:7; Matthew 10:28; Luke 23:43' data-prooftexts-index='65'> endued them with living, reasonable, and immortal souls;</span><span data-prooftexts='Genesis 1:26-27' data-prooftexts-index='66'> made them after his own image,</span><span data-prooftexts='Colossians 3:10' data-prooftexts-index='67'> in knowledge,</span><span data-prooftexts='Ephesians 4:24' data-prooftexts-index='68'> righteousness, and holiness;</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 2:14-15' data-prooftexts-index='69'> having the law of God written in their hearts,</span><span data-prooftexts='Ecclesiastes 7:29' data-prooftexts-index='70'> and power to fulfill it,</span><span data-prooftexts='Genesis 1:28; Psalms 8:6-8' data-prooftexts-index='71'> and dominion over the creatures;</span><span data-prooftexts='Genesis 2:16-17; Genesis 3:6; Ecclesiastes 7:29' data-prooftexts-index='72'> yet subject to fall.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"62": "<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.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Matthew 19:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40019004.01-2\">He answered, <span class=\"woc\">“Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female,</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"63": "<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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"64": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Genesis 2:22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p01002022.01-1\">And the rib that the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"65": "<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>Job 35:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p18035011.01-2\">who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens?’</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Ecclesiastes 12:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p21012007.01-3\">and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.</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></p>\n</div><h5>Luke 23:43</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42023043.01-5\">And he said to him, <span class=\"woc\">“Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in Paradise.”</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"66": "<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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"67": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Colossians 3:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p51003010.01-1\">and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"68": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ephesians 4:24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49004024.01-1\">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>",
"69": "<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>",
"70": "<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>",
"71": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Genesis 1:28</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><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>Psalm 8:6-8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19008006.01-2\">You have given him dominion over the works of your hands;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>you have put all things under his feet,<br />\n all sheep and oxen,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and also the beasts of the field,<br />\n the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>whatever passes along the paths of the seas. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"72": "<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.</p>\n</div><h5>Ecclesiastes 7:29</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p21007029.01-3\">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>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"62": "Genesis 1:27; Matthew 19:4",
"63": "Genesis 2:7",
"64": "Genesis 2:22",
"65": "Genesis 2:7; Job 35:11; Ecclesiastes 12:7; Matthew 10:28; Luke 23:43",
"66": "Genesis 1:26-27",
"67": "Colossians 3:10",
"68": "Ephesians 4:24",
"69": "Romans 2:14-15",
"70": "Ecclesiastes 7:29",
"71": "Genesis 1:28; Psalms 8:6-8",
"72": "Genesis 2:16-17; Genesis 3:6; Ecclesiastes 7:29"
},
"question": "How did God create man?"
},
"170": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Acts 3:21' data-prooftexts-index='1098'>As the body and blood of Christ are not corporally or carnally present in, with, or under the bread and wine in the Lord's Supper,</span><span data-prooftexts='Matthew 26:26,28' data-prooftexts-index='1099'> and yet are spiritually present to the faith of the receiver, no less truly and really than the elements themselves are to their outward senses;</span><span data-prooftexts='I Corinthians 11:24-29; John 6:51,53' data-prooftexts-index='1100'> so they that worthily communicate in the sacrament of the Lord's Supper, do therein feed upon the body and blood of Christ, not after a corporal and carnal, but in a spiritual manner; yet truly and really,</span><span data-prooftexts='I Corinthians 10:16' data-prooftexts-index='1101'> while by faith they receive and apply unto themselves Christ crucified, and all the benefits of his death.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"1098": "<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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1099": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 26:26</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></p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 26:28</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40026028.01-2\"><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>",
"1100": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Corinthians 11:24-29</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 <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>John 6:51</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43006051.01-2\"><span class=\"woc\">I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”</span></p>\n</div><h5>John 6:53</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43006053.01-3\">So Jesus said to them, <span class=\"woc\">“Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1101": "<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>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"1098": "Acts 3:21",
"1099": "Matthew 26:26,28",
"1100": "I Corinthians 11:24-29; John 6:51,53",
"1101": "I Corinthians 10:16"
},
"question": "How do they that worthily communicate in the Lord's supper feed upon the body and blood of Christ therein?"
},
"171": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='I Corinthians 11:28' data-prooftexts-index='1102'>They that receive the sacrament of the Lord's Supper are, before they come, to prepare themselves thereunto, by examining themselves</span><span data-prooftexts='II Corinthians 13:5' data-prooftexts-index='1103'> of their being in Christ,</span><span data-prooftexts='I Corinthians 5:7; Ex 12:15' data-prooftexts-index='1104'> of their sins and wants;</span><span data-prooftexts='I Corinthians 11:29' data-prooftexts-index='1105'> of the truth and measure of their knowledge,</span><span data-prooftexts='II Corinthians 13:5; Matthew 26:28' data-prooftexts-index='1106'> faith,</span><span data-prooftexts='Zechariah 12:10; I Corinthians 11:31' data-prooftexts-index='1107'> repentance;</span><span data-prooftexts='I Corinthians 10:16-17; Acts 2:46-47' data-prooftexts-index='1108'> love to God and the brethren,</span><span data-prooftexts='I Corinthians 5:8; I Corinthians 11:18,20' data-prooftexts-index='1109'> charity to all men,</span><span data-prooftexts='Matthew 5:23-24' data-prooftexts-index='1110'> forgiving those that have done them wrong;</span><span data-prooftexts='Isaiah 55:1; John 7:37' data-prooftexts-index='1111'> of their desires after Christ,</span><span data-prooftexts='I Corinthians 5:7-8' data-prooftexts-index='1112'> and of their new obedience;</span><span data-prooftexts='I Corinthians 11:25-26,28; Hebrews 10:21-22,24; Psalms 26:6' data-prooftexts-index='1113'> and by renewing the exercise of these graces,</span><span data-prooftexts='I Corinthians 11:24-25' data-prooftexts-index='1114'> by serious meditation,</span><span data-prooftexts='II Chronicles 30:18-19; Matthew 26:26' data-prooftexts-index='1115'> and fervent prayer.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"1102": "<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>",
"1103": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>2 Corinthians 13:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p47013005.01-1\">Examine yourselves, to see whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Or do you not realize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you fail to meet the test! (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1104": "<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>Exodus 12:15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p02012015.01-2\">Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the first day you shall remove leaven out of your houses, for if anyone eats what is leavened, from the first day until the seventh day, that person shall be cut off from Israel. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1105": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Corinthians 11:29</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46011029.01-1\">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>",
"1106": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>2 Corinthians 13:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p47013005.01-1\">Examine yourselves, to see whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Or do you not realize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you fail to meet the test!</p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 26:28</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40026028.01-2\"><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>",
"1107": "<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>1 Corinthians 11:31</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46011031.01-2\">But if we judged ourselves truly, we would not be judged. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1108": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Corinthians 10:16-17</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? Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread.</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 2:46-47</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44002046.01-2\">And day by day, attending the temple together and breaking bread in their homes, they received their food with glad and generous hearts, 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>",
"1109": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Corinthians 5:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46005008.01-1\">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</div><h5>1 Corinthians 11:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46011018.01-2\">For, in the first place, when you come together as a church, I hear that there are divisions among you. And I believe it in part,</p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 11:20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46011020.01-3\">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>",
"1110": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 5:23-24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40005023.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">So if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you,</span> <span class=\"woc\">leave your gift there before the altar and go. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1111": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Isaiah 55:1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23055001.06-1\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v23055001-1\">55:1 </span>“Come, everyone who thirsts,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>come to the waters;<br />\nand he who has no money,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>come, buy and eat!<br />\nCome, buy wine and milk<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>without money and without price.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>John 7:37</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p43007037.05-2\">On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and cried out, <span class=\"woc\">“If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink.</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1112": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Corinthians 5:7-8</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. 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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1113": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Corinthians 11:25-26</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46011025.01-1\">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 11:28</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46011028.01-2\">Let a person examine himself, then, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup.</p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 10:21-22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58010021.01-3\">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.</p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 10:24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58010024.01-4\">And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works,</p>\n</div><h5>Psalm 26:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19026006.01-5\">I wash my hands in innocence<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and go around your altar, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1114": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Corinthians 11:24-25</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> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1115": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>2 Chronicles 30:18-19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p14030018.01-1\">For a majority of the people, many of them from Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet they ate the Passover otherwise than as prescribed. For Hezekiah had prayed for them, saying, “May the good <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> pardon everyone who sets his heart to seek God, the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, the God of his fathers, even though not according to the sanctuary's rules of cleanness.”</p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 26:26</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> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"1102": "I Corinthians 11:28",
"1103": "II Corinthians 13:5",
"1104": "I Corinthians 5:7; Ex 12:15",
"1105": "I Corinthians 11:29",
"1106": "II Corinthians 13:5; Matthew 26:28",
"1107": "Zechariah 12:10; I Corinthians 11:31",
"1108": "I Corinthians 10:16-17; Acts 2:46-47",
"1109": "I Corinthians 5:8; I Corinthians 11:18,20",
"1110": "Matthew 5:23-24",
"1111": "Isaiah 55:1; John 7:37",
"1112": "I Corinthians 5:7-8",
"1113": "I Corinthians 11:25-26,28; Hebrews 10:21-22,24; Psalms 26:6",
"1114": "I Corinthians 11:24-25",
"1115": "II Chronicles 30:18-19; Matthew 26:26"
},
"question": "How are they that receive the sacrament of the Lord's Supper to prepare themselves before they come unto it?"
},
"172": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Isaiah 50:10; I John 5:13; Psalms 88; Psalms 77:1-4,7-10; Jonah 2:4' data-prooftexts-index='1116'>One who doubteth of his being in Christ, or of his due preparation to the sacrament of the Lord's Supper, may have true interest in Christ, though he be not yet assured thereof;</span><span data-prooftexts='Isaiah 54:7-10; Matthew 5:3-4; Psalms 31:22; Psalms 73:13,22-23' data-prooftexts-index='1117'> and in God's account hath it, if he be duly affected with the apprehension of the want of it,</span><span data-prooftexts='Philippians 3:8-9; Psalms 10:17; Psalms 42:1-2,5,11' data-prooftexts-index='1118'> and unfeignedly desires to be found in Christ,</span><span data-prooftexts='II Timothy 2:19; Isaiah 50:10; Psalms 66:18-20' data-prooftexts-index='1119'> and to depart from iniquity:</span><span data-prooftexts='Isaiah 40:11,29,31; Matthew 11:28; Matthew 12:20; Matthew 26:28' data-prooftexts-index='1120'> in which case (because promises are made, and this sacrament is appointed, for the relief even of weak and doubting Christians</span><span data-prooftexts='Mark 9:24' data-prooftexts-index='1121'>) he is to bewail his unbelief,</span><span data-prooftexts='Acts 2:37; Acts 16:30' data-prooftexts-index='1122'> and labor to have his doubts resolved;</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 4:11; I Corinthians 11:28' data-prooftexts-index='1123'> and, so doing, he may and ought to come to the Lord's Supper, that he may be further strengthened.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"1116": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Isaiah 50:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23050010.01-1\">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>1 John 5:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p62005013.05-2\">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>Psalm 88</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19088001.31-3\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v19088001-3\">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=\"p19088003.01-3\">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=\"p19088008.01-3\">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=\"p19088013.01-3\">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 77:1-4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19077001.20-4\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v19077001-4\">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=\"p19077004.01-4\">You hold my eyelids open;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I am so troubled that I cannot speak.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 77:7-10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19077007.01-5\">“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</div>\n</div><h5>Jonah 2:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p32002004.01-6\">Then I said, ‘I am driven away<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>from your sight;<br />\nyet I shall again look<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>upon your holy temple.’ (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1117": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Isaiah 54:7-10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23054007.01-1\">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=\"p23054009.01-1\">“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>Matthew 5:3-4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40005003.01-2\"><span class=\"woc\">“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.</span></p>\n <p id=\"p40005004.01-2\"><span class=\"woc\">“Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.</span></p>\n</div><h5>Psalm 31:22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19031022.01-3\">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 73:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19073013.01-4\">All in vain have I kept my heart clean<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and washed my hands in innocence.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 73:22-23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19073022.01-5\">I was brutish and ignorant;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I was like a beast toward you.</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19073023.01-5\">Nevertheless, I am continually with you;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>you hold my right hand. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1118": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Philippians 3:8-9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p50003008.01-1\">Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ 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>Psalm 10:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19010017.01-2\">O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, you hear the desire of the afflicted;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>you will strengthen their heart; you will incline your ear</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 42:1-2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n\n\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19042001.21-3\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v19042001-3\">42:1 </span>As a deer pants for flowing streams,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>so pants my soul for you, O God.<br />\n My soul thirsts for God,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for the living God.<br />\nWhen shall I come and appear before God?</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 42:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19042005.01-4\">Why are you cast down, O my soul,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and why are you in turmoil within me?<br />\nHope in God; for I shall again praise him,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>my salvation</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 42:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19042011.01-5\">Why are you cast down, O my soul,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and why are you in turmoil within me?<br />\nHope in God; for I shall again praise him,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>my salvation and my God. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1119": "<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>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>Psalm 66:18-20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19066018.01-3\">If I had cherished iniquity in my heart,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>the Lord would not have listened.<br />\n But truly God has listened;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>he has attended to the voice of my prayer.</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19066020.01-3\">Blessed be God,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>because he has not rejected my prayer<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>or removed his steadfast love from me! (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1120": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Isaiah 40:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23040011.01-1\">He will tend his flock like a shepherd;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>he will gather the lambs in his arms;<br />\nhe will carry them in his bosom,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and gently lead those that are with young.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Isaiah 40:29</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23040029.01-2\">He gives power to the faint,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and to him who has no might he increases strength.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Isaiah 40:31</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23040031.01-3\">but they who wait for the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> shall renew their strength;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>they shall mount up with wings like eagles;<br />\nthey shall run and not be weary;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>they shall walk and not faint.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Matthew 11:28</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40011028.01-4\"><span class=\"woc\">Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.</span></p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 12:20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p40012020.01-5\">a bruised reed he will not break,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and a smoldering wick he will not quench,<br />\nuntil he brings justice to victory;</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Matthew 26:28</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40026028.01-6\"><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>",
"1121": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Mark 9:24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p41009024.01-1\">Immediately the father of the child cried out and said, “I believe; help my unbelief!” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1122": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Acts 2:37</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44002037.01-1\">Now when they heard this they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?”</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 16:30</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44016030.01-2\">Then he brought them out and said, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1123": "<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>1 Corinthians 11:28</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46011028.01-2\">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>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"1116": "Isaiah 50:10; I John 5:13; Psalms 88; Psalms 77:1-4,7-10; Jonah 2:4",
"1117": "Isaiah 54:7-10; Matthew 5:3-4; Psalms 31:22; Psalms 73:13,22-23",
"1118": "Philippians 3:8-9; Psalms 10:17; Psalms 42:1-2,5,11",
"1119": "II Timothy 2:19; Isaiah 50:10; Psalms 66:18-20",
"1120": "Isaiah 40:11,29,31; Matthew 11:28; Matthew 12:20; Matthew 26:28",
"1121": "Mark 9:24",
"1122": "Acts 2:37; Acts 16:30",
"1123": "Romans 4:11; I Corinthians 11:28"
},
"question": "May one who doubteth of his being in Christ, or of his due preparation, come to the Lord's Supper?"
},
"173": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='I Corinthians 11:27-34; Matthew 7:6; I Corinthians 5; Jude 23; I Timothy 5:22' data-prooftexts-index='1124'>Such as are found to be ignorant or scandalous, notwithstanding their profession of the faith, and desire to come to the Lord's Supper, may and ought to be kept from that sacrament, by the power which Christ hath left in his church,</span><span data-prooftexts='II Corinthians 2:7' data-prooftexts-index='1125'> until they receive instruction, and manifest their reformation.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"1124": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Corinthians 11:27-34</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. 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=\"p46011033.01-1\">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>Matthew 7:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40007006.01-2\"><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 Corinthians 5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p46005001.06-3\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v46005001-3\">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=\"p46005003.01-3\">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=\"p46005006.01-3\">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=\"p46005009.01-3\">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>Jude 1:23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p65001023.01-4\">save others by snatching them out of the fire; to others show mercy with fear, hating even the garment stained by the flesh.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Timothy 5:22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p54005022.01-5\">Do not be hasty in the laying on of hands, nor take part in the sins of others; keep yourself pure. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1125": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>2 Corinthians 2:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p47002007.01-1\">so you should rather turn to forgive and comfort him, or he may be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"1124": "I Corinthians 11:27-34; Matthew 7:6; I Corinthians 5; Jude 23; I Timothy 5:22",
"1125": "II Corinthians 2:7"
},
"question": "May any who profess the faith, and desire to come to the Lord's Supper, be kept from it?"
},
"174": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Leviticus 10:3; Hebrews 12:28; Psalms 5:7; I Corinthians 11:17,26-27' data-prooftexts-index='1126'>It is required of them that receive the sacrament of the Lord's Supper, that, during the time of the administration of it, with all holy reverence and attention they wait upon God in that ordinance,</span><span data-prooftexts='Ex 24:8; Matthew 26:28' data-prooftexts-index='1127'> diligently observe the sacramental elements and actions,</span><span data-prooftexts='I Corinthians 11:29' data-prooftexts-index='1128'> heedfully discern the Lord's body,</span><span data-prooftexts='Luke 22:19' data-prooftexts-index='1129'> and affectionately meditate on his death and sufferings,</span><span data-prooftexts='I Corinthians 11:26; I Corinthians 10:3-5,11,14' data-prooftexts-index='1130'> and thereby stir up themselves to a vigorous exercise of their graces;</span><span data-prooftexts='I Corinthians 11:31' data-prooftexts-index='1131'> in judging themselves,</span><span data-prooftexts='Zechariah 12:10' data-prooftexts-index='1132'> and sorrowing for sin;</span><span data-prooftexts='Revelation 22:17; Matthew 5:6' data-prooftexts-index='1133'> in earnest hungering and thirsting after Christ,</span><span data-prooftexts='John 6:35,47-58' data-prooftexts-index='1134'> feeding on him by faith,</span><span data-prooftexts='John 1:16' data-prooftexts-index='1135'> receiving of his fullness,</span><span data-prooftexts='Philippians 3:9' data-prooftexts-index='1136'> trusting in his merits,</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 63:4-5; II Chronicles 30:21' data-prooftexts-index='1137'> rejoicing in his love,</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 22:26; I Corinthians 10:16' data-prooftexts-index='1138'> giving thanks for his grace;</span><span data-prooftexts='Jeremiah 50:5; Psalms 50:5' data-prooftexts-index='1139'> in renewing of their covenant with God,</span><span data-prooftexts='Acts 2:42' data-prooftexts-index='1140'> and love to all the saints.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"1126": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Leviticus 10:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p03010003.01-1\">Then Moses said to Aaron, “This is what the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> has said, ‘Among those who are near me I will be sanctified, and before all the people I will be glorified.’” And Aaron held his peace.</p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 12:28</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58012028.01-2\">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>Psalm 5:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19005007.01-3\">But I, through the abundance of your steadfast love,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>will enter your house.<br />\nI will bow down toward your holy temple<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>in the fear of you.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 11:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p46011017.04-4\">But in the following instructions I do not commend you, because when you come together it is not for the better but for the worse.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 11:26-27</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46011026.01-5\">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=\"p46011027.01-5\">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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1127": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Exodus 24:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p02024008.01-1\">And Moses took the blood and threw it on the people and said, “Behold the blood of the covenant that the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> has made with you in accordance with all these words.”</p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 26:28</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40026028.01-2\"><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>",
"1128": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Corinthians 11:29</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46011029.01-1\">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>",
"1129": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Luke 22:19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42022019.01-1\">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> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1130": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Corinthians 11:26</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</div><h5>1 Corinthians 10:3-5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46010003.01-2\">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. Nevertheless, with most of them God was not pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 10:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46010011.01-3\">Now these things happened to them as an example, but they were written down for our instruction, on whom the end of the ages has come.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 10:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46010014.01-4\">Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1131": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Corinthians 11:31</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46011031.01-1\">But if we judged ourselves truly, we would not be judged. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1132": "<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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1133": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Revelation 22:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p66022017.01-1\">The Spirit and the Bride say, “Come.” And let the one who hears say, “Come.” And let the one who is thirsty come; let the one who desires take the water of life without price.</p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 5:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40005006.01-2\"><span class=\"woc\">“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1134": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>John 6:35</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43006035.01-1\">Jesus said to them, <span class=\"woc\">“I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.</span></p>\n</div><h5>John 6:47-58</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43006047.01-2\"><span class=\"woc\">Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes has eternal life.</span> <span class=\"woc\">I am the bread of life.</span> <span class=\"woc\">Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.</span> <span class=\"woc\">This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die.</span> <span class=\"woc\">I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”</span></p>\n <p id=\"p43006052.01-2\">The Jews then disputed among themselves, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?” So Jesus said to them, <span class=\"woc\">“Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.</span> <span class=\"woc\">Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.</span> <span class=\"woc\">For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink.</span> <span class=\"woc\">Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him.</span> <span class=\"woc\">As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so whoever feeds on me, he also will live because of me.</span> <span class=\"woc\">This is the bread that came down from heaven, not like the bread the fathers ate and died. Whoever feeds on this bread will live forever.”</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1135": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>John 1:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43001016.01-1\">And from his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1136": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Philippians 3:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p50003009.01-1\">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— (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1137": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 63:4-5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19063004.01-1\">So I will bless you as long as I live;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>in your name I will lift up my hands.</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19063005.01-1\">My soul will be satisfied as with fat and rich food,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and my mouth will praise you with joyful lips,</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>2 Chronicles 30:21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p14030021.01-2\">And the people of Israel who were present at Jerusalem kept the Feast of Unleavened Bread seven days with great gladness, and the Levites and the priests praised the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> day by day, singing with all their might to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1138": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 22:26</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19022026.01-1\">The afflicted shall eat and be satisfied;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>those who seek him shall praise the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>!<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>May your hearts live forever!</p>\n</div>\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? (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1139": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Jeremiah 50:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p24050005.01-1\">They shall ask the way to Zion, with faces turned toward it, saying, ‘Come, let us join ourselves to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> in an everlasting covenant that will never be forgotten.’</p>\n</div><h5>Psalm 50:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19050005.01-2\">“Gather to me my faithful ones,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>who made a covenant with me by sacrifice!” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1140": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Acts 2:42</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p44002042.06-1\">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>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"1126": "Leviticus 10:3; Hebrews 12:28; Psalms 5:7; I Corinthians 11:17,26-27",
"1127": "Ex 24:8; Matthew 26:28",
"1128": "I Corinthians 11:29",
"1129": "Luke 22:19",
"1130": "I Corinthians 11:26; I Corinthians 10:3-5,11,14",
"1131": "I Corinthians 11:31",
"1132": "Zechariah 12:10",
"1133": "Revelation 22:17; Matthew 5:6",
"1134": "John 6:35,47-58",
"1135": "John 1:16",
"1136": "Philippians 3:9",
"1137": "Psalms 63:4-5; II Chronicles 30:21",
"1138": "Psalms 22:26; I Corinthians 10:16",
"1139": "Jeremiah 50:5; Psalms 50:5",
"1140": "Acts 2:42"
},
"question": "What is required of them that receive the sacrament of the Lord's Supper in the time of the administration of it?"
},
"175": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Psalms 28:7; Psalms 85:8; I Corinthians 11:17,30-31' data-prooftexts-index='1141'>The duty of Christians, after they have received the sacrament of the Lord's Supper, is seriously to consider how they have behaved themselves therein, and with what success;</span><span data-prooftexts='II Chronicles 30:21-23,25-26; Acts 2:42,46-47' data-prooftexts-index='1142'> if they find quickening and comfort, to bless God for it,</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 36:10; Song of Solomon 3:4; I Chronicles 29:18' data-prooftexts-index='1143'> beg the continuance of it,</span><span data-prooftexts='I Corinthians 10:3-5,12' data-prooftexts-index='1144'> watch against relapses,</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 50:14' data-prooftexts-index='1145'> fulfill their vows,</span><span data-prooftexts='I Corinthians 11:25-26; Acts 2:42,46' data-prooftexts-index='1146'> and encourage themselves to a frequent attendance on that ordinance:</span><span data-prooftexts='Ecclesiastes 5:1-6; Psalms 139:23-24' data-prooftexts-index='1147'> but if they find no present benefit, more exactly to review their preparation to, and carriage at, the sacrament;</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 123:1-2; Psalms 42:5,8; Psalms 43:3-5' data-prooftexts-index='1148'> in both which, if they can approve themselves to God and their own consciences, they are to wait for the fruit of it in due time:</span><span data-prooftexts='II Chronicles 30:18-19' data-prooftexts-index='1149'> but, if they see they have failed in either, they are to be humbled,</span><span data-prooftexts='II Corinthians 7:11; I Chronicles 15:12-14' data-prooftexts-index='1150'> and to attend upon it afterwards with more care and diligence.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"1141": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 28:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19028007.01-1\">The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> is my strength and my shield;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>in him my heart trusts, and I am helped;<br />\nmy heart exults,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and with my song I give thanks to him.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 85:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19085008.01-2\">Let me hear what God the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> will speak,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for he will speak peace to his people, to his saints;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but let them not turn back to folly.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 11:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p46011017.04-3\">But in the following instructions I do not commend you, because when you come together it is not for the better but for the worse.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 11:30-31</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46011030.01-4\">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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1142": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>2 Chronicles 30:21-23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p14030021.01-1\">And the people of Israel who were present at Jerusalem kept the Feast of Unleavened Bread seven days with great gladness, and the Levites and the priests praised the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> day by day, singing with all their might to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>. And Hezekiah spoke encouragingly to all the Levites who showed good skill in the service of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>. So they ate the food of the festival for seven days, sacrificing peace offerings and giving thanks to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, the God of their fathers.</p>\n <p id=\"p14030023.01-1\">Then the whole assembly agreed together to keep the feast for another seven days. So they kept it for another seven days with gladness.</p>\n</div><h5>2 Chronicles 30:25-26</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p14030025.01-2\">The whole assembly of Judah, and the priests and the Levites, and the whole assembly that came out of Israel, and the sojourners who came out of the land of Israel, and the sojourners who lived in Judah, rejoiced. So there was great joy in Jerusalem, for since the time of Solomon the son of David king of Israel there had been nothing like this in Jerusalem.</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.</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 2:46-47</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44002046.01-4\">And day by day, attending the temple together and breaking bread in their homes, they received their food with glad and generous hearts, 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>",
"1143": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 36:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19036010.01-1\">Oh, continue your steadfast love to those who know you,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and your righteousness to the upright of heart!</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Song of Solomon 3:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p22003004.01-2\">Scarcely had I passed them<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>when I found him whom my soul loves.<br />\nI held him, and would not let him go<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>until I had brought him into my mother's house,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and into the chamber of her who conceived me.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>1 Chronicles 29:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p13029018.01-3\">O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, our fathers, keep forever such purposes and thoughts in the hearts of your people, and direct their hearts toward you. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1144": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Corinthians 10:3-5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46010003.01-1\">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. Nevertheless, with most of them God was not pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 10:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46010012.01-2\">Therefore let anyone who thinks that he stands take heed lest he fall. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1145": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 50:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19050014.01-1\">Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and perform your vows to the Most High, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1146": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Corinthians 11:25-26</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46011025.01-1\">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>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, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1147": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ecclesiastes 5:1-6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p21005001.03-1\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v21005001-1\">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. For a dream comes with much business, and a fool's voice with many words.</p>\n <p id=\"p21005004.01-1\">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 139:23-24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19139023.01-2\">Search me, O God, and know my heart!<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Try me and know my thoughts!<br />\n And see if there be any grievous way in me,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and lead me in the way everlasting! (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1148": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 123:1-2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19123001.13-1\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v19123001-1\">123:1 </span>To you I lift up my eyes,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>O you who are enthroned in the heavens!<br />\n Behold, as the eyes of servants<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>look to the hand of their master,<br />\nas the eyes of a maidservant<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>to the hand of her mistress,<br />\nso our eyes look to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> our God,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>till he has mercy upon us.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 42:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19042005.01-2\">Why are you cast down, O my soul,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and why are you in turmoil within me?<br />\nHope in God; for I shall again praise him,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>my salvation</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 42:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19042008.01-3\">By day the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> commands his steadfast love,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and at night his song is with me,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>a prayer to the God of my life.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 43:3-5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19043003.01-4\">Send out your light and your truth;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>let them lead me;<br />\nlet them bring me to your holy hill<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and to your dwelling!<br />\n Then I will go to the altar of God,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>to God my exceeding joy,<br />\nand I will praise you with the lyre,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>O God, my God.</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19043005.01-4\">Why are you cast down, O my soul,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and why are you in turmoil within me?<br />\nHope in God; for I shall again praise him,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>my salvation and my God. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1149": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>2 Chronicles 30:18-19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p14030018.01-1\">For a majority of the people, many of them from Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet they ate the Passover otherwise than as prescribed. For Hezekiah had prayed for them, saying, “May the good <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> pardon everyone who sets his heart to seek God, the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, the God of his fathers, even though not according to the sanctuary's rules of cleanness.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1150": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>2 Corinthians 7:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p47007011.01-1\">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.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Chronicles 15:12-14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p13015012.01-2\">and said to them, “You are the heads of the fathers' houses of the Levites. Consecrate yourselves, you and your brothers, so that you may bring up the ark of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, the God of Israel, to the place that I have prepared for it. Because you did not carry it the first time, the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> our God broke out against us, because we did not seek him according to the rule.” So the priests and the Levites consecrated themselves to bring up the ark of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, the God of Israel. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"1141": "Psalms 28:7; Psalms 85:8; I Corinthians 11:17,30-31",
"1142": "II Chronicles 30:21-23,25-26; Acts 2:42,46-47",
"1143": "Psalms 36:10; Song of Solomon 3:4; I Chronicles 29:18",
"1144": "I Corinthians 10:3-5,12",
"1145": "Psalms 50:14",
"1146": "I Corinthians 11:25-26; Acts 2:42,46",
"1147": "Ecclesiastes 5:1-6; Psalms 139:23-24",
"1148": "Psalms 123:1-2; Psalms 42:5,8; Psalms 43:3-5",
"1149": "II Chronicles 30:18-19",
"1150": "II Corinthians 7:11; I Chronicles 15:12-14"
},
"question": "What is the duty of Christians, after they have received the sacrament of the Lord's Supper?"
},
"176": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Matthew 28:19; I Corinthians 11:23' data-prooftexts-index='1151'>The sacraments of baptism and the Lord's Supper agree, in that the author of both is God;</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 6:3-4; I Corinthians 10:16' data-prooftexts-index='1152'> the spiritual part of both is Christ and his benefits;</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 4:11; Colossians 2:12; Matthew 26:27-28' data-prooftexts-index='1153'> both are seals of the same covenant,</span><span data-prooftexts='John 1:33; Matthew 28:19; I Corinthians 11:23; I Corinthians 4:1; Hebrews 5:4' data-prooftexts-index='1154'> are to be dispensed by ministers of the gospel, and by none other;</span><span data-prooftexts='Matthew 28:19-20; I Corinthians 11:26' data-prooftexts-index='1155'> and to be continued in the church of Christ until his second coming.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"1151": "<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>",
"1152": "<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? (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1153": "<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 2:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p51002012.01-2\">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>Matthew 26:27-28</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40026027.01-3\">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>",
"1154": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>John 1:33</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43001033.01-1\">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</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></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>",
"1155": "<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 11:26</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46011026.01-2\">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>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"1151": "Matthew 28:19; I Corinthians 11:23",
"1152": "Romans 6:3-4; I Corinthians 10:16",
"1153": "Romans 4:11; Colossians 2:12; Matthew 26:27-28",
"1154": "John 1:33; Matthew 28:19; I Corinthians 11:23; I Corinthians 4:1; Hebrews 5:4",
"1155": "Matthew 28:19-20; I Corinthians 11:26"
},
"question": "Wherein do the sacraments of baptism and the Lord's Supper agree?"
},
"177": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Matthew 3:11; Titus 3:5; Galatians 3:27' data-prooftexts-index='1156'>The sacraments of baptism and the Lord's Supper differ, in that baptism is to be administered but once, with water, to be a sign and seal of our regeneration and ingrafting into Christ,</span><span data-prooftexts='Genesis 17:7,9; Acts 2:38-39; I Corinthians 7:14' data-prooftexts-index='1157'> and that even to infants;</span><span data-prooftexts='I Corinthians 11:23-26' data-prooftexts-index='1158'> whereas the Lord's Supper is to be administered often, in the elements of bread and wine, to represent and exhibit Christ as spiritual nourishment to the soul,</span><span data-prooftexts='I Corinthians 10:16' data-prooftexts-index='1159'> and to confirm our continuance and growth in him,</span><span data-prooftexts='I Corinthians 11:28-29' data-prooftexts-index='1160'> and that only to such as are of years and ability to examine themselves.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"1156": "<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>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>Galatians 3:27</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p48003027.01-3\">For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1157": "<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>Acts 2:38-39</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44002038.01-3\">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>1 Corinthians 7:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46007014.01-4\">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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1158": "<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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1159": "<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>",
"1160": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Corinthians 11:28-29</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. 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>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"1156": "Matthew 3:11; Titus 3:5; Galatians 3:27",
"1157": "Genesis 17:7,9; Acts 2:38-39; I Corinthians 7:14",
"1158": "I Corinthians 11:23-26",
"1159": "I Corinthians 10:16",
"1160": "I Corinthians 11:28-29"
},
"question": "Wherein do the sacraments of baptism and the Lord's Supper differ?"
},
"178": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Psalms 10:17; Psalms 62:8; Matthew 7:7-8' data-prooftexts-index='1161'>Prayer is an offering up of our desires unto God,</span><span data-prooftexts='John 16:23' data-prooftexts-index='1162'> in the name of Christ,</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 8:26' data-prooftexts-index='1163'> by the help of his Spirit;</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 32:5-6; I John 1:9; Daniel 9:4-19' data-prooftexts-index='1164'> with confession of our sins,</span><span data-prooftexts='Philippians 4:6; Psalms 103:1-5; Psalms 136' data-prooftexts-index='1165'> and thankful acknowledgment of his mercies.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"1161": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 10:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19010017.01-1\">O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, you hear the desire of the afflicted;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>you will strengthen their heart; you will incline your ear</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 62:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19062008.01-2\">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>Matthew 7:7-8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p40007007.07-3\"><span class=\"woc\">“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.</span> <span class=\"woc\">For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1162": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>John 16:23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43016023.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">In that day you will ask nothing of me. Truly, truly, I say to you, whatever you ask of the Father in my name, he will give it to you.</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1163": "<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>",
"1164": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 32:5-6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19032005.01-1\">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=\"p19032006.01-1\">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.</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.</p>\n</div><h5>Daniel 9:4-19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p27009004.01-3\">I prayed to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> my God and made confession, saying, “O Lord, the great and awesome God, who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, we have sinned and done wrong and acted wickedly and rebelled, turning aside from your commandments and rules. We have not listened to your servants the prophets, who spoke in your name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land. To you, O Lord, belongs righteousness, but to us open shame, as at this day, to the men of Judah, to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, those who are near and those who are far away, in all the lands to which you have driven them, because of the treachery that they have committed against you. To us, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, belongs open shame, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against you. To the Lord our God belong mercy and forgiveness, for we have rebelled against him and have not obeyed the voice of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> our God by walking in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets. All Israel has transgressed your law and turned aside, refusing to obey your voice. And the curse and oath that are written in the Law of Moses the servant of God have been poured out upon us, because we have sinned against him. He has confirmed his words, which he spoke against us and against our rulers who ruled us, by bringing upon us a great calamity. For under the whole heaven there has not been done anything like what has been done against Jerusalem. As it is written in the Law of Moses, all this calamity has come upon us; yet we have not entreated the favor of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> our God, turning from our iniquities and gaining insight by your truth. Therefore the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> has kept ready the calamity and has brought it upon us, for the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> our God is righteous in all the works that he has done, and we have not obeyed his voice. And now, O Lord our God, who brought your people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and have made a name for yourself, as at this day, we have sinned, we have done wickedly.</p>\n <p id=\"p27009016.01-3\">“O Lord, according to all your righteous acts, let your anger and your wrath turn away from your city Jerusalem, your holy hill, because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and your people have become a byword among all who are around us. Now therefore, O our God, listen to the prayer of your servant and to his pleas for mercy, and for your own sake, O Lord, make your face to shine upon your sanctuary, which is desolate. O my God, incline your ear and hear. Open your eyes and see our desolations, and the city that is called by your name. For we do not present our pleas before you because of our righteousness, but because of your great mercy. O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive. O Lord, pay attention and act. Delay not, for your own sake, O my God, because your city and your people are called by your name.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1165": "<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.</p>\n</div><h5>Psalm 103:1-5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19103001.09-2\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v19103001-2\">103:1 </span>Bless the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, O my soul,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and all that is within me,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>bless his holy name!<br />\n Bless the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, O my soul,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and forget not all his benefits,<br />\n who forgives all your iniquity,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>who heals all your diseases,<br />\n who redeems your life from the pit,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy,<br />\n who satisfies you with good<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 136</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19136001.06-3\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v19136001-3\">136:1 </span>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 Give thanks to the God of gods,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for his steadfast love endures forever.<br />\n Give thanks to the Lord of lords,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for his steadfast love endures forever;</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19136004.01-3\">to him who alone does great wonders,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for his steadfast love endures forever;<br />\n to him who by understanding made the heavens,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for his steadfast love endures forever;<br />\n to him who spread out the earth above the waters,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for his steadfast love endures forever;<br />\n to him who made the great lights,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for his steadfast love endures forever;<br />\n the sun to rule over the day,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for his steadfast love endures forever;<br />\n the moon and stars to rule over the night,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for his steadfast love endures forever;</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19136010.01-3\">to him who struck down the firstborn of Egypt,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for his steadfast love endures forever;<br />\n and brought Israel out from among them,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for his steadfast love endures forever;<br />\n with a strong hand and an outstretched arm,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for his steadfast love endures forever;<br />\n to him who divided the Red Sea in two,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for his steadfast love endures forever;<br />\n and made Israel pass through the midst of it,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for his steadfast love endures forever;<br />\n but overthrew Pharaoh and his host in the Red Sea,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for his steadfast love endures forever;<br />\n to him who led his people through the wilderness,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for his steadfast love endures forever;</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19136017.01-3\">to him who struck down great kings,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for his steadfast love endures forever;<br />\n and killed mighty kings,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for his steadfast love endures forever;<br />\n Sihon, king of the Amorites,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for his steadfast love endures forever;<br />\n and Og, king of Bashan,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for his steadfast love endures forever;<br />\n and gave their land as a heritage,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for his steadfast love endures forever;<br />\n a heritage to Israel his servant,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for his steadfast love endures forever.</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19136023.01-3\">It is he who remembered us in our low estate,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for his steadfast love endures forever;<br />\n and rescued us from our foes,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for his steadfast love endures forever;<br />\n he who gives food to all flesh,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for his steadfast love endures forever.</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19136026.01-3\">Give thanks to the God of heaven,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for his steadfast love endures forever. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"1161": "Psalms 10:17; Psalms 62:8; Matthew 7:7-8",
"1162": "John 16:23",
"1163": "Romans 8:26",
"1164": "Psalms 32:5-6; I John 1:9; Daniel 9:4-19",
"1165": "Philippians 4:6; Psalms 103:1-5; Psalms 136"
},
"question": "What is prayer?"
},
"179": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='I Kings 8:39; Acts 1:24; Romans 8:27' data-prooftexts-index='1166'>God only being able to search the hearts,</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 65:2' data-prooftexts-index='1167'> hear the requests,</span><span data-prooftexts='Micah 7:18' data-prooftexts-index='1168'> pardon the sins,</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 145:18' data-prooftexts-index='1169'> and fulfill the desires of all;</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 10:14' data-prooftexts-index='1170'> and only to be believed in,</span><span data-prooftexts='Matthew 4:10' data-prooftexts-index='1171'> and worshiped with religious worship;</span><span data-prooftexts='I Corinthians 1:2' data-prooftexts-index='1172'> prayer, which is a special part thereof,</span><span data-prooftexts='Isaiah 45:22; Matthew 6:9; Psalms 50:15' data-prooftexts-index='1173'> is to be made by all to him alone,</span><span data-prooftexts='Isaiah 43:11; Isaiah 46' data-prooftexts-index='1174'> and to none other.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"1166": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Kings 8:39</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p11008039.01-1\">then hear in heaven your dwelling place and forgive and act and render to each whose heart you know, according to all his ways (for you, you only, know the hearts of all the children of mankind),</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 1:24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44001024.01-2\">And they prayed and said, “You, Lord, who know the hearts of all, show which one of these two you have chosen</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 8:27</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45008027.01-3\">And he who searches hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1167": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 65:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19065002.01-1\">O you who hear prayer,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>to you shall all flesh come. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1168": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Micah 7:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p33007018.06-1\">Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and passing over transgression<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for the remnant of his inheritance?<br />\nHe does not retain his anger forever,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>because he delights in steadfast love. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1169": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 145:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19145018.01-1\">The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> is near to all who call on him,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>to all who call on him in truth. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1170": "<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? (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1171": "<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> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1172": "<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: (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1173": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Isaiah 45:22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23045022.01-1\">“Turn to me and be saved,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>all the ends of the earth!<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>For I am God, and there is no other.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Matthew 6:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40006009.01-2\"><span class=\"woc\">Pray then like this:</span></p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p40006009.05-2\"><span class=\"woc\">“Our Father in heaven,<br />\nhallowed be your name.</span></p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 50:15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19050015.01-3\">and call upon me in the day of trouble;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1174": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Isaiah 43:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23043011.01-1\">I, I am the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and besides me there is no savior.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Isaiah 46</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23046001.10-2\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v23046001-2\">46:1 </span>Bel bows down; Nebo stoops;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>their idols are on beasts and livestock;<br />\nthese things you carry are borne<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>as burdens on weary beasts.<br />\n They stoop; they bow down together;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>they cannot save the burden,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but themselves go into captivity.</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23046003.01-2\">“Listen to me, O house of Jacob,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>all the remnant of the house of Israel,<br />\nwho have been borne by me from before your birth,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>carried from the womb;<br />\n even to your old age I am he,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and to gray hairs I will carry you.<br />\nI have made, and I will bear;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I will carry and will save.</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23046005.01-2\">“To whom will you liken me and make me equal,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and compare me, that we may be alike?<br />\n Those who lavish gold from the purse,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and weigh out silver in the scales,<br />\nhire a goldsmith, and he makes it into a god;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>then they fall down and worship!<br />\n They lift it to their shoulders, they carry it,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>they set it in its place, and it stands there;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>it cannot move from its place.<br />\nIf one cries to it, it does not answer<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>or save him from his trouble.</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23046008.01-2\">“Remember this and stand firm,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>recall it to mind, you transgressors,<br />\n <span class=\"indent\"></span>remember the former things of old;<br />\nfor I am God, and there is no other;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I am God, and there is none like me,<br />\n declaring the end from the beginning<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and from ancient times things not yet done,<br />\nsaying, ‘My counsel shall stand,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and I will accomplish all my purpose,’<br />\n calling a bird of prey from the east,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>the man of my counsel from a far country.<br />\nI have spoken, and I will bring it to pass;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I have purposed, and I will do it.</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23046012.01-2\">“Listen to me, you stubborn of heart,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>you who are far from righteousness:<br />\n I bring near my righteousness; it is not far off,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and my salvation will not delay;<br />\nI will put salvation in Zion,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for Israel my glory.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"1166": "I Kings 8:39; Acts 1:24; Romans 8:27",
"1167": "Psalms 65:2",
"1168": "Micah 7:18",
"1169": "Psalms 145:18",
"1170": "Romans 10:14",
"1171": "Matthew 4:10",
"1172": "I Corinthians 1:2",
"1173": "Isaiah 45:22; Matthew 6:9; Psalms 50:15",
"1174": "Isaiah 43:11; Isaiah 46"
},
"question": "Are we to pray unto God only?"
},
"18": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Psalms 145:17; Leviticus 21:8' data-prooftexts-index='73'>God's works of providence are his most holy,</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 104:24; Isaiah 28:29' data-prooftexts-index='74'> wise,</span><span data-prooftexts='Hebrews 1:3; Psalms 36:6; Nehemiah 9:6' data-prooftexts-index='75'> and powerful preserving</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 103:19; Job 38-41; Psalms 145:14-16' data-prooftexts-index='76'> and governing</span><span data-prooftexts='Matthew 10:29-31; Genesis 45:7; Psalms 135:6' data-prooftexts-index='77'> all his creatures; ordering them, and all their actions,</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 11:36; Isaiah 63:14' data-prooftexts-index='78'> to his own glory.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"73": "<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>Leviticus 21:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p03021008.01-2\">You shall sanctify him, for he offers the bread of your God. He shall be holy to you, for I, the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, who sanctify you, am holy. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"74": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 104:24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19104024.01-1\">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>Isaiah 28:29</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23028029.01-2\">This also comes from the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> of hosts;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>he is wonderful in counsel<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and excellent in wisdom. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"75": "<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,</p>\n</div><h5>Psalm 36:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19036006.01-2\">Your righteousness is like the mountains of God;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>your judgments are like the great deep;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>man and beast you save, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Nehemiah 9:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p16009006.01-3\"> “You are the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, you alone. You have made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them; and you preserve all of them; and the host of heaven worships you. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"76": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 103:19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19103019.01-1\">The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> has established his throne in the heavens,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and his kingdom rules over all.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Job 38-41</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p18038001.05-2\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v18038001-2\">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=\"p18038002.01-2\">“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=\"p18038004.01-2\">“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=\"p18038008.01-2\">“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=\"p18038012.01-2\">“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=\"p18038016.01-2\">“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=\"p18038019.01-2\">“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=\"p18038022.01-2\">“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=\"p18038025.01-2\">“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=\"p18038028.01-2\">“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=\"p18038031.01-2\">“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=\"p18038034.01-2\">“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=\"p18038039.01-2\">“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=\"p18039001.01-2\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v18039001-2\">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=\"p18039005.01-2\">“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=\"p18039009.01-2\">“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=\"p18039013.01-2\">“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=\"p18039019.01-2\">“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=\"p18039026.01-2\">“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=\"p18040001.01-2\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v18040001-2\">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=\"p18040002.01-2\">“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=\"p18040003.04-2\">Then Job answered the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> and said:</p>\n <div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p18040004.01-2\">“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=\"p18040006.05-2\">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=\"p18040007.01-2\">“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=\"p18040010.01-2\">“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=\"p18040015.01-2\">“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=\"p18040019.01-2\">“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=\"p18041001.01-2\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v18041001-2\">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=\"p18041012.01-2\">“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.”</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 145:14-16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19145014.01-3\">The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> upholds all who are falling<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and raises up all who are bowed down.<br />\n The eyes of all look to you,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and you give them their food in due season.<br />\n You open your hand;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>you satisfy the desire of every living thing. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"77": "<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></p>\n</div><h5>Genesis 45:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p01045007.01-2\">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 135:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19135006.01-3\">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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"78": "<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.</p>\n</div><h5>Isaiah 63:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23063014.01-2\">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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"73": "Psalms 145:17; Leviticus 21:8",
"74": "Psalms 104:24; Isaiah 28:29",
"75": "Hebrews 1:3; Psalms 36:6; Nehemiah 9:6",
"76": "Psalms 103:19; Job 38-41; Psalms 145:14-16",
"77": "Matthew 10:29-31; Genesis 45:7; Psalms 135:6",
"78": "Romans 11:36; Isaiah 63:14"
},
"question": "What are God's works of providence?"
},
"180": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='John 14:13-14; John 16:24; Daniel 9:17' data-prooftexts-index='1175'>To pray in the name of Christ is, in obedience to his command, and in confidence on his promises, to ask mercy for his sake;</span><span data-prooftexts='Matthew 7:21' data-prooftexts-index='1176'> not by bare mentioning of his name,</span><span data-prooftexts='Hebrews 4:14-16; I John 5:13-15' data-prooftexts-index='1177'> but by drawing our encouragement to pray, and our boldness, strength, and hope of acceptance in prayer, from Christ and his mediation.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"1175": "<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>John 16:24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43016024.01-2\"><span class=\"woc\">Until now you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full.</span></p>\n</div><h5>Daniel 9:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p27009017.01-3\">Now therefore, O our God, listen to the prayer of your servant and to his pleas for mercy, and for your own sake, O Lord, make your face to shine upon your sanctuary, which is desolate. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1176": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 7:21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p40007021.05-1\"><span class=\"woc\">“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1177": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Hebrews 4:14-16</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. 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. 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>1 John 5:13-15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p62005013.05-2\">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. And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us. And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"1175": "John 14:13-14; John 16:24; Daniel 9:17",
"1176": "Matthew 7:21",
"1177": "Hebrews 4:14-16; I John 5:13-15"
},
"question": "What is it to pray in the name of Christ?"
},
"181": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='John 14:6; Isaiah 59:2; Ephesians 3:12' data-prooftexts-index='1178'>The sinfulness of man, and his distance from God by reason thereof, being so great, as that we can have no access into his presence without a mediator;</span><span data-prooftexts='John 6:27; Hebrews 7:25-27; I Timothy 2:5' data-prooftexts-index='1179'> and there being none in heaven or earth appointed to, or fit for, that glorious work but Christ alone,</span><span data-prooftexts='Colossians 3:17; Hebrews 13:15' data-prooftexts-index='1180'> we are to pray in no other name but his only.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"1178": "<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>Isaiah 59:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23059002.01-2\">but your iniquities have made a separation<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>between you and your God,<br />\nand your sins have hidden his face from you<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>so that he does not hear.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 3:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49003012.01-3\">in whom we have boldness and access with confidence through our faith in him. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1179": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>John 6:27</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43006027.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">Do not labor for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For on him God the Father has set his seal.”</span></p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 7:25-27</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58007025.01-2\">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.</p>\n <p id=\"p58007026.01-2\">For it was indeed fitting that we should have such a high priest, holy, innocent, unstained, separated from sinners, and exalted above the heavens. 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>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>",
"1180": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Colossians 3:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p51003017.01-1\">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.</p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 13:15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58013015.01-2\">Through him then let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that acknowledge his name. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"1178": "John 14:6; Isaiah 59:2; Ephesians 3:12",
"1179": "John 6:27; Hebrews 7:25-27; I Timothy 2:5",
"1180": "Colossians 3:17; Hebrews 13:15"
},
"question": "Why are we to pray in the name of Christ?"
},
"182": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Romans 8:26-27; Psalms 10:17; Zechariah 12:10' data-prooftexts-index='1181'>We not knowing what to pray for as we ought, the Spirit helpeth our infirmities, by enabling us to understand both for whom, and what, and how prayer is to be made; and by working and quickening in our hearts (although not in all persons, nor at all times, in the same measure) those apprehensions, affections, and graces which are requisite for the right performance of that duty.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"1181": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 8:26-27</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. And he who searches hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.</p>\n</div><h5>Psalm 10:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19010017.01-2\">O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, you hear the desire of the afflicted;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>you will strengthen their heart; you will incline your ear</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Zechariah 12:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p38012010.06-3\">“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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"1181": "Romans 8:26-27; Psalms 10:17; Zechariah 12:10"
},
"question": "How doth the Spirit help us to pray?"
},
"183": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Ephesians 6:18; Psalms 28:9' data-prooftexts-index='1182'>We are to pray for the whole church of Christ upon earth;</span><span data-prooftexts='I Timothy 2:1-2' data-prooftexts-index='1183'> for magistrates,</span><span data-prooftexts='Colossians 4:3' data-prooftexts-index='1184'> and ministers;</span><span data-prooftexts='Genesis 32:11' data-prooftexts-index='1185'> for ourselves,</span><span data-prooftexts='James 5:16' data-prooftexts-index='1186'> our brethren,</span><span data-prooftexts='Matthew 5:44' data-prooftexts-index='1187'> yea, our enemies;</span><span data-prooftexts='I Timothy 2:1-2' data-prooftexts-index='1188'> and for all sorts of men living,</span><span data-prooftexts='John 17:20; II Samuel 7:29' data-prooftexts-index='1189'> or that shall live hereafter;</span><span data-prooftexts='II Samuel 12:21-23' data-prooftexts-index='1190'> but not for the dead,</span><span data-prooftexts='I John 5:16' data-prooftexts-index='1191'> nor for those that are known to have sinned the sin unto death.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"1182": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ephesians 6:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49006018.01-1\">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,</p>\n</div><h5>Psalm 28:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19028009.01-2\">Oh, save your people and bless your heritage!<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Be their shepherd and carry them forever. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1183": "<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>",
"1184": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Colossians 4:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p51004003.01-1\">At the same time, pray also for us, that God may open to us a door for the word, to declare the mystery of Christ, on account of which I am in prison— (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1185": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Genesis 32:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p01032011.01-1\">Please deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau, for I fear him, that he may come and attack me, the mothers with the children. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1186": "<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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1187": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 5:44</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40005044.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1188": "<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>",
"1189": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>John 17:20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43017020.01-1\"><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=\"p10007029.01-2\">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.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1190": "<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.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1191": "<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>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"1182": "Ephesians 6:18; Psalms 28:9",
"1183": "I Timothy 2:1-2",
"1184": "Colossians 4:3",
"1185": "Genesis 32:11",
"1186": "James 5:16",
"1187": "Matthew 5:44",
"1188": "I Timothy 2:1-2",
"1189": "John 17:20; II Samuel 7:29",
"1190": "II Samuel 12:21-23",
"1191": "I John 5:16"
},
"question": "For whom are we to pray?"
},
"184": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Matthew 6:9' data-prooftexts-index='1192'>We are to pray for all things tending to the glory of God,</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 51:18; Psalms 122:6' data-prooftexts-index='1193'> the welfare of the church,</span><span data-prooftexts='Matthew 7:11' data-prooftexts-index='1194'> our own</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 125:4' data-prooftexts-index='1195'> or others' good;</span><span data-prooftexts='I John 5:14' data-prooftexts-index='1196'> but not for anything that is unlawful.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"1192": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 6:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40006009.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">Pray then like this:</span></p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p40006009.05-1\"><span class=\"woc\">“Our Father in heaven,<br />\nhallowed be your name.</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1193": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 51:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\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;</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 122:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19122006.01-2\">Pray for the peace of Jerusalem!<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>“May they be secure who love you! (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1194": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 7:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40007011.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1195": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 125:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19125004.01-1\">Do good, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, to those who are good,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and to those who are upright in their hearts! (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1196": "<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>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"1192": "Matthew 6:9",
"1193": "Psalms 51:18; Psalms 122:6",
"1194": "Matthew 7:11",
"1195": "Psalms 125:4",
"1196": "I John 5:14"
},
"question": "For what things are we to pray?"
},
"185": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Psalms 33:8; Psalms 95:6; Psalms 145:5' data-prooftexts-index='1197'>We are to pray with an awful apprehension of the majesty of God,</span><span data-prooftexts='Genesis 18:27; Genesis 32:10' data-prooftexts-index='1198'> and deep sense of our own unworthiness,</span><span data-prooftexts='Luke 15:17-19' data-prooftexts-index='1199'> necessities,</span><span data-prooftexts='Luke 18:13-14' data-prooftexts-index='1200'> and sins;</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 51:17' data-prooftexts-index='1201'> with penitent,</span><span data-prooftexts='Philippians 4:6' data-prooftexts-index='1202'> thankful,</span><span data-prooftexts='I Samuel 1:15; I Samuel 2:1' data-prooftexts-index='1203'> and enlarged hearts;</span><span data-prooftexts='I Corinthians 14:15' data-prooftexts-index='1204'> with understanding,</span><span data-prooftexts='Mark 11:24; James 1:6' data-prooftexts-index='1205'> faith,</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 145:18; Psalms 17:1' data-prooftexts-index='1206'> sincerity,</span><span data-prooftexts='James 5:16' data-prooftexts-index='1207'> fervency,</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 116:1-2; Romans 15:30' data-prooftexts-index='1208'> love,</span><span data-prooftexts='Ephesians 6:18' data-prooftexts-index='1209'> and perseverance,</span><span data-prooftexts='Micah 7:7' data-prooftexts-index='1210'> waiting upon him,</span><span data-prooftexts='Matthew 26:39' data-prooftexts-index='1211'> with humble submission to his will.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"1197": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 33:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19033008.01-1\">Let all the earth fear the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him!</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 95:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19095006.01-2\">Oh come, let us worship and bow down;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>let us kneel before the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, our Maker!</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 145:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19145005.01-3\">On the glorious splendor of your majesty,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and on your wondrous works, I will meditate. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1198": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Genesis 18:27</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p01018027.01-1\">Abraham answered and said, “Behold, I have undertaken to speak to the Lord, I who am but dust and ashes.</p>\n</div><h5>Genesis 32:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p01032010.01-2\">I am not worthy of the least of all the deeds of steadfast love and all the faithfulness that you have shown to your servant, for with only my staff I crossed this Jordan, and now I have become two camps. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1199": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Luke 15:17-19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42015017.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">“But when he came to himself, he said, ‘How many of my father's hired servants have more than enough bread, but I perish here with hunger!</span> <span class=\"woc\">I will arise and go to my father, and I will say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you.</span> <span class=\"woc\">I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Treat me as one of your hired servants.”’</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1200": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Luke 18:13-14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42018013.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’</span> <span class=\"woc\">I tell you, this man went down to his house justified, rather than the other. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1201": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 51:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19051017.01-1\">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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1202": "<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>",
"1203": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Samuel 1:15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p09001015.01-1\">But Hannah answered, “No, my lord, I am a woman troubled in spirit. I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but I have been pouring out my soul before the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Samuel 2:1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p class=\"chapter-first\" id=\"p09002001.03-2\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v09002001-2\">2:1 </span>And Hannah prayed and said,</p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p09002001.08-2\">“My heart exults in the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>my strength is exalted in the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>.<br />\nMy mouth derides my enemies,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>because I rejoice in your salvation. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1204": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Corinthians 14:15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46014015.01-1\">What am I to do? I will pray with my spirit, but I will pray with my mind also; I will sing praise with my spirit, but I will sing with my mind also. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1205": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Mark 11:24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p41011024.01-1\"><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>James 1:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p59001006.01-2\">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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1206": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 145:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19145018.01-1\">The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> is near to all who call on him,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>to all who call on him in truth.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 17:1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19017001.11-2\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v19017001-2\">17:1 </span>Hear a just cause, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>; attend to my cry!<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Give ear to my prayer from lips free of deceit! (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1207": "<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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1208": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 116:1-2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19116001.05-1\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v19116001-1\">116:1 </span>I love the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, because he has heard<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>my voice and my pleas for mercy.<br />\n Because he inclined his ear to me,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>therefore I will call on him as long as I live.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Romans 15:30</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45015030.01-2\">I appeal to you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, to strive together with me in your prayers to God on my behalf, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1209": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ephesians 6:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49006018.01-1\">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>",
"1210": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Micah 7:7</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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1211": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 26:39</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40026039.01-1\">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> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"1197": "Psalms 33:8; Psalms 95:6; Psalms 145:5",
"1198": "Genesis 18:27; Genesis 32:10",
"1199": "Luke 15:17-19",
"1200": "Luke 18:13-14",
"1201": "Psalms 51:17",
"1202": "Philippians 4:6",
"1203": "I Samuel 1:15; I Samuel 2:1",
"1204": "I Corinthians 14:15",
"1205": "Mark 11:24; James 1:6",
"1206": "Psalms 145:18; Psalms 17:1",
"1207": "James 5:16",
"1208": "Psalms 116:1-2; Romans 15:30",
"1209": "Ephesians 6:18",
"1210": "Micah 7:7",
"1211": "Matthew 26:39"
},
"question": "How are we to pray?"
},
"186": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='I John 5:14' data-prooftexts-index='1212'>The whole Word of God is of use to direct us in the duty of prayer;</span><span data-prooftexts='Matthew 6:9-13; Luke 11:2-4' data-prooftexts-index='1213'> but the special rule of direction is that form of prayer which our Savior Christ taught his disciples, commonly called the Lord's Prayer.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"1212": "<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>",
"1213": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 6:9-13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40006009.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">Pray then like this:</span></p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p40006009.05-1\"><span class=\"woc\">“Our Father in heaven,<br />\nhallowed be your name.</span><br />\n <span class=\"woc\">Your kingdom come,<br />\nyour will be done,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>on earth as it is in heaven.</span><br />\n <span class=\"woc\">Give us this day our daily bread,</span><br />\n <span class=\"woc\">and forgive us our debts,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>as we also have forgiven our debtors.</span><br />\n <span class=\"woc\">And lead us not into temptation,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but deliver us from evil.</span></p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Luke 11:2-4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42011002.01-2\">And he said to them, <span class=\"woc\">“When you pray, say:</span></p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p42011002.10-2\"><span class=\"woc\">“Father, hallowed be your name.<br />\nYour kingdom come.</span><br />\n <span class=\"woc\">Give us each day our daily bread,</span><br />\n <span class=\"woc\">and forgive us our sins,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for we ourselves forgive everyone who is indebted to us.<br />\nAnd lead us not into temptation.”</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"1212": "I John 5:14",
"1213": "Matthew 6:9-13; Luke 11:2-4"
},
"question": "What rule hath God given for our direction in the duty of prayer?"
},
"187": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Matthew 6:9; Luke 11:2' data-prooftexts-index='1214'>The Lord's Prayer is not only for direction, as a pattern, according to which we are to make other prayers; but may also be used as a prayer, so that it be done with understanding, faith, reverence, and other graces necessary to the right performance of the duty of prayer.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"1214": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 6:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40006009.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">Pray then like this:</span></p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p40006009.05-1\"><span class=\"woc\">“Our Father in heaven,<br />\nhallowed be your name.</span></p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Luke 11:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42011002.01-2\">And he said to them, <span class=\"woc\">“When you pray, say:</span></p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p42011002.10-2\"><span class=\"woc\">“Father, hallowed be your name.<br />\nYour kingdom come.</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"1214": "Matthew 6:9; Luke 11:2"
},
"question": "How is the Lord's Prayer to be used?"
},
"188": {
"answer": "The Lord's Prayer consists of three parts; a preface, petitions, and a conclusion.",
"prooftext_verses": {},
"prooftexts": {},
"question": "Of how many parts doth the Lord's Prayer consist?"
},
"189": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Matthew 6:9; Luke 11:2' data-prooftexts-index='1215'>The preface of the Lord's Prayer (contained in these words, Our Father which art in heaven,</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 103:13; Luke 11:13; Romans 8:15' data-prooftexts-index='1216'>) teacheth us, when we pray, to draw near to God with confidence of his fatherly goodness, and our interest therein;</span><span data-prooftexts='Isaiah 64:9' data-prooftexts-index='1217'> with reverence, and all other childlike dispositions,</span><span data-prooftexts='Colossians 3:1-2; Psalms 123:1; Lamentations 3:41' data-prooftexts-index='1218'> heavenly affections,</span><span data-prooftexts='Isaiah 63:15-16; Nehemiah 1:4-6; Psalms 113:4-6' data-prooftexts-index='1219'> and due apprehensions of his sovereign power, majesty, and gracious condescension:</span><span data-prooftexts='Acts 12:5; I Timothy 2:1-2; Ephesians 6:18' data-prooftexts-index='1220'> as also, to pray with and for others.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"1215": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 6:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40006009.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">Pray then like this:</span></p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p40006009.05-1\"><span class=\"woc\">“Our Father in heaven,<br />\nhallowed be your name.</span></p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Luke 11:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42011002.01-2\">And he said to them, <span class=\"woc\">“When you pray, say:</span></p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p42011002.10-2\"><span class=\"woc\">“Father, hallowed be your name.<br />\nYour kingdom come.</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1216": "<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.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Luke 11:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42011013.01-2\"><span class=\"woc\">If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”</span></p>\n</div><h5>Romans 8:15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45008015.01-3\">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>",
"1217": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Isaiah 64:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23064009.01-1\">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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1218": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Colossians 3:1-2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p51003001.06-1\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v51003001-1\">3:1 </span>If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.</p>\n</div><h5>Psalm 123:1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19123001.13-2\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v19123001-2\">123:1 </span>To you I lift up my eyes,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>O you who are enthroned in the heavens!</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Lamentations 3:41</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p25003041.01-3\">Let us lift up our hearts and hands<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>to God in heaven: (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1219": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Isaiah 63:15-16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23063015.04-1\">Look down from heaven and see,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>from your holy and beautiful habitation.<br />\nWhere are your zeal and your might?<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>The stirring of your inner parts and your compassion<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>are held back from me.<br />\n For you are our Father,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>though Abraham does not know us,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and Israel does not acknowledge us;<br />\nyou, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, are our Father,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>our Redeemer from of old is your name.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Nehemiah 1:4-6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p16001004.03-2\">As soon as I heard these words I sat down and wept and mourned for days, and I continued fasting and praying before the God of heaven. And I said, “O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> God of heaven, the great and awesome God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, let your ear be attentive and your eyes open, to hear the prayer of your servant that I now pray before you day and night for the people of Israel your servants, confessing the sins of the people of Israel, which we have sinned against you. Even I and my father's house have sinned.</p>\n</div><h5>Psalm 113:4-6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19113004.01-3\">The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> is high above all nations,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and his glory above the heavens!<br />\n 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? (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1220": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Acts 12:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44012005.01-1\">So Peter was kept in prison, but earnest prayer for him was made to God by the church.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Timothy 2:1-2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p54002001.05-2\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v54002001-2\">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>Ephesians 6:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49006018.01-3\">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>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"1215": "Matthew 6:9; Luke 11:2",
"1216": "Psalms 103:13; Luke 11:13; Romans 8:15",
"1217": "Isaiah 64:9",
"1218": "Colossians 3:1-2; Psalms 123:1; Lamentations 3:41",
"1219": "Isaiah 63:15-16; Nehemiah 1:4-6; Psalms 113:4-6",
"1220": "Acts 12:5; I Timothy 2:1-2; Ephesians 6:18"
},
"question": "What doth the preface of the Lord's Prayer teach us?"
},
"19": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Jude 6; II Peter 2:4; Hebrews 2:16; John 8:44' data-prooftexts-index='79'>God by his providence permitted some of the angels, willfully and irrecoverably, to fall into sin and damnation,</span><span data-prooftexts='Job 1:12; Matthew 8:31; Luke 10:17' data-prooftexts-index='80'> limiting and ordering that, and all their sins, to his own glory;</span><span data-prooftexts='I Timothy 5:21; Mark 8:38; Hebrews 12:22' data-prooftexts-index='81'> and established the rest in holiness and happiness;</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 103:20; Psalms 104:4' data-prooftexts-index='82'> employing them all,</span><span data-prooftexts='Hebrews 1:14; II Kings 19:35' data-prooftexts-index='83'> at his pleasure, in the administrations of his power, mercy, and justice.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"79": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Jude 1:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p65001006.01-1\">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=\"p61002004.01-2\">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;</p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 2:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58002016.01-3\">For surely it is not angels that he helps, but he helps the offspring of Abraham.</p>\n</div><h5>John 8:44</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43008044.01-4\"><span class=\"woc\">You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has nothing to do with the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"80": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Job 1:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p18001012.01-1\">And the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> said to Satan, “Behold, all that he has is in your hand. Only against him do not stretch out your hand.” So Satan went out from the presence of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>.</p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 8:31</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40008031.01-2\">And the demons begged him, saying, “If you cast us out, send us away into the herd of pigs.”</p>\n</div><h5>Luke 10:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p42010017.06-3\">The seventy-two returned with joy, saying, “Lord, even the demons are subject to us in your name!” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"81": "<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>Mark 8:38</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p41008038.01-2\"><span class=\"woc\">For whoever is ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him will the Son of Man also be ashamed when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.”</span></p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 12:22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58012022.01-3\">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, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"82": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 103:20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19103020.01-1\">Bless the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, O you his angels,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>you mighty ones who do his word,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>obeying the voice of his word!</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 104:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19104004.01-2\">he makes his messengers winds,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>his ministers a flaming fire. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"83": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Hebrews 1:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p class=\"same-paragraph\" id=\"p58001014.01-1\">Are they not all ministering spirits sent out to serve for the sake of those who are to inherit salvation?</p>\n</div><h5>2 Kings 19:35</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p12019035.01-2\">And that night the angel of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> went out and struck down 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians. And when people arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"79": "Jude 6; II Peter 2:4; Hebrews 2:16; John 8:44",
"80": "Job 1:12; Matthew 8:31; Luke 10:17",
"81": "I Timothy 5:21; Mark 8:38; Hebrews 12:22",
"82": "Psalms 103:20; Psalms 104:4",
"83": "Hebrews 1:14; II Kings 19:35"
},
"question": "What is God's providence towards the angels?"
},
"190": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Matthew 6:9; Luke 11:2' data-prooftexts-index='1221'>In the first petition, (which is, Hallowed be thy name,</span><span data-prooftexts='II Corinthians 3:5; Psalms 51:15' data-prooftexts-index='1222'>) acknowledging the utter inability and indisposition that is in ourselves and all men to honor God aright,</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 67:2-3; Psalms 99:1-3' data-prooftexts-index='1223'> we pray, that God would by his grace enable and incline us and others to know, to acknowledge, and highly to esteem him,</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 83:18' data-prooftexts-index='1224'> his titles,</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 86:10-13,15' data-prooftexts-index='1225'> attributes,</span><span data-prooftexts='II Thessalonians 3:1; Psalms 147:19-20; Psalms 138:1-3; II Corinthians 2:14-15' data-prooftexts-index='1226'> ordinances, Word,</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 145; Psalms 8' data-prooftexts-index='1227'> works, and whatsoever he is pleased to make himself known by;</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 103:1; Psalms 19:14' data-prooftexts-index='1228'> and to glorify him in thought, word,</span><span data-prooftexts='Philippians 1:9,11; Psalms 100:3-4' data-prooftexts-index='1229'> and deed:</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 67:1-4' data-prooftexts-index='1230'> that he would prevent and remove atheism,</span><span data-prooftexts='Ephesians 1:17-18' data-prooftexts-index='1231'> ignorance,</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 97:7' data-prooftexts-index='1232'> idolatry,</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 74:18,22-23' data-prooftexts-index='1233'> profaneness,</span><span data-prooftexts='II Kings 19:15-16' data-prooftexts-index='1234'> and whatsoever is dishonorable to him;</span><span data-prooftexts='II Chronicles 20:6,10-12; Romans 11:33-36; Revelation 4:11; Psalms 83; Psalms 140:4,8' data-prooftexts-index='1235'> and, by his overruling providence, direct and dispose of all things to his own glory.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"1221": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 6:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40006009.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">Pray then like this:</span></p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p40006009.05-1\"><span class=\"woc\">“Our Father in heaven,<br />\nhallowed be your name.</span></p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Luke 11:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42011002.01-2\">And he said to them, <span class=\"woc\">“When you pray, say:</span></p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p42011002.10-2\"><span class=\"woc\">“Father, hallowed be your name.<br />\nYour kingdom come.</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1222": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>2 Corinthians 3:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p47003005.01-1\">Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency is from God,</p>\n</div><h5>Psalm 51:15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19051015.01-2\">O Lord, open my lips,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and my mouth will declare your praise. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1223": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 67:2-3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19067002.01-1\">that your way may be known on earth,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>your saving power among all nations.<br />\n Let the peoples praise you, O God;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>let all the peoples praise you!</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 99:1-3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19099001.07-2\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v19099001-2\">99:1 </span>The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> reigns; let the peoples tremble!<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>He sits enthroned upon the cherubim; let the earth quake!<br />\n The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> is great in Zion;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>he is exalted over all the peoples.<br />\n Let them praise your great and awesome name!<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Holy is he! (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1224": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 83:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19083018.01-1\">that they may know that you alone,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>whose name is the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>are the Most High over all the earth. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1225": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 86:10-13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19086010.01-1\">For you are great and do wondrous things;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>you alone are God.<br />\n Teach me your way, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that I may walk in your truth;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>unite my heart to fear your name.<br />\n I give thanks to you, O Lord my God, with my whole heart,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and I will glorify your name forever.<br />\n For great is your steadfast love toward me;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>you have delivered my soul from the depths of Sheol.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 86:15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19086015.01-2\">But you, O Lord, are a God merciful and gracious,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1226": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>2 Thessalonians 3:1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p53003001.04-1\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v53003001-1\">3:1 </span>Finally, brothers, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may speed ahead and be honored, as happened among you,</p>\n</div><h5>Psalm 147:19-20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19147019.01-2\">He declares his word to Jacob,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>his statutes and rules to Israel.<br />\n He has not dealt thus with any other nation;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>they do not know his rules.<br />\nPraise the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>!</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 138:1-3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19138001.08-3\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v19138001-3\">138:1 </span>I give you thanks, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, with my whole heart;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>before the gods I sing your praise;<br />\n I bow down toward your holy temple<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and give thanks to your name for your steadfast love and your faithfulness,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for you have exalted above all things<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>your name and your word.<br />\n On the day I called, you answered me;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>my strength of soul you increased.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>2 Corinthians 2:14-15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p47002014.01-4\">But thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in triumphal procession, and through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of him everywhere. For we are the aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1227": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 145</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19145001.11-1\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v19145001-1\">145:1 </span>I will extol you, my God and King,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and bless your name forever and ever.<br />\n Every day I will bless you<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and praise your name forever and ever.<br />\n 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.</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19145004.01-1\">One generation shall commend your works to another,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and shall declare your mighty acts.<br />\n On the glorious splendor of your majesty,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and on your wondrous works, I will meditate.<br />\n They shall speak of the might of your awesome deeds,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and I will declare your greatness.<br />\n They shall pour forth the fame of your abundant goodness<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and shall sing aloud of your righteousness.</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19145008.01-1\">The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> is gracious and merciful,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.<br />\n The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> is good to all,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and his mercy is over all that he has made.</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19145010.01-1\">All your works shall give thanks to you, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and all your saints shall bless you!<br />\n They shall speak of the glory of your kingdom<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and tell of your power,<br />\n to make known to the children of man your mighty deeds,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and the glorious splendor of your kingdom.<br />\n Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and your dominion endures throughout all generations.</p>\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19145013.14-1\">[The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> is faithful in all his words<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and kind in all his works.]<br />\n The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> upholds all who are falling<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and raises up all who are bowed down.<br />\n The eyes of all look to you,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and you give them their food in due season.<br />\n You open your hand;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>you satisfy the desire of every living thing.<br />\n 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.<br />\n The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> is near to all who call on him,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>to all who call on him in truth.<br />\n He fulfills the desire of those who fear him;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>he also hears their cry and saves them.<br />\n The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> preserves all who love him,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but all the wicked he will destroy.</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19145021.01-1\">My mouth will speak the praise of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and let all flesh bless his holy name forever and ever.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19008001.17-2\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v19008001-2\">8:1 </span>O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, our Lord,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>how majestic is your name in all the earth!<br />\nYou have set your glory above the heavens.<br />\n <span class=\"indent\"></span>Out of the mouth of babies and infants,<br />\nyou have established strength because of your foes,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>to still the enemy and the avenger.</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19008003.01-2\">When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,<br />\n what is man that you are mindful of him,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and the son of man that you care for him?</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19008005.01-2\">Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and crowned him with glory and honor.<br />\n You have given him dominion over the works of your hands;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>you have put all things under his feet,<br />\n all sheep and oxen,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and also the beasts of the field,<br />\n the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>whatever passes along the paths of the seas.</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19008009.01-2\">O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, our Lord,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>how majestic is your name in all the earth! (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1228": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 103:1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19103001.09-1\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v19103001-1\">103:1 </span>Bless the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, O my soul,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and all that is within me,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>bless his holy name!</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 19:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19019014.01-2\">Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>be acceptable in your sight,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, my rock and my redeemer. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1229": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Philippians 1:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p50001009.01-1\">And it is my prayer that your love may abound more and more, with knowledge and all discernment,</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>Psalm 100:3-4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19100003.01-3\">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 <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19100004.01-3\">Enter his gates with thanksgiving,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and his courts with praise!<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Give thanks to him; bless his name! (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1230": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 67:1-4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19067001.17-1\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v19067001-1\">67:1 </span>May God be gracious to us and bless us<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and make his face to shine upon us, <span class=\"selah\">Selah</span><br />\n that your way may be known on earth,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>your saving power among all nations.<br />\n Let the peoples praise you, O God;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>let all the peoples praise you!</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19067004.01-1\">Let the nations be glad and sing for joy,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for you judge the peoples with equity<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and guide the nations upon earth. <span class=\"selah\">Selah</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1231": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ephesians 1:17-18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49001017.01-1\">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>",
"1232": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 97:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19097007.01-1\">All worshipers of images are put to shame,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>who make their boast in worthless idols;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>worship him, all you gods! (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1233": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 74:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19074018.01-1\">Remember this, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, how the enemy scoffs,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and a foolish people reviles your name.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 74:22-23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19074022.01-2\">Arise, O God, defend your cause;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>remember how the foolish scoff at you all the day!<br />\n Do not forget the clamor of your foes,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>the uproar of those who rise against you, which goes up continually! (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1234": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>2 Kings 19:15-16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p12019015.01-1\">And Hezekiah prayed before the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> and said: “O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, the God of Israel, enthroned above the cherubim, you are the God, you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; you have made heaven and earth. Incline your ear, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, and hear; open your eyes, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, and see; and hear the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to mock the living God. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1235": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>2 Chronicles 20:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p14020006.01-1\">and said, “O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, God of our fathers, are you not God in heaven? You rule over all the kingdoms of the nations. In your hand are power and might, so that none is able to withstand you.</p>\n</div><h5>2 Chronicles 20:10-12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p14020010.01-2\">And now behold, the men of Ammon and Moab and Mount Seir, whom you would not let Israel invade when they came from the land of Egypt, and whom they avoided and did not destroy— behold, they reward us by coming to drive us out of your possession, which you have given us to inherit. O our God, will you not execute judgment on them? For we are powerless against this great horde that is coming against us. We do not know what to do, but our eyes are on you.”</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 11:33-36</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45011033.01-3\">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=\"p45011034.01-3\">“For who has known the mind of the Lord,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>or who has been his counselor?”<br />\n “Or who has given a gift to him<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that he might be repaid?”</p>\n</div>\n <p class=\"same-paragraph\" id=\"p45011036.01-3\">For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen.</p>\n</div><h5>Revelation 4:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p66004011.01-4\">“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>Psalm 83</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19083001.13-5\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v19083001-5\">83:1 </span>O God, do not keep silence;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>do not hold your peace or be still, O God!<br />\n For behold, your enemies make an uproar;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>those who hate you have raised their heads.<br />\n They lay crafty plans against your people;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>they consult together against your treasured ones.<br />\n They say, “Come, let us wipe them out as a nation;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>let the name of Israel be remembered no more!”<br />\n For they conspire with one accord;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>against you they make a covenant—<br />\n the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Moab and the Hagrites,<br />\n Gebal and Ammon and Amalek,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;<br />\n Asshur also has joined them;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>they are the strong arm of the children of Lot. <span class=\"selah\">Selah</span></p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19083009.01-5\">Do to them as you did to Midian,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>as to Sisera and Jabin at the river Kishon,<br />\n who were destroyed at En-dor,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>who became dung for the ground.<br />\n Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,<br />\n who said, “Let us take possession for ourselves<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>of the pastures of God.”</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19083013.01-5\">O my God, make them like whirling dust,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>like chaff before the wind.<br />\n As fire consumes the forest,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>as the flame sets the mountains ablaze,<br />\n so may you pursue them with your tempest<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and terrify them with your hurricane!<br />\n Fill their faces with shame,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that they may seek your name, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>.<br />\n Let them be put to shame and dismayed forever;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>let them perish in disgrace,<br />\n that they may know that you alone,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>whose name is the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>are the Most High over all the earth.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 140:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19140004.01-6\">Guard me, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, from the hands of the wicked;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>preserve me from violent men,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>who have planned to trip up my feet.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 140:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19140008.01-7\">Grant not, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, the desires of the wicked;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>do not further their evil plot, or they will be exalted! <span class=\"selah\">Selah</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"1221": "Matthew 6:9; Luke 11:2",
"1222": "II Corinthians 3:5; Psalms 51:15",
"1223": "Psalms 67:2-3; Psalms 99:1-3",
"1224": "Psalms 83:18",
"1225": "Psalms 86:10-13,15",
"1226": "II Thessalonians 3:1; Psalms 147:19-20; Psalms 138:1-3; II Corinthians 2:14-15",
"1227": "Psalms 145; Psalms 8",
"1228": "Psalms 103:1; Psalms 19:14",
"1229": "Philippians 1:9,11; Psalms 100:3-4",
"1230": "Psalms 67:1-4",
"1231": "Ephesians 1:17-18",
"1232": "Psalms 97:7",
"1233": "Psalms 74:18,22-23",
"1234": "II Kings 19:15-16",
"1235": "II Chronicles 20:6,10-12; Romans 11:33-36; Revelation 4:11; Psalms 83; Psalms 140:4,8"
},
"question": "What do we pray for in the first petition?"
},
"191": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Matthew 6:10; Luke 11:2' data-prooftexts-index='1236'>In the second petition, (which is, Thy kingdom come,</span><span data-prooftexts='Ephesians 2:2-3' data-prooftexts-index='1237'>) acknowledging ourselves and all mankind to be by nature under the dominion of sin and Satan,</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 68:1,18; Revelation 12:10-11' data-prooftexts-index='1238'> we pray, that the kingdom of sin and Satan may be destroyed,</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 67:1-2; II Thessalonians 3:1' data-prooftexts-index='1239'> the gospel propagated throughout the world,</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 10:1' data-prooftexts-index='1240'> the Jews called,</span><span data-prooftexts='John 17:9,20; Romans 11:25-26; Psalms 67' data-prooftexts-index='1241'> the fullness of the Gentiles brought in;</span><span data-prooftexts='Matthew 9:38; II Thessalonians 3:1' data-prooftexts-index='1242'> the church furnished with all gospel officers and ordinances,</span><span data-prooftexts='Malachi 1:11; Zephaniah 3:9' data-prooftexts-index='1243'> purged from corruption,</span><span data-prooftexts='I Timothy 2:1-2; Isaiah 49:23' data-prooftexts-index='1244'> countenanced and maintained by the civil magistrate:</span><span data-prooftexts='Acts 4:29-30; Ephesians 6:18-20; Romans 15:29-30,32; II Thessalonians 1:11; II Thessalonians 2:16-17' data-prooftexts-index='1245'> that the ordinances of Christ may be purely dispensed, and made effectual to the converting of those that are yet in their sins, and the confirming, comforting, and building up of those that are already converted:</span><span data-prooftexts='Ephesians 3:14-20; Colossians 3:15' data-prooftexts-index='1246'> that Christ would rule in our hearts here,</span><span data-prooftexts='Revelation 22:20; II Timothy 2:12; II Peter 3:12' data-prooftexts-index='1247'> and hasten the time of his second coming, and our reigning with him forever:</span><span data-prooftexts='Isaiah 64:1-2; Revelation 4:8-11' data-prooftexts-index='1248'> and that he would be pleased so to exercise the kingdom of his power in all the world, as may best conduce to these ends.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"1236": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 6:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p40006010.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">Your kingdom come,<br />\nyour will be done,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>on earth as it is in heaven.</span></p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Luke 11:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42011002.01-2\">And he said to them, <span class=\"woc\">“When you pray, say:</span></p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p42011002.10-2\"><span class=\"woc\">“Father, hallowed be your name.<br />\nYour kingdom come.</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1237": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ephesians 2:2-3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49002002.01-1\">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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1238": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 68:1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19068001.15-1\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v19068001-1\">68:1 </span>God shall arise, his enemies shall be scattered;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and those who hate him shall flee before him!</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 68:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19068018.01-2\">You ascended on high,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>leading a host of captives in your train<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and receiving gifts among men,<br />\neven among the rebellious, that the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> God may dwell there.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Revelation 12:10-11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p66012010.01-3\">And I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, “Now the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Christ have come, for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them day and night before our God. And they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, for they loved not their lives even unto death. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1239": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 67:1-2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19067001.17-1\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v19067001-1\">67:1 </span>May God be gracious to us and bless us<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and make his face to shine upon us, <span class=\"selah\">Selah</span><br />\n that your way may be known on earth,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>your saving power among all nations.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>2 Thessalonians 3:1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p53003001.04-2\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v53003001-2\">3:1 </span>Finally, brothers, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may speed ahead and be honored, as happened among you, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1240": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 10:1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45010001.01-1\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v45010001-1\">10:1 </span>Brothers, my heart's desire and prayer to God for them is that they may be saved. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1241": "<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>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>Romans 11:25-26</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p45011025.06-3\">Lest you be wise in your own sight, I want you to understand this mystery, brothers: a partial hardening has come upon Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in. And in this way all Israel will be saved, as it is written,</p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p45011026.14-3\">“The Deliverer will come from Zion,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>he will banish ungodliness from Jacob”;</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 67</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19067001.17-4\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v19067001-4\">67:1 </span>May God be gracious to us and bless us<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and make his face to shine upon us, <span class=\"selah\">Selah</span><br />\n that your way may be known on earth,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>your saving power among all nations.<br />\n Let the peoples praise you, O God;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>let all the peoples praise you!</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19067004.01-4\">Let the nations be glad and sing for joy,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for you judge the peoples with equity<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and guide the nations upon earth. <span class=\"selah\">Selah</span><br />\n Let the peoples praise you, O God;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>let all the peoples praise you!</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19067006.01-4\">The earth has yielded its increase;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>God, our God, shall bless us.<br />\n God shall bless us;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>let all the ends of the earth fear him! (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1242": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 9:38</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40009038.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.”</span></p>\n</div><h5>2 Thessalonians 3:1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p53003001.04-2\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v53003001-2\">3:1 </span>Finally, brothers, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may speed ahead and be honored, as happened among you, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1243": "<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>Zephaniah 3:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p36003009.06-2\">“For at that time I will change the speech of the peoples<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>to a pure speech,<br />\nthat all of them may call upon the name of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span><br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and serve him with one accord. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1244": "<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>Isaiah 49:23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23049023.01-2\">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.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1245": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Acts 4:29-30</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44004029.01-1\">And now, Lord, look upon their threats and grant to your servants to continue to speak your word with all boldness, while you stretch out your hand to heal, and signs and wonders are performed through the name of your holy servant Jesus.”</p>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 6:18-20</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, and also for me, that words may be given to me in opening my mouth boldly to proclaim the mystery of the gospel, for which I am an ambassador in chains, that I may declare it boldly, as I ought to speak.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 15:29-30</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45015029.01-3\">I know that when I come to you I will come in the fullness of the blessing of Christ.</p>\n <p id=\"p45015030.01-3\">I appeal to you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, to strive together with me in your prayers to God on my behalf,</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 15:32</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45015032.01-4\">so that by God's will I may come to you with joy and be refreshed in your company.</p>\n</div><h5>2 Thessalonians 1:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p53001011.01-5\">To this end we always pray for you, that our God may make you worthy of his calling and may fulfill every resolve for good and every work of faith by his power,</p>\n</div><h5>2 Thessalonians 2:16-17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p53002016.01-6\">Now may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace, comfort your hearts and establish them in every good work and word. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1246": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ephesians 3:14-20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p49003014.05-1\">For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, 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 <p id=\"p49003020.01-1\">Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us,</p>\n</div><h5>Colossians 3:15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p51003015.01-2\">And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1247": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Revelation 22:20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p66022020.01-1\">He who testifies to these things says, <span class=\"woc\">“Surely I am coming soon.”</span> Amen. Come, Lord Jesus!</p>\n</div><h5>2 Timothy 2:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p55002012.01-2\">if we endure, we will also reign with him;<br />\nif we deny him, he also will deny us;</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>2 Peter 3:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p61003012.01-3\">waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be set on fire and dissolved, and the heavenly bodies will melt as they burn! (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1248": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Isaiah 64:1-2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23064001.01-1\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v23064001-1\">64:1 </span>Oh that you would rend the heavens and come down,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that the mountains might quake at your presence—<br />\n as when fire kindles brushwood<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and the fire causes water to boil—<br />\nto make your name known to your adversaries,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and that the nations might tremble at your presence!</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Revelation 4:8-11</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!”</p>\n</div>\n <p class=\"same-paragraph\" id=\"p66004009.01-2\">And whenever the living creatures give glory and honor and thanks to him who is seated on the throne, who lives forever and ever, the twenty-four elders fall down before him who is seated on the throne and worship him who lives forever and ever. They cast their crowns before the throne, saying,</p>\n <div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p66004011.01-2\">“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.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"1236": "Matthew 6:10; Luke 11:2",
"1237": "Ephesians 2:2-3",
"1238": "Psalms 68:1,18; Revelation 12:10-11",
"1239": "Psalms 67:1-2; II Thessalonians 3:1",
"1240": "Romans 10:1",
"1241": "John 17:9,20; Romans 11:25-26; Psalms 67",
"1242": "Matthew 9:38; II Thessalonians 3:1",
"1243": "Malachi 1:11; Zephaniah 3:9",
"1244": "I Timothy 2:1-2; Isaiah 49:23",
"1245": "Acts 4:29-30; Ephesians 6:18-20; Romans 15:29-30,32; II Thessalonians 1:11; II Thessalonians 2:16-17",
"1246": "Ephesians 3:14-20; Colossians 3:15",
"1247": "Revelation 22:20; II Timothy 2:12; II Peter 3:12",
"1248": "Isaiah 64:1-2; Revelation 4:8-11"
},
"question": "What do we pray for in the second petition?"
},
"192": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Matthew 6:10; Luke 11:2' data-prooftexts-index='1249'>In the third petition, (which is, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven,</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 7:18; Job 21:14; I Corinthians 2:14' data-prooftexts-index='1250'>) acknowledging, that by nature we and all men are not only utterly unable and unwilling to know and do the will of God,</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 8:7' data-prooftexts-index='1251'> but prone to rebel against his Word,</span><span data-prooftexts='Ex 17:7; Numbers 14:2' data-prooftexts-index='1252'> to repine and murmur against his providence,</span><span data-prooftexts='Ephesians 2:2' data-prooftexts-index='1253'> and wholly inclined to do the will of the flesh, and of the devil:</span><span data-prooftexts='Ephesians 1:17-18' data-prooftexts-index='1254'> we pray, that God would by his Spirit take away from ourselves and others all blindness,</span><span data-prooftexts='Ephesians 3:16' data-prooftexts-index='1255'> weakness,</span><span data-prooftexts='Matthew 26:40-41' data-prooftexts-index='1256'> indisposedness,</span><span data-prooftexts='Jeremiah 31:18-19' data-prooftexts-index='1257'> and perverseness of heart;</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 19:14; Acts 21:14; Psalms 119; I Thessalonians 5:23; Hebrews 13:20-21' data-prooftexts-index='1258'> and by his grace make us able and willing to know, do, and submit to his will in all things,</span><span data-prooftexts='Micah 6:8' data-prooftexts-index='1259'> with the like humility,</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 100:2; Job 1:21; II Samuel 15:25-26' data-prooftexts-index='1260'> cheerfulness,</span><span data-prooftexts='Isaiah 38:3' data-prooftexts-index='1261'> faithfulness,</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 119:4-5' data-prooftexts-index='1262'> diligence,</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 69:9; John 2:17; Romans 12:11' data-prooftexts-index='1263'> zeal,</span><span data-prooftexts='Joshua 24:14; Psalms 119:80; I Corinthians 5:8; II Corinthians 1:12' data-prooftexts-index='1264'> sincerity,</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 119:112' data-prooftexts-index='1265'> and constancy,</span><span data-prooftexts='Isaiah 6:2-3; Psalms 103:20-21; Matthew 18:10' data-prooftexts-index='1266'> as the angels do in heaven.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"1249": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 6:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p40006010.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">Your kingdom come,<br />\nyour will be done,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>on earth as it is in heaven.</span></p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Luke 11:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42011002.01-2\">And he said to them, <span class=\"woc\">“When you pray, say:</span></p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p42011002.10-2\"><span class=\"woc\">“Father, hallowed be your name.<br />\nYour kingdom come.</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1250": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 7:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45007018.01-1\">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>Job 21:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p18021014.01-2\">They say to God, ‘Depart from us!<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>We do not desire the knowledge of your ways.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 2:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46002014.01-3\">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>",
"1251": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 8:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45008007.01-1\">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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1252": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Exodus 17:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p02017007.01-1\">And he called the name of the place Massah and Meribah, because of the quarreling of the people of Israel, and because they tested the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> by saying, “Is the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> among us or not?”</p>\n</div><h5>Numbers 14:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p04014002.01-2\">And all the people of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron. The whole congregation said to them, “Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! Or would that we had died in this wilderness! (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1253": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ephesians 2:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49002002.01-1\">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— (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1254": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ephesians 1:17-18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49001017.01-1\">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>",
"1255": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ephesians 3:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49003016.01-1\">that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1256": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 26:40-41</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40026040.01-1\">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> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1257": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Jeremiah 31:18-19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p24031018.01-1\">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.’ (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1258": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 19:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19019014.01-1\">Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>be acceptable in your sight,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, my rock and my redeemer.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Acts 21:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44021014.01-2\">And since he would not be persuaded, we ceased and said, “Let the will of the Lord be done.”</p>\n</div><h5>Psalm 119</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119001.10-3\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v19119001-3\">119:1 </span> Blessed are those whose way is blameless,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>who walk in the law of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>!<br />\n Blessed are those who keep his testimonies,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>who seek him with their whole heart,<br />\n who also do no wrong,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but walk in his ways!<br />\n 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.<br />\n I will praise you with an upright heart,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>when I learn your righteous rules.<br />\n I will keep your statutes;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>do not utterly forsake me!</p>\n</div>\n \n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119009.02-3\">How can a young man keep his way pure?<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>By guarding it according to your word.<br />\n With my whole heart I seek you;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>let me not wander from your commandments!<br />\n I have stored up your word in my heart,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that I might not sin against you.<br />\n Blessed are you, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>teach me your statutes!<br />\n With my lips I declare<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>all the rules of your mouth.<br />\n In the way of your testimonies I delight<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>as much as in all riches.<br />\n I will meditate on your precepts<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and fix my eyes on your ways.<br />\n I will delight in your statutes;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I will not forget your word.</p>\n</div>\n \n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119017.02-3\">Deal bountifully with your servant,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that I may live and keep your word.<br />\n Open my eyes, that I may behold<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>wondrous things out of your law.<br />\n I am a sojourner on the earth;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>hide not your commandments from me!<br />\n My soul is consumed with longing<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for your rules at all times.<br />\n You rebuke the insolent, accursed ones,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>who wander from your commandments.<br />\n Take away from me scorn and contempt,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for I have kept your testimonies.<br />\n Even though princes sit plotting against me,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>your servant will meditate on your statutes.<br />\n Your testimonies are my delight;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>they are my counselors.</p>\n</div>\n \n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119025.02-3\">My soul clings to the dust;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>give me life according to your word!<br />\n When I told of my ways, you answered me;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>teach me your statutes!<br />\n Make me understand the way of your precepts,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and I will meditate on your wondrous works.<br />\n My soul melts away for sorrow;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>strengthen me according to your word!<br />\n Put false ways far from me<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and graciously teach me your law!<br />\n I have chosen the way of faithfulness;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I set your rules before me.<br />\n I cling to your testimonies, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>let me not be put to shame!<br />\n I will run in the way of your commandments<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>when you enlarge my heart!</p>\n</div>\n \n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119033.02-3\">Teach me, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, the way of your statutes;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and I will keep it to the end.<br />\n Give me understanding, that I may keep your law<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and observe it with my whole heart.<br />\n Lead me in the path of your commandments,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for I delight in it.<br />\n Incline my heart to your testimonies,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and not to selfish gain!<br />\n Turn my eyes from looking at worthless things;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and give me life in your ways.<br />\n Confirm to your servant your promise,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that you may be feared.<br />\n Turn away the reproach that I dread,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for your rules are good.<br />\n Behold, I long for your precepts;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>in your righteousness give me life!</p>\n</div>\n \n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119041.02-3\">Let your steadfast love come to me, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>your salvation according to your promise;<br />\n then shall I have an answer for him who taunts me,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for I trust in your word.<br />\n And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for my hope is in your rules.<br />\n I will keep your law continually,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>forever and ever,<br />\n and I shall walk in a wide place,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for I have sought your precepts.<br />\n I will also speak of your testimonies before kings<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and shall not be put to shame,<br />\n for I find my delight in your commandments,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>which I love.<br />\n I will lift up my hands toward your commandments, which I love,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and I will meditate on your statutes.</p>\n</div>\n \n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119049.02-3\">Remember your word to your servant,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>in which you have made me hope.<br />\n This is my comfort in my affliction,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that your promise gives me life.<br />\n The insolent utterly deride me,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but I do not turn away from your law.<br />\n When I think of your rules from of old,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I take comfort, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>.<br />\n Hot indignation seizes me because of the wicked,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>who forsake your law.<br />\n Your statutes have been my songs<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>in the house of my sojourning.<br />\n I remember your name in the night, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and keep your law.<br />\n This blessing has fallen to me,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that I have kept your precepts.</p>\n</div>\n \n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119057.02-3\">The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> is my portion;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I promise to keep your words.<br />\n I entreat your favor with all my heart;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>be gracious to me according to your promise.<br />\n When I think on my ways,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I turn my feet to your testimonies;<br />\n I hasten and do not delay<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>to keep your commandments.<br />\n Though the cords of the wicked ensnare me,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I do not forget your law.<br />\n At midnight I rise to praise you,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>because of your righteous rules.<br />\n I am a companion of all who fear you,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>of those who keep your precepts.<br />\n The earth, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, is full of your steadfast love;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>teach me your statutes!</p>\n</div>\n \n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119065.02-3\">You have dealt well with your servant,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, according to your word.<br />\n Teach me good judgment and knowledge,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for I believe in your commandments.<br />\n Before I was afflicted I went astray,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but now I keep your word.<br />\n You are good and do good;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>teach me your statutes.<br />\n The insolent smear me with lies,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but with my whole heart I keep your precepts;<br />\n their heart is unfeeling like fat,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but I delight in your law.<br />\n It is good for me that I was afflicted,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that I might learn your statutes.<br />\n The law of your mouth is better to me<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>than thousands of gold and silver pieces.</p>\n</div>\n \n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119073.02-3\">Your hands have made and fashioned me;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>give me understanding that I may learn your commandments.<br />\n Those who fear you shall see me and rejoice,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>because I have hoped in your word.<br />\n I know, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, that your rules are righteous,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and that in faithfulness you have afflicted me.<br />\n Let your steadfast love comfort me<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>according to your promise to your servant.<br />\n Let your mercy come to me, that I may live;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for your law is my delight.<br />\n Let the insolent be put to shame,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>because they have wronged me with falsehood;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>as for me, I will meditate on your precepts.<br />\n Let those who fear you turn to me,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that they may know your testimonies.<br />\n May my heart be blameless in your statutes,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that I may not be put to shame!</p>\n</div>\n \n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119081.02-3\">My soul longs for your salvation;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I hope in your word.<br />\n My eyes long for your promise;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I ask, “When will you comfort me?”<br />\n For I have become like a wineskin in the smoke,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>yet I have not forgotten your statutes.<br />\n How long must your servant endure?<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>When will you judge those who persecute me?<br />\n The insolent have dug pitfalls for me;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>they do not live according to your law.<br />\n All your commandments are sure;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>they persecute me with falsehood; help me!<br />\n They have almost made an end of me on earth,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but I have not forsaken your precepts.<br />\n In your steadfast love give me life,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that I may keep the testimonies of your mouth.</p>\n</div>\n \n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119089.02-3\">Forever, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, your word<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>is firmly fixed in the heavens.<br />\n Your faithfulness endures to all generations;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>you have established the earth, and it stands fast.<br />\n By your appointment they stand this day,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for all things are your servants.<br />\n If your law had not been my delight,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I would have perished in my affliction.<br />\n I will never forget your precepts,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for by them you have given me life.<br />\n I am yours; save me,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for I have sought your precepts.<br />\n The wicked lie in wait to destroy me,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but I consider your testimonies.<br />\n I have seen a limit to all perfection,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but your commandment is exceedingly broad.</p>\n</div>\n \n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119097.02-3\">Oh how I love your law!<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>It is my meditation all the day.<br />\n Your commandment makes me wiser than my enemies,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for it is ever with me.<br />\n I have more understanding than all my teachers,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for your testimonies are my meditation.<br />\n I understand more than the aged,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for I keep your precepts.<br />\n I hold back my feet from every evil way,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>in order to keep your word.<br />\n I do not turn aside from your rules,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for you have taught me.<br />\n How sweet are your words to my taste,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>sweeter than honey to my mouth!<br />\n Through your precepts I get understanding;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>therefore I hate every false way.</p>\n</div>\n \n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119105.02-3\">Your word is a lamp to my feet<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and a light to my path.<br />\n I have sworn an oath and confirmed it,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>to keep your righteous rules.<br />\n I am severely afflicted;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>give me life, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, according to your word!<br />\n Accept my freewill offerings of praise, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and teach me your rules.<br />\n I hold my life in my hand continually,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but I do not forget your law.<br />\n The wicked have laid a snare for me,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but I do not stray from your precepts.<br />\n Your testimonies are my heritage forever,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for they are the joy of my heart.<br />\n I incline my heart to perform your statutes<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>forever, to the end.</p>\n</div>\n \n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119113.02-3\">I hate the double-minded,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but I love your law.<br />\n You are my hiding place and my shield;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I hope in your word.<br />\n Depart from me, you evildoers,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that I may keep the commandments of my God.<br />\n Uphold me according to your promise, that I may live,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and let me not be put to shame in my hope!<br />\n Hold me up, that I may be safe<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and have regard for your statutes continually!<br />\n You spurn all who go astray from your statutes,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for their cunning is in vain.<br />\n All the wicked of the earth you discard like dross,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>therefore I love your testimonies.<br />\n My flesh trembles for fear of you,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and I am afraid of your judgments.</p>\n</div>\n \n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119121.02-3\">I have done what is just and right;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>do not leave me to my oppressors.<br />\n Give your servant a pledge of good;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>let not the insolent oppress me.<br />\n My eyes long for your salvation<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and for the fulfillment of your righteous promise.<br />\n Deal with your servant according to your steadfast love,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and teach me your statutes.<br />\n I am your servant; give me understanding,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that I may know your testimonies!<br />\n It is time for the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> to act,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for your law has been broken.<br />\n Therefore I love your commandments<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>above gold, above fine gold.<br />\n Therefore I consider all your precepts to be right;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I hate every false way.</p>\n</div>\n \n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119129.02-3\">Your testimonies are wonderful;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>therefore my soul keeps them.<br />\n The unfolding of your words gives light;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>it imparts understanding to the simple.<br />\n I open my mouth and pant,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>because I long for your commandments.<br />\n Turn to me and be gracious to me,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>as is your way with those who love your name.<br />\n Keep steady my steps according to your promise,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and let no iniquity get dominion over me.<br />\n Redeem me from man's oppression,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that I may keep your precepts.<br />\n Make your face shine upon your servant,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and teach me your statutes.<br />\n My eyes shed streams of tears,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>because people do not keep your law.</p>\n</div>\n \n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119137.02-3\">Righteous are you, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and right are your rules.<br />\n You have appointed your testimonies in righteousness<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and in all faithfulness.<br />\n My zeal consumes me,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>because my foes forget your words.<br />\n Your promise is well tried,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and your servant loves it.<br />\n I am small and despised,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>yet I do not forget your precepts.<br />\n Your righteousness is righteous forever,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and your law is true.<br />\n Trouble and anguish have found me out,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but your commandments are my delight.<br />\n Your testimonies are righteous forever;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>give me understanding that I may live.</p>\n</div>\n \n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119145.02-3\">With my whole heart I cry; answer me, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>!<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I will keep your statutes.<br />\n I call to you; save me,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that I may observe your testimonies.<br />\n I rise before dawn and cry for help;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I hope in your words.<br />\n My eyes are awake before the watches of the night,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that I may meditate on your promise.<br />\n Hear my voice according to your steadfast love;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, according to your justice give me life.<br />\n They draw near who persecute me with evil purpose;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>they are far from your law.<br />\n But you are near, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and all your commandments are true.<br />\n Long have I known from your testimonies<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that you have founded them forever.</p>\n</div>\n \n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119153.02-3\">Look on my affliction and deliver me,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for I do not forget your law.<br />\n Plead my cause and redeem me;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>give me life according to your promise!<br />\n Salvation is far from the wicked,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for they do not seek your statutes.<br />\n Great is your mercy, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>give me life according to your rules.<br />\n Many are my persecutors and my adversaries,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but I do not swerve from your testimonies.<br />\n I look at the faithless with disgust,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>because they do not keep your commands.<br />\n Consider how I love your precepts!<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Give me life according to your steadfast love.<br />\n The sum of your word is truth,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and every one of your righteous rules endures forever.</p>\n</div>\n \n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119161.04-3\">Princes persecute me without cause,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but my heart stands in awe of your words.<br />\n I rejoice at your word<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>like one who finds great spoil.<br />\n I hate and abhor falsehood,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but I love your law.<br />\n Seven times a day I praise you<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for your righteous rules.<br />\n Great peace have those who love your law;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>nothing can make them stumble.<br />\n I hope for your salvation, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and I do your commandments.<br />\n My soul keeps your testimonies;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I love them exceedingly.<br />\n I keep your precepts and testimonies,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for all my ways are before you.</p>\n</div>\n \n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119169.02-3\">Let my cry come before you, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>give me understanding according to your word!<br />\n Let my plea come before you;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>deliver me according to your word.<br />\n My lips will pour forth praise,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for you teach me your statutes.<br />\n My tongue will sing of your word,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for all your commandments are right.<br />\n Let your hand be ready to help me,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for I have chosen your precepts.<br />\n I long for your salvation, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and your law is my delight.<br />\n Let my soul live and praise you,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and let your rules help me.<br />\n I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek your servant,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for I do not forget your commandments.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>1 Thessalonians 5:23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p52005023.01-4\">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.</p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 13:20-21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p58013020.02-5\">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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1259": "<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? (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1260": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 100:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19100002.01-1\"><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</div>\n</div><h5>Job 1:21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p18001021.01-2\">And he said, “Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked shall I return. The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> gave, and the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> has taken away; blessed be the name of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>.”</p>\n</div><h5>2 Samuel 15:25-26</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p10015025.01-3\">Then the king said to Zadok, “Carry the ark of God back into the city. If I find favor in the eyes of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, he will bring me back and let me see both it and his dwelling place. But if he says, ‘I have no pleasure in you,’ behold, here I am, let him do to me what seems good to him.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1261": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Isaiah 38:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p23038003.01-1\">and said, “Please, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, remember how I have walked before you in faithfulness and with a whole heart, and have done what is good in your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1262": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 119:4-5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119004.01-1\">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! (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1263": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 69:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19069009.01-1\">For zeal for your house has consumed me,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and the reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>John 2:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43002017.01-2\">His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for your house will consume me.”</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 12:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45012011.01-3\">Do not be slothful in zeal, be fervent in spirit, serve the Lord. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1264": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Joshua 24:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p06024014.06-1\">“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>Psalm 119:80</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119080.01-2\">May my heart be blameless in your statutes,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that I may not be put to shame!</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 5:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46005008.01-3\">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</div><h5>2 Corinthians 1:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p47001012.05-4\">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>",
"1265": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 119:112</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119112.01-1\">I incline my heart to perform your statutes<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>forever, to the end. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1266": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Isaiah 6:2-3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p23006002.01-1\">Above him stood the seraphim. Each had six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. 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>Psalm 103:20-21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19103020.01-2\">Bless the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, O you his angels,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>you mighty ones who do his word,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>obeying the voice of his word!<br />\n Bless the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, all his hosts,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>his ministers, who do his will!</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Matthew 18:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p40018010.07-3\"><span class=\"woc\">“See that you do not despise one of these little ones. For I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"1249": "Matthew 6:10; Luke 11:2",
"1250": "Romans 7:18; Job 21:14; I Corinthians 2:14",
"1251": "Romans 8:7",
"1252": "Ex 17:7; Numbers 14:2",
"1253": "Ephesians 2:2",
"1254": "Ephesians 1:17-18",
"1255": "Ephesians 3:16",
"1256": "Matthew 26:40-41",
"1257": "Jeremiah 31:18-19",
"1258": "Psalms 19:14; Acts 21:14; Psalms 119; I Thessalonians 5:23; Hebrews 13:20-21",
"1259": "Micah 6:8",
"1260": "Psalms 100:2; Job 1:21; II Samuel 15:25-26",
"1261": "Isaiah 38:3",
"1262": "Psalms 119:4-5",
"1263": "Psalms 69:9; John 2:17; Romans 12:11",
"1264": "Joshua 24:14; Psalms 119:80; I Corinthians 5:8; II Corinthians 1:12",
"1265": "Psalms 119:112",
"1266": "Isaiah 6:2-3; Psalms 103:20-21; Matthew 18:10"
},
"question": "What do we pray for in the third petition?"
},
"193": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Matthew 6:11; Luke 11:3' data-prooftexts-index='1267'>In the fourth petition, (which is, Give us this day our daily bread,</span><span data-prooftexts='Genesis 2:17; Genesis 3:17; Romans 8:20-22; Jeremiah 5:25; Deuteronomy 28:15-68' data-prooftexts-index='1268'>) acknowledging, that in Adam, and by our own sin, we have forfeited our right to all the outward blessings of this life, and deserve to be wholly deprived of them by God, and to have them cursed to us in the use of them;</span><span data-prooftexts='Deuteronomy 8:3' data-prooftexts-index='1269'> and that neither they of themselves are able to sustain us,</span><span data-prooftexts='Genesis 32:10' data-prooftexts-index='1270'> nor we to merit,</span><span data-prooftexts='Deuteronomy 8:17-18' data-prooftexts-index='1271'> or by our own industry to procure them;</span><span data-prooftexts='Jeremiah 6:13; Mark 7:21-22' data-prooftexts-index='1272'> but prone to desire,</span><span data-prooftexts='Hosea 12:7' data-prooftexts-index='1273'> get,</span><span data-prooftexts='James 4:3' data-prooftexts-index='1274'> and use them unlawfully:</span><span data-prooftexts='Genesis 43:12-14; Genesis 28:20; Ephesians 4:28; II Thessalonians 3:11-12; Philippians 4:6' data-prooftexts-index='1275'> we pray for ourselves and others, that both they and we, waiting upon the providence of God from day to day in the use of lawful means, may, of his free gift, and as to his fatherly wisdom shall seem best, enjoy a competent portion of them;</span><span data-prooftexts='I Timothy 4:3-5' data-prooftexts-index='1276'> and have the same continued and blessed unto us in our holy and comfortable use of them,</span><span data-prooftexts='I Timothy 6:6-8' data-prooftexts-index='1277'> and contentment in them;</span><span data-prooftexts='Proverbs 30:8-9' data-prooftexts-index='1278'> and be kept from all things that are contrary to our temporal support and comfort.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"1267": "<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></p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Luke 11:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p42011003.01-2\"><span class=\"woc\">Give us each day our daily bread,</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1268": "<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 3:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p01003017.01-2\">And to Adam he said,</p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p01003017.06-2\">“Because you have listened to the voice of your wife<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and have eaten of the tree<br />\nof which I commanded you,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>‘You shall not eat of it,’<br />\ncursed is the ground because of you;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life;</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Romans 8:20-22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45008020.01-3\">For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now.</p>\n</div><h5>Jeremiah 5:25</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p24005025.01-4\">Your iniquities have turned these away,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and your sins have kept good from you.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Deuteronomy 28:15-68</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p05028015.04-5\">“But if you will not obey the voice of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God or be careful to do all his commandments and his statutes that I command you today, then all these curses shall come upon you and overtake you. Cursed shall you be in the city, and cursed shall you be in the field. Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl. Cursed shall be the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock. Cursed shall you be when you come in, and cursed shall you be when you go out.</p>\n <p id=\"p05028020.01-5\">“The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> will send on you curses, confusion, and frustration in all that you undertake to do, until you are destroyed and perish quickly on account of the evil of your deeds, because you have forsaken me. The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> will make the pestilence stick to you until he has consumed you off the land that you are entering to take possession of it. The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> will strike you with wasting disease and with fever, inflammation and fiery heat, and with drought and with blight and with mildew. They shall pursue you until you perish. And the heavens over your head shall be bronze, and the earth under you shall be iron. The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> will make the rain of your land powder. From heaven dust shall come down on you until you are destroyed.</p>\n <p id=\"p05028025.01-5\">“The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You shall go out one way against them and flee seven ways before them. And you shall be a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth. And your dead body shall be food for all birds of the air and for the beasts of the earth, and there shall be no one to frighten them away. The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> will strike you with the boils of Egypt, and with tumors and scabs and itch, of which you cannot be healed. The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> will strike you with madness and blindness and confusion of mind, and you shall grope at noonday, as the blind grope in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways. And you shall be only oppressed and robbed continually, and there shall be no one to help you. You shall betroth a wife, but another man shall ravish her. You shall build a house, but you shall not dwell in it. You shall plant a vineyard, but you shall not enjoy its fruit. Your ox shall be slaughtered before your eyes, but you shall not eat any of it. Your donkey shall be seized before your face, but shall not be restored to you. Your sheep shall be given to your enemies, but there shall be no one to help you. Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people, while your eyes look on and fail with longing for them all day long, but you shall be helpless. A nation that you have not known shall eat up the fruit of your ground and of all your labors, and you shall be only oppressed and crushed continually, so that you are driven mad by the sights that your eyes see. The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> will strike you on the knees and on the legs with grievous boils of which you cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.</p>\n <p id=\"p05028036.01-5\">“The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> will bring you and your king whom you set over you to a nation that neither you nor your fathers have known. And there you shall serve other gods of wood and stone. And you shall become a horror, a proverb, and a byword among all the peoples where the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> will lead you away. You shall carry much seed into the field and shall gather in little, for the locust shall consume it. You shall plant vineyards and dress them, but you shall neither drink of the wine nor gather the grapes, for the worm shall eat them. You shall have olive trees throughout all your territory, but you shall not anoint yourself with the oil, for your olives shall drop off. You shall father sons and daughters, but they shall not be yours, for they shall go into captivity. The cricket shall possess all your trees and the fruit of your ground. The sojourner who is among you shall rise higher and higher above you, and you shall come down lower and lower. He shall lend to you, and you shall not lend to him. He shall be the head, and you shall be the tail.</p>\n <p id=\"p05028045.01-5\">“All these curses shall come upon you and pursue you and overtake you till you are destroyed, because you did not obey the voice of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes that he commanded you. They shall be a sign and a wonder against you and your offspring forever. Because you did not serve the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God with joyfulness and gladness of heart, because of the abundance of all things, therefore you shall serve your enemies whom the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> will send against you, in hunger and thirst, in nakedness, and lacking everything. And he will put a yoke of iron on your neck until he has destroyed you. The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> will bring a nation against you from far away, from the end of the earth, swooping down like the eagle, a nation whose language you do not understand, a hard-faced nation who shall not respect the old or show mercy to the young. It shall eat the offspring of your cattle and the fruit of your ground, until you are destroyed; it also shall not leave you grain, wine, or oil, the increase of your herds or the young of your flock, until they have caused you to perish.</p>\n <p id=\"p05028052.01-5\">“They shall besiege you in all your towns, until your high and fortified walls, in which you trusted, come down throughout all your land. And they shall besiege you in all your towns throughout all your land, which the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God has given you. And you shall eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of your sons and daughters, whom the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God has given you, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies shall distress you. The man who is the most tender and refined among you will begrudge food to his brother, to the wife he embraces, and to the last of the children whom he has left, so that he will not give to any of them any of the flesh of his children whom he is eating, because he has nothing else left, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in all your towns. The most tender and refined woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground because she is so delicate and tender, will begrudge to the husband she embraces, to her son and to her daughter, her afterbirth that comes out from between her feet and her children whom she bears, because lacking everything she will eat them secretly, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in your towns.</p>\n <p id=\"p05028058.01-5\">“If you are not careful to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and awesome name, the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God, then the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> will bring on you and your offspring extraordinary afflictions, afflictions severe and lasting, and sicknesses grievous and lasting. And he will bring upon you again all the diseases of Egypt, of which you were afraid, and they shall cling to you. Every sickness also and every affliction that is not recorded in the book of this law, the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> will bring upon you, until you are destroyed. Whereas you were as numerous as the stars of heaven, you shall be left few in number, because you did not obey the voice of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God. And as the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> took delight in doing you good and multiplying you, so the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> will take delight in bringing ruin upon you and destroying you. And you shall be plucked off the land that you are entering to take possession of it.</p>\n <p id=\"p05028064.01-5\">“And the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you shall serve other gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known. And among these nations you shall find no respite, and there shall be no resting place for the sole of your foot, but the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> will give you there a trembling heart and failing eyes and a languishing soul. Your life shall hang in doubt before you. Night and day you shall be in dread and have no assurance of your life. In the morning you shall say, ‘If only it were evening!’ and at evening you shall say, ‘If only it were morning!’ because of the dread that your heart shall feel, and the sights that your eyes shall see. And the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> will bring you back in ships to Egypt, a journey that I promised that you should never make again; and there you shall offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but there will be no buyer.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1269": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Deuteronomy 8:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p05008003.01-1\">And he humbled you and let you hunger and fed you with manna, which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that he might make you know that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by every word that comes from the mouth of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1270": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Genesis 32:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p01032010.01-1\">I am not worthy of the least of all the deeds of steadfast love and all the faithfulness that you have shown to your servant, for with only my staff I crossed this Jordan, and now I have become two camps. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1271": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Deuteronomy 8:17-18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p05008017.01-1\">Beware lest you say in your heart, ‘My power and the might of my hand have gotten me this wealth.’ You shall remember the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth, that he may confirm his covenant that he swore to your fathers, as it is this day. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1272": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Jeremiah 6:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p24006013.01-1\">“For from the least to the greatest of them,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>everyone is greedy for unjust gain;<br />\nand from prophet to priest,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>everyone deals falsely.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Mark 7:21-22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p41007021.01-2\"><span class=\"woc\">For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery,</span> <span class=\"woc\">coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, foolishness.</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1273": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Hosea 12:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p28012007.01-1\">A merchant, in whose hands are false balances,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>he loves to oppress. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1274": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>James 4:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p59004003.01-1\">You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1275": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Genesis 43:12-14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p01043012.01-1\">Take double the money with you. Carry back with you the money that was returned in the mouth of your sacks. Perhaps it was an oversight. Take also your brother, and arise, go again to the man. May God Almighty grant you mercy before the man, and may he send back your other brother and Benjamin. And as for me, if I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.”</p>\n</div><h5>Genesis 28:20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p01028020.01-2\">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,</p>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 4:28</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49004028.01-3\">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>2 Thessalonians 3:11-12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p53003011.01-4\">For we hear that some among you walk in idleness, not busy at work, but busybodies. Now such persons we command and encourage in the Lord Jesus Christ to do their work quietly and to earn their own living.</p>\n</div><h5>Philippians 4:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p50004006.01-5\">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>",
"1276": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Timothy 4:3-5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p54004003.01-1\">who forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth. For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving, for it is made holy by the word of God and prayer. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1277": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Timothy 6:6-8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p54006006.01-1\">Now there is great gain in godliness with contentment, for we brought nothing into the world, and we cannot take anything out of the world. But if we have food and clothing, with these we will be content. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1278": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Proverbs 30:8-9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20030008.01-1\">Remove far from me falsehood and lying;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>give me neither poverty nor riches;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>feed me with the food that is needful for me,<br />\n lest I be full and deny you<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and say, “Who is the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>?”<br />\nor lest I be poor and steal<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and profane the name of my God. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"1267": "Matthew 6:11; Luke 11:3",
"1268": "Genesis 2:17; Genesis 3:17; Romans 8:20-22; Jeremiah 5:25; Deuteronomy 28:15-68",
"1269": "Deuteronomy 8:3",
"1270": "Genesis 32:10",
"1271": "Deuteronomy 8:17-18",
"1272": "Jeremiah 6:13; Mark 7:21-22",
"1273": "Hosea 12:7",
"1274": "James 4:3",
"1275": "Genesis 43:12-14; Genesis 28:20; Ephesians 4:28; II Thessalonians 3:11-12; Philippians 4:6",
"1276": "I Timothy 4:3-5",
"1277": "I Timothy 6:6-8",
"1278": "Proverbs 30:8-9"
},
"question": "What do we pray for in the fourth petition?"
},
"194": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Matthew 6:12; Luke 11:4' data-prooftexts-index='1279'>In the fifth petition, (which is, Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors,</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 3:9-22; Matthew 18:24-25; Psalms 130:3-4' data-prooftexts-index='1280'>) acknowledging, that we and all others are guilty both of original and actual sin, and thereby become debtors to the justice of God; and that neither we, nor any other creature, can make the least satisfaction for that debt:</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 3:24-26; Hebrews 9:22' data-prooftexts-index='1281'> we pray for ourselves and others, that God of his free grace would, through the obedience and satisfaction of Christ, apprehended and applied by faith, acquit us both from the guilt and punishment of sin,</span><span data-prooftexts='Ephesians 1:6-7' data-prooftexts-index='1282'> accept us in his Beloved;</span><span data-prooftexts='II Peter 1:2' data-prooftexts-index='1283'> continue his favor and grace to us,</span><span data-prooftexts='Hosea 14:2; Jeremiah 14:7; I John 1:9; Daniel 9:17-19' data-prooftexts-index='1284'> pardon our daily failings,</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 15:13; Psalms 51:7-10,12' data-prooftexts-index='1285'> and fill us with peace and joy, in giving us daily more and more assurance of forgiveness;</span><span data-prooftexts='Luke 11:4; Matthew 6:14-15; Ephesians 4:32; Colossians 3:13; Matthew 18:21-35' data-prooftexts-index='1286'> which we are the rather emboldened to ask, and encouraged to expect, when we have this testimony in ourselves, that we from the heart forgive others their offenses.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"1279": "<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>Luke 11:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p42011004.01-2\"><span class=\"woc\">and forgive us our sins,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for we ourselves forgive everyone who is indebted to us.<br />\nAnd lead us not into temptation.”</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1280": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 3:9-22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p45003009.05-1\">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, 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;<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.”</p>\n</div>\n <p id=\"p45003019.01-1\">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. 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=\"p45003021.07-1\">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:</p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 18:24-25</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40018024.01-2\"><span class=\"woc\">When he began to settle, one was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents.</span> <span class=\"woc\">And since he could not pay, his master ordered him to be sold, with his wife and children and all that he had, and payment to be made.</span></p>\n</div><h5>Psalm 130:3-4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19130003.01-3\">If you, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, should mark iniquities,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>O Lord, who could stand?<br />\n But with you there is forgiveness,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that you may be feared. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1281": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 3:24-26</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, 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.</p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 9:22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58009022.01-2\">Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1282": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ephesians 1:6-7</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. 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>",
"1283": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>2 Peter 1:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p class=\"chapter-first\" id=\"p61001002.01-1\">May grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1284": "<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>Jeremiah 14:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p24014007.01-2\">“Though our iniquities testify against us,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>act, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, for your name's sake;<br />\nfor our backslidings are many;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>we have sinned against you.</p>\n</div>\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>Daniel 9:17-19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p27009017.01-4\">Now therefore, O our God, listen to the prayer of your servant and to his pleas for mercy, and for your own sake, O Lord, make your face to shine upon your sanctuary, which is desolate. O my God, incline your ear and hear. Open your eyes and see our desolations, and the city that is called by your name. For we do not present our pleas before you because of our righteousness, but because of your great mercy. O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive. O Lord, pay attention and act. Delay not, for your own sake, O my God, because your city and your people are called by your name.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1285": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 15:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p class=\"same-paragraph\" id=\"p45015013.01-1\">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>Psalm 51:7-10</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.</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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1286": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Luke 11:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p42011004.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">and forgive us our sins,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for we ourselves forgive everyone who is indebted to us.<br />\nAnd lead us not into temptation.”</span></p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Matthew 6:14-15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p class=\"same-paragraph\" id=\"p40006014.01-2\"><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>Ephesians 4:32</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49004032.01-3\">Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.</p>\n</div><h5>Colossians 3:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p51003013.01-4\">bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.</p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 18:21-35</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p40018021.07-5\">Then Peter came up and said to him, “Lord, how often will my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? As many as seven times?” Jesus said to him, <span class=\"woc\">“I do not say to you seven times, but seventy times seven.</span></p>\n <p id=\"p40018023.01-5\"><span class=\"woc\">“Therefore the kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who wished to settle accounts with his servants.</span> <span class=\"woc\">When he began to settle, one was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents.</span> <span class=\"woc\">And since he could not pay, his master ordered him to be sold, with his wife and children and all that he had, and payment to be made.</span> <span class=\"woc\">So the servant fell on his knees, imploring him, ‘Have patience with me, and I will pay you everything.’</span> <span class=\"woc\">And out of pity for him, the master of that servant released him and forgave him the debt.</span> <span class=\"woc\">But when that same servant went out, he found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred denarii, and seizing him, he began to choke him, saying, ‘Pay what you owe.’</span> <span class=\"woc\">So his fellow servant fell down and pleaded with him, ‘Have patience with me, and I will pay you.’</span> <span class=\"woc\">He refused and went and put him in prison until he should pay the debt.</span> <span class=\"woc\">When his fellow servants saw what had taken place, they were greatly distressed, and they went and reported to their master all that had taken place.</span> <span class=\"woc\">Then his master summoned him and said to him, ‘You wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt because you pleaded with me.</span> <span class=\"woc\">And should not you have had mercy on your fellow servant, as I had mercy on you?’</span> <span class=\"woc\">And in anger his master delivered him to the jailers, until he should pay all his debt.</span> <span class=\"woc\">So also my heavenly Father will do to every one of you, if you do not forgive your brother from your heart.”</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"1279": "Matthew 6:12; Luke 11:4",
"1280": "Romans 3:9-22; Matthew 18:24-25; Psalms 130:3-4",
"1281": "Romans 3:24-26; Hebrews 9:22",
"1282": "Ephesians 1:6-7",
"1283": "II Peter 1:2",
"1284": "Hosea 14:2; Jeremiah 14:7; I John 1:9; Daniel 9:17-19",
"1285": "Romans 15:13; Psalms 51:7-10,12",
"1286": "Luke 11:4; Matthew 6:14-15; Ephesians 4:32; Colossians 3:13; Matthew 18:21-35"
},
"question": "What do we pray for in the fifth petition?"
},
"195": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Matthew 6:13; Luke 11:4' data-prooftexts-index='1287'>In the sixth petition, (which is, And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil,</span><span data-prooftexts='II Chronicles 32:31' data-prooftexts-index='1288'>) acknowledging, that the most wise, righteous, and gracious God, for divers holy and just ends, may so order things, that we may be assaulted, foiled, and for a time led captive by temptations;</span><span data-prooftexts='I Chronicles 21:1' data-prooftexts-index='1289'> that Satan,</span><span data-prooftexts='Luke 21:34; Mark 4:19' data-prooftexts-index='1290'> the world,</span><span data-prooftexts='James 1:14' data-prooftexts-index='1291'> and the flesh, are ready powerfully to draw us aside, and ensnare us;</span><span data-prooftexts='Galatians 5:17' data-prooftexts-index='1292'> and that we, even after the pardon of our sins, by reason of our corruption,</span><span data-prooftexts='Matthew 26:41' data-prooftexts-index='1293'> weakness, and want of watchfulness,</span><span data-prooftexts='Matthew 26:69-72; Galatians 2:11-14; II Chronicles 18:3; II Chronicles 19:2' data-prooftexts-index='1294'> are not only subject to be tempted, and forward to expose ourselves unto temptations,</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 7:23-24; I Chronicles 21:1-4; II Chronicles 16:7-10' data-prooftexts-index='1295'> but also of ourselves unable and unwilling to resist them, to recover out of them, and to improve them;</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 81:11-12' data-prooftexts-index='1296'> and worthy to be left under the power of them:</span><span data-prooftexts='John 17:15' data-prooftexts-index='1297'> we pray, that God would so overrule the world and all in it,</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 51:10; Psalms 119:133' data-prooftexts-index='1298'> subdue the flesh,</span><span data-prooftexts='II Corinthians 12:7-8' data-prooftexts-index='1299'> and restrain Satan,</span><span data-prooftexts='I Corinthians 10:12-13' data-prooftexts-index='1300'> order all things,</span><span data-prooftexts='Hebrews 13:20-21' data-prooftexts-index='1301'> bestow and bless all means of grace,</span><span data-prooftexts='Matthew 26:41; Psalms 19:13' data-prooftexts-index='1302'> and quicken us to watchfulness in the use of them, that we and all his people may by his providence be kept from being tempted to sin;</span><span data-prooftexts='Ephesians 3:14-17; I Thessalonians 3:13; Jude 24' data-prooftexts-index='1303'> or, if tempted, that by his Spirit we may be powerfully supported and enabled to stand in the hour of temptation;</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 51:12' data-prooftexts-index='1304'> or when fallen, raised again and recovered out of it,</span><span data-prooftexts='I Peter 5:8-10' data-prooftexts-index='1305'> and have a sanctified use and improvement thereof:</span><span data-prooftexts='II Corinthians 13:7,9' data-prooftexts-index='1306'> that our sanctification and salvation may be perfected,</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 16:20; Luke 22:31-32' data-prooftexts-index='1307'> Satan trodden under our feet,</span><span data-prooftexts='John 17:15; I Thessalonians 5:23' data-prooftexts-index='1308'> and we fully freed from sin, temptation, and all evil, forever.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"1287": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 6:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p40006013.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">And lead us not into temptation,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but deliver us from evil.</span></p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Luke 11:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p42011004.01-2\"><span class=\"woc\">and forgive us our sins,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for we ourselves forgive everyone who is indebted to us.<br />\nAnd lead us not into temptation.”</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1288": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>2 Chronicles 32:31</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p14032031.01-1\">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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1289": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Chronicles 21:1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p13021001.05-1\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v13021001-1\">21:1 </span>Then Satan stood against Israel and incited David to number Israel. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1290": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Luke 21:34</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p42021034.03-1\"><span class=\"woc\">“But watch yourselves lest your hearts be weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and cares of this life, and that day come upon you suddenly like a trap.</span></p>\n</div><h5>Mark 4:19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p41004019.01-2\"><span class=\"woc\">but the cares of the world and the deceitfulness of riches and the desires for other things enter in and choke the word, and it proves unfruitful.</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1291": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>James 1:14</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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1292": "<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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1293": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 26:41</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40026041.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1294": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 26:69-72</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\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.”</p>\n</div><h5>Galatians 2:11-14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p48002011.04-2\">But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned. For before certain men came from James, he was eating with the Gentiles; but when they came he drew back and separated himself, fearing the circumcision party. And the rest of the Jews acted hypocritically along with him, so that even Barnabas was led astray by their hypocrisy. But when I saw that their conduct was not in step with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas before them all, “If you, though a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you force the Gentiles to live like Jews?”</p>\n</div><h5>2 Chronicles 18:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p14018003.01-3\">Ahab king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat king of Judah, “Will you go with me to Ramoth-gilead?” He answered him, “I am as you are, my people as your people. We will be with you in the war.”</p>\n</div><h5>2 Chronicles 19:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p14019002.01-4\">But Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him and said to King Jehoshaphat, “Should you help the wicked and love those who hate the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>? Because of this, wrath has gone out against you from the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1295": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 7:23-24</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. Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?</p>\n</div><h5>1 Chronicles 21:1-4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p13021001.05-2\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v13021001-2\">21:1 </span>Then Satan stood against Israel and incited David to number Israel. So David said to Joab and the commanders of the army, “Go, number Israel, from Beersheba to Dan, and bring me a report, that I may know their number.” But Joab said, “May the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> add to his people a hundred times as many as they are! Are they not, my lord the king, all of them my lord's servants? Why then should my lord require this? Why should it be a cause of guilt for Israel?” But the king's word prevailed against Joab. So Joab departed and went throughout all Israel and came back to Jerusalem.</p>\n</div><h5>2 Chronicles 16:7-10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p14016007.01-3\">At that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah and said to him, “Because you relied on the king of Syria, and did not rely on the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God, the army of the king of Syria has escaped you. Were not the Ethiopians and the Libyans a huge army with very many chariots and horsemen? Yet because you relied on the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, he gave them into your hand. For the eyes of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to give strong support to those whose heart is blameless toward him. You have done foolishly in this, for from now on you will have wars.” Then Asa was angry with the seer and put him in the stocks in prison, for he was in a rage with him because of this. And Asa inflicted cruelties upon some of the people at the same time. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1296": "<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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1297": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>John 17:15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43017015.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one.</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1298": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 51:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19051010.01-1\">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 119:133</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119133.01-2\">Keep steady my steps according to your promise,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and let no iniquity get dominion over me. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1299": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>2 Corinthians 12:7-8</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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1300": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Corinthians 10:12-13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46010012.01-1\">Therefore let anyone who thinks that he stands take heed lest he fall. No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1301": "<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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1302": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 26:41</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40026041.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”</span></p>\n</div><h5>Psalm 19:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19019013.01-2\">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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1303": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ephesians 3:14-17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p49003014.05-1\">For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, 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,</p>\n</div><h5>1 Thessalonians 3:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p52003013.01-2\">so that he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.</p>\n</div><h5>Jude 1:24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p65001024.02-3\">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>",
"1304": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 51:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19051012.01-1\">Restore to me the joy of your salvation,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and uphold me with a willing spirit. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1305": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Peter 5:8-10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p60005008.01-1\">Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. Resist him, firm in your faith, knowing that the same kinds of suffering are being experienced by your brotherhood throughout the world. And after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1306": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>2 Corinthians 13:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p47013007.01-1\">But we pray to God that you may not do wrong—not that we may appear to have met the test, but that you may do what is right, though we may seem to have failed.</p>\n</div><h5>2 Corinthians 13:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p47013009.01-2\">For we are glad when we are weak and you are strong. Your restoration is what we pray for. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1307": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 16:20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45016020.01-1\">The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.</p>\n</div><h5>Luke 22:31-32</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p42022031.05-2\"><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> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1308": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>John 17:15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43017015.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one.</span></p>\n</div><h5>1 Thessalonians 5:23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p52005023.01-2\">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>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"1287": "Matthew 6:13; Luke 11:4",
"1288": "II Chronicles 32:31",
"1289": "I Chronicles 21:1",
"1290": "Luke 21:34; Mark 4:19",
"1291": "James 1:14",
"1292": "Galatians 5:17",
"1293": "Matthew 26:41",
"1294": "Matthew 26:69-72; Galatians 2:11-14; II Chronicles 18:3; II Chronicles 19:2",
"1295": "Romans 7:23-24; I Chronicles 21:1-4; II Chronicles 16:7-10",
"1296": "Psalms 81:11-12",
"1297": "John 17:15",
"1298": "Psalms 51:10; Psalms 119:133",
"1299": "II Corinthians 12:7-8",
"1300": "I Corinthians 10:12-13",
"1301": "Hebrews 13:20-21",
"1302": "Matthew 26:41; Psalms 19:13",
"1303": "Ephesians 3:14-17; I Thessalonians 3:13; Jude 24",
"1304": "Psalms 51:12",
"1305": "I Peter 5:8-10",
"1306": "II Corinthians 13:7,9",
"1307": "Romans 16:20; Luke 22:31-32",
"1308": "John 17:15; I Thessalonians 5:23"
},
"question": "What do we pray for in the sixth petition?"
},
"196": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Matthew 6:13' data-prooftexts-index='1309'>The conclusion of the Lord's Prayer, (which is, For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 15:30' data-prooftexts-index='1310'>) teacheth us to enforce our petitions with arguments,</span><span data-prooftexts='Daniel 9:4,7-9,16-19' data-prooftexts-index='1311'> which are to be taken, not from any worthiness in ourselves, or in any other creature, but from God;</span><span data-prooftexts='Philippians 4:6' data-prooftexts-index='1312'> and with our prayers to join praises,</span><span data-prooftexts='I Chronicles 29:10-13; I Timothy 1:17; Revelation 5:11-13' data-prooftexts-index='1313'> ascribing to God alone eternal sovereignty, omnipotency, and glorious excellency;</span><span data-prooftexts='Ephesians 3:20-21; Luke 11:13' data-prooftexts-index='1314'> in regard whereof, as he is able and willing to help us,</span><span data-prooftexts='II Chronicles 20:6,11' data-prooftexts-index='1315'> so we by faith are emboldened to plead with him that he would,</span><span data-prooftexts='II Chronicles 14:11' data-prooftexts-index='1316'> and quietly to rely upon him, that he will fulfill our requests.</span><span data-prooftexts='I Corinthians 14:16; Revelation 22:20-21' data-prooftexts-index='1317'> And, to testify this our desire and assurance, we say, Amen.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"1309": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 6:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p40006013.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">And lead us not into temptation,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but deliver us from evil.</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1310": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 15:30</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45015030.01-1\">I appeal to you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, to strive together with me in your prayers to God on my behalf, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1311": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Daniel 9:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p27009004.01-1\">I prayed to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> my God and made confession, saying, “O Lord, the great and awesome God, who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments,</p>\n</div><h5>Daniel 9:7-9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p27009007.01-2\">To you, O Lord, belongs righteousness, but to us open shame, as at this day, to the men of Judah, to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, those who are near and those who are far away, in all the lands to which you have driven them, because of the treachery that they have committed against you. To us, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, belongs open shame, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against you. To the Lord our God belong mercy and forgiveness, for we have rebelled against him</p>\n</div><h5>Daniel 9:16-19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p27009016.01-3\">“O Lord, according to all your righteous acts, let your anger and your wrath turn away from your city Jerusalem, your holy hill, because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and your people have become a byword among all who are around us. Now therefore, O our God, listen to the prayer of your servant and to his pleas for mercy, and for your own sake, O Lord, make your face to shine upon your sanctuary, which is desolate. O my God, incline your ear and hear. Open your eyes and see our desolations, and the city that is called by your name. For we do not present our pleas before you because of our righteousness, but because of your great mercy. O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive. O Lord, pay attention and act. Delay not, for your own sake, O my God, because your city and your people are called by your name.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1312": "<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>",
"1313": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Chronicles 29:10-13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p13029010.06-1\">Therefore David blessed the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> in the presence of all the assembly. And David said: “Blessed are you, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, the God of Israel our father, forever and ever. Yours, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, for all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, and you are exalted as head above all. Both riches and honor come from you, and you rule over all. In your hand are power and might, and in your hand it is to make great and to give strength to all. And now we thank you, our God, and praise your glorious name.</p>\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.</p>\n</div><h5>Revelation 5:11-13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p class=\"same-paragraph\" id=\"p66005011.01-3\">Then I looked, and I heard around the throne and the living creatures and the elders the voice of many angels, numbering myriads of myriads and thousands of thousands, 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!” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1314": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ephesians 3:20-21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49003020.01-1\">Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.</p>\n</div><h5>Luke 11:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42011013.01-2\"><span class=\"woc\">If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1315": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>2 Chronicles 20:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p14020006.01-1\">and said, “O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, God of our fathers, are you not God in heaven? You rule over all the kingdoms of the nations. In your hand are power and might, so that none is able to withstand you.</p>\n</div><h5>2 Chronicles 20:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p14020011.01-2\">behold, they reward us by coming to drive us out of your possession, which you have given us to inherit. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1316": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>2 Chronicles 14:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p14014011.01-1\">And Asa cried to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> his God, “O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, there is none like you to help, between the mighty and the weak. Help us, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> our God, for we rely on you, and in your name we have come against this multitude. O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, you are our God; let not man prevail against you.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"1317": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Corinthians 14:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46014016.01-1\">Otherwise, if you give thanks with your spirit, how can anyone in the position of an outsider say “Amen” to your thanksgiving when he does not know what you are saying?</p>\n</div><h5>Revelation 22:20-21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p66022020.01-2\">He who testifies to these things says, <span class=\"woc\">“Surely I am coming soon.”</span> Amen. Come, Lord Jesus!</p>\n <p id=\"p66022021.01-2\">The grace of the Lord Jesus be with all. Amen. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"1309": "Matthew 6:13",
"1310": "Romans 15:30",
"1311": "Daniel 9:4,7-9,16-19",
"1312": "Philippians 4:6",
"1313": "I Chronicles 29:10-13; I Timothy 1:17; Revelation 5:11-13",
"1314": "Ephesians 3:20-21; Luke 11:13",
"1315": "II Chronicles 20:6,11",
"1316": "II Chronicles 14:11",
"1317": "I Corinthians 14:16; Revelation 22:20-21"
},
"question": "What doth the conclusion of the Lord's Prayer teach us?"
},
"2": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Romans 1:19-20; Acts 17:28; Psalms 19:1-3' data-prooftexts-index='3'>The very light of nature in man, and the works of God, declare plainly that there is a God;</span><span data-prooftexts='I Corinthians 2:9-10; I Corinthians 1:20-21; II Timothy 3:15-17; Isaiah 59:21' data-prooftexts-index='4'> but his Word and Spirit only do sufficiently and effectually reveal him unto men for their salvation.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"3": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 1:19-20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45001019.01-1\">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>Acts 17:28</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44017028.01-2\">for</p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p44017028.02-2\">“‘In him we live and move and have our being’;</p>\n</div>\n<p class=\"same-paragraph\" id=\"p44017028.12-2\">as even some of your own poets have said,</p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p44017028.21-2\">“‘For we are indeed his offspring.’</p>\n</div>\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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"4": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Corinthians 2:9-10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46002009.01-1\">But, as it is written,</p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p46002009.06-1\">“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=\"p46002010.01-1\">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 1:20-21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p class=\"same-paragraph\" id=\"p46001020.01-2\">Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? 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>2 Timothy 3:15-17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p55003015.01-3\">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>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>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"3": "Romans 1:19-20; Acts 17:28; Psalms 19:1-3",
"4": "I Corinthians 2:9-10; I Corinthians 1:20-21; II Timothy 3:15-17; Isaiah 59:21"
},
"question": "How doth it appear that there is a God?"
},
"20": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Genesis 2:8,15-16' data-prooftexts-index='84'>The providence of God toward man in the estate in which he was created, was the placing him in paradise, appointing him to dress it, giving him liberty to eat of the fruit of the earth;</span><span data-prooftexts='Genesis 1:28' data-prooftexts-index='85'> putting the creatures under his dominion,</span><span data-prooftexts='Genesis 2:18; Matthew 19:3-9; Ephesians 5:31' data-prooftexts-index='86'> and ordaining marriage for his help;</span><span data-prooftexts='Genesis 1:26-29; Genesis 3:8' data-prooftexts-index='87'> affording him communion with himself;</span><span data-prooftexts='Genesis 2:3; Ex 20:11' data-prooftexts-index='88'> instituting the Sabbath;</span><span data-prooftexts='Genesis 2:16-17; Galatians 3:12; Romans 10:5' data-prooftexts-index='89'> entering into a covenant of life with him, upon condition of personal, perfect, and perpetual obedience,</span><span data-prooftexts='Genesis 2:9; Genesis 3:22-24' data-prooftexts-index='90'> of which the tree of life was a pledge;</span><span data-prooftexts='Genesis 2:17; James 2:10' data-prooftexts-index='91'> and forbidding to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, upon the pain of death.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"84": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Genesis 2:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p01002008.01-1\">And the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and there he put the man whom he had formed.</p>\n</div><h5>Genesis 2:15-16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p01002015.01-2\">The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it. And the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> God commanded the man, saying, “You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"85": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Genesis 1:28</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><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.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"86": "<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.”</p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 19:3-9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40019003.01-2\">And Pharisees came up to him and tested him by asking, “Is it lawful to divorce one's wife for any cause?” He answered, <span class=\"woc\">“Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female,</span> <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> They said to him, “Why then did Moses command one to give a certificate of divorce and to send her away?” 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>Ephesians 5:31</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49005031.01-3\">“Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"87": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Genesis 1:26-29</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 <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.</p>\n</div><h5>Genesis 3:8</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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"88": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Genesis 2:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p01002003.01-1\">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>Exodus 20:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p02020011.01-2\">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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"89": "<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>Galatians 3:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p48003012.01-2\">But the law is not of faith, rather “The one who does them shall live by them.”</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 10:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p45010005.07-3\">For Moses writes about the righteousness that is based on the law, that the person who does the commandments shall live by them. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"90": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Genesis 2:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p01002009.01-1\">And out of the ground the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> God made to spring up every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.</p>\n</div><h5>Genesis 3:22-24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p01003022.01-2\">Then the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat, and live forever—” 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. He drove out the man, and at the east of the garden of Eden he placed the cherubim and a flaming sword that turned every way to guard the way to the tree of life. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"91": "<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>James 2:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p59002010.01-2\">For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become accountable for all of it. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"84": "Genesis 2:8,15-16",
"85": "Genesis 1:28",
"86": "Genesis 2:18; Matthew 19:3-9; Ephesians 5:31",
"87": "Genesis 1:26-29; Genesis 3:8",
"88": "Genesis 2:3; Ex 20:11",
"89": "Genesis 2:16-17; Galatians 3:12; Romans 10:5",
"90": "Genesis 2:9; Genesis 3:22-24",
"91": "Genesis 2:17; James 2:10"
},
"question": "What was the providence of God toward man in the estate in which he was created?"
},
"21": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Genesis 3:6-8,13; Ecclesiastes 7:29; II Corinthians 11:3' data-prooftexts-index='92'>Our first parents being left to the freedom of their own will, through the temptation of Satan, transgressed the commandment of God in eating the forbidden fruit; and thereby fell from the estate of innocency wherein they were created.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"92": "<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>Genesis 3:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p01003013.01-2\">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>Ecclesiastes 7:29</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p21007029.01-3\">See, this alone I found, that God made man upright, but they have sought out many schemes.</p>\n</div><h5>2 Corinthians 11:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p47011003.01-4\">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>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"92": "Genesis 3:6-8,13; Ecclesiastes 7:29; II Corinthians 11:3"
},
"question": "Did man continue in that estate wherein God at first created him?"
},
"22": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Acts 17:26; Romans 3:23' data-prooftexts-index='93'>The covenant being made with Adam as a public person, not for himself only, but for his posterity, all mankind descending from him by ordinary generation,</span><span data-prooftexts='Genesis 2:16-17; James 2:10; Romans 5:12-20; I Corinthians 15:21-22' data-prooftexts-index='94'> sinned in him, and fell with him in that first transgression.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"93": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Acts 17:26</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44017026.01-1\">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 3:23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45003023.01-2\">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>",
"94": "<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>James 2:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p59002010.01-2\">For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become accountable for all of it.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 5:12-20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p45005012.07-3\">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=\"p45005015.01-3\">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=\"p45005018.01-3\">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,</p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 15:21-22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46015021.01-4\">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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"93": "Acts 17:26; Romans 3:23",
"94": "Genesis 2:16-17; James 2:10; Romans 5:12-20; I Corinthians 15:21-22"
},
"question": "Did all mankind fall in that first transgression?"
},
"23": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Genesis 3:16-19; Romans 5:12; Ephesians 2:1; Romans 3:16,23' data-prooftexts-index='95'>The fall brought mankind into an estate of sin and misery.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"95": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Genesis 3:16-19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p01003016.01-1\">To the woman he said,</p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p01003016.06-1\">“I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>in pain you shall bring forth children.<br />\nYour desire shall be for your husband,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and he shall rule over you.”</p>\n</div>\n <p id=\"p01003017.01-1\">And to Adam he said,</p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p01003017.06-1\">“Because you have listened to the voice of your wife<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and have eaten of the tree<br />\nof which I commanded you,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>‘You shall not eat of it,’<br />\ncursed is the ground because of you;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life;<br />\n thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and you shall eat the plants of the field.<br />\n 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>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>Ephesians 2:1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p49002001.05-3\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v49002001-3\">2:1 </span>And you were dead in the trespasses and sins</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 3:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p45003016.01-4\"><span class=\"indent\"></span>in their paths are ruin and misery,</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Romans 3:23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45003023.01-5\">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>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"95": "Genesis 3:16-19; Romans 5:12; Ephesians 2:1; Romans 3:16,23"
},
"question": "Into what estate did the fall bring mankind?"
},
"24": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Leviticus 5:17; James 4:17; I John 3:4; Galatians 3:10,12' data-prooftexts-index='96'>Sin is any want of conformity unto, or transgression of, any law of God, given as a rule to the reasonable creature.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"96": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Leviticus 5:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p03005017.01-1\">“If anyone sins, doing any of the things that by the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>'s commandments ought not to be done, though he did not know it, then realizes his guilt, he shall bear his iniquity.</p>\n</div><h5>James 4:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p59004017.01-2\">So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.</p>\n</div><h5>1 John 3:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p62003004.01-3\">Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness.</p>\n</div><h5>Galatians 3:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p48003010.07-4\">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=\"p48003012.01-5\">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>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"96": "Leviticus 5:17; James 4:17; I John 3:4; Galatians 3:10,12"
},
"question": "What is sin?"
},
"25": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Romans 5:12,19; I Corinthians 15:22' data-prooftexts-index='97'>The sinfulness of that estate whereinto man fell, consisteth in the guilt of Adam's first sin,</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 3:10-19; Ephesians 2:1-3; Romans 5:6; Romans 8:7-8; Genesis 6:5; Colossians 3:10; Ephesians 4:24' data-prooftexts-index='98'> the want of that righteousness wherein he was created, and the corruption of his nature, whereby he is utterly indisposed, disabled, and made opposite unto all that is spiritually good, and wholly inclined to all evil, and that continually;</span><span data-prooftexts='James 1:14-15; Psalms 53:1-3; Matthew 15:19; Romans 3:10-18,23; Galatians 5:19-21' data-prooftexts-index='99'> which is commonly called original sin, and from which do proceed all actual transgressions.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"97": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 5:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p45005012.07-1\">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=\"p45005019.01-2\">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 Corinthians 15:22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46015022.01-3\">For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"98": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 3:10-19</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;<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.”</p>\n</div>\n <p id=\"p45003019.01-1\">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.</p>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 2:1-3</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.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 5:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45005006.01-3\">For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 8:7-8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45008007.01-4\">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. Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.</p>\n</div><h5>Genesis 6:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p01006005.01-5\">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>Colossians 3:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p51003010.01-6\">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=\"p49004024.01-7\">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>",
"99": "<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>Psalm 53:1-3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19053001.17-2\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v19053001-2\">53:1 </span>The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.”<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>They are corrupt, doing abominable iniquity;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>there is none who does good.</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19053002.01-2\">God looks down from heaven<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>on the children of man<br />\nto see if there are any who understand,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>who seek after God.</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19053003.01-2\">They have all fallen away;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>together they have become corrupt;<br />\nthere is none who does good,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>not even one.</p>\n</div>\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></p>\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.”</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Romans 3:23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45003023.01-5\">for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,</p>\n</div><h5>Galatians 5:19-21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p48005019.01-6\">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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"97": "Romans 5:12,19; I Corinthians 15:22",
"98": "Romans 3:10-19; Ephesians 2:1-3; Romans 5:6; Romans 8:7-8; Genesis 6:5; Colossians 3:10; Ephesians 4:24",
"99": "James 1:14-15; Psalms 53:1-3; Matthew 15:19; Romans 3:10-18,23; Galatians 5:19-21"
},
"question": "Wherein consisteth the sinfulness of that estate whereinto man fell?"
},
"26": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Psalms 51:5; Job 14:4; John 3:6' data-prooftexts-index='100'>Original sin is conveyed from our first parents unto their posterity by natural generation, so as all that proceed from them in that way are conceived and born in sin.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"100": "<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>Job 14:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p18014004.01-2\">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>John 3:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43003006.01-3\"><span class=\"woc\">That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"100": "Psalms 51:5; Job 14:4; John 3:6"
},
"question": "How is original sin conveyed from our first parents unto their posterity?"
},
"27": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Genesis 3:8,10,24; John 8:34,42,44; Ephesians 2:12' data-prooftexts-index='101'>The fall brought upon mankind the loss of communion with God,</span><span data-prooftexts='Genesis 3:16-19; Job 5:7; Ecclesiastes 2:22-23; Romans 8:18-23' data-prooftexts-index='102'> his displeasure and curse;</span><span data-prooftexts='Ephesians 2:2-3; John 3:36; Romans 1:18; Ephesians 5:6' data-prooftexts-index='103'> so as we are by nature children of wrath,</span><span data-prooftexts='II Timothy 2:26' data-prooftexts-index='104'> bond slaves to Satan,</span><span data-prooftexts='Genesis 2:17; Lamentations 3:39; Romans 6:23; Matthew 25:41,46; Jude 7' data-prooftexts-index='105'> and justly liable to all punishments in this world, and that which is to come.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"101": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Genesis 3:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><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>Genesis 3:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p01003010.01-2\">And he said, “I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked, and I hid myself.”</p>\n</div><h5>Genesis 3:24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p01003024.01-3\">He drove out the man, and at the east of the garden of Eden he placed the cherubim and a flaming sword that turned every way to guard the way to the tree of life.</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>John 8:42</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43008042.01-5\">Jesus said to them, <span class=\"woc\">“If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God and I am here. I came not of my own accord, but he sent me.</span></p>\n</div><h5>John 8:44</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43008044.01-6\"><span class=\"woc\">You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has nothing to do with the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.</span></p>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 2:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49002012.01-7\">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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"102": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Genesis 3:16-19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p01003016.01-1\">To the woman he said,</p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p01003016.06-1\">“I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>in pain you shall bring forth children.<br />\nYour desire shall be for your husband,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and he shall rule over you.”</p>\n</div>\n <p id=\"p01003017.01-1\">And to Adam he said,</p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p01003017.06-1\">“Because you have listened to the voice of your wife<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and have eaten of the tree<br />\nof which I commanded you,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>‘You shall not eat of it,’<br />\ncursed is the ground because of you;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life;<br />\n thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and you shall eat the plants of the field.<br />\n 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>Job 5:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p18005007.01-2\">but man is born to trouble<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>as the sparks fly upward.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Ecclesiastes 2:22-23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p21002022.01-3\">What has a man from all the toil and striving of heart with which he toils beneath the sun? For all his days are full of sorrow, and his work is a vexation. Even in the night his heart does not rest. This also is vanity.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 8:18-23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p45008018.03-4\">For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us. For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God. For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now. 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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"103": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ephesians 2:2-3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49002002.01-1\">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>John 3:36</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43003036.01-2\">Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 1:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p45001018.05-3\">For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth.</p>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 5:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49005006.01-4\">Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"104": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>2 Timothy 2:26</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p55002026.01-1\">and they may come to their senses and escape from the snare of the devil, after being captured by him to do his will. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"105": "<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>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?</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Romans 6:23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45006023.01-3\">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>Matthew 25:41</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></p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 25:46</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40025046.01-5\"><span class=\"woc\">And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”</span></p>\n</div><h5>Jude 1:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p65001007.01-6\">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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"101": "Genesis 3:8,10,24; John 8:34,42,44; Ephesians 2:12",
"102": "Genesis 3:16-19; Job 5:7; Ecclesiastes 2:22-23; Romans 8:18-23",
"103": "Ephesians 2:2-3; John 3:36; Romans 1:18; Ephesians 5:6",
"104": "II Timothy 2:26",
"105": "Genesis 2:17; Lamentations 3:39; Romans 6:23; Matthew 25:41,46; Jude 7"
},
"question": "What misery did the fall bring upon mankind?"
},
"28": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Ephesians 4:18' data-prooftexts-index='106'>The punishments of sin in this world are either inward, as blindness of mind,</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 1:28' data-prooftexts-index='107'> a reprobate sense,</span><span data-prooftexts='II Thessalonians 2:11' data-prooftexts-index='108'> strong delusions,</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 2:5' data-prooftexts-index='109'> hardness of heart,</span><span data-prooftexts='Isaiah 33:14; Genesis 4:13; Matthew 27:4' data-prooftexts-index='110'> horror of conscience,</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 1:26' data-prooftexts-index='111'> and vile affections;</span><span data-prooftexts='Genesis 3:17' data-prooftexts-index='112'> or outward, as the curse of God upon the creatures for our sakes,</span><span data-prooftexts='Deuteronomy 28:15-68' data-prooftexts-index='113'> and all other evils that befall us in our bodies, names, estates, relations, and employments;</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 6:21,23' data-prooftexts-index='114'> together with death itself.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"106": "<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>",
"107": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 1:28</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45001028.01-1\">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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"108": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>2 Thessalonians 2:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p53002011.01-1\">Therefore God sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe what is false, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"109": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 2:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45002005.01-1\">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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"110": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Isaiah 33:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23033014.01-1\">The sinners in Zion are afraid;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>trembling has seized the godless:<br />\n“Who among us can dwell with the consuming fire?<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Who among us can dwell with everlasting burnings?”</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Genesis 4:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p01004013.01-2\">Cain said to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, “My punishment is greater than I can bear.</p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 27:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40027004.01-3\">saying, “I have sinned by betraying innocent blood.” They said, “What is that to us? See to it yourself.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"111": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 1:26</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45001026.01-1\">For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"112": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Genesis 3:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p01003017.01-1\">And to Adam he said,</p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p01003017.06-1\">“Because you have listened to the voice of your wife<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and have eaten of the tree<br />\nof which I commanded you,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>‘You shall not eat of it,’<br />\ncursed is the ground because of you;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life; (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"113": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Deuteronomy 28:15-68</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p05028015.04-1\">“But if you will not obey the voice of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God or be careful to do all his commandments and his statutes that I command you today, then all these curses shall come upon you and overtake you. Cursed shall you be in the city, and cursed shall you be in the field. Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl. Cursed shall be the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock. Cursed shall you be when you come in, and cursed shall you be when you go out.</p>\n <p id=\"p05028020.01-1\">“The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> will send on you curses, confusion, and frustration in all that you undertake to do, until you are destroyed and perish quickly on account of the evil of your deeds, because you have forsaken me. The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> will make the pestilence stick to you until he has consumed you off the land that you are entering to take possession of it. The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> will strike you with wasting disease and with fever, inflammation and fiery heat, and with drought and with blight and with mildew. They shall pursue you until you perish. And the heavens over your head shall be bronze, and the earth under you shall be iron. The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> will make the rain of your land powder. From heaven dust shall come down on you until you are destroyed.</p>\n <p id=\"p05028025.01-1\">“The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You shall go out one way against them and flee seven ways before them. And you shall be a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth. And your dead body shall be food for all birds of the air and for the beasts of the earth, and there shall be no one to frighten them away. The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> will strike you with the boils of Egypt, and with tumors and scabs and itch, of which you cannot be healed. The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> will strike you with madness and blindness and confusion of mind, and you shall grope at noonday, as the blind grope in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways. And you shall be only oppressed and robbed continually, and there shall be no one to help you. You shall betroth a wife, but another man shall ravish her. You shall build a house, but you shall not dwell in it. You shall plant a vineyard, but you shall not enjoy its fruit. Your ox shall be slaughtered before your eyes, but you shall not eat any of it. Your donkey shall be seized before your face, but shall not be restored to you. Your sheep shall be given to your enemies, but there shall be no one to help you. Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people, while your eyes look on and fail with longing for them all day long, but you shall be helpless. A nation that you have not known shall eat up the fruit of your ground and of all your labors, and you shall be only oppressed and crushed continually, so that you are driven mad by the sights that your eyes see. The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> will strike you on the knees and on the legs with grievous boils of which you cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.</p>\n <p id=\"p05028036.01-1\">“The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> will bring you and your king whom you set over you to a nation that neither you nor your fathers have known. And there you shall serve other gods of wood and stone. And you shall become a horror, a proverb, and a byword among all the peoples where the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> will lead you away. You shall carry much seed into the field and shall gather in little, for the locust shall consume it. You shall plant vineyards and dress them, but you shall neither drink of the wine nor gather the grapes, for the worm shall eat them. You shall have olive trees throughout all your territory, but you shall not anoint yourself with the oil, for your olives shall drop off. You shall father sons and daughters, but they shall not be yours, for they shall go into captivity. The cricket shall possess all your trees and the fruit of your ground. The sojourner who is among you shall rise higher and higher above you, and you shall come down lower and lower. He shall lend to you, and you shall not lend to him. He shall be the head, and you shall be the tail.</p>\n <p id=\"p05028045.01-1\">“All these curses shall come upon you and pursue you and overtake you till you are destroyed, because you did not obey the voice of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes that he commanded you. They shall be a sign and a wonder against you and your offspring forever. Because you did not serve the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God with joyfulness and gladness of heart, because of the abundance of all things, therefore you shall serve your enemies whom the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> will send against you, in hunger and thirst, in nakedness, and lacking everything. And he will put a yoke of iron on your neck until he has destroyed you. The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> will bring a nation against you from far away, from the end of the earth, swooping down like the eagle, a nation whose language you do not understand, a hard-faced nation who shall not respect the old or show mercy to the young. It shall eat the offspring of your cattle and the fruit of your ground, until you are destroyed; it also shall not leave you grain, wine, or oil, the increase of your herds or the young of your flock, until they have caused you to perish.</p>\n <p id=\"p05028052.01-1\">“They shall besiege you in all your towns, until your high and fortified walls, in which you trusted, come down throughout all your land. And they shall besiege you in all your towns throughout all your land, which the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God has given you. And you shall eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of your sons and daughters, whom the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God has given you, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies shall distress you. The man who is the most tender and refined among you will begrudge food to his brother, to the wife he embraces, and to the last of the children whom he has left, so that he will not give to any of them any of the flesh of his children whom he is eating, because he has nothing else left, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in all your towns. The most tender and refined woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground because she is so delicate and tender, will begrudge to the husband she embraces, to her son and to her daughter, her afterbirth that comes out from between her feet and her children whom she bears, because lacking everything she will eat them secretly, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in your towns.</p>\n <p id=\"p05028058.01-1\">“If you are not careful to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and awesome name, the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God, then the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> will bring on you and your offspring extraordinary afflictions, afflictions severe and lasting, and sicknesses grievous and lasting. And he will bring upon you again all the diseases of Egypt, of which you were afraid, and they shall cling to you. Every sickness also and every affliction that is not recorded in the book of this law, the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> will bring upon you, until you are destroyed. Whereas you were as numerous as the stars of heaven, you shall be left few in number, because you did not obey the voice of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God. And as the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> took delight in doing you good and multiplying you, so the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> will take delight in bringing ruin upon you and destroying you. And you shall be plucked off the land that you are entering to take possession of it.</p>\n <p id=\"p05028064.01-1\">“And the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you shall serve other gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known. And among these nations you shall find no respite, and there shall be no resting place for the sole of your foot, but the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> will give you there a trembling heart and failing eyes and a languishing soul. Your life shall hang in doubt before you. Night and day you shall be in dread and have no assurance of your life. In the morning you shall say, ‘If only it were evening!’ and at evening you shall say, ‘If only it were morning!’ because of the dread that your heart shall feel, and the sights that your eyes shall see. And the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> will bring you back in ships to Egypt, a journey that I promised that you should never make again; and there you shall offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but there will be no buyer.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"114": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 6:21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45006021.01-1\">But what fruit were you getting at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 6:23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45006023.01-2\">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>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"106": "Ephesians 4:18",
"107": "Romans 1:28",
"108": "II Thessalonians 2:11",
"109": "Romans 2:5",
"110": "Isaiah 33:14; Genesis 4:13; Matthew 27:4",
"111": "Romans 1:26",
"112": "Genesis 3:17",
"113": "Deuteronomy 28:15-68",
"114": "Romans 6:21,23"
},
"question": "What are the punishments of sin in this world?"
},
"29": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='II Thessalonians 1:9; Mark 9:43-44,46,48; Luke 16:24,26; Matthew 25:41,46; Revelation 14:11; John 3:36' data-prooftexts-index='115'>The punishments of sin in the world to come, are everlasting separation from the comfortable presence of God, and most grievous torments in soul and body, without intermission, in hellfire forever.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"115": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>2 Thessalonians 1:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p53001009.01-1\">They will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might,</p>\n</div><h5>Mark 9:43</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p41009043.01-2\"><span class=\"woc\">And if your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than with two hands to go to hell, to the unquenchable fire.</span></p>\n</div><h5>Mark 9:45-47</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p41009045.01-3\"><span class=\"woc\">And if your foot causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life lame than with two feet to be thrown into hell.</span> <span class=\"woc\">And if your eye causes you to sin, tear it out. It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into hell,</span></p>\n</div><h5>Mark 9:48</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p41009048.01-4\"><span class=\"woc\">‘where their worm does not die and the fire is not quenched.’</span></p>\n</div><h5>Luke 16:24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42016024.01-5\"><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>Luke 16:26</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42016026.01-6\"><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>Matthew 25:41</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40025041.01-7\"><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>Matthew 25:46</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40025046.01-8\"><span class=\"woc\">And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”</span></p>\n</div><h5>Revelation 14:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p66014011.01-9\">And the smoke of their torment goes up forever and ever, and they have no rest, day or night, these worshipers of the beast and its image, and whoever receives the mark of its name.”</p>\n</div><h5>John 3:36</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43003036.01-10\">Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"115": "II Thessalonians 1:9; Mark 9:43-44,46,48; Luke 16:24,26; Matthew 25:41,46; Revelation 14:11; John 3:36"
},
"question": "What are the punishments of sin in the world to come?"
},
"3": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='II Timothy 3:16; II Peter 1:19-21; II Peter 3:2,15-16; Matthew 19:4-5; Genesis 2:24' data-prooftexts-index='5'>The Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament are the Word of God,</span><span data-prooftexts='Deuteronomy 4:2; Ephesians 2:20; Revelation 22:18-19; Isaiah 8:20; Luke 16:29, 31; Galatians 1:8-9; II Timothy 3:15-16' data-prooftexts-index='6'> the only rule of faith and obedience.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"5": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>2 Timothy 3:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p55003016.01-1\">All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,</p>\n</div><h5>2 Peter 1:19-21</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, 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>2 Peter 3:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p61003002.01-3\">that you should remember the predictions of the holy prophets and the commandment of the Lord and Savior through your apostles,</p>\n</div><h5>2 Peter 3:15-16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p61003015.01-4\">And count the patience of our Lord as salvation, just as our beloved brother Paul also wrote to you according to the wisdom given him, 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.</p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 19:4-5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40019004.01-5\">He answered, <span class=\"woc\">“Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female,</span> <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></p>\n</div><h5>Genesis 2:24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p class=\"same-paragraph\" id=\"p01002024.01-6\">Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"6": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Deuteronomy 4:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p05004002.01-1\">You shall not add to the word that I command you, nor take from it, that you may keep the commandments of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God that I command you.</p>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 2:20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49002020.01-2\">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=\"p66022018.01-3\">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>Isaiah 8:20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p23008020.01-4\">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>Luke 16:29</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42016029.01-5\"><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=\"p42016031.01-6\"><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>Galatians 1:8-9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p48001008.01-7\">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 Timothy 3:15-16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p55003015.01-8\">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, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"5": "II Timothy 3:16; II Peter 1:19-21; II Peter 3:2,15-16; Matthew 19:4-5; Genesis 2:24",
"6": "Deuteronomy 4:2; Ephesians 2:20; Revelation 22:18-19; Isaiah 8:20; Luke 16:29, 31; Galatians 1:8-9; II Timothy 3:15-16"
},
"question": "What is the Word of God?"
},
"30": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='I Thessalonians 5:9' data-prooftexts-index='116'>God doth not leave all men to perish in the estate of sin and misery,</span><span data-prooftexts='Genesis 3:17; Romans 5:12,15; Galatians 3:10,12' data-prooftexts-index='117'> into which they fell by the breach of the first covenant, commonly called the covenant of works;</span><span data-prooftexts='Titus 3:4-7; Galatians 3:21; Romans 3:20-22; II Thessalonians 2:13-14; Acts 13:48; Ephesians 1:4-5' data-prooftexts-index='118'> but of his mere love and mercy delivereth his elect out of it, and bringeth them into an estate of salvation by the second covenant, commonly called the covenant of grace.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"116": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Thessalonians 5:9</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, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"117": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Genesis 3:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p01003017.01-1\">And to Adam he said,</p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p01003017.06-1\">“Because you have listened to the voice of your wife<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and have eaten of the tree<br />\nof which I commanded you,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>‘You shall not eat of it,’<br />\ncursed is the ground because of you;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life;</p>\n</div>\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>Romans 5:15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45005015.01-3\">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.</p>\n</div><h5>Galatians 3:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p48003010.07-4\">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=\"p48003012.01-5\">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>",
"118": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Titus 3:4-7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p56003004.01-1\">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.</p>\n</div><h5>Galatians 3:21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p48003021.01-2\">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 3:20-22</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— the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction:</p>\n</div><h5>2 Thessalonians 2:13-14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p53002013.03-4\">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>Acts 13:48</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44013048.01-5\">And when the Gentiles heard this, they began rejoicing and glorifying the word of the Lord, and as many as were appointed to eternal life believed.</p>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 1:4-5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49001004.01-6\">even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love he predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"116": "I Thessalonians 5:9",
"117": "Genesis 3:17; Romans 5:12,15; Galatians 3:10,12",
"118": "Titus 3:4-7; Galatians 3:21; Romans 3:20-22; II Thessalonians 2:13-14; Acts 13:48; Ephesians 1:4-5"
},
"question": "Doth God leave all mankind to perish in the estate of sin and misery?"
},
"31": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Galatians 3:16; Romans 5:15-21; Isaiah 53:10-11; Isaiah 59:20-21' data-prooftexts-index='119'>The covenant of grace was made with Christ as the second Adam, and in him with all the elect as his seed.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"119": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Galatians 3:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p48003016.01-1\">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>Romans 5:15-21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><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, so that, as sin reigned in death, grace also might reign through righteousness leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.</p>\n</div><h5>Isaiah 53:10-11</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.<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.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Isaiah 59:20-21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23059020.01-4\">“And a Redeemer will come to Zion,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>to those in Jacob who turn from transgression,” declares the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>.</p>\n</div>\n <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>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"119": "Galatians 3:16; Romans 5:15-21; Isaiah 53:10-11; Isaiah 59:20-21"
},
"question": "With whom was the covenant of grace made?"
},
"32": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Genesis 3:15; Isaiah 42:6; John 3:16; John 6:27; I Timothy 2:5' data-prooftexts-index='120'>The grace of God is manifested in the second covenant, in that he freely provideth and offereth to sinners a Mediator,</span><span data-prooftexts='I John 5:11-12' data-prooftexts-index='121'> and life and salvation by him;</span><span data-prooftexts='John 3:16,36; John 1:12' data-prooftexts-index='122'> and requiring faith as the condition to interest them in him,</span><span data-prooftexts='Isaiah 59:21; Luke 11:13; John 14:16-20; I Corinthians 12:13; Romans 8:4,9,11,14-16' data-prooftexts-index='123'> promiseth and giveth his Holy Spirit</span><span data-prooftexts='II Corinthians 4:13; I Corinthians 12:3,9; Ephesians 2:8-10; Acts 16:14; II Peter 1:1' data-prooftexts-index='124'> to all his elect, to work in them that faith,</span><span data-prooftexts='Galatians 5:22-23' data-prooftexts-index='125'> with all other saving graces;</span><span data-prooftexts='Ezekiel 36:27; Ephesians 2:10' data-prooftexts-index='126'> and to enable them unto all holy obedience,</span><span data-prooftexts='James 2:18,22' data-prooftexts-index='127'> as the evidence of the truth of their faith</span><span data-prooftexts='II Corinthians 5:14-15' data-prooftexts-index='128'> and thankfulness to God,</span><span data-prooftexts='Ephesians 2:10; Titus 2:14' data-prooftexts-index='129'> and as the way which he hath appointed them to salvation.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"120": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Genesis 3:15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p01003015.01-1\">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=\"p23042006.01-2\">“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,</p>\n</div>\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>John 6:27</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43006027.01-4\"><span class=\"woc\">Do not labor for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For on him God the Father has set his seal.”</span></p>\n</div><h5>1 Timothy 2:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p54002005.01-5\">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>",
"121": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 John 5:11-12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p62005011.01-1\">And this is the testimony, that God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"122": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>John 3:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p43003016.07-1\"><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>John 3:36</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43003036.01-2\">Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.</p>\n</div><h5>John 1:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43001012.01-3\">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>",
"123": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Isaiah 59:21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p class=\"same-paragraph\" id=\"p23059021.01-1\">“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.”</p>\n</div><h5>Luke 11:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42011013.01-2\"><span class=\"woc\">If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”</span></p>\n</div><h5>John 14:16-20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43014016.01-3\"><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 <p id=\"p43014018.01-3\"><span class=\"woc\">“I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.</span> <span class=\"woc\">Yet a little while and the world will see me no more, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live.</span> <span class=\"woc\">In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.</span></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.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 8:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45008004.01-5\">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.</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.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 8:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45008011.01-7\">If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 8:14-16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45008014.01-8\">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!” 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>",
"124": "<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>1 Corinthians 12:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46012003.01-2\">Therefore I want you to understand that no one speaking in the Spirit of God ever says “Jesus is accursed!” and no one can say “Jesus is Lord” except in the Holy Spirit.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 12:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46012009.01-3\">to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit,</p>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 2:8-10</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. 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>Acts 16:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44016014.01-5\">One who heard us was a woman named Lydia, from the city of Thyatira, a seller of purple goods, who was a worshiper of God. The Lord opened her heart to pay attention to what was said by Paul.</p>\n</div><h5>2 Peter 1:1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p class=\"chapter-first\" id=\"p61001001.02-6\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v61001001-6\">1:1 </span>Simeon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ,</p>\n<p id=\"p61001001.11-6\">To those who have obtained a faith of equal standing with ours by the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ: (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"125": "<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>",
"126": "<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>Ephesians 2:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49002010.01-2\">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>",
"127": "<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>",
"128": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>2 Corinthians 5:14-15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p47005014.01-1\">For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore all have died; and he died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"129": "<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.</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>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"120": "Genesis 3:15; Isaiah 42:6; John 3:16; John 6:27; I Timothy 2:5",
"121": "I John 5:11-12",
"122": "John 3:16,36; John 1:12",
"123": "Isaiah 59:21; Luke 11:13; John 14:16-20; I Corinthians 12:13; Romans 8:4,9,11,14-16",
"124": "II Corinthians 4:13; I Corinthians 12:3,9; Ephesians 2:8-10; Acts 16:14; II Peter 1:1",
"125": "Galatians 5:22-23",
"126": "Ezekiel 36:27; Ephesians 2:10",
"127": "James 2:18,22",
"128": "II Corinthians 5:14-15",
"129": "Ephesians 2:10; Titus 2:14"
},
"question": "How is the grace of God manifested in the second covenant?"
},
"33": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='II Corinthians 3:6-9; Hebrews 8:7-13' data-prooftexts-index='130'>The covenant of grace was not always administered after the same manner, but the administrations of it under the old testament were different from those under the new.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"130": "<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.</p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 8:7-13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58008007.01-2\">For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion to look for a second.</p>\n <p id=\"p58008008.01-2\">For he finds fault with them when he says:</p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p58008008.10-2\">“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=\"p58008013.01-2\">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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"130": "II Corinthians 3:6-9; Hebrews 8:7-13"
},
"question": "Was the covenant of grace always administered after one and the same manner?"
},
"34": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Romans 15:8; Genesis 3:15,12:1-3,15:5' data-prooftexts-index='131'>The covenant of grace was administered under the old testament, by promises,</span><span data-prooftexts='Acts 3:20,24; Isaiah 52:13-53:12' data-prooftexts-index='132'> prophecies,</span><span data-prooftexts='Hebrews 10:1; Leviticus 1-7' data-prooftexts-index='133'> sacrifices,</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 4:11; Genesis 17:1-14' data-prooftexts-index='134'> circumcision,</span><span data-prooftexts='I Corinthians 5:7; Ex 12:14,17,24' data-prooftexts-index='135'> the Passover,</span><span data-prooftexts='Hebrews 8:1-2; Hebrews 11:13' data-prooftexts-index='136'> and other types and ordinances, which did all foresignify Christ then to come, and were for that time sufficient to build up the elect in faith in the promised Messiah,</span><span data-prooftexts='Galatians 3:7-9,14' data-prooftexts-index='137'> by whom they then had full remission of sin, and eternal salvation.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"131": "<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>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>Genesis 12:1-3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p01012001.05-3\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v01012001-3\">12:1 </span>Now the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you. And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”</p>\n</div><h5>Genesis 15:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p01015005.01-4\">And he brought him outside and said, “Look toward heaven, and number the stars, if you are able to number them.” Then he said to him, “So shall your offspring be.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"132": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Acts 3:20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44003020.01-1\">that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, and that he may send the Christ appointed for you, Jesus,</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 3:24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44003024.01-2\">And all the prophets who have spoken, from Samuel and those who came after him, also proclaimed these days.</p>\n</div><h5>Isaiah 52:13-53:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23052013.07-3\">Behold, my servant shall act wisely;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>he shall be high and lifted up,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and shall be exalted.<br />\n As many were astonished at you—<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>his appearance was so marred, beyond human semblance,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and his form beyond that of the children of mankind—<br />\n so shall he sprinkle many nations;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>kings shall shut their mouths because of him;<br />\nfor that which has not been told them they see,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and that which they have not heard they understand.<br />\n <span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v23053001-3\">53:1 </span>Who has believed what he has heard from us?<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>And to whom has the arm of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> been revealed?<br />\n For he grew up before him like a young plant,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and like a root out of dry ground;<br />\nhe had no form or majesty that we should look at him,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and no beauty that we should desire him.<br />\n He was despised and rejected by men;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief;<br />\nand as one from whom men hide their faces<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>he was despised, and we esteemed him not.</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23053004.01-3\">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 <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23053007.01-3\">He was oppressed, and he was afflicted,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>yet he opened not his mouth;<br />\nlike a lamb that is led to the slaughter,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>so he opened not his mouth.<br />\n By oppression and judgment he was taken away;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and as for his generation, who considered<br />\nthat he was cut off out of the land of the living,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>stricken for the transgression of my people?<br />\n And they made his grave with the wicked<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and with a rich man in his death,<br />\nalthough he had done no violence,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and there was no deceit in his mouth.</p>\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.<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>",
"133": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Hebrews 10:1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\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.</p>\n</div><h5>Leviticus 1-7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p class=\"chapter-first\" id=\"p03001001.05-2\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v03001001-2\">1:1 </span>The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> called Moses and spoke to him from the tent of meeting, saying, “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When any one of you brings an offering to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, you shall bring your offering of livestock from the herd or from the flock.</p>\n <p id=\"p03001003.01-2\">“If his offering is a burnt offering from the herd, he shall offer a male without blemish. He shall bring it to the entrance of the tent of meeting, that he may be accepted before the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>. He shall lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering, and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him. Then he shall kill the bull before the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, and Aaron's sons the priests shall bring the blood and throw the blood against the sides of the altar that is at the entrance of the tent of meeting. Then he shall flay the burnt offering and cut it into pieces, and the sons of Aaron the priest shall put fire on the altar and arrange wood on the fire. And Aaron's sons the priests shall arrange the pieces, the head, and the fat, on the wood that is on the fire on the altar; but its entrails and its legs he shall wash with water. And the priest shall burn all of it on the altar, as a burnt offering, a food offering with a pleasing aroma to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>.</p>\n <p id=\"p03001010.01-2\">“If his gift for a burnt offering is from the flock, from the sheep or goats, he shall bring a male without blemish, and he shall kill it on the north side of the altar before the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, and Aaron's sons the priests shall throw its blood against the sides of the altar. And he shall cut it into pieces, with its head and its fat, and the priest shall arrange them on the wood that is on the fire on the altar, but the entrails and the legs he shall wash with water. And the priest shall offer all of it and burn it on the altar; it is a burnt offering, a food offering with a pleasing aroma to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>.</p>\n <p id=\"p03001014.01-2\">“If his offering to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> is a burnt offering of birds, then he shall bring his offering of turtledoves or pigeons. And the priest shall bring it to the altar and wring off its head and burn it on the altar. Its blood shall be drained out on the side of the altar. He shall remove its crop with its contents and cast it beside the altar on the east side, in the place for ashes. He shall tear it open by its wings, but shall not sever it completely. And the priest shall burn it on the altar, on the wood that is on the fire. It is a burnt offering, a food offering with a pleasing aroma to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>.</p>\n \n<p id=\"p03002001.05-2\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v03002001-2\">2:1 </span>“When anyone brings a grain offering as an offering to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, his offering shall be of fine flour. He shall pour oil on it and put frankincense on it and bring it to Aaron's sons the priests. And he shall take from it a handful of the fine flour and oil, with all of its frankincense, and the priest shall burn this as its memorial portion on the altar, a food offering with a pleasing aroma to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>. But the rest of the grain offering shall be for Aaron and his sons; it is a most holy part of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>'s food offerings.</p>\n <p id=\"p03002004.01-2\">“When you bring a grain offering baked in the oven as an offering, it shall be unleavened loaves of fine flour mixed with oil or unleavened wafers smeared with oil. And if your offering is a grain offering baked on a griddle, it shall be of fine flour unleavened, mixed with oil. You shall break it in pieces and pour oil on it; it is a grain offering. And if your offering is a grain offering cooked in a pan, it shall be made of fine flour with oil. And you shall bring the grain offering that is made of these things to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, and when it is presented to the priest, he shall bring it to the altar. And the priest shall take from the grain offering its memorial portion and burn this on the altar, a food offering with a pleasing aroma to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>. But the rest of the grain offering shall be for Aaron and his sons; it is a most holy part of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>'s food offerings.</p>\n <p id=\"p03002011.01-2\">“No grain offering that you bring to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> shall be made with leaven, for you shall burn no leaven nor any honey as a food offering to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>. As an offering of firstfruits you may bring them to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, but they shall not be offered on the altar for a pleasing aroma. You shall season all your grain offerings with salt. You shall not let the salt of the covenant with your God be missing from your grain offering; with all your offerings you shall offer salt.</p>\n <p id=\"p03002014.01-2\">“If you offer a grain offering of firstfruits to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, you shall offer for the grain offering of your firstfruits fresh ears, roasted with fire, crushed new grain. And you shall put oil on it and lay frankincense on it; it is a grain offering. And the priest shall burn as its memorial portion some of the crushed grain and some of the oil with all of its frankincense; it is a food offering to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>.</p>\n \n<p id=\"p03003001.05-2\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v03003001-2\">3:1 </span>“If his offering is a sacrifice of peace offering, if he offers an animal from the herd, male or female, he shall offer it without blemish before the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>. And he shall lay his hand on the head of his offering and kill it at the entrance of the tent of meeting, and Aaron's sons the priests shall throw the blood against the sides of the altar. And from the sacrifice of the peace offering, as a food offering to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, he shall offer the fat covering the entrails and all the fat that is on the entrails, and the two kidneys with the fat that is on them at the loins, and the long lobe of the liver that he shall remove with the kidneys. Then Aaron's sons shall burn it on the altar on top of the burnt offering, which is on the wood on the fire; it is a food offering with a pleasing aroma to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>.</p>\n <p id=\"p03003006.01-2\">“If his offering for a sacrifice of peace offering to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> is an animal from the flock, male or female, he shall offer it without blemish. If he offers a lamb for his offering, then he shall offer it before the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, lay his hand on the head of his offering, and kill it in front of the tent of meeting; and Aaron's sons shall throw its blood against the sides of the altar. Then from the sacrifice of the peace offering he shall offer as a food offering to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> its fat; he shall remove the whole fat tail, cut off close to the backbone, and the fat that covers the entrails and all the fat that is on the entrails and the two kidneys with the fat that is on them at the loins and the long lobe of the liver that he shall remove with the kidneys. And the priest shall burn it on the altar as a food offering to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>.</p>\n <p id=\"p03003012.01-2\">“If his offering is a goat, then he shall offer it before the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> and lay his hand on its head and kill it in front of the tent of meeting, and the sons of Aaron shall throw its blood against the sides of the altar. Then he shall offer from it, as his offering for a food offering to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, the fat covering the entrails and all the fat that is on the entrails and the two kidneys with the fat that is on them at the loins and the long lobe of the liver that he shall remove with the kidneys. And the priest shall burn them on the altar as a food offering with a pleasing aroma. All fat is the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>'s. It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations, in all your dwelling places, that you eat neither fat nor blood.”</p>\n \n<p id=\"p03004001.05-2\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v03004001-2\">4:1 </span>And the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> spoke to Moses, saying, “Speak to the people of Israel, saying, If anyone sins unintentionally in any of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>'s commandments about things not to be done, and does any one of them, if it is the anointed priest who sins, thus bringing guilt on the people, then he shall offer for the sin that he has committed a bull from the herd without blemish to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> for a sin offering. He shall bring the bull to the entrance of the tent of meeting before the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> and lay his hand on the head of the bull and kill the bull before the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>. And the anointed priest shall take some of the blood of the bull and bring it into the tent of meeting, and the priest shall dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle part of the blood seven times before the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> in front of the veil of the sanctuary. And the priest shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar of fragrant incense before the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> that is in the tent of meeting, and all the rest of the blood of the bull he shall pour out at the base of the altar of burnt offering that is at the entrance of the tent of meeting. And all the fat of the bull of the sin offering he shall remove from it, the fat that covers the entrails and all the fat that is on the entrails and the two kidneys with the fat that is on them at the loins and the long lobe of the liver that he shall remove with the kidneys (just as these are taken from the ox of the sacrifice of the peace offerings); and the priest shall burn them on the altar of burnt offering. But the skin of the bull and all its flesh, with its head, its legs, its entrails, and its dung— all the rest of the bull—he shall carry outside the camp to a clean place, to the ash heap, and shall burn it up on a fire of wood. On the ash heap it shall be burned up.</p>\n <p id=\"p03004013.01-2\">“If the whole congregation of Israel sins unintentionally and the thing is hidden from the eyes of the assembly, and they do any one of the things that by the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>'s commandments ought not to be done, and they realize their guilt, when the sin which they have committed becomes known, the assembly shall offer a bull from the herd for a sin offering and bring it in front of the tent of meeting. And the elders of the congregation shall lay their hands on the head of the bull before the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, and the bull shall be killed before the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>. Then the anointed priest shall bring some of the blood of the bull into the tent of meeting, and the priest shall dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle it seven times before the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> in front of the veil. And he shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar that is in the tent of meeting before the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, and the rest of the blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar of burnt offering that is at the entrance of the tent of meeting. And all its fat he shall take from it and burn on the altar. Thus shall he do with the bull. As he did with the bull of the sin offering, so shall he do with this. And the priest shall make atonement for them, and they shall be forgiven. And he shall carry the bull outside the camp and burn it up as he burned the first bull; it is the sin offering for the assembly.</p>\n <p id=\"p03004022.01-2\">“When a leader sins, doing unintentionally any one of all the things that by the commandments of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> his God ought not to be done, and realizes his guilt, or the sin which he has committed is made known to him, he shall bring as his offering a goat, a male without blemish, and shall lay his hand on the head of the goat and kill it in the place where they kill the burnt offering before the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>; it is a sin offering. Then the priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering and pour out the rest of its blood at the base of the altar of burnt offering. And all its fat he shall burn on the altar, like the fat of the sacrifice of peace offerings. So the priest shall make atonement for him for his sin, and he shall be forgiven.</p>\n <p id=\"p03004027.01-2\">“If anyone of the common people sins unintentionally in doing any one of the things that by the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>'s commandments ought not to be done, and realizes his guilt, or the sin which he has committed is made known to him, he shall bring for his offering a goat, a female without blemish, for his sin which he has committed. And he shall lay his hand on the head of the sin offering and kill the sin offering in the place of burnt offering. And the priest shall take some of its blood with his finger and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering and pour out all the rest of its blood at the base of the altar. And all its fat he shall remove, as the fat is removed from the peace offerings, and the priest shall burn it on the altar for a pleasing aroma to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>. And the priest shall make atonement for him, and he shall be forgiven.</p>\n <p id=\"p03004032.01-2\">“If he brings a lamb as his offering for a sin offering, he shall bring a female without blemish and lay his hand on the head of the sin offering and kill it for a sin offering in the place where they kill the burnt offering. Then the priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering and pour out all the rest of its blood at the base of the altar. And all its fat he shall remove as the fat of the lamb is removed from the sacrifice of peace offerings, and the priest shall burn it on the altar, on top of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>'s food offerings. And the priest shall make atonement for him for the sin which he has committed, and he shall be forgiven.</p>\n <p id=\"p03005001.01-2\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v03005001-2\">5:1 </span>“If anyone sins in that he hears a public adjuration to testify, and though he is a witness, whether he has seen or come to know the matter, yet does not speak, he shall bear his iniquity; or if anyone touches an unclean thing, whether a carcass of an unclean wild animal or a carcass of unclean livestock or a carcass of unclean swarming things, and it is hidden from him and he has become unclean, and he realizes his guilt; or if he touches human uncleanness, of whatever sort the uncleanness may be with which one becomes unclean, and it is hidden from him, when he comes to know it, and realizes his guilt; or if anyone utters with his lips a rash oath to do evil or to do good, any sort of rash oath that people swear, and it is hidden from him, when he comes to know it, and he realizes his guilt in any of these; when he realizes his guilt in any of these and confesses the sin he has committed, he shall bring to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> as his compensation for the sin that he has committed, a female from the flock, a lamb or a goat, for a sin offering. And the priest shall make atonement for him for his sin.</p>\n <p id=\"p03005007.01-2\">“But if he cannot afford a lamb, then he shall bring to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> as his compensation for the sin that he has committed two turtledoves or two pigeons, one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering. He shall bring them to the priest, who shall offer first the one for the sin offering. He shall wring its head from its neck but shall not sever it completely, and he shall sprinkle some of the blood of the sin offering on the side of the altar, while the rest of the blood shall be drained out at the base of the altar; it is a sin offering. Then he shall offer the second for a burnt offering according to the rule. And the priest shall make atonement for him for the sin that he has committed, and he shall be forgiven.</p>\n <p id=\"p03005011.01-2\">“But if he cannot afford two turtledoves or two pigeons, then he shall bring as his offering for the sin that he has committed a tenth of an ephah of fine flour for a sin offering. He shall put no oil on it and shall put no frankincense on it, for it is a sin offering. And he shall bring it to the priest, and the priest shall take a handful of it as its memorial portion and burn this on the altar, on the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>'s food offerings; it is a sin offering. Thus the priest shall make atonement for him for the sin which he has committed in any one of these things, and he shall be forgiven. And the remainder shall be for the priest, as in the grain offering.”</p>\n \n<p id=\"p03005014.05-2\">The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> spoke to Moses, saying, “If anyone commits a breach of faith and sins unintentionally in any of the holy things of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, he shall bring to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> as his compensation, a ram without blemish out of the flock, valued in silver shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, for a guilt offering. He shall also make restitution for what he has done amiss in the holy thing and shall add a fifth to it and give it to the priest. And the priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the guilt offering, and he shall be forgiven.</p>\n <p id=\"p03005017.01-2\">“If anyone sins, doing any of the things that by the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>'s commandments ought not to be done, though he did not know it, then realizes his guilt, he shall bear his iniquity. He shall bring to the priest a ram without blemish out of the flock, or its equivalent for a guilt offering, and the priest shall make atonement for him for the mistake that he made unintentionally, and he shall be forgiven. It is a guilt offering; he has indeed incurred guilt before the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>.”</p>\n <p id=\"p03006001.01-2\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v03006001-2\">6:1 </span> The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> spoke to Moses, saying, “If anyone sins and commits a breach of faith against the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> by deceiving his neighbor in a matter of deposit or security, or through robbery, or if he has oppressed his neighbor or has found something lost and lied about it, swearing falsely—in any of all the things that people do and sin thereby— if he has sinned and has realized his guilt and will restore what he took by robbery or what he got by oppression or the deposit that was committed to him or the lost thing that he found or anything about which he has sworn falsely, he shall restore it in full and shall add a fifth to it, and give it to him to whom it belongs on the day he realizes his guilt. And he shall bring to the priest as his compensation to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> a ram without blemish out of the flock, or its equivalent for a guilt offering. And the priest shall make atonement for him before the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, and he shall be forgiven for any of the things that one may do and thereby become guilty.”</p>\n \n<p id=\"p03006008.06-2\"> The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> spoke to Moses, saying, “Command Aaron and his sons, saying, This is the law of the burnt offering. The burnt offering shall be on the hearth on the altar all night until the morning, and the fire of the altar shall be kept burning on it. And the priest shall put on his linen garment and put his linen undergarment on his body, and he shall take up the ashes to which the fire has reduced the burnt offering on the altar and put them beside the altar. Then he shall take off his garments and put on other garments and carry the ashes outside the camp to a clean place. The fire on the altar shall be kept burning on it; it shall not go out. The priest shall burn wood on it every morning, and he shall arrange the burnt offering on it and shall burn on it the fat of the peace offerings. Fire shall be kept burning on the altar continually; it shall not go out.</p>\n <p id=\"p03006014.01-2\">“And this is the law of the grain offering. The sons of Aaron shall offer it before the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> in front of the altar. And one shall take from it a handful of the fine flour of the grain offering and its oil and all the frankincense that is on the grain offering and burn this as its memorial portion on the altar, a pleasing aroma to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>. And the rest of it Aaron and his sons shall eat. It shall be eaten unleavened in a holy place. In the court of the tent of meeting they shall eat it. It shall not be baked with leaven. I have given it as their portion of my food offerings. It is a thing most holy, like the sin offering and the guilt offering. Every male among the children of Aaron may eat of it, as decreed forever throughout your generations, from the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>'s food offerings. Whatever touches them shall become holy.”</p>\n <p id=\"p03006019.01-2\">The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> spoke to Moses, saying, “This is the offering that Aaron and his sons shall offer to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> on the day when he is anointed: a tenth of an ephah of fine flour as a regular grain offering, half of it in the morning and half in the evening. It shall be made with oil on a griddle. You shall bring it well mixed, in baked pieces like a grain offering, and offer it for a pleasing aroma to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>. The priest from among Aaron's sons, who is anointed to succeed him, shall offer it to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> as decreed forever. The whole of it shall be burned. Every grain offering of a priest shall be wholly burned. It shall not be eaten.”</p>\n <p id=\"p03006024.01-2\">The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> spoke to Moses, saying, “Speak to Aaron and his sons, saying, This is the law of the sin offering. In the place where the burnt offering is killed shall the sin offering be killed before the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>; it is most holy. The priest who offers it for sin shall eat it. In a holy place it shall be eaten, in the court of the tent of meeting. Whatever touches its flesh shall be holy, and when any of its blood is splashed on a garment, you shall wash that on which it was splashed in a holy place. And the earthenware vessel in which it is boiled shall be broken. But if it is boiled in a bronze vessel, that shall be scoured and rinsed in water. Every male among the priests may eat of it; it is most holy. But no sin offering shall be eaten from which any blood is brought into the tent of meeting to make atonement in the Holy Place; it shall be burned up with fire.</p>\n <p id=\"p03007001.01-2\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v03007001-2\">7:1 </span>“This is the law of the guilt offering. It is most holy. In the place where they kill the burnt offering they shall kill the guilt offering, and its blood shall be thrown against the sides of the altar. And all its fat shall be offered, the fat tail, the fat that covers the entrails, the two kidneys with the fat that is on them at the loins, and the long lobe of the liver that he shall remove with the kidneys. The priest shall burn them on the altar as a food offering to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>; it is a guilt offering. Every male among the priests may eat of it. It shall be eaten in a holy place. It is most holy. The guilt offering is just like the sin offering; there is one law for them. The priest who makes atonement with it shall have it. And the priest who offers any man's burnt offering shall have for himself the skin of the burnt offering that he has offered. And every grain offering baked in the oven and all that is prepared on a pan or a griddle shall belong to the priest who offers it. And every grain offering, mixed with oil or dry, shall be shared equally among all the sons of Aaron.</p>\n <p id=\"p03007011.01-2\">“And this is the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings that one may offer to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>. If he offers it for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer with the thanksgiving sacrifice unleavened loaves mixed with oil, unleavened wafers smeared with oil, and loaves of fine flour well mixed with oil. With the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving he shall bring his offering with loaves of leavened bread. And from it he shall offer one loaf from each offering, as a gift to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>. It shall belong to the priest who throws the blood of the peace offerings. And the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving shall be eaten on the day of his offering. He shall not leave any of it until the morning. But if the sacrifice of his offering is a vow offering or a freewill offering, it shall be eaten on the day that he offers his sacrifice, and on the next day what remains of it shall be eaten. But what remains of the flesh of the sacrifice on the third day shall be burned up with fire. If any of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offering is eaten on the third day, he who offers it shall not be accepted, neither shall it be credited to him. It is tainted, and he who eats of it shall bear his iniquity.</p>\n <p id=\"p03007019.01-2\">“Flesh that touches any unclean thing shall not be eaten. It shall be burned up with fire. All who are clean may eat flesh, but the person who eats of the flesh of the sacrifice of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>'s peace offerings while an uncleanness is on him, that person shall be cut off from his people. And if anyone touches an unclean thing, whether human uncleanness or an unclean beast or any unclean detestable creature, and then eats some flesh from the sacrifice of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>'s peace offerings, that person shall be cut off from his people.”</p>\n <p id=\"p03007022.01-2\">The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> spoke to Moses, saying, “Speak to the people of Israel, saying, You shall eat no fat, of ox or sheep or goat. The fat of an animal that dies of itself and the fat of one that is torn by beasts may be put to any other use, but on no account shall you eat it. For every person who eats of the fat of an animal of which a food offering may be made to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> shall be cut off from his people. Moreover, you shall eat no blood whatever, whether of fowl or of animal, in any of your dwelling places. Whoever eats any blood, that person shall be cut off from his people.”</p>\n <p id=\"p03007028.01-2\">The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> spoke to Moses, saying, “Speak to the people of Israel, saying, Whoever offers the sacrifice of his peace offerings to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> shall bring his offering to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> from the sacrifice of his peace offerings. His own hands shall bring the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>'s food offerings. He shall bring the fat with the breast, that the breast may be waved as a wave offering before the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>. The priest shall burn the fat on the altar, but the breast shall be for Aaron and his sons. And the right thigh you shall give to the priest as a contribution from the sacrifice of your peace offerings. Whoever among the sons of Aaron offers the blood of the peace offerings and the fat shall have the right thigh for a portion. For the breast that is waved and the thigh that is contributed I have taken from the people of Israel, out of the sacrifices of their peace offerings, and have given them to Aaron the priest and to his sons, as a perpetual due from the people of Israel. This is the portion of Aaron and of his sons from the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>'s food offerings, from the day they were presented to serve as priests of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>. The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> commanded this to be given them by the people of Israel, from the day that he anointed them. It is a perpetual due throughout their generations.”</p>\n <p id=\"p03007037.01-2\">This is the law of the burnt offering, of the grain offering, of the sin offering, of the guilt offering, of the ordination offering, and of the peace offering, which the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> commanded Moses on Mount Sinai, on the day that he commanded the people of Israel to bring their offerings to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, in the wilderness of Sinai. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"134": "<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 17:1-14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p01017001.07-2\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v01017001-2\">17:1 </span>When Abram was ninety-nine years old the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be blameless, that I may make my covenant between me and you, and may multiply you greatly.” Then Abram fell on his face. And God said to him, “Behold, my covenant is with you, and you shall be the father of a multitude of nations. No longer shall your name be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham, for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations. I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make you into nations, and kings shall come from you. 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. And I will give to you and to your offspring after you the land of your sojournings, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession, and I will be their God.”</p>\n <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. This is my covenant, which you shall keep, between me and you and your offspring after you: Every male among you shall be circumcised. You shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskins, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and you. He who is eight days old among you shall be circumcised. Every male throughout your generations, whether born in your house or bought with your money from any foreigner who is not of your offspring, both he who is born in your house and he who is bought with your money, shall surely be circumcised. So shall my covenant be in your flesh an everlasting covenant. Any uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin shall be cut off from his people; he has broken my covenant.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"135": "<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>Exodus 12:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p02012014.01-2\">“This day shall be for you a memorial day, and you shall keep it as a feast to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>; throughout your generations, as a statute forever, you shall keep it as a feast.</p>\n</div><h5>Exodus 12:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p02012017.01-3\">And you shall observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread, for on this very day I brought your hosts out of the land of Egypt. Therefore you shall observe this day, throughout your generations, as a statute forever.</p>\n</div><h5>Exodus 12:24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p02012024.01-4\">You shall observe this rite as a statute for you and for your sons forever. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"136": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Hebrews 8:1-2</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.</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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"137": "<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>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"131": "Romans 15:8; Genesis 3:15,12:1-3,15:5",
"132": "Acts 3:20,24; Isaiah 52:13-53:12",
"133": "Hebrews 10:1; Leviticus 1-7",
"134": "Romans 4:11; Genesis 17:1-14",
"135": "I Corinthians 5:7; Ex 12:14,17,24",
"136": "Hebrews 8:1-2; Hebrews 11:13",
"137": "Galatians 3:7-9,14"
},
"question": "How was the covenant of grace administered under the old testament?"
},
"35": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Luke 24:47-48; Matthew 28:19-20' data-prooftexts-index='138'>Under the new testament, when Christ the substance was exhibited, the same covenant of grace was and still is to be administered in the preaching of the Word,</span><span data-prooftexts='Matthew 28:19-20' data-prooftexts-index='139'> and the administration of the sacraments of baptism</span><span data-prooftexts='Matthew 26:28; I Corinthians 11:23-25' data-prooftexts-index='140'> and the Lord's Supper;</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 1:16; II Corinthians 3:6-9; Hebrews 8:6,10-11; Matthew 28:19; Ephesians 3:1-12' data-prooftexts-index='141'> in which grace and salvation are held forth in more fullness, evidence, and efficacy, to all nations.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"138": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Luke 24:47-48</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> <span class=\"woc\">You are witnesses of these things.</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>",
"139": "<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>",
"140": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 26:28</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40026028.01-1\"><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>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>",
"141": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 1:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p45001016.07-1\">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.</p>\n</div><h5>2 Corinthians 3:6-9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p47003006.01-2\">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=\"p47003007.01-2\">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.</p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 8:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58008006.01-3\">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.</p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 8:10-11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p58008010.01-4\">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.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Matthew 28:19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40028019.01-5\"><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 3:1-12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p49003001.07-6\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v49003001-6\">3:1 </span>For this reason I, Paul, a prisoner for Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles— assuming that you have heard of the stewardship of God's grace that was given to me for you, how the mystery was made known to me by revelation, as I have written briefly. When you read this, you can perceive my insight into the mystery of Christ, which was not made known to the sons of men in other generations as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit. This mystery is that the Gentiles are fellow heirs, members of the same body, and partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel.</p>\n <p id=\"p49003007.01-6\">Of this gospel I was made a minister according to the gift of God's grace, which was given me by the working of his power. To me, though I am the very least of all the saints, this grace was given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ, and to bring to light for everyone what is the plan of the mystery hidden for ages in God who created all things, so that through the church the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly places. This was according to the eternal purpose that he has realized in Christ Jesus our Lord, in whom we have boldness and access with confidence through our faith in him. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"138": "Luke 24:47-48; Matthew 28:19-20",
"139": "Matthew 28:19-20",
"140": "Matthew 26:28; I Corinthians 11:23-25",
"141": "Romans 1:16; II Corinthians 3:6-9; Hebrews 8:6,10-11; Matthew 28:19; Ephesians 3:1-12"
},
"question": "How is the covenant of grace administered under the new testament?"
},
"36": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='I Timothy 2:5; John 14:6; Acts 4:12' data-prooftexts-index='142'>The only Mediator of the covenant of grace is the Lord Jesus Christ,</span><span data-prooftexts='John 1:1,14,18; John 10:30; Philippians 2:6; Psalms 2:7; Matthew 3:17; Matthew 17:5' data-prooftexts-index='143'> who, being the eternal Son of God, of one substance and equal with the Father,</span><span data-prooftexts='Galatians 4:4; Matthew 1:23; John 1:14' data-prooftexts-index='144'> in the fullness of time became man,</span><span data-prooftexts='Luke 1:35; Acts 1:11; Romans 9:5; Colossians 2:9; Hebrews 7:24-25; Hebrews 13:8; Philippians 2:5-11' data-prooftexts-index='145'> and so was and continues to be God and man, in two entire distinct natures, and one person, forever.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"142": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Timothy 2:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p54002005.01-1\">For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,</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>Acts 4:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44004012.01-3\">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>",
"143": "<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>John 1:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43001018.01-3\">No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father's side, he has made him known.</p>\n</div><h5>John 10:30</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43010030.01-4\"><span class=\"woc\">I and the Father are one.”</span></p>\n</div><h5>Philippians 2:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p50002006.01-5\">who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped,</p>\n</div><h5>Psalm 2:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19002007.01-6\">I will tell of the decree:<br />\nThe <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> said to me, “You are my Son;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>today I have begotten you.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Matthew 3:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40003017.01-7\">and behold, a voice from heaven said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.”</p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 17:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40017005.01-8\">He was still speaking when, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them, and a voice from the cloud said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased; listen to him.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"144": "<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>Matthew 1:23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p40001023.01-2\">“Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and they shall call his name Immanuel”</p>\n</div>\n<p class=\"same-paragraph\" id=\"p40001023.17-2\">(which means, God with us).</p>\n</div><h5>John 1:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43001014.01-3\">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>",
"145": "<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>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>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>Colossians 2:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p51002009.01-4\">For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily,</p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 7:24-25</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58007024.01-5\">but he holds his priesthood permanently, because he continues forever. 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.</p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 13:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58013008.01-6\">Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.</p>\n</div><h5>Philippians 2:5-11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p50002005.01-7\">Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"142": "I Timothy 2:5; John 14:6; Acts 4:12",
"143": "John 1:1,14,18; John 10:30; Philippians 2:6; Psalms 2:7; Matthew 3:17; Matthew 17:5",
"144": "Galatians 4:4; Matthew 1:23; John 1:14",
"145": "Luke 1:35; Acts 1:11; Romans 9:5; Colossians 2:9; Hebrews 7:24-25; Hebrews 13:8; Philippians 2:5-11"
},
"question": "Who is the Mediator of the covenant of grace?"
},
"37": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='John 1:14; Matthew 26:38; Philippians 2:7; Hebrews 2:14-17; Luke 2:40,52; John 11:33' data-prooftexts-index='146'>Christ the Son of God became man, by taking to himself a true body, and a reasonable soul,</span><span data-prooftexts='Luke 1:27,31,35; Galatians 4:4' data-prooftexts-index='147'> being conceived by the power of the Holy Ghost in the womb of the virgin Mary, of her substance, and born of her,</span><span data-prooftexts='Hebrews 4:15; Hebrews 7:26; II Corinthians 5:21; I John 3:5' data-prooftexts-index='148'> yet without sin.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"146": "<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>Matthew 26:38</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40026038.01-2\">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>Philippians 2:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p50002007.01-3\">but made himself nothing, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.</p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 2:14-17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58002014.01-4\">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, and deliver all those who through fear of death were subject to lifelong slavery. 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>Luke 2:40</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42002040.01-5\">And the child grew and became strong, filled with wisdom. And the favor of God was upon him.</p>\n</div><h5>Luke 2:52</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42002052.01-6\">And Jesus increased in wisdom and in stature and in favor with God and man.</p>\n</div><h5>John 11:33</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43011033.01-7\">When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in his spirit and greatly troubled. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"147": "<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>",
"148": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Hebrews 4:15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58004015.01-1\">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.</p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 7:26</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58007026.01-2\">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>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>1 John 3:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p62003005.01-4\">You know that he appeared to take away sins, and in him there is no sin. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"146": "John 1:14; Matthew 26:38; Philippians 2:7; Hebrews 2:14-17; Luke 2:40,52; John 11:33",
"147": "Luke 1:27,31,35; Galatians 4:4",
"148": "Hebrews 4:15; Hebrews 7:26; II Corinthians 5:21; I John 3:5"
},
"question": "How did Christ, being the Son of God, become man?"
},
"38": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Acts 2:24-25; Romans 1:4; Romans 4:25; Hebrews 9:14' data-prooftexts-index='149'>It was requisite that the Mediator should be God, that he might sustain and keep the human nature from sinking under the infinite wrath of God, and the power of death;</span><span data-prooftexts='Acts 20:28; Hebrews 9:14; Hebrews 7:25-28; John 17' data-prooftexts-index='150'> give worth and efficacy to his sufferings, obedience, and intercession;</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 3:24-26' data-prooftexts-index='151'> and to satisfy God's justice,</span><span data-prooftexts='Ephesians 1:6; Matthew 3:17' data-prooftexts-index='152'> procure his favor,</span><span data-prooftexts='Titus 2:13-14' data-prooftexts-index='153'> purchase a peculiar people,</span><span data-prooftexts='Galatians 4:6; John 15:26; John 16:7,14:26' data-prooftexts-index='154'> give his Spirit to them,</span><span data-prooftexts='Luke 1:68-69,71,74' data-prooftexts-index='155'> conquer all their enemies,</span><span data-prooftexts='Hebrews 5:8-9; Hebrews 9:11-15' data-prooftexts-index='156'> and bring them to everlasting salvation.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"149": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Acts 2:24-25</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44002024.01-1\">God raised him up, loosing the pangs of death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it. For David says concerning him,</p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p44002025.06-1\">“‘I saw the Lord always before me,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for he is at my right hand that I may not be shaken;</p>\n</div>\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>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.</p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 9:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58009014.01-4\">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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"150": "<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>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 7:25-28</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.</p>\n <p id=\"p58007026.01-3\">For it was indeed fitting that we should have such a high priest, holy, innocent, unstained, separated from sinners, and exalted above the heavens. 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. For the law appoints men in their weakness as high priests, but the word of the oath, which came later than the law, appoints a Son who has been made perfect forever.</p>\n</div><h5>John 17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p43017001.05-4\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v43017001-4\">17:1 </span>When Jesus had spoken these words, he lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, <span class=\"woc\">“Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son that the Son may glorify you,</span> <span class=\"woc\">since you have given him authority over all flesh, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him.</span> <span class=\"woc\">And this is eternal life, that they know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.</span> <span class=\"woc\">I glorified you on earth, having accomplished the work that you gave me to do.</span> <span class=\"woc\">And now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had with you before the world existed.</span></p>\n <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> <span class=\"woc\">Now they know that everything that you have given me is from you.</span> <span class=\"woc\">For I have given them the words that you gave me, and they have received them and have come to know in truth that I came from you; and they have believed that you sent me.</span> <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> <span class=\"woc\">All mine are yours, and yours are mine, and I am glorified in them.</span> <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> <span class=\"woc\">While I was with them, I kept them in your name, which you have given me. I have guarded them, and not one of them has been lost except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.</span> <span class=\"woc\">But now I am coming to you, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves.</span> <span class=\"woc\">I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.</span> <span class=\"woc\">I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one.</span> <span class=\"woc\">They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.</span> <span class=\"woc\">Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.</span> <span class=\"woc\">As you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world.</span> <span class=\"woc\">And for their sake I consecrate myself, that they also may be sanctified in truth.</span></p>\n <p id=\"p43017020.01-4\"><span class=\"woc\">“I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word,</span> <span class=\"woc\">that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me.</span> <span class=\"woc\">The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one,</span> <span class=\"woc\">I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me.</span> <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> <span class=\"woc\">O righteous Father, even though the world does not know you, I know you, and these know that you have sent me.</span> <span class=\"woc\">I made known to them your name, and I will continue to make it known, that the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them.”</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"151": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 3:24-26</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, 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>",
"152": "<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>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.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"153": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Titus 2:13-14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p56002013.01-1\">waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, 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>",
"154": "<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!”</p>\n</div><h5>John 15:26</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43015026.01-2\"><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>John 16:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43016007.01-3\"><span class=\"woc\">Nevertheless, I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I go away, for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.</span></p>\n</div><h5>John 14:26</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43014026.01-4\"><span class=\"woc\">But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"155": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Luke 1:68-69</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p42001068.01-1\">“Blessed be the Lord God of Israel,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for he has visited and redeemed his people<br />\n and has raised up a horn of salvation for us<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>in the house of his servant David,</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Luke 1:71</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p42001071.01-2\">that we should be saved from our enemies<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and from the hand of all who hate us;</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Luke 1:74</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p42001074.01-3\"><span class=\"indent\"></span>that we, being delivered from the hand of our enemies,<br />\nmight serve him without fear, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"156": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Hebrews 5:8-9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58005008.01-1\">Although he was a son, he learned obedience through what he suffered. And being made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey him,</p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 9:11-15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p58009011.07-2\">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=\"p58009015.01-2\">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>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"149": "Acts 2:24-25; Romans 1:4; Romans 4:25; Hebrews 9:14",
"150": "Acts 20:28; Hebrews 9:14; Hebrews 7:25-28; John 17",
"151": "Romans 3:24-26",
"152": "Ephesians 1:6; Matthew 3:17",
"153": "Titus 2:13-14",
"154": "Galatians 4:6; John 15:26; John 16:7,14:26",
"155": "Luke 1:68-69,71,74",
"156": "Hebrews 5:8-9; Hebrews 9:11-15"
},
"question": "Why was it requisite that the Mediator should be God?"
},
"39": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Hebrews 2:16; II Peter 1:4' data-prooftexts-index='157'>It was requisite that the Mediator should be man, that he might advance our nature,</span><span data-prooftexts='Galatians 4:4; Matthew 5:17; Romans 5:19; Philippians 2:8' data-prooftexts-index='158'> perform obedience to the law,</span><span data-prooftexts='Hebrews 2:14; Hebrews 7:24-25' data-prooftexts-index='159'> suffer and make intercession for us in our nature,</span><span data-prooftexts='Hebrews 4:15' data-prooftexts-index='160'> have a fellow feeling of our infirmities;</span><span data-prooftexts='Galatians 4:5' data-prooftexts-index='161'> that we might receive the adoption of sons,</span><span data-prooftexts='Hebrews 4:16' data-prooftexts-index='162'> and have comfort and access with boldness unto the throne of grace.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"157": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Hebrews 2:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58002016.01-1\">For surely it is not angels that he helps, but he helps the offspring of Abraham.</p>\n</div><h5>2 Peter 1:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p61001004.01-2\">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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"158": "<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>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></p>\n</div><h5>Romans 5:19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45005019.01-3\">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>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>",
"159": "<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 7:24-25</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58007024.01-2\">but he holds his priesthood permanently, because he continues forever. 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>",
"160": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Hebrews 4:15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58004015.01-1\">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>",
"161": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Galatians 4:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p48004005.01-1\">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>",
"162": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Hebrews 4:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58004016.01-1\">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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"157": "Hebrews 2:16; II Peter 1:4",
"158": "Galatians 4:4; Matthew 5:17; Romans 5:19; Philippians 2:8",
"159": "Hebrews 2:14; Hebrews 7:24-25",
"160": "Hebrews 4:15",
"161": "Galatians 4:5",
"162": "Hebrews 4:16"
},
"question": "Why was it requisite that the Mediator should be man?"
},
"4": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Hosea 8:12; I Corinthians 2:6-7; Psalms 119:18,129' data-prooftexts-index='7'>The Scriptures manifest themselves to be the Word of God, by their majesty</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 12:6; Psalms 119:140' data-prooftexts-index='8'> and purity;</span><span data-prooftexts='Luke 24:27; Acts 10:43; Acts 26:22' data-prooftexts-index='9'> by the consent of all the parts,</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 3:19,27; Romans 16:25-27; II Corinthians 3:6-11' data-prooftexts-index='10'> and the scope of the whole, which is to give all glory to God;</span><span data-prooftexts='Acts 18:28; Hebrews 4:12; James 1:18; Psalms 19:7-9; Romans 15:4; Acts 20:32' data-prooftexts-index='11'> by their light and power to convince and convert sinners, to comfort and build up believers unto salvation:</span><span data-prooftexts='John 16:13-14; I John 2:20,27; John 20:31' data-prooftexts-index='12'> but the Spirit of God bearing witness by and with the Scriptures in the heart of man, is alone able fully to persuade it that they are the very Word of God.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"10": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 3:19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45003019.01-1\">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.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 3:27</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45003027.01-2\">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.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 16:25-27</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p45016025.02-3\">Now to him who is able to strengthen you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery that was kept secret for long ages 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— to the only wise God be glory forevermore through Jesus Christ! Amen.</p>\n</div><h5>2 Corinthians 3:6-11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p47003006.01-4\">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=\"p47003007.01-4\">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. Indeed, in this case, what once had glory has come to have no glory at all, because of the glory that surpasses it. For if what was being brought to an end came with glory, much more will what is permanent have glory. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"11": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Acts 18:28</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44018028.01-1\">for he powerfully refuted the Jews in public, showing by the Scriptures that the Christ was Jesus.</p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 4:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58004012.01-2\">For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.</p>\n</div><h5>James 1:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p59001018.01-3\">Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.</p>\n</div><h5>Psalm 19:7-9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19019007.01-4\">The law of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> is perfect,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>reviving the soul;<br />\nthe testimony of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> is sure,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>making wise the simple;<br />\n the precepts of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> are right,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>rejoicing the heart;<br />\nthe commandment of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> is pure,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>enlightening the eyes;<br />\n the fear of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> is clean,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>enduring forever;<br />\nthe rules of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> are true,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and righteous altogether.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Romans 15:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45015004.01-5\">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>Acts 20:32</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44020032.01-6\">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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"12": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>John 16:13-14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43016013.01-1\"><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 John 2:20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p62002020.01-2\">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=\"p62002027.01-3\">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 20:31</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43020031.01-4\">but these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"7": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Hosea 8:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p28008012.01-1\">Were I to write for him my laws by the ten thousands,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>they would be regarded as a strange thing.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 2:6-7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p46002006.05-2\">Yet among the mature we do impart wisdom, although it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are doomed to pass away. But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages for our glory.</p>\n</div><h5>Psalm 119:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119018.01-3\">Open my eyes, that I may behold<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>wondrous things out of your law.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 119:129</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119129.02-4\">Your testimonies are wonderful;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>therefore my soul keeps them. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"8": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 12:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19012006.01-1\">The words of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> are pure words,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>like silver refined in a furnace on the ground,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>purified seven times.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 119:140</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119140.01-2\">Your promise is well tried,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and your servant loves it. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"9": "<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>Acts 10:43</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44010043.01-2\">To him all the prophets bear witness that everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name.”</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 26:22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44026022.01-3\">To this day I have had the help that comes from God, and so I stand here testifying both to small and great, saying nothing but what the prophets and Moses said would come to pass: (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"10": "Romans 3:19,27; Romans 16:25-27; II Corinthians 3:6-11",
"11": "Acts 18:28; Hebrews 4:12; James 1:18; Psalms 19:7-9; Romans 15:4; Acts 20:32",
"12": "John 16:13-14; I John 2:20,27; John 20:31",
"7": "Hosea 8:12; I Corinthians 2:6-7; Psalms 119:18,129",
"8": "Psalms 12:6; Psalms 119:140",
"9": "Luke 24:27; Acts 10:43; Acts 26:22"
},
"question": "How doth it appear that the Scriptures are the Word of God?"
},
"40": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Matthew 1:21,23; Matthew 3:17; Hebrews 9:14' data-prooftexts-index='163'>It was requisite that the Mediator, who was to reconcile God and man, should himself be both God and man, and this in one person, that the proper works of each nature might be accepted of God for us,</span><span data-prooftexts='I Peter 2:6' data-prooftexts-index='164'> and relied on by us, as the works of the whole person.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"163": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 1:21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40001021.01-1\">She will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.”</p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 1:23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p40001023.01-2\">“Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and they shall call his name Immanuel”</p>\n</div>\n<p class=\"same-paragraph\" id=\"p40001023.17-2\">(which means, God with us).</p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 3:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40003017.01-3\">and behold, a voice from heaven said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.”</p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 9:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58009014.01-4\">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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"164": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Peter 2:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p60002006.01-1\">For it stands in Scripture:</p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p60002006.06-1\">“Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>a cornerstone chosen and precious,<br />\nand whoever believes in him will not be put to shame.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"163": "Matthew 1:21,23; Matthew 3:17; Hebrews 9:14",
"164": "I Peter 2:6"
},
"question": "Why was it requisite that the Mediator should be God and man in one person?"
},
"41": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Matthew 1:21' data-prooftexts-index='165'>Our Mediator was called Jesus, because he saveth his people from their sins.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"165": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 1:21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40001021.01-1\">She will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"165": "Matthew 1:21"
},
"question": "Why was our Mediator called Jesus?"
},
"42": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Matthew 3:16; Acts 10:37-38; John 3:34; Psalms 45:7' data-prooftexts-index='166'>Our Mediator was called Christ, because he was anointed with the Holy Ghost above measure;</span><span data-prooftexts='John 6:27; Matthew 28:18-20; Romans 1:3-4' data-prooftexts-index='167'> and so set apart, and fully furnished with all authority and ability,</span><span data-prooftexts='Acts 3:21-22; Luke 4:18,21; Hebrews 1:1-2; Deuteronomy 18:18' data-prooftexts-index='168'> to execute the offices of prophet,</span><span data-prooftexts='Hebrews 5:5-7; Hebrews 4:14-15' data-prooftexts-index='169'> priest,</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 2:6; Luke 1:32-34; John 18:37; Matthew 21:5; Isaiah 9:6-7; Philippians 2:8-11' data-prooftexts-index='170'> and king of his church,</span> in the estate both of his humiliation and exaltation.",
"prooftext_verses": {
"166": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 3:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40003016.01-1\">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;</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 10:37-38</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44010037.01-2\">you yourselves know what happened throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee after the baptism that John proclaimed: 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>John 3:34</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43003034.01-3\">For he whom God has sent utters the words of God, for he gives the Spirit without measure.</p>\n</div><h5>Psalm 45:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19045007.01-4\"><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; (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"167": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>John 6:27</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43006027.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">Do not labor for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For on him God the Father has set his seal.”</span></p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 28:18-20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40028018.01-2\">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></p>\n</div><h5>Romans 1:3-4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45001003.01-3\">concerning his Son, who was descended from David according to the flesh 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, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"168": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Acts 3:21-22</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. 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.</p>\n</div><h5>Luke 4:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p42004018.01-2\"><span class=\"woc\">“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>because he has anointed me<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>to proclaim good news to the poor.<br />\nHe has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and recovering of sight to the blind,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>to set at liberty those who are oppressed,</span></p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Luke 4:21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42004021.01-3\">And he began to say to them, <span class=\"woc\">“Today this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.”</span></p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 1:1-2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p class=\"chapter-first\" id=\"p58001001.06-4\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v58001001-4\">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.</p>\n</div><h5>Deuteronomy 18:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p05018018.01-5\">I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers. And I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I command him. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"169": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Hebrews 5:5-7</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.”</p>\n</div>\n <p id=\"p58005007.01-1\">In the days of his flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to him who was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverence.</p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 4:14-15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p58004014.06-2\">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. 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>",
"170": "<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 1:32-34</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42001032.01-2\">He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. And the Lord God will give to him the throne of his father David, and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of his kingdom there will be no end.”</p>\n <p id=\"p42001034.01-2\">And Mary said to the angel, “How will this be, since I am a virgin?”</p>\n</div><h5>John 18:37</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43018037.01-3\">Then Pilate said to him, “So you are a king?” Jesus answered, <span class=\"woc\">“You say that I am a king. For this purpose I was born and for this purpose I have come into the world—to bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.”</span></p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 21:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p40021005.01-4\">“Say to the daughter of Zion,<br />\n‘Behold, your king is coming to you,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>humble, and mounted on a donkey,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and on a colt, the foal of a beast of burden.’”</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Isaiah 9:6-7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23009006.01-5\">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>Philippians 2:8-11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p50002008.01-6\">And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"166": "Matthew 3:16; Acts 10:37-38; John 3:34; Psalms 45:7",
"167": "John 6:27; Matthew 28:18-20; Romans 1:3-4",
"168": "Acts 3:21-22; Luke 4:18,21; Hebrews 1:1-2; Deuteronomy 18:18",
"169": "Hebrews 5:5-7; Hebrews 4:14-15",
"170": "Psalms 2:6; Luke 1:32-34; John 18:37; Matthew 21:5; Isaiah 9:6-7; Philippians 2:8-11"
},
"question": "Why was our Mediator called Christ?"
},
"43": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='John 1:18' data-prooftexts-index='171'>Christ executeth the office of a prophet, in his revealing to the church,</span><span data-prooftexts='I Peter 1:10-12' data-prooftexts-index='172'> in all ages, by his Spirit and Word,</span><span data-prooftexts='Hebrews 1:1-2' data-prooftexts-index='173'> in divers ways of administration,</span><span data-prooftexts='John 15:15' data-prooftexts-index='174'> the whole will of God,</span><span data-prooftexts='Acts 20:32; Ephesians 4:11-13; John 20:31' data-prooftexts-index='175'> in all things concerning their edification and salvation.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"171": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>John 1:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43001018.01-1\">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>",
"172": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Peter 1:10-12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p60001010.01-1\">Concerning this salvation, the prophets who prophesied about the grace that was to be yours searched and inquired carefully, inquiring what person or time the Spirit of Christ in them was indicating when he predicted the sufferings of Christ and the subsequent glories. It was revealed to them that they were serving not themselves but you, in the things that have now been announced to you through those who preached the good news to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven, things into which angels long to look. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"173": "<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>",
"174": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>John 15:15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43015015.01-1\"><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> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"175": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Acts 20:32</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44020032.01-1\">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>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>John 20:31</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43020031.01-3\">but these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"171": "John 1:18",
"172": "I Peter 1:10-12",
"173": "Hebrews 1:1-2",
"174": "John 15:15",
"175": "Acts 20:32; Ephesians 4:11-13; John 20:31"
},
"question": "How doth Christ execute the office of a prophet?"
},
"44": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Hebrews 9:14,28; Hebrews 10:12; Isaiah 53' data-prooftexts-index='176'>Christ executeth the office of a priest, in his once offering himself a sacrifice without spot to God,</span><span data-prooftexts='Hebrews 2:17; II Corinthians 5:18; Colossians 1:21-22' data-prooftexts-index='177'> to be a reconciliation for the sins of his people;</span><span data-prooftexts='Hebrews 7:25; Hebrews 9:24' data-prooftexts-index='178'> and in making continual intercession for them.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"176": "<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>Hebrews 9:28</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58009028.01-2\">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 10:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58010012.01-3\">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>Isaiah 53</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23053001.01-4\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v23053001-4\">53:1 </span>Who has believed what he has heard from us?<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>And to whom has the arm of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> been revealed?<br />\n For he grew up before him like a young plant,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and like a root out of dry ground;<br />\nhe had no form or majesty that we should look at him,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and no beauty that we should desire him.<br />\n He was despised and rejected by men;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief;<br />\nand as one from whom men hide their faces<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>he was despised, and we esteemed him not.</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23053004.01-4\">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 <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23053007.01-4\">He was oppressed, and he was afflicted,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>yet he opened not his mouth;<br />\nlike a lamb that is led to the slaughter,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>so he opened not his mouth.<br />\n By oppression and judgment he was taken away;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and as for his generation, who considered<br />\nthat he was cut off out of the land of the living,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>stricken for the transgression of my people?<br />\n And they made his grave with the wicked<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and with a rich man in his death,<br />\nalthough he had done no violence,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and there was no deceit in his mouth.</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23053010.01-4\">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>",
"177": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Hebrews 2:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58002017.01-1\">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>2 Corinthians 5:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p47005018.01-2\">All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation;</p>\n</div><h5>Colossians 1:21-22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p51001021.01-3\">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, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"178": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Hebrews 7:25</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58007025.01-1\">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.</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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"176": "Hebrews 9:14,28; Hebrews 10:12; Isaiah 53",
"177": "Hebrews 2:17; II Corinthians 5:18; Colossians 1:21-22",
"178": "Hebrews 7:25; Hebrews 9:24"
},
"question": "How doth Christ execute the office of a priest?"
},
"45": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Acts 15:14-16; Genesis 49:10; Psalms 110:3; John 17:2' data-prooftexts-index='179'>Christ executeth the office of a king, in calling out of the world a people to himself,</span><span data-prooftexts='Ephesians 4:11-12; I Corinthians 12:28' data-prooftexts-index='180'> and giving them officers,</span><span data-prooftexts='Isaiah 33:22' data-prooftexts-index='181'> laws,</span><span data-prooftexts='Matthew 18:17-18; I Corinthians 5:4-5' data-prooftexts-index='182'> and censures, by which he visibly governs them;</span><span data-prooftexts='Acts 5:31' data-prooftexts-index='183'> in bestowing saving grace upon his elect,</span><span data-prooftexts='Revelation 22:12; Revelation 2:10' data-prooftexts-index='184'> rewarding their obedience,</span><span data-prooftexts='Revelation 3:19' data-prooftexts-index='185'> and correcting them for their sins,</span><span data-prooftexts='Isaiah 63:9' data-prooftexts-index='186'> preserving and supporting them under all their temptations and sufferings,</span><span data-prooftexts='I Corinthians 15:25; Psalms 110:1-2' data-prooftexts-index='187'> restraining and overcoming all their enemies,</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 14:10-11' data-prooftexts-index='188'> and powerfully ordering all things for his own glory,</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 8:28' data-prooftexts-index='189'> and their good;</span><span data-prooftexts='II Thessalonians 1:8-9; Psalms 2:8-9' data-prooftexts-index='190'> and also in taking vengeance on the rest, who know not God, and obey not the gospel.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"179": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Acts 15:14-16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44015014.01-1\">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,</p>\n</div>\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>Psalm 110:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19110003.01-3\">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 17:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43017002.01-4\"><span class=\"woc\">since you have given him authority over all flesh, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him.</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"180": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ephesians 4:11-12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49004011.01-1\">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,</p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 12:28</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46012028.01-2\">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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"181": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Isaiah 33:22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23033022.01-1\">For the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> is our judge; the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> is our lawgiver;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> is our king; he will save us. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"182": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 18:17-18</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> <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>1 Corinthians 5:4-5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46005004.01-2\">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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"183": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Acts 5:31</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44005031.01-1\">God exalted him at his right hand as Leader and Savior, to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"184": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Revelation 22:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p66022012.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">“Behold, I am coming soon, bringing my recompense with me, to repay everyone for what he has done.</span></p>\n</div><h5>Revelation 2:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p66002010.01-2\"><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> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"185": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Revelation 3:19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p66003019.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline, so be zealous and repent.</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"186": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Isaiah 63:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23063009.01-1\">In all their affliction he was afflicted,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and the angel of his presence saved them;<br />\nin his love and in his pity he redeemed them;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>he lifted them up and carried them all the days of old. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"187": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Corinthians 15:25</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46015025.01-1\">For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet.</p>\n</div><h5>Psalm 110:1-2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19110001.10-2\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v19110001-2\">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 <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19110002.01-2\">The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> sends forth from Zion<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>your mighty scepter.<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Rule in the midst of your enemies! (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"188": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 14:10-11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><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; for it is written,</p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p45014011.05-1\">“As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to me,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and every tongue shall confess to God.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"189": "<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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"190": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>2 Thessalonians 1:8-9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p53001008.01-1\">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,</p>\n</div><h5>Psalm 2:8-9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19002008.01-2\">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.<br />\n You shall break them with a rod of iron<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"179": "Acts 15:14-16; Genesis 49:10; Psalms 110:3; John 17:2",
"180": "Ephesians 4:11-12; I Corinthians 12:28",
"181": "Isaiah 33:22",
"182": "Matthew 18:17-18; I Corinthians 5:4-5",
"183": "Acts 5:31",
"184": "Revelation 22:12; Revelation 2:10",
"185": "Revelation 3:19",
"186": "Isaiah 63:9",
"187": "I Corinthians 15:25; Psalms 110:1-2",
"188": "Romans 14:10-11",
"189": "Romans 8:28",
"190": "II Thessalonians 1:8-9; Psalms 2:8-9"
},
"question": "How doth Christ execute the office of a king?"
},
"46": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Philippians 2:6-8' data-prooftexts-index='191'>The estate of Christ's humiliation was that low condition, wherein he for our sakes, emptying himself of his glory, took upon him the form of a servant,</span><span data-prooftexts='Luke 1:31' data-prooftexts-index='192'> in his conception</span><span data-prooftexts='Luke 2:7' data-prooftexts-index='193'> and birth,</span><span data-prooftexts='Galatians 4:4; II Corinthians 8:9; Luke 9:58; Hebrews 2:18; Isaiah 53:3' data-prooftexts-index='194'> life,</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 22:1; Matthew 27:46; Isaiah 53:10; I John 2:2; Philippians 2:8' data-prooftexts-index='195'> death,</span><span data-prooftexts='Matthew 12:40; I Corinthians 15:3-4' data-prooftexts-index='196'> and after his death,</span><span data-prooftexts='Acts 2:24-27,31' data-prooftexts-index='197'> until his resurrection.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"191": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Philippians 2:6-8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p50002006.01-1\">who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. 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>",
"192": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Luke 1:31</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42001031.01-1\">And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"193": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Luke 2:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42002007.01-1\">And she gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in swaddling cloths and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the inn. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"194": "<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>2 Corinthians 8:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p47008009.01-2\">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.</p>\n</div><h5>Luke 9:58</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42009058.01-3\">And Jesus said to him, <span class=\"woc\">“Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.”</span></p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 2:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58002018.01-4\">For because he himself has suffered when tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted.</p>\n</div><h5>Isaiah 53:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23053003.01-5\">He was despised and rejected by men;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief;<br />\nand as one from whom men hide their faces<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>he was despised, and we esteemed him not. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"195": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 22:1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19022001.20-1\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v19022001-1\">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>Matthew 27:46</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40027046.01-2\">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></p>\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.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>1 John 2:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p62002002.01-4\">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>Philippians 2:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p50002008.01-5\">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>",
"196": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 12:40</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40012040.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">For just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.</span></p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 15:3-4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46015003.01-2\">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>",
"197": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Acts 2:24-27</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44002024.01-1\">God raised him up, loosing the pangs of death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it. For David says concerning him,</p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p44002025.06-1\">“‘I saw the Lord always before me,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for he is at my right hand that I may not be shaken;<br />\n therefore my heart was glad, and my tongue rejoiced;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>my flesh also will dwell in hope.<br />\n 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 2:31</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44002031.01-2\">he foresaw and spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that he was not abandoned to Hades, nor did his flesh see corruption. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"191": "Philippians 2:6-8",
"192": "Luke 1:31",
"193": "Luke 2:7",
"194": "Galatians 4:4; II Corinthians 8:9; Luke 9:58; Hebrews 2:18; Isaiah 53:3",
"195": "Psalms 22:1; Matthew 27:46; Isaiah 53:10; I John 2:2; Philippians 2:8",
"196": "Matthew 12:40; I Corinthians 15:3-4",
"197": "Acts 2:24-27,31"
},
"question": "What was the estate of Christ's humiliation?"
},
"47": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='John 1:14,18; Galatians 4:4; Luke 2:7' data-prooftexts-index='198'>Christ humbled himself in his conception and birth, in that, being from all eternity the Son of God, in the bosom of the Father, he was pleased in the fullness of time to become the son of man, made of a woman of low estate, and to be born of her; with divers circumstances of more than ordinary abasement.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"198": "<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.</p>\n</div><h5>Galatians 4:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p48004004.01-3\">But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law,</p>\n</div><h5>Luke 2:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42002007.01-4\">And she gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in swaddling cloths and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the inn. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"198": "John 1:14,18; Galatians 4:4; Luke 2:7"
},
"question": "How did Christ humble himself in his conception and birth?"
},
"48": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Galatians 4:4' data-prooftexts-index='199'>Christ humbled himself in his life, by subjecting himself to the law,</span><span data-prooftexts='Matthew 5:17; Romans 5:19' data-prooftexts-index='200'> which he perfectly fulfilled;</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 22:6; Isaiah 53:2-3; Hebrews 12:2-3' data-prooftexts-index='201'> and by conflicting with the indignities of the world,</span><span data-prooftexts='Matthew 4:1-11; Luke 4:13' data-prooftexts-index='202'> temptations of Satan,</span><span data-prooftexts='Hebrews 2:17-18; Hebrews 4:15; Isaiah 52:13-14' data-prooftexts-index='203'> and infirmities in his flesh, whether common to the nature of man, or particularly accompanying that his low condition.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"199": "<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>",
"200": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 5:17</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></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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"201": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 22:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19022006.01-1\">But I am a worm and not a man,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>scorned by mankind and despised by the people.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Isaiah 53:2-3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23053002.01-2\">For he grew up before him like a young plant,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and like a root out of dry ground;<br />\nhe had no form or majesty that we should look at him,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and no beauty that we should desire him.<br />\n He was despised and rejected by men;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief;<br />\nand as one from whom men hide their faces<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>he was despised, and we esteemed him not.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 12:2-3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58012002.01-3\">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 \n<p id=\"p58012003.05-3\">Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary or fainthearted. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"202": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 4:1-11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p40004001.05-1\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v40004001-1\">4:1 </span>Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. And after fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. And the tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread.” But he answered, <span class=\"woc\">“It is written,</span></p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p40004004.07-1\"><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 <p class=\"same-paragraph\" id=\"p40004005.01-1\">Then the devil took him to the holy city and set him on the pinnacle of the temple and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down, for it is written,</p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p40004006.19-1\">“‘He will command his angels concerning you,’</p>\n</div>\n<p class=\"same-paragraph\" id=\"p40004006.26-1\">and</p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p40004006.27-1\">“‘On their hands they will bear you up,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>lest you strike your foot against a stone.’”</p>\n</div>\n <p class=\"same-paragraph\" id=\"p40004007.01-1\">Jesus said to him, <span class=\"woc\">“Again it is written, ‘You shall not put the Lord your God to the test.’”</span> Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory. 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=\"p40004010.13-1\"><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 <p class=\"same-paragraph\" id=\"p40004011.01-1\">Then the devil left him, and behold, angels came and were ministering to him.</p>\n</div><h5>Luke 4:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42004013.01-2\">And when the devil had ended every temptation, he departed from him until an opportune time. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"203": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Hebrews 2:17-18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58002017.01-1\">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. For because he himself has suffered when tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted.</p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 4:15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58004015.01-2\">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.</p>\n</div><h5>Isaiah 52:13-14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23052013.07-3\">Behold, my servant shall act wisely;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>he shall be high and lifted up,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and shall be exalted.<br />\n As many were astonished at you—<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>his appearance was so marred, beyond human semblance,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and his form beyond that of the children of mankind— (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"199": "Galatians 4:4",
"200": "Matthew 5:17; Romans 5:19",
"201": "Psalms 22:6; Isaiah 53:2-3; Hebrews 12:2-3",
"202": "Matthew 4:1-11; Luke 4:13",
"203": "Hebrews 2:17-18; Hebrews 4:15; Isaiah 52:13-14"
},
"question": "How did Christ humble himself in his life?"
},
"49": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Matthew 27:4' data-prooftexts-index='204'>Christ humbled himself in his death, in that having been betrayed by Judas,</span><span data-prooftexts='Matthew 26:56' data-prooftexts-index='205'> forsaken by his disciples,</span><span data-prooftexts='Isaiah 53:2-3' data-prooftexts-index='206'> scorned and rejected by the world,</span><span data-prooftexts='Matthew 27:26-50; John 19:34; Luke 22:63-64' data-prooftexts-index='207'> condemned by Pilate, and tormented by his persecutors;</span><span data-prooftexts='Luke 22:44; Matthew 27:46' data-prooftexts-index='208'> having also conflicted with the terrors of death, and the powers of darkness, felt and borne the weight of God's wrath,</span><span data-prooftexts='Isaiah 53:10; Matthew 20:28; Mark 10:45' data-prooftexts-index='209'> he laid down his life an offering for sin,</span><span data-prooftexts='Philippians 2:8; Hebrews 12:2; Galatians 3:13' data-prooftexts-index='210'> enduring the painful, shameful, and cursed death of the cross.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"204": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 27:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40027004.01-1\">saying, “I have sinned by betraying innocent blood.” They said, “What is that to us? See to it yourself.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"205": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 26:56</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40026056.01-1\"><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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"206": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Isaiah 53:2-3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23053002.01-1\">For he grew up before him like a young plant,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and like a root out of dry ground;<br />\nhe had no form or majesty that we should look at him,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and no beauty that we should desire him.<br />\n He was despised and rejected by men;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief;<br />\nand as one from whom men hide their faces<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>he was despised, and we esteemed him not. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"207": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 27:26-50</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40027026.01-1\">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</div><h5>John 19:34</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43019034.01-2\">But one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and at once there came out blood and water.</p>\n</div><h5>Luke 22:63-64</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p42022063.04-3\">Now the men who were holding Jesus in custody were mocking him as they beat him. They also blindfolded him and kept asking him, “Prophesy! Who is it that struck you?” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"208": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Luke 22:44</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42022044.01-1\">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=\"p40027046.01-2\">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>",
"209": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Isaiah 53:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23053010.01-1\">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.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Matthew 20:28</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40020028.01-2\"><span class=\"woc\">even as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”</span></p>\n</div><h5>Mark 10:45</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p41010045.01-3\"><span class=\"woc\">For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"210": "<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.</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>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>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"204": "Matthew 27:4",
"205": "Matthew 26:56",
"206": "Isaiah 53:2-3",
"207": "Matthew 27:26-50; John 19:34; Luke 22:63-64",
"208": "Luke 22:44; Matthew 27:46",
"209": "Isaiah 53:10; Matthew 20:28; Mark 10:45",
"210": "Philippians 2:8; Hebrews 12:2; Galatians 3:13"
},
"question": "How did Christ humble himself in his death?"
},
"5": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Genesis 1:1; Ex 34:5-7; Psalms 48:1; John 20:31; II Timothy 3:15' data-prooftexts-index='13'>The Scriptures principally teach, what man is to believe concerning God,</span><span data-prooftexts='Deuteronomy 10:12-13; II Timothy 3:15-17; Acts 16:30-31' data-prooftexts-index='14'> and what duty God requires of man.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"13": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Genesis 1:1</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.</p>\n</div><h5>Exodus 34:5-7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p02034005.01-2\">The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> descended in the cloud and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>. The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> passed before him and proclaimed, “The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children's children, to the third and the fourth generation.”</p>\n</div><h5>Psalm 48:1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19048001.16-3\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v19048001-3\">48:1 </span>Great is the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> and greatly to be praised<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>in the city of our God!<br />\nHis holy mountain,</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>John 20:31</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43020031.01-4\">but these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.</p>\n</div><h5>2 Timothy 3:15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p55003015.01-5\">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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"14": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Deuteronomy 10:12-13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p05010012.04-1\">“And now, Israel, what does the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God require of you, but to fear the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God with all your heart and with all your soul, and to keep the commandments and statutes of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, which I am commanding you today for your good?</p>\n</div><h5>2 Timothy 3:15-17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p55003015.01-2\">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>Acts 16:30-31</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44016030.01-3\">Then he brought them out and said, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?” And they said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"13": "Genesis 1:1; Ex 34:5-7; Psalms 48:1; John 20:31; II Timothy 3:15",
"14": "Deuteronomy 10:12-13; II Timothy 3:15-17; Acts 16:30-31"
},
"question": "What do the Scriptures principally teach?"
},
"50": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='I Corinthians 15:3-4' data-prooftexts-index='211'>Christ's humiliation after his death consisted in his being buried,</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 16:10; Acts 2:24-27,31; Romans 6:9; Matthew 12:40' data-prooftexts-index='212'> and continuing in the state of the dead, and under the power of death till the third day;</span> which hath been otherwise expressed in these words, He descended into hell.",
"prooftext_verses": {
"211": "<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>",
"212": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 16:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19016010.01-1\">For you will not abandon my soul to Sheol,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>or let your holy one see corruption.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Acts 2:24-27</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44002024.01-2\">God raised him up, loosing the pangs of death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it. For David says concerning him,</p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p44002025.06-2\">“‘I saw the Lord always before me,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for he is at my right hand that I may not be shaken;<br />\n therefore my heart was glad, and my tongue rejoiced;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>my flesh also will dwell in hope.<br />\n 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 2:31</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44002031.01-3\">he foresaw and spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that he was not abandoned to Hades, nor did his flesh 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.</p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 12:40</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40012040.01-5\"><span class=\"woc\">For just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"211": "I Corinthians 15:3-4",
"212": "Psalms 16:10; Acts 2:24-27,31; Romans 6:9; Matthew 12:40"
},
"question": "Wherein consisted Christ's humiliation after his death?"
},
"51": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='I Corinthians 15:4' data-prooftexts-index='213'>The estate of Christ's exaltation comprehendeth his resurrection,</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 68:18; Acts 1:11; Ephesians 4:8' data-prooftexts-index='214'> ascension,</span><span data-prooftexts='Ephesians 1:20; Psalms 110:1; Acts 2:33-34; Hebrews 1:3' data-prooftexts-index='215'> sitting at the right hand of the Father,</span><span data-prooftexts='Acts 1:11; Acts 17:31; Matthew 16:27' data-prooftexts-index='216'> and his coming again to judge the world.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"213": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Corinthians 15:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46015004.01-1\">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>",
"214": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 68:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19068018.01-1\">You ascended on high,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>leading a host of captives in your train<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and receiving gifts among men,<br />\neven among the rebellious, that the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> God may dwell there.</p>\n</div>\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>Ephesians 4:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49004008.01-3\">Therefore it says,</p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p49004008.04-3\">“When he ascended on high he led a host of captives,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and he gave gifts to men.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"215": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ephesians 1:20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49001020.01-1\">that he worked in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places,</p>\n</div><h5>Psalm 110:1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19110001.10-2\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v19110001-2\">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>Acts 2:33-34</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44002033.01-3\">Being therefore exalted at the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this that you yourselves are seeing and hearing. For David did not ascend into the heavens, but he himself says,</p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p44002034.13-3\">“‘The Lord said to my Lord,<br />\nSit at my right hand,</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 1:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58001003.01-4\">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>",
"216": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Acts 1:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44001011.01-1\">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 17:31</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44017031.01-2\">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.”</p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 16:27</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40016027.01-3\"><span class=\"woc\">For the Son of Man is going to come with his angels in the glory of his Father, and then he will repay each person according to what he has done.</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"213": "I Corinthians 15:4",
"214": "Psalms 68:18; Acts 1:11; Ephesians 4:8",
"215": "Ephesians 1:20; Psalms 110:1; Acts 2:33-34; Hebrews 1:3",
"216": "Acts 1:11; Acts 17:31; Matthew 16:27"
},
"question": "What was the estate of Christ's exaltation?"
},
"52": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Acts 2:24,27' data-prooftexts-index='217'>Christ was exalted in his resurrection, in that, not having seen corruption in death, (of which it was not possible for him to be held,</span><span data-prooftexts='Luke 24:39' data-prooftexts-index='218'>) and having the very same body in which he suffered, with the essential properties thereof,</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 6:9; Revelation 1:18' data-prooftexts-index='219'> (but without mortality, and other common infirmities belonging to this life,) really united to his soul,</span><span data-prooftexts='John 10:18' data-prooftexts-index='220'> he rose again from the dead the third day by his own power;</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 1:4' data-prooftexts-index='221'> whereby he declared himself to be the Son of God,</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 8:34; Romans 3:25-26; Hebrews 9:13-14' data-prooftexts-index='222'> to have satisfied divine justice,</span><span data-prooftexts='Hebrews 2:14' data-prooftexts-index='223'> to have vanquished death, and him that had the power of it,</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 14:9' data-prooftexts-index='224'> and to be Lord of quick and dead:</span><span data-prooftexts='I Corinthians 15:21-22; Isaiah 53:10-11' data-prooftexts-index='225'> all which he did as a public person,</span><span data-prooftexts='Ephesians 1:20-23; Colossians 1:18' data-prooftexts-index='226'> the head of his church,</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 4:25' data-prooftexts-index='227'> for their justification,</span><span data-prooftexts='Ephesians 2:1,5-6; Colossians 2:12' data-prooftexts-index='228'> quickening in grace,</span><span data-prooftexts='I Corinthians 15:25-27; Psalms 2:7-9' data-prooftexts-index='229'> support against enemies,</span><span data-prooftexts='I Corinthians 15:20; I Thessalonians 4:14' data-prooftexts-index='230'> and to assure them of their resurrection from the dead at the last day.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"217": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Acts 2:24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44002024.01-1\">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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"218": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Luke 24:39</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42024039.01-1\"><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>",
"219": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 6:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45006009.01-1\">We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him.</p>\n</div><h5>Revelation 1:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p66001018.01-2\"><span class=\"woc\">and the living one. I died, and behold I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of Death and Hades.</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"220": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>John 10:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43010018.01-1\"><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> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"221": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 1:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45001004.01-1\">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, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"222": "<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>Romans 3:25-26</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45003025.01-2\">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.</p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 9:13-14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58009013.01-3\">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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"223": "<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, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"224": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 14:9</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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"225": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Corinthians 15:21-22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46015021.01-1\">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>Isaiah 53:10-11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23053010.01-2\">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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"226": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ephesians 1:20-23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49001020.01-1\">that he worked in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places, far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and above every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come. 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>Colossians 1:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p51001018.01-2\">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>",
"227": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 4:25</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45004025.01-1\">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>",
"228": "<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 2:5-6</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— and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,</p>\n</div><h5>Colossians 2:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p51002012.01-3\">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>",
"229": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Corinthians 15:25-27</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46015025.01-1\">For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. The last enemy to be destroyed is death. For “God has put all things in subjection under his feet.” But when it says, “all things are put in subjection,” it is plain that he is excepted who put all things in subjection under him.</p>\n</div><h5>Psalm 2:7-9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19002007.01-2\">I will tell of the decree:<br />\nThe <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> said to me, “You are my Son;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>today I have begotten you.<br />\n 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.<br />\n You shall break them with a rod of iron<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"230": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Corinthians 15:20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46015020.01-1\">But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Thessalonians 4:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p52004014.01-2\">For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"217": "Acts 2:24,27",
"218": "Luke 24:39",
"219": "Romans 6:9; Revelation 1:18",
"220": "John 10:18",
"221": "Romans 1:4",
"222": "Romans 8:34; Romans 3:25-26; Hebrews 9:13-14",
"223": "Hebrews 2:14",
"224": "Romans 14:9",
"225": "I Corinthians 15:21-22; Isaiah 53:10-11",
"226": "Ephesians 1:20-23; Colossians 1:18",
"227": "Romans 4:25",
"228": "Ephesians 2:1,5-6; Colossians 2:12",
"229": "I Corinthians 15:25-27; Psalms 2:7-9",
"230": "I Corinthians 15:20; I Thessalonians 4:14"
},
"question": "How was Christ exalted in his resurrection?"
},
"53": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Acts 1:2-3' data-prooftexts-index='231'>Christ was exalted in his ascension, in that having after his resurrection often appeared unto and conversed with his apostles, speaking to them of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God,</span><span data-prooftexts='Matthew 28:19-20' data-prooftexts-index='232'> and giving them commission to preach the gospel to all nations,</span><span data-prooftexts='John 20:17; Hebrews 6:20' data-prooftexts-index='233'> forty days after his resurrection, he, in our nature, and as our head,</span><span data-prooftexts='Ephesians 4:8' data-prooftexts-index='234'> triumphing over enemies,</span><span data-prooftexts='Acts 1:9-11; Ephesians 4:7-8; Psalms 68:18; Ephesians 4:10; Acts 2:33' data-prooftexts-index='235'> visibly went up into the highest heavens, there to receive gifts for men,</span><span data-prooftexts='Colossians 3:1-2' data-prooftexts-index='236'> to raise up our affections thither,</span><span data-prooftexts='John 14:3' data-prooftexts-index='237'> and to prepare a place for us,</span><span data-prooftexts='Acts 3:21' data-prooftexts-index='238'> where himself is, and shall continue till his second coming at the end of the world.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"231": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Acts 1:2-3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44001002.01-1\">until the day when he was taken up, after he had given commands through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen. He presented himself alive to them after his suffering by many proofs, appearing to them during forty days and speaking about the kingdom of God. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"232": "<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>",
"233": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>John 20:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43020017.01-1\">Jesus said to her, <span class=\"woc\">“Do not cling to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to my brothers and say to them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’”</span></p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 6:20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58006020.01-2\">where Jesus has gone as a forerunner on our behalf, having become a high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"234": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ephesians 4:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49004008.01-1\">Therefore it says,</p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p49004008.04-1\">“When he ascended on high he led a host of captives,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and he gave gifts to men.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"235": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Acts 1:9-11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44001009.01-1\">And when he had said these things, as they were looking on, he was lifted up, and a cloud took him out of their sight. And while they were gazing into heaven as he went, behold, two men stood by them in white robes, 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>Ephesians 4:7-8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49004007.01-2\">But grace was given to each one of us according to the measure of Christ's gift. Therefore it says,</p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p49004008.04-2\">“When he ascended on high he led a host of captives,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and he gave gifts to men.”</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 68:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19068018.01-3\">You ascended on high,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>leading a host of captives in your train<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and receiving gifts among men,<br />\neven among the rebellious, that the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> God may dwell there.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 4:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49004010.01-4\">He who descended is the one who also ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.)</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 2:33</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44002033.01-5\">Being therefore exalted at the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this that you yourselves are seeing and hearing. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"236": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Colossians 3:1-2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p51003001.06-1\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v51003001-1\">3:1 </span>If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"237": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>John 14:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43014003.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also.</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"238": "<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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"231": "Acts 1:2-3",
"232": "Matthew 28:19-20",
"233": "John 20:17; Hebrews 6:20",
"234": "Ephesians 4:8",
"235": "Acts 1:9-11; Ephesians 4:7-8; Psalms 68:18; Ephesians 4:10; Acts 2:33",
"236": "Colossians 3:1-2",
"237": "John 14:3",
"238": "Acts 3:21"
},
"question": "How was Christ exalted in his ascension?"
},
"54": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Philippians 2:9' data-prooftexts-index='239'>Christ is exalted in his sitting at the right hand of God, in that as God-man he is advanced to the highest favor with God the Father,</span><span data-prooftexts='Acts 2:28; Psalms 16:11' data-prooftexts-index='240'> with all fullness of joy,</span><span data-prooftexts='John 17:5' data-prooftexts-index='241'> glory,</span><span data-prooftexts='Daniel 7:13-14; Ephesians 1:22; I Peter 3:22' data-prooftexts-index='242'> and power over all things in heaven and earth;</span><span data-prooftexts='Ephesians 4:10-12; Psalms 110:1; Hebrews 10:12-14; Ezekiel 37:24' data-prooftexts-index='243'> and doth gather and defend his church, and subdue their enemies; furnisheth his ministers and people with gifts and graces,</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 8:34; I John 2:1; Hebrews 7:25' data-prooftexts-index='244'> and maketh intercession for them.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"239": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Philippians 2:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p50002009.01-1\">Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"240": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Acts 2:28</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p44002028.01-1\">You have made known to me the paths of life;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>you will make me full of gladness with your presence.’</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 16:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19016011.01-2\">You make known to me the path of life;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>in your presence there is fullness of joy;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>at your right hand are pleasures forevermore. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"241": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>John 17:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43017005.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">And now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had with you before the world existed.</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"242": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Daniel 7:13-14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p27007013.08-1\">“I saw in the night visions,</p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p27007013.14-1\">and behold, with the clouds of heaven<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>there came one like a son of man,<br />\nand he came to the Ancient of Days<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and was presented before him.<br />\n And to him was given dominion<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and glory and a kingdom,<br />\nthat all peoples, nations, and languages<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>should serve him;<br />\nhis dominion is an everlasting dominion,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>which shall not pass away,<br />\nand his kingdom one<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that shall not be destroyed.</p>\n</div>\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,</p>\n</div><h5>1 Peter 3:22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p60003022.01-3\">who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, with angels, authorities, and powers having been subjected to him. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"243": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ephesians 4:10-12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49004010.01-1\">He who descended is the one who also ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.) 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,</p>\n</div><h5>Psalm 110:1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19110001.10-2\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v19110001-2\">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>Hebrews 10:12-14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58010012.01-3\">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</div><h5>Ezekiel 37:24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p26037024.01-4\">“My servant David shall be king over them, and they shall all have one shepherd. They shall walk in my rules and be careful to obey my statutes. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"244": "<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>1 John 2:1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p62002001.04-2\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v62002001-2\">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.</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>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"239": "Philippians 2:9",
"240": "Acts 2:28; Psalms 16:11",
"241": "John 17:5",
"242": "Daniel 7:13-14; Ephesians 1:22; I Peter 3:22",
"243": "Ephesians 4:10-12; Psalms 110:1; Hebrews 10:12-14; Ezekiel 37:24",
"244": "Romans 8:34; I John 2:1; Hebrews 7:25"
},
"question": "How is Christ exalted in his sitting at the right hand of God?"
},
"55": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Hebrews 9:12,24' data-prooftexts-index='245'>Christ maketh intercession, by his appearing in our nature continually before the Father in heaven,</span><span data-prooftexts='Isaiah 53:12; Hebrews 1:3' data-prooftexts-index='246'> in the merit of his obedience and sacrifice on earth,</span><span data-prooftexts='John 3:16; John 17:9,20,24' data-prooftexts-index='247'> declaring his will to have it applied to all believers;</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 8:33-34' data-prooftexts-index='248'> answering all accusations against them,</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 5:1-2; I John 2:1-2' data-prooftexts-index='249'> and procuring for them quiet of conscience, notwithstanding daily failings,</span><span data-prooftexts='Hebrews 4:16' data-prooftexts-index='250'> access with boldness to the throne of grace,</span><span data-prooftexts='Ephesians 1:6' data-prooftexts-index='251'> and acceptance of their persons</span><span data-prooftexts='I Peter 2:5' data-prooftexts-index='252'> and services.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"245": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Hebrews 9:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58009012.01-1\">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 9:24</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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"246": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Isaiah 53:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23053012.01-1\">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.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 1:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58001003.01-2\">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>",
"247": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>John 3:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p43003016.07-1\"><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>John 17:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43017009.01-2\"><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>John 17:20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43017020.01-3\"><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>John 17:24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43017024.01-4\"><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> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"248": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 8:33-34</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45008033.01-1\">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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"249": "<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>1 John 2:1-2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p62002001.04-2\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v62002001-2\">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>",
"250": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Hebrews 4:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58004016.01-1\">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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"251": "<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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"252": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Peter 2:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p60002005.01-1\">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>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"245": "Hebrews 9:12,24",
"246": "Isaiah 53:12; Hebrews 1:3",
"247": "John 3:16; John 17:9,20,24",
"248": "Romans 8:33-34",
"249": "Romans 5:1-2; I John 2:1-2",
"250": "Hebrews 4:16",
"251": "Ephesians 1:6",
"252": "I Peter 2:5"
},
"question": "How doth Christ make intercession?"
},
"56": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Acts 3:14-15' data-prooftexts-index='253'>Christ is to be exalted in his coming again to judge the world, in that he, who was unjustly judged and condemned by wicked men,</span><span data-prooftexts='Matthew 24:30; II Thessalonians 1:9-10' data-prooftexts-index='254'> shall come again at the last day in great power,</span><span data-prooftexts='Luke 9:26; Matthew 25:31' data-prooftexts-index='255'> and in the full manifestation of his own glory, and of his Father's, with all his holy angels,</span><span data-prooftexts='I Thessalonians 4:16' data-prooftexts-index='256'> with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet of God,</span><span data-prooftexts='Acts 17:31; II Thessalonians 1:6-8' data-prooftexts-index='257'> to judge the world in righteousness.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"253": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Acts 3:14-15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44003014.01-1\">But you denied the Holy and Righteous One, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you, and you killed the Author of life, whom God raised from the dead. To this we are witnesses. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"254": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 24:30</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40024030.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">Then will appear in heaven the sign of the Son of Man, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.</span></p>\n</div><h5>2 Thessalonians 1:9-10</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, 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>",
"255": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Luke 9:26</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42009026.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">For whoever is ashamed of me and of my words, of him will the Son of Man be ashamed when he comes in his glory and the glory of the Father and of the holy angels.</span></p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 25:31</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p40025031.04-2\"><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> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"256": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Thessalonians 4:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p52004016.01-1\">For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"257": "<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.”</p>\n</div><h5>2 Thessalonians 1:6-8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p53001006.01-2\">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 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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"253": "Acts 3:14-15",
"254": "Matthew 24:30; II Thessalonians 1:9-10",
"255": "Luke 9:26; Matthew 25:31",
"256": "I Thessalonians 4:16",
"257": "Acts 17:31; II Thessalonians 1:6-8"
},
"question": "How is Christ to be exalted in his coming again to judge the world?"
},
"57": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='I Timothy 2:5-6; Hebrews 9:12; Ephesians 1:7' data-prooftexts-index='258'>Christ, by his mediation, hath procured redemption,</span><span data-prooftexts='II Corinthians 1:20; Ephesians 1:3-6; II Peter 1:3-4' data-prooftexts-index='259'> with all other benefits of the covenant of grace.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"258": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Timothy 2:5-6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p54002005.01-1\">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 9:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58009012.01-2\">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>Ephesians 1:7</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, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"259": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>2 Corinthians 1:20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p47001020.01-1\">For all the promises of God find their Yes in him. That is why it is through him that we utter our Amen to God for his glory.</p>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 1:3-6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p49001003.05-2\">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 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>2 Peter 1:3-4</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, 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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"258": "I Timothy 2:5-6; Hebrews 9:12; Ephesians 1:7",
"259": "II Corinthians 1:20; Ephesians 1:3-6; II Peter 1:3-4"
},
"question": "What benefits hath Christ procured by his mediation?"
},
"58": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='John 1:11-12' data-prooftexts-index='260'>We are made partakers of the benefits which Christ hath procured, by the application of them unto us,</span><span data-prooftexts='Titus 3:4-7; John 16:14-15; John 3:3-8' data-prooftexts-index='261'> which is the work especially of God the Holy Ghost.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"260": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>John 1:11-12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43001011.01-1\">He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him. 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>",
"261": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Titus 3:4-7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p56003004.01-1\">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.</p>\n</div><h5>John 16:14-15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43016014.01-2\"><span class=\"woc\">He will glorify me, for he will take what is mine and declare it to you.</span> <span class=\"woc\">All that the Father has is mine; therefore I said that he will take what is mine and declare it to you.</span></p>\n</div><h5>John 3:3-8</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> Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?” 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> <span class=\"woc\">That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.</span> <span class=\"woc\">Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’</span> <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>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"260": "John 1:11-12",
"261": "Titus 3:4-7; John 16:14-15; John 3:3-8"
},
"question": "How do we come to be made partakers of the benefits which Christ hath procured?"
},
"59": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Ephesians 1:13-14; John 6:37,39; John 10:15-16' data-prooftexts-index='262'>Redemption is certainly applied, and effectually communicated, to all those for whom Christ hath purchased it;</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 10:17; I Corinthians 2:12-16; Ephesians 2:8; Romans 8:9,14' data-prooftexts-index='263'> who are in time by the Holy Ghost enabled to believe in Christ according to the gospel.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"262": "<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>John 6:37</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43006037.01-2\"><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=\"p43006039.01-3\"><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=\"p43010015.01-4\"><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>",
"263": "<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>1 Corinthians 2:12-16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46002012.01-2\">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. 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. The spiritual person judges all things, but is himself to be judged by no one. “For who has understood the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?” But we have the mind of Christ.</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,</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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"262": "Ephesians 1:13-14; John 6:37,39; John 10:15-16",
"263": "Romans 10:17; I Corinthians 2:12-16; Ephesians 2:8; Romans 8:9,14"
},
"question": "Who are made partakers of redemption through Christ?"
},
"6": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='John 4:24; Ex 34:6-7; Isaiah 40:18,21-23,25,28; Hebrews 11:6' data-prooftexts-index='15'>The Scriptures make known what God is,</span><span data-prooftexts='Matthew 3:16-17; Deuteronomy 6:4-6; I Corinthians 8:4,6; Matthew 28:19-20; II Corinthians 13:14' data-prooftexts-index='16'> the persons in the Godhead,</span><span data-prooftexts='Acts 15:14-15,18; Isaiah 46:9-10' data-prooftexts-index='17'> his decrees,</span><span data-prooftexts='Acts 4:27-28' data-prooftexts-index='18'> and the execution of his decrees.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"15": "<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></p>\n</div><h5>Exodus 34:6-7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p02034006.01-2\">The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> passed before him and proclaimed, “The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children's children, to the third and the fourth generation.”</p>\n</div><h5>Isaiah 40:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23040018.01-3\">To whom then will you liken God,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>or what likeness compare with him?</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Isaiah 40:21-23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23040021.01-4\">Do you not know? Do you not hear?<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Has it not been told you from the beginning?<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth?<br />\n It is he who sits above the circle of the earth,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers;<br />\nwho stretches out the heavens like a curtain,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and spreads them like a tent to dwell in;<br />\n who brings princes to nothing,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and makes the rulers of the earth as emptiness.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Isaiah 40:25</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23040025.01-5\">To whom then will you compare me,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that I should be like him? says the Holy One.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Isaiah 40:28</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23040028.01-6\">Have you not known? Have you not heard?<br />\nThe <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> is the everlasting God,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>the Creator of the ends of the earth.<br />\nHe does not faint or grow weary;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>his understanding is unsearchable.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 11:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58011006.01-7\">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>",
"16": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 3:16-17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40003016.01-1\">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>Deuteronomy 6:4-6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p05006004.01-2\">“Hear, O Israel: The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> our God, the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> is one. You shall love the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 8:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46008004.01-3\">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=\"p46008006.01-4\">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>Matthew 28:19-20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40028019.01-5\"><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>2 Corinthians 13:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p47013014.01-6\">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>",
"17": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Acts 15:14-15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44015014.01-1\">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><h5>Acts 15:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p44015018.01-2\"><span class=\"verse-num inline\" id=\"v44015018-2\">18 </span>known from of old.’</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Isaiah 46:9-10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23046009.01-3\"><span class=\"indent\"></span>remember the former things of old;<br />\nfor I am God, and there is no other;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I am God, and there is none like me,<br />\n declaring the end from the beginning<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and from ancient times things not yet done,<br />\nsaying, ‘My counsel shall stand,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and I will accomplish all my purpose,’ (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"18": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Acts 4:27-28</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p class=\"same-paragraph\" id=\"p44004027.01-1\">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>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"15": "John 4:24; Ex 34:6-7; Isaiah 40:18,21-23,25,28; Hebrews 11:6",
"16": "Matthew 3:16-17; Deuteronomy 6:4-6; I Corinthians 8:4,6; Matthew 28:19-20; II Corinthians 13:14",
"17": "Acts 15:14-15,18; Isaiah 46:9-10",
"18": "Acts 4:27-28"
},
"question": "What do the Scriptures make known of God?"
},
"60": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Romans 10:14' data-prooftexts-index='264'>They who, having never heard the gospel,</span><span data-prooftexts='II Thessalonians 1:8-9; Ephesians 2:12; John 1:10-12' data-prooftexts-index='265'> know not Jesus Christ,</span><span data-prooftexts='John 8:24; John 3:18' data-prooftexts-index='266'> and believe not in him, cannot be saved,</span><span data-prooftexts='I Corinthians 1:20-24' data-prooftexts-index='267'> be they never so diligent to frame their lives according to the light of nature,</span><span data-prooftexts='John 4:22; Romans 9:31-32; Philippians 3:4-9' data-prooftexts-index='268'> or the laws of that religion which they profess;</span><span data-prooftexts='Acts 4:12' data-prooftexts-index='269'> neither is there salvation in any other, but in Christ alone,</span><span data-prooftexts='Ephesians 5:23' data-prooftexts-index='270'> who is the Savior only of his body the church.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"264": "<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? (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"265": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>2 Thessalonians 1:8-9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p53001008.01-1\">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,</p>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 2:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49002012.01-2\">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 1:10-12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43001010.01-3\">He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him. He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him. 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>",
"266": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>John 8:24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43008024.01-1\"><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></p>\n</div><h5>John 3:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43003018.01-2\"><span class=\"woc\">Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"267": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Corinthians 1:20-24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p class=\"same-paragraph\" id=\"p46001020.01-1\">Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? 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. For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles, but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"268": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>John 4:22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43004022.01-1\"><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>Romans 9:31-32</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45009031.01-2\">but that Israel who pursued a law that would lead to righteousness did not succeed in reaching that law. Why? Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as if it were based on works. They have stumbled over the stumbling stone,</p>\n</div><h5>Philippians 3:4-9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p50003004.01-3\">though I myself have reason for confidence in the flesh also. If anyone else thinks he has reason for confidence in the flesh, I have more: circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee; as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to righteousness under the law, blameless. But whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ. Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ 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— (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"269": "<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.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"270": "<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>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"264": "Romans 10:14",
"265": "II Thessalonians 1:8-9; Ephesians 2:12; John 1:10-12",
"266": "John 8:24; John 3:18",
"267": "I Corinthians 1:20-24",
"268": "John 4:22; Romans 9:31-32; Philippians 3:4-9",
"269": "Acts 4:12",
"270": "Ephesians 5:23"
},
"question": "Can they who have never heard the gospel, and so know not Jesus Christ, nor believe in him, be saved by their living according to the light of nature?"
},
"61": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='John 12:38-40; Romans 9:6; Matthew 22:14; Matthew 7:21; Romans 11:7; I Corinthians 10:2-5' data-prooftexts-index='271'>All that hear the gospel, and live in the visible church, are not saved; but they only who are true members of the church invisible.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"271": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>John 12:38-40</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43012038.01-1\">so that the word spoken by the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled:</p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p43012038.13-1\">“Lord, who has believed what he heard from us,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?”</p>\n</div>\n <p class=\"same-paragraph\" id=\"p43012039.01-1\">Therefore they could not believe. For again Isaiah said,</p>\n <div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p43012040.01-1\">“He has blinded their eyes<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and hardened their heart,<br />\nlest they see with their eyes,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and understand with their heart, and turn,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and I would heal them.”</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Romans 9:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45009006.01-2\">But it is not as though the word of God has failed. For not all who are descended from Israel belong to Israel,</p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 22:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40022014.01-3\"><span class=\"woc\">For many are called, but few are chosen.”</span></p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 7:21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p40007021.05-4\"><span class=\"woc\">“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.</span></p>\n</div><h5>Romans 11:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45011007.01-5\">What then? Israel failed to obtain what it was seeking. The elect obtained it, but the rest were hardened,</p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 10:2-5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46010002.01-6\">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. Nevertheless, with most of them God was not pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"271": "John 12:38-40; Romans 9:6; Matthew 22:14; Matthew 7:21; Romans 11:7; I Corinthians 10:2-5"
},
"question": "Are all they saved who hear the gospel, and live in the church?"
},
"62": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='I Corinthians 1:2; I Corinthians 12:13; Romans 15:9-12; Revelation 7:9; Psalms 2:8; Psalms 22:27-31; Psalms 45:17; Matthew 28:19-20; Isaiah 59:21' data-prooftexts-index='272'>The visible church is a society made up of all such as in all ages and places of the world do profess the true religion,</span><span data-prooftexts='I Corinthians 7:14; Acts 2:39; Romans 11:16; Genesis 17:7' data-prooftexts-index='273'> and of their children.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"272": "<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 12:13</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.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 15:9-12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45015009.01-3\">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=\"p45015009.17-3\">“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=\"p45015010.01-3\">And again it is said,</p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p45015010.06-3\">“Rejoice, O Gentiles, with his people.”</p>\n</div>\n <p class=\"same-paragraph\" id=\"p45015011.01-3\">And again,</p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p45015011.03-3\">“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=\"p45015012.01-3\">And again Isaiah says,</p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p45015012.05-3\">“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.”</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>Psalm 2:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19002008.01-5\">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>Psalm 22:27-31</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19022027.01-6\">All the ends of the earth shall remember<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and turn to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,<br />\nand all the families of the nations<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>shall worship before you.<br />\n For kingship belongs to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and he rules over the nations.</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19022029.01-6\">All the prosperous of the earth eat and worship;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>before him shall bow all who go down to the dust,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>even the one who could not keep himself alive.<br />\n Posterity shall serve him;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>it shall be told of the Lord to the coming generation;<br />\n they shall come and proclaim his righteousness to a people yet unborn,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that he has done it.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 45:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19045017.01-7\">I will cause your name to be remembered in all generations;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>therefore nations will praise you forever and ever.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Matthew 28:19-20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40028019.01-8\"><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=\"p23059021.01-9\">“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>",
"273": "<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>Romans 11:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45011016.01-3\">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 17:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p01017007.01-4\">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>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"272": "I Corinthians 1:2; I Corinthians 12:13; Romans 15:9-12; Revelation 7:9; Psalms 2:8; Psalms 22:27-31; Psalms 45:17; Matthew 28:19-20; Isaiah 59:21",
"273": "I Corinthians 7:14; Acts 2:39; Romans 11:16; Genesis 17:7"
},
"question": "What is the visible church?"
},
"63": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Isaiah 4:5-6; I Timothy 4:10; Ephesians 4:11-13' data-prooftexts-index='274'>The visible church hath the privilege of being under God's special care and government;</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 115:1-2,9; Isaiah 31:4-5; Zechariah 12:2-4,8-9; Matthew 16:18' data-prooftexts-index='275'> of being protected and preserved in all ages, notwithstanding the opposition of all enemies;</span><span data-prooftexts='Acts 2:39,42; Matthew 28:19-20; I Corinthians 12:12-13' data-prooftexts-index='276'> and of enjoying the communion of saints, the ordinary means of salvation,</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 147:19-20; Romans 9:4; Ephesians 4:11-12; Acts 22:16; Acts 2:21; Joel 2:32; Romans 10:10-13,17' data-prooftexts-index='277'> and offers of grace by Christ to all the members of it in the ministry of the gospel, testifying, that whosoever believes in him shall be saved,</span><span data-prooftexts='Matthew 11:28-29; John 6:37' data-prooftexts-index='278'> and excluding none that will come unto him.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"274": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Isaiah 4:5-6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p23004005.01-1\">Then the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> will create over the whole site of Mount Zion and over her assemblies a cloud by day, and smoke and the shining of a flaming fire by night; for over all the glory there will be a canopy. There will be a booth for shade by day from the heat, and for a refuge and a shelter from the storm and rain.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Timothy 4:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p54004010.01-2\">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>Ephesians 4:11-13</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, 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, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"275": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 115:1-2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19115001.06-1\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v19115001-1\">115:1 </span>Not to us, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, not to us, but to your name give glory,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for the sake of your steadfast love and your faithfulness!</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19115002.01-1\">Why should the nations say,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>“Where is their God?”</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 115:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19115009.01-2\">O Israel, trust in the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>!<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>He is their help and their shield.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Isaiah 31:4-5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23031004.01-3\">For thus the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> said to me,<br />\n“As a lion or a young lion growls over his prey,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and when a band of shepherds is called out against him<br />\nhe is not terrified by their shouting<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>or daunted at their noise,<br />\nso the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> of hosts will come down<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>to fight on Mount Zion and on its hill.<br />\n Like birds hovering, so the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> of hosts<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>will protect Jerusalem;<br />\nhe will protect and deliver it;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>he will spare and rescue it.”</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Zechariah 12:2-4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p38012002.01-4\">“Behold, I am about to make Jerusalem a cup of staggering to all the surrounding peoples. The siege of Jerusalem will also be against Judah. On that day I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples. All who lift it will surely hurt themselves. And all the nations of the earth will gather against it. On that day, declares the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, I will strike every horse with panic, and its rider with madness. But for the sake of the house of Judah I will keep my eyes open, when I strike every horse of the peoples with blindness.</p>\n</div><h5>Zechariah 12:8-9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p38012008.01-5\">On that day the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> will protect the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the feeblest among them on that day shall be like David, and the house of David shall be like God, like the angel of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, going before them. And on that day I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.</p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 16:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40016018.01-6\"><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> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"276": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Acts 2:39</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44002039.01-1\">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>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>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>1 Corinthians 12:12-13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p46012012.06-4\">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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"277": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 147:19-20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19147019.01-1\">He declares his word to Jacob,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>his statutes and rules to Israel.<br />\n He has not dealt thus with any other nation;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>they do not know his rules.<br />\nPraise the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>!</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Romans 9:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45009004.01-2\">They are Israelites, and to them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises.</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,</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 22:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44022016.01-4\">And now why do you wait? Rise and be baptized and wash away your sins, calling on his name.’</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 2:21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p44002021.01-5\">And it shall come to pass that everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.’</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Joel 2:32</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p29002032.01-6\">And it shall come to pass that everyone who calls on the name of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> shall be saved. For in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there shall be those who escape, as the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> has said, and among the survivors shall be those whom the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> calls.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 10:10-13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45010010.01-7\">For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved. For the Scripture says, “Everyone who believes in him will not be put to shame.” 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. For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 10:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45010017.01-8\">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>",
"278": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 11:28-29</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40011028.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.</span> <span class=\"woc\">Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.</span></p>\n</div><h5>John 6:37</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43006037.01-2\"><span class=\"woc\">All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out.</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"274": "Isaiah 4:5-6; I Timothy 4:10; Ephesians 4:11-13",
"275": "Psalms 115:1-2,9; Isaiah 31:4-5; Zechariah 12:2-4,8-9; Matthew 16:18",
"276": "Acts 2:39,42; Matthew 28:19-20; I Corinthians 12:12-13",
"277": "Psalms 147:19-20; Romans 9:4; Ephesians 4:11-12; Acts 22:16; Acts 2:21; Joel 2:32; Romans 10:10-13,17",
"278": "Matthew 11:28-29; John 6:37"
},
"question": "What are the special privileges of the visible church?"
},
"64": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Ephesians 1:10; Ephesians 1:22-23; John 10:16; John 11:52; Ephesians 5:23,27,32' data-prooftexts-index='279'>The invisible church is the whole number of the elect, that have been, are, or shall be gathered into one under Christ the head.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"279": "<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>John 10:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43010016.01-3\"><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></p>\n</div><h5>John 11:52</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43011052.01-4\">and not for the nation only, but also to gather into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.</p>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 5:23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49005023.01-5\">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=\"p49005027.01-6\">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=\"p49005032.01-7\">This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"279": "Ephesians 1:10; Ephesians 1:22-23; John 10:16; John 11:52; Ephesians 5:23,27,32"
},
"question": "What is the invisible church?"
},
"65": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='John 17:21; Ephesians 2:5-6; John 17:24; I John 1:3; John 1:16; Ephesians 3:16-19; Philippians 3:10; Romans 6:5-6' data-prooftexts-index='280'>The members of the invisible church by Christ enjoy union and communion with him in grace and glory.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"280": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>John 17:21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43017021.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me.</span></p>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 2:5-6</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— and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,</p>\n</div><h5>John 17:24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43017024.01-3\"><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>1 John 1:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p62001003.01-4\">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>John 1:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43001016.01-5\">And from his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace.</p>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 3:16-19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49003016.01-6\">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>Philippians 3:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p50003010.01-7\">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=\"p45006005.01-8\">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>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"280": "John 17:21; Ephesians 2:5-6; John 17:24; I John 1:3; John 1:16; Ephesians 3:16-19; Philippians 3:10; Romans 6:5-6"
},
"question": "What special benefits do the members of the invisible church enjoy by Christ?"
},
"66": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Ephesians 2:6-7' data-prooftexts-index='281'>The union which the elect have with Christ is the work of God's grace,</span><span data-prooftexts='Ephesians 1:22; I Corinthians 6:17; John 10:28; Ephesians 5:23,30; John 15:5; Ephesians 3:17' data-prooftexts-index='282'> whereby they are spiritually and mystically, yet really and inseparably, joined to Christ as their head and husband;</span><span data-prooftexts='I Peter 5:10; I Corinthians 1:9' data-prooftexts-index='283'> which is done in their effectual calling.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"281": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ephesians 2:6-7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49002006.01-1\">and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, 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>",
"282": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ephesians 1:22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49001022.01-1\">And he put all things under his feet and gave him as head over all things to the church,</p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 6:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46006017.01-2\">But he who is joined to the Lord becomes one spirit with him.</p>\n</div><h5>John 10:28</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></p>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 5:23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49005023.01-4\">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 5:30</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49005030.01-5\">because we are members of his body.</p>\n</div><h5>John 15:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43015005.01-6\"><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></p>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 3:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49003017.01-7\">so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"283": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Peter 5:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p60005010.01-1\">And after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 1:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46001009.01-2\">God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"281": "Ephesians 2:6-7",
"282": "Ephesians 1:22; I Corinthians 6:17; John 10:28; Ephesians 5:23,30; John 15:5; Ephesians 3:17",
"283": "I Peter 5:10; I Corinthians 1:9"
},
"question": "What is that union which the elect have with Christ?"
},
"67": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Ezekiel 37:9,14; John 5:25; Ephesians 1:18-20; II Timothy 1:8-9' data-prooftexts-index='284'>Effectual calling is the work of God's almighty power and grace,</span><span data-prooftexts='Titus 3:4-5; Ephesians 2:4-5,7-9; Romans 9:11; Deuteronomy 9:5' data-prooftexts-index='285'> whereby (out of his free and special love to his elect, and from nothing in them moving him thereunto</span><span data-prooftexts='John 3:5; Titus 3:5; II Corinthians 5:20; II Corinthians 6:1-2; John 6:44-45; Acts 16:14; II Thessalonians 2:13-14' data-prooftexts-index='286'>) he doth, in his accepted time, invite and draw them to Jesus Christ, by his Word and Spirit;</span><span data-prooftexts='Acts 26:18; I Corinthians 2:10,12; II Corinthians 4:6; Ephesians 1:17-18' data-prooftexts-index='287'> savingly enlightening their minds,</span><span data-prooftexts='Ezekiel 11:19; Ezekiel 36:26-27; John 6:45' data-prooftexts-index='288'> renewing and powerfully determining their wills,</span><span data-prooftexts='Ephesians 2:5; Philippians 2:13; Deuteronomy 30:6; Isaiah 45:22; Matthew 11:28-30; Revelation 22:17' data-prooftexts-index='289'> so as they (although in themselves dead in sin) are hereby made willing and able freely to answer his call, and to accept and embrace the grace offered and conveyed therein.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"284": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ezekiel 37:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p26037009.01-1\">Then he said to me, “Prophesy to the breath; prophesy, son of man, and say to the breath, Thus says the Lord <span class=\"small-caps\">God</span>: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe on these slain, that they may live.”</p>\n</div><h5>Ezekiel 37:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p26037014.01-2\">And I will put my Spirit within you, and you shall live, and I will place you in your own land. Then you shall know that I am the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>; I have spoken, and I will do it, declares the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>.”</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></p>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 1:18-20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49001018.01-4\">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 that he worked in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places,</p>\n</div><h5>2 Timothy 1:8-9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p55001008.01-5\">Therefore do not be ashamed of the testimony about our Lord, nor of me his prisoner, but share in suffering for the gospel by the power of God, 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, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"285": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Titus 3:4-5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p56003004.01-1\">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=\"p49002004.01-2\">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 2:7-9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49002007.01-3\">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, 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=\"p45009011.01-4\">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>Deuteronomy 9:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p05009005.01-5\">Not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart are you going in to possess their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God is driving them out from before you, and that he may confirm the word that the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"286": "<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>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>2 Corinthians 5:20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p47005020.01-3\">Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.</p>\n</div><h5>2 Corinthians 6:1-2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p47006001.01-4\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v47006001-4\">6:1 </span>Working together with him, then, we appeal to you not to receive the grace of God in vain. For he says,</p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p47006002.04-4\">“In a favorable time I listened to you,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and in a day of salvation I have helped you.”</p>\n</div>\n<p class=\"same-paragraph\" id=\"p47006002.22-4\">Behold, now is the favorable time; behold, now is the day of salvation.</p>\n</div><h5>John 6:44-45</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43006044.01-5\"><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></p>\n</div><h5>Acts 16:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44016014.01-6\">One who heard us was a woman named Lydia, from the city of Thyatira, a seller of purple goods, who was a worshiper of God. The Lord opened her heart to pay attention to what was said by Paul.</p>\n</div><h5>2 Thessalonians 2:13-14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p53002013.03-7\">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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"287": "<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>2 Corinthians 4:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p47004006.01-4\">For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.</p>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 1:17-18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49001017.01-5\">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>",
"288": "<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>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.</p>\n</div><h5>John 6:45</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43006045.01-3\"><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>",
"289": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ephesians 2:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49002005.01-1\">even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—</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>Isaiah 45:22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23045022.01-4\">“Turn to me and be saved,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>all the ends of the earth!<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>For I am God, and there is no other.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Matthew 11:28-30</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40011028.01-5\"><span class=\"woc\">Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.</span> <span class=\"woc\">Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.</span> <span class=\"woc\">For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”</span></p>\n</div><h5>Revelation 22:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p66022017.01-6\">The Spirit and the Bride say, “Come.” And let the one who hears say, “Come.” And let the one who is thirsty come; let the one who desires take the water of life without price. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"284": "Ezekiel 37:9,14; John 5:25; Ephesians 1:18-20; II Timothy 1:8-9",
"285": "Titus 3:4-5; Ephesians 2:4-5,7-9; Romans 9:11; Deuteronomy 9:5",
"286": "John 3:5; Titus 3:5; II Corinthians 5:20; II Corinthians 6:1-2; John 6:44-45; Acts 16:14; II Thessalonians 2:13-14",
"287": "Acts 26:18; I Corinthians 2:10,12; II Corinthians 4:6; Ephesians 1:17-18",
"288": "Ezekiel 11:19; Ezekiel 36:26-27; John 6:45",
"289": "Ephesians 2:5; Philippians 2:13; Deuteronomy 30:6; Isaiah 45:22; Matthew 11:28-30; Revelation 22:17"
},
"question": "What is effectual calling?"
},
"68": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Acts 13:48' data-prooftexts-index='290'>All the elect, and they only, are effectually called;</span><span data-prooftexts='Matthew 22:14; Acts 8:13,20-21' data-prooftexts-index='291'> although others may be, and often are, outwardly called by the ministry of the Word,</span><span data-prooftexts='Matthew 7:22; Matthew 13:20-21; Hebrews 6:4-6' data-prooftexts-index='292'> and have some common operations of the Spirit;</span><span data-prooftexts='John 12:38-40; Acts 28:25-27; John 6:64-65; Psalms 81:11-12; Hebrews 10:29; I John 2:19' data-prooftexts-index='293'> who, for their willful neglect and contempt of the grace offered to them, being justly left in their unbelief, do never truly come to Jesus Christ.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"290": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Acts 13:48</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44013048.01-1\">And when the Gentiles heard this, they began rejoicing and glorifying the word of the Lord, and as many as were appointed to eternal life believed. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"291": "<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></p>\n</div><h5>Acts 8:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44008013.01-2\">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 8:20-21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44008020.01-3\">But Peter said to him, “May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could obtain the gift of God with money! You have neither part nor lot in this matter, for your heart is not right before God. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"292": "<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 6:4-6</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, and then have fallen away, to restore them again to repentance, since they are crucifying once again the Son of God to their own harm and holding him up to contempt. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"293": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>John 12:38-40</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43012038.01-1\">so that the word spoken by the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled:</p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p43012038.13-1\">“Lord, who has believed what he heard from us,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?”</p>\n</div>\n <p class=\"same-paragraph\" id=\"p43012039.01-1\">Therefore they could not believe. For again Isaiah said,</p>\n <div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p43012040.01-1\">“He has blinded their eyes<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and hardened their heart,<br />\nlest they see with their eyes,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and understand with their heart, and turn,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and I would heal them.”</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Acts 28:25-27</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44028025.01-2\">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:</p>\n <div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p44028026.01-2\">“‘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.’</p>\n</div>\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>Psalm 81:11-12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19081011.01-4\">“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>Hebrews 10:29</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58010029.01-5\">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?</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>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"290": "Acts 13:48",
"291": "Matthew 22:14; Acts 8:13,20-21",
"292": "Matthew 7:22; Matthew 13:20-21; Hebrews 6:4-6",
"293": "John 12:38-40; Acts 28:25-27; John 6:64-65; Psalms 81:11-12; Hebrews 10:29; I John 2:19"
},
"question": "Are the elect only effectually called?"
},
"69": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Romans 8:30' data-prooftexts-index='294'>The communion in grace which the members of the invisible church have with Christ, is their partaking of the virtue of his mediation, in their justification,</span><span data-prooftexts='Ephesians 1:5' data-prooftexts-index='295'> adoption,</span><span data-prooftexts='I Corinthians 1:30; I Corinthians 6:11' data-prooftexts-index='296'> sanctification, and whatever else, in this life, manifests their union with him.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"294": "<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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"295": "<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, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"296": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Corinthians 1:30</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46001030.01-1\">And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption,</p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 6:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46006011.01-2\">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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"294": "Romans 8:30",
"295": "Ephesians 1:5",
"296": "I Corinthians 1:30; I Corinthians 6:11"
},
"question": "What is the communion in grace which the members of the invisible church have with Christ?"
},
"7": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='John 4:24' data-prooftexts-index='19'>God is a Spirit,</span><span data-prooftexts='Ex 3:14; Job 11:7-9; Psalms 145:3; Psalms 147:5' data-prooftexts-index='20'> in and of himself infinite in being,</span><span data-prooftexts='Acts 7:2' data-prooftexts-index='21'> glory,</span><span data-prooftexts='I Timothy 6:15' data-prooftexts-index='22'> blessedness,</span><span data-prooftexts='Matthew 5:48' data-prooftexts-index='23'> and perfection;</span><span data-prooftexts='Ex 3:14; Genesis 17:1; Romans 11:35-36' data-prooftexts-index='24'> all-sufficient,</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 90:2; Deuteronomy 33:27' data-prooftexts-index='25'> eternal,</span><span data-prooftexts='Malachi 3:6' data-prooftexts-index='26'> unchangeable,</span><span data-prooftexts='I Kings 8:27; Psalms 145:3; Romans 11:34' data-prooftexts-index='27'> incomprehensible,</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 139:1-13' data-prooftexts-index='28'> every where present,</span><span data-prooftexts='Revelation 4:8; Genesis 17:1; Matthew 19:26' data-prooftexts-index='29'> almighty,</span><span data-prooftexts='Hebrews 4:13; Psalms 147:5' data-prooftexts-index='30'> knowing all things,</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 11:33-34; Romans 16:27' data-prooftexts-index='31'> most wise,</span><span data-prooftexts='I Peter 1:15-16; Revelation 15:4; Isaiah 6:3' data-prooftexts-index='32'> most holy,</span><span data-prooftexts='Deuteronomy 32:4; Romans 3:5,26' data-prooftexts-index='33'> most just,</span><span data-prooftexts='Ex 34:6; Psalms 117:2; Deuteronomy 32:4' data-prooftexts-index='34'> most merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"19": "<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>",
"20": "<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.’”</p>\n</div><h5>Job 11:7-9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p18011007.01-2\">“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>Psalm 145:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19145003.01-3\">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.</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=\"p19147005.01-4\">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>",
"21": "<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>",
"22": "<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, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"23": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 5:48</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40005048.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"24": "<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.’”</p>\n</div><h5>Genesis 17:1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p01017001.07-2\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v01017001-2\">17:1 </span>When Abram was ninety-nine years old the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be blameless,</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 11:35-36</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p45011035.01-3\">“Or who has given a gift to him<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that he might be repaid?”</p>\n</div>\n <p class=\"same-paragraph\" id=\"p45011036.01-3\">For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"25": "<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>Deuteronomy 33:27</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p05033027.01-2\">The eternal God is your dwelling place,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and underneath are the everlasting arms.<br />\nAnd he thrust out the enemy before you<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and said, Destroy. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"26": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Malachi 3:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p39003006.03-1\">“For I the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> do not change; therefore you, O children of Jacob, are not consumed. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"27": "<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>Psalm 145:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19145003.01-2\">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.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Romans 11:34</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p45011034.01-3\">“For who has known the mind of the Lord,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>or who has been his counselor?” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"28": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 139:1-13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19139001.16-1\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v19139001-1\">139:1 </span>O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, you have searched me and known me!<br />\n You know when I sit down and when I rise up;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>you discern my thoughts from afar.<br />\n You search out my path and my lying down<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and are acquainted with all my ways.<br />\n Even before a word is on my tongue,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>behold, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, you know it altogether.<br />\n You hem me in, behind and before,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and lay your hand upon me.<br />\n Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>it is high; I cannot attain it.</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19139007.01-1\">Where shall I go from your Spirit?<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Or where shall I flee from your presence?<br />\n If I ascend to heaven, you are there!<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there!<br />\n If I take the wings of the morning<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,<br />\n even there your hand shall lead me,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and your right hand shall hold me.<br />\n If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and the light about me be night,”<br />\n even the darkness is not dark to you;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>the night is bright as the day,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for darkness is as light with you.</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19139013.01-1\">For you formed my inward parts;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>you knitted me together in my mother's womb. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"29": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Revelation 4:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p66004008.01-1\">And the four living creatures, each of them with six wings, are full of eyes all around and within, and day and night they never cease to say,</p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p66004008.29-1\">“Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>who was and is and is to come!”</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Genesis 17:1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p01017001.07-2\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v01017001-2\">17:1 </span>When Abram was ninety-nine years old the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be blameless,</p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 19:26</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40019026.01-3\">But Jesus looked at them and said, <span class=\"woc\">“With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"30": "<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.</p>\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>",
"31": "<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>Romans 16:27</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45016027.01-2\">to the only wise God be glory forevermore through Jesus Christ! Amen. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"32": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Peter 1:15-16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p60001015.01-1\">but as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, since it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.”</p>\n</div><h5>Revelation 15:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p66015004.01-2\">Who will not fear, O Lord,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and glorify your name?<br />\nFor you alone are holy.<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>All nations will come<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and worship you,<br />\nfor your righteous acts have been revealed.”</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Isaiah 6:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p23006003.01-3\">And one called to another and said:</p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23006003.08-3\">“Holy, holy, holy is the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> of hosts;<br />\nthe whole earth is full of his glory!” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"33": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Deuteronomy 32:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p05032004.01-1\">“The Rock, his work is perfect,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for all his ways are justice.<br />\nA God of faithfulness and without iniquity,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>just and upright is he.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Romans 3:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p class=\"same-paragraph\" id=\"p45003005.01-2\">But if our unrighteousness serves to show the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unrighteous to inflict wrath on us? (I speak in a human way.)</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 3:26</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45003026.01-3\">It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"34": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Exodus 34:6</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,</p>\n</div><h5>Psalm 117:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19117002.01-2\">For great is his steadfast love toward us,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and the faithfulness of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> endures forever.<br />\nPraise the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>!</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Deuteronomy 32:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p05032004.01-3\">“The Rock, his work is perfect,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for all his ways are justice.<br />\nA God of faithfulness and without iniquity,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>just and upright is he. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"19": "John 4:24",
"20": "Ex 3:14; Job 11:7-9; Psalms 145:3; Psalms 147:5",
"21": "Acts 7:2",
"22": "I Timothy 6:15",
"23": "Matthew 5:48",
"24": "Ex 3:14; Genesis 17:1; Romans 11:35-36",
"25": "Psalms 90:2; Deuteronomy 33:27",
"26": "Malachi 3:6",
"27": "I Kings 8:27; Psalms 145:3; Romans 11:34",
"28": "Psalms 139:1-13",
"29": "Revelation 4:8; Genesis 17:1; Matthew 19:26",
"30": "Hebrews 4:13; Psalms 147:5",
"31": "Romans 11:33-34; Romans 16:27",
"32": "I Peter 1:15-16; Revelation 15:4; Isaiah 6:3",
"33": "Deuteronomy 32:4; Romans 3:5,26",
"34": "Ex 34:6; Psalms 117:2; Deuteronomy 32:4"
},
"question": "What is God?"
},
"70": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Romans 3:22,24-25; Romans 4:5' data-prooftexts-index='297'>Justification is an act of God's free grace unto sinners,</span><span data-prooftexts='Jeremiah 23:6; Romans 4:6-8; II Corinthians 5:19,21; Romans 3:22,24-25,27-28' data-prooftexts-index='298'> in which he pardoneth all their sins, accepteth and accounteth their persons righteous in his sight;</span><span data-prooftexts='Titus 3:5,7; Ephesians 1:7' data-prooftexts-index='299'> not for anything wrought in them, or done by them,</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 4:6-8,11; Romans 5:17-19' data-prooftexts-index='300'> but only for the perfect obedience and full satisfaction of Christ, by God imputed to them,</span><span data-prooftexts='Acts 10:43; Galatians 2:16; Philippians 3:9' data-prooftexts-index='301'> and received by faith alone.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"297": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 3:22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45003022.01-1\">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=\"p45003024.01-2\">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 4:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45004005.01-3\">And to the one who does not work but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"298": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Jeremiah 23:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p24023006.01-1\">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>Romans 4:6-8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45004006.01-2\">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=\"p45004007.01-2\">“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=\"p47005019.01-3\">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=\"p47005021.01-4\">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=\"p45003022.01-5\">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=\"p45003024.01-6\">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=\"p45003027.01-7\">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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"299": "<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,</p>\n</div><h5>Titus 3:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p56003007.01-2\">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=\"p49001007.01-3\">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>",
"300": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 4:6-8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45004006.01-1\">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>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>Romans 5:17-19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45005017.01-3\">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=\"p45005018.01-3\">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>",
"301": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Acts 10:43</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44010043.01-1\">To him all the prophets bear witness that everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name.”</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— (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"297": "Romans 3:22,24-25; Romans 4:5",
"298": "Jeremiah 23:6; Romans 4:6-8; II Corinthians 5:19,21; Romans 3:22,24-25,27-28",
"299": "Titus 3:5,7; Ephesians 1:7",
"300": "Romans 4:6-8,11; Romans 5:17-19",
"301": "Acts 10:43; Galatians 2:16; Philippians 3:9"
},
"question": "What is justification?"
},
"71": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Romans 5:8-10,19' data-prooftexts-index='302'>Although Christ, by his obedience and death, did make a proper, real, and full satisfaction to God's justice in the behalf of them that are justified;</span><span data-prooftexts='I Timothy 2:5-6; Hebrews 10:10; Matthew 20:28; Daniel 9:24,26; Isaiah 53:4-6,10-12; Hebrews 7:22; Romans 8:32; I Peter 1:18-19' data-prooftexts-index='303'> yet inasmuch as God accepteth the satisfaction from a surety, which he might have demanded of them, and did provide this surety, his own only Son,</span><span data-prooftexts='II Corinthians 5:21; Romans 4:6,11' data-prooftexts-index='304'> imputing his righteousness to them,</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 3:24-25' data-prooftexts-index='305'> and requiring nothing of them for their justification but faith,</span><span data-prooftexts='Ephesians 2:8' data-prooftexts-index='306'> which also is his gift,</span><span data-prooftexts='Ephesians 1:7; Romans 3:24-25' data-prooftexts-index='307'> their justification is to them of free grace.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"302": "<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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"303": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Timothy 2:5-6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p54002005.01-1\">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=\"p58010010.01-2\">And by that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.</p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 20:28</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40020028.01-3\"><span class=\"woc\">even as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”</span></p>\n</div><h5>Daniel 9:24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p27009024.04-4\">“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=\"p27009026.01-5\">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=\"p23053004.01-6\">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=\"p23053010.01-7\">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.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 7:22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p class=\"same-paragraph\" id=\"p58007022.01-8\">This makes Jesus the guarantor of a better covenant.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 8:32</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45008032.01-9\">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?</p>\n</div><h5>1 Peter 1:18-19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p60001018.01-10\">knowing that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold, but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"304": "<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>Romans 4:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45004006.01-2\">just as David also speaks of the blessing of the one to whom God counts righteousness apart from works:</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 4:11</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, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"305": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 3:24-25</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, 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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"306": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ephesians 2:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49002008.01-1\">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>",
"307": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ephesians 1:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49001007.01-1\">In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 3:24-25</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, 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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"302": "Romans 5:8-10,19",
"303": "I Timothy 2:5-6; Hebrews 10:10; Matthew 20:28; Daniel 9:24,26; Isaiah 53:4-6,10-12; Hebrews 7:22; Romans 8:32; I Peter 1:18-19",
"304": "II Corinthians 5:21; Romans 4:6,11",
"305": "Romans 3:24-25",
"306": "Ephesians 2:8",
"307": "Ephesians 1:7; Romans 3:24-25"
},
"question": "How is justification an act of God's free grace?"
},
"72": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Hebrews 10:39' data-prooftexts-index='308'>Justifying faith is a saving grace,</span><span data-prooftexts='II Corinthians 4:13; Ephesians 1:17-19; I Corinthians 12:3; I Peter 1:2' data-prooftexts-index='309'> wrought in the heart of a sinner by the Spirit</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 10:14-17; I Corinthians 1:21' data-prooftexts-index='310'> and Word of God,</span><span data-prooftexts='Acts 2:37; Acts 16:30; John 16:8-9; Romans 6:6; Ephesians 2:1; Acts 4:12' data-prooftexts-index='311'> whereby he, being convinced of his sin and misery, and of the disability in himself and all other creatures to recover him out of his lost condition,</span><span data-prooftexts='Ephesians 1:13; Hebrews 11:13' data-prooftexts-index='312'> not only assenteth to the truth of the promise of the gospel,</span><span data-prooftexts='John 1:12; Acts 16:31; Acts 10:43; Zechariah 3:8-9' data-prooftexts-index='313'> but receiveth and resteth upon Christ and his righteousness, therein held forth, for pardon of sin,</span><span data-prooftexts='Philippians 3:9; Acts 15:11' data-prooftexts-index='314'> and for the accepting and accounting of his person righteous in the sight of God for salvation.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"308": "<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>",
"309": "<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>1 Corinthians 12:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46012003.01-3\">Therefore I want you to understand that no one speaking in the Spirit of God ever says “Jesus is accursed!” and no one can say “Jesus is Lord” except in the Holy Spirit.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Peter 1:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p60001002.01-4\">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=\"p60001002.26-4\">May grace and peace be multiplied to you. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"310": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 10:14-17</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? 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!” But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed what he has heard from us?” So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 1:21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46001021.01-2\">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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"311": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Acts 2:37</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44002037.01-1\">Now when they heard this they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?”</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 16:30</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44016030.01-2\">Then he brought them out and said, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”</p>\n</div><h5>John 16:8-9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43016008.01-3\"><span class=\"woc\">And when he comes, he will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment:</span> <span class=\"woc\">concerning sin, because they do not believe in me;</span></p>\n</div><h5>Romans 6:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45006006.01-4\">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>Ephesians 2:1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p49002001.05-5\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v49002001-5\">2:1 </span>And you were dead in the trespasses and sins</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 4:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44004012.01-6\">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>",
"312": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ephesians 1:13</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,</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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"313": "<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>Acts 10:43</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44010043.01-3\">To him all the prophets bear witness that everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name.”</p>\n</div><h5>Zechariah 3:8-9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p38003008.01-4\">Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, you and your friends who sit before you, for they are men who are a sign: behold, I will bring my servant the Branch. For behold, on the stone that I have set before Joshua, on a single stone with seven eyes, I will engrave its inscription, declares the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> of hosts, and I will remove the iniquity of this land in a single day. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"314": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Philippians 3:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p50003009.01-1\">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 15:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44015011.01-2\">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>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"308": "Hebrews 10:39",
"309": "II Corinthians 4:13; Ephesians 1:17-19; I Corinthians 12:3; I Peter 1:2",
"310": "Romans 10:14-17; I Corinthians 1:21",
"311": "Acts 2:37; Acts 16:30; John 16:8-9; Romans 6:6; Ephesians 2:1; Acts 4:12",
"312": "Ephesians 1:13; Hebrews 11:13",
"313": "John 1:12; Acts 16:31; Acts 10:43; Zechariah 3:8-9",
"314": "Philippians 3:9; Acts 15:11"
},
"question": "What is justifying faith?"
},
"73": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Galatians 3:11; Romans 3:28' data-prooftexts-index='315'>Faith justifies a sinner in the sight of God, not because of those other graces which do always accompany it, or of good works that are the fruits of it,</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 4:5; Romans 10:10' data-prooftexts-index='316'> nor as if the grace of faith, or any act thereof, were imputed to him for his justification;</span><span data-prooftexts='John 1:12; Philippians 3:9; Galatians 2:16' data-prooftexts-index='317'> but only as it is an instrument by which he receiveth and applieth Christ and his righteousness.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"315": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Galatians 3:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p48003011.01-1\">Now it is evident that no one is justified before God by the law, for “The righteous shall live by faith.”</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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"316": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 4:5</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,</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 10:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45010010.01-2\">For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"317": "<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>Philippians 3:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p50003009.01-2\">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>Galatians 2:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p48002016.01-3\">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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"315": "Galatians 3:11; Romans 3:28",
"316": "Romans 4:5; Romans 10:10",
"317": "John 1:12; Philippians 3:9; Galatians 2:16"
},
"question": "How doth faith justify a sinner in the sight of God?"
},
"74": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='I John 3:1' data-prooftexts-index='318'>Adoption is an act of the free grace of God,</span><span data-prooftexts='Ephesians 1:5; Galatians 4:4-5' data-prooftexts-index='319'> in and for his only Son Jesus Christ,</span><span data-prooftexts='John 1:12; Romans 8:15-16' data-prooftexts-index='320'> whereby all those that are justified are received into the number of his children,</span><span data-prooftexts='Numbers 6:24-27; Amos 9:12; II Corinthians 6:18; Revelation 3:12' data-prooftexts-index='321'> have his name put upon them,</span><span data-prooftexts='Galatians 4:6' data-prooftexts-index='322'> the Spirit of his Son given to them,</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 103:13; Proverbs 14:26; Matthew 6:32; Hebrews 12:5-7,11' data-prooftexts-index='323'> are under his fatherly care and dispensations,</span><span data-prooftexts='Hebrews 6:12; Romans 8:17; I Peter 1:3-4' data-prooftexts-index='324'> admitted to all the liberties and privileges of the sons of God, made heirs of all the promises, and fellow heirs with Christ in glory.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"318": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 John 3:1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p62003001.01-1\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v62003001-1\">3:1 </span>See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"319": "<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>",
"320": "<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 8:15-16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45008015.01-2\">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>",
"321": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Numbers 6:24-27</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p04006024.01-1\">The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> bless you and keep you;<br />\n the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you;<br />\n the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace.</p>\n</div>\n <p id=\"p04006027.01-1\">“So shall they put my name upon the people of Israel, and I will bless them.”</p>\n</div><h5>Amos 9:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p30009012.01-2\">that they may possess the remnant of Edom<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and all the nations who are called by my name,”<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>declares the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> who does this.</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=\"p47006018.01-3\">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=\"p66003012.01-4\"><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>",
"322": "<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>",
"323": "<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.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Proverbs 14:26</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20014026.01-2\">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.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Matthew 6:32</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40006032.01-3\"><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>Hebrews 12:5-7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58012005.01-4\">And have you forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons?</p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p58012005.12-4\">“My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>nor be weary when reproved by him.<br />\n For the Lord disciplines the one he loves,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and chastises every son whom he receives.”</p>\n</div>\n <p class=\"same-paragraph\" id=\"p58012007.01-4\">It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline?</p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 12:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58012011.01-5\">For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"324": "<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.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 8:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45008017.01-2\">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>1 Peter 1:3-4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p60001003.07-3\">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, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"318": "I John 3:1",
"319": "Ephesians 1:5; Galatians 4:4-5",
"320": "John 1:12; Romans 8:15-16",
"321": "Numbers 6:24-27; Amos 9:12; II Corinthians 6:18; Revelation 3:12",
"322": "Galatians 4:6",
"323": "Psalms 103:13; Proverbs 14:26; Matthew 6:32; Hebrews 12:5-7,11",
"324": "Hebrews 6:12; Romans 8:17; I Peter 1:3-4"
},
"question": "What is adoption?"
},
"75": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Ezekiel 36:27; Philippians 2:13; II Thessalonians 2:13; Ephesians 1:4; I Corinthians 6:11' data-prooftexts-index='325'>Sanctification is a work of God's grace, whereby they whom God hath, before the foundation of the world, chosen to be holy, are in time, through the powerful operation of his Spirit</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 6:4-6; Colossians 3:1-3; Philippians 3:10' data-prooftexts-index='326'> applying the death and resurrection of Christ unto them,</span><span data-prooftexts='II Corinthians 5:17; Ephesians 4:23-24; I Thessalonians 5:23' data-prooftexts-index='327'> renewed in their whole man after the image of God;</span><span data-prooftexts='Acts 11:18; I John 3:9' data-prooftexts-index='328'> having the seeds of repentance unto life, and all other saving graces, put into their hearts,</span><span data-prooftexts='Jude 20; Hebrews 6:11-12; Ephesians 3:16-19; Colossians 1:10-11' data-prooftexts-index='329'> and those graces so stirred up, increased, and strengthened,</span><span data-prooftexts='Ezekiel 36:25-27; Romans 6:4,6,12-14; II Corinthians 7:1; I Peter 2:24; Galatians 5:24' data-prooftexts-index='330'> as that they more and more die unto sin, and rise unto newness of life.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"325": "<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>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>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.</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>1 Corinthians 6:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46006011.01-5\">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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"326": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 6:4-6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45006004.01-1\">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 <p id=\"p45006005.01-1\">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>Colossians 3:1-3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p51003001.06-2\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v51003001-2\">3:1 </span>If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.</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, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"327": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>2 Corinthians 5:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p47005017.01-1\">Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.</p>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 4:23-24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49004023.01-2\">and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Thessalonians 5:23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p52005023.01-3\">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>",
"328": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Acts 11:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44011018.01-1\">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.”</p>\n</div><h5>1 John 3:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p62003009.01-2\">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>",
"329": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Jude 1:20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p65001020.01-1\">But you, beloved, building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit,</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>Ephesians 3:16-19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49003016.01-3\">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>Colossians 1:10-11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p51001010.01-4\">so as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God. May you be strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"330": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ezekiel 36:25-27</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p26036025.01-1\">I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols I will cleanse you. 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>Romans 6:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45006004.01-2\">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>Romans 6:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45006006.01-3\">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 6:12-14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45006012.01-4\">Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions. Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness. For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.</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>1 Peter 2:24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p60002024.01-6\">He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.</p>\n</div><h5>Galatians 5:24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p48005024.01-7\">And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"325": "Ezekiel 36:27; Philippians 2:13; II Thessalonians 2:13; Ephesians 1:4; I Corinthians 6:11",
"326": "Romans 6:4-6; Colossians 3:1-3; Philippians 3:10",
"327": "II Corinthians 5:17; Ephesians 4:23-24; I Thessalonians 5:23",
"328": "Acts 11:18; I John 3:9",
"329": "Jude 20; Hebrews 6:11-12; Ephesians 3:16-19; Colossians 1:10-11",
"330": "Ezekiel 36:25-27; Romans 6:4,6,12-14; II Corinthians 7:1; I Peter 2:24; Galatians 5:24"
},
"question": "What is sanctification?"
},
"76": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='II Timothy 2:25; Acts 11:18' data-prooftexts-index='331'>Repentance unto life is a saving grace,</span><span data-prooftexts='Zechariah 12:10' data-prooftexts-index='332'> wrought in the heart of a sinner by the Spirit</span><span data-prooftexts='Acts 11:18,20-21' data-prooftexts-index='333'> and Word of God,</span><span data-prooftexts='Ezekiel 18:28,30,32; Luke 15:17-18; Hosea 2:6-7' data-prooftexts-index='334'> whereby, out of the sight and sense, not only of the danger,</span><span data-prooftexts='Ezekiel 36:31; Isaiah 30:22; Philippians 3:7-8' data-prooftexts-index='335'> but also of the filthiness and odiousness of his sins,</span><span data-prooftexts='Joel 2:12-13; Psalms 51:1-4; Luke 15:7,10; Acts 2:37' data-prooftexts-index='336'> and upon the apprehension of God's mercy in Christ to such as are penitent,</span><span data-prooftexts='Jeremiah 31:18-19; Psalms 32:5' data-prooftexts-index='337'> he so grieves for</span><span data-prooftexts='II Corinthians 7:11' data-prooftexts-index='338'> and hates his sins,</span><span data-prooftexts='Luke 1:16-17; I Thessalonians 1:9; Acts 26:18; Ezekiel 14:6; I Kings 8:47-48' data-prooftexts-index='339'> as that he turns from them all to God,</span><span data-prooftexts='II Chronicles 7:14; Psalms 119:57-64; Matthew 3:8; II Corinthians 7:10; Luke 1:6' data-prooftexts-index='340'> purposing and endeavoring constantly to walk with him in all the ways of new obedience.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"331": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>2 Timothy 2:25</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p55002025.01-1\">correcting his opponents with gentleness. God may perhaps grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth,</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>",
"332": "<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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"333": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Acts 11:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44011018.01-1\">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.”</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 11:20-21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44011020.01-2\">But there were some of them, men of Cyprus and Cyrene, who on coming to Antioch spoke to the Hellenists also, preaching the Lord Jesus. And the hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number who believed turned to the Lord. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"334": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ezekiel 18:28</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p26018028.01-1\">Because he considered and turned away from all the transgressions that he had committed, he shall surely live; he shall not die.</p>\n</div><h5>Ezekiel 18:30</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p26018030.01-2\">“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.</p>\n</div><h5>Ezekiel 18:32</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p26018032.01-3\">For I have no pleasure in the death of anyone, declares the Lord <span class=\"small-caps\">God</span>; so turn, and live.”</p>\n</div><h5>Luke 15:17-18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42015017.01-4\"><span class=\"woc\">“But when he came to himself, he said, ‘How many of my father's hired servants have more than enough bread, but I perish here with hunger!</span> <span class=\"woc\">I will arise and go to my father, and I will say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you.</span></p>\n</div><h5>Hosea 2:6-7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p28002006.01-5\">Therefore I will hedge up her way with thorns,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and I will build a wall against her,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>so that she cannot find her paths.<br />\n She shall pursue her lovers<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but not overtake them,<br />\nand she shall seek them<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but shall not find them.<br />\nThen she shall say,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>‘I will go and return to my first husband,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for it was better for me then than now.’ (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"335": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ezekiel 36:31</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.</p>\n</div><h5>Isaiah 30:22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p23030022.01-2\">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>Philippians 3:7-8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p50003007.01-3\">But whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ. Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"336": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Joel 2:12-13</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;<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>Psalm 51:1-4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19051001.30-2\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v19051001-2\">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=\"p19051003.01-2\">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.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Luke 15:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42015007.01-3\"><span class=\"woc\">Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance.</span></p>\n</div><h5>Luke 15:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42015010.01-4\"><span class=\"woc\">Just so, I tell you, there is joy before the angels of God over one sinner who repents.”</span></p>\n</div><h5>Acts 2:37</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44002037.01-5\">Now when they heard this they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"337": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Jeremiah 31:18-19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p24031018.01-1\">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>Psalm 32:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19032005.01-2\">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> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"338": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>2 Corinthians 7:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p47007011.01-1\">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>",
"339": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Luke 1:16-17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42001016.01-1\">And he will turn many of the children of Israel to the Lord their God, and he will go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, to make ready for the Lord a people prepared.”</p>\n</div><h5>1 Thessalonians 1:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p52001009.01-2\">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>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>Ezekiel 14:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p26014006.01-4\">“Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord <span class=\"small-caps\">God</span>: Repent and turn away from your idols, and turn away your faces from all your abominations.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Kings 8:47-48</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p11008047.01-5\">yet if they turn their heart in the land to which they have been carried captive, and repent and plead with you in the land of their captors, saying, ‘We have sinned and have acted perversely and wickedly,’ if they repent with all their mind and with all their heart in the land of their enemies, who carried them captive, and pray to you toward their land, which you gave to their fathers, the city that you have chosen, and the house that I have built for your name, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"340": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>2 Chronicles 7:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p14007014.01-1\">if my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.</p>\n</div><h5>Psalm 119:57-64</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119057.02-2\">The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> is my portion;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I promise to keep your words.<br />\n I entreat your favor with all my heart;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>be gracious to me according to your promise.<br />\n When I think on my ways,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I turn my feet to your testimonies;<br />\n I hasten and do not delay<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>to keep your commandments.<br />\n Though the cords of the wicked ensnare me,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I do not forget your law.<br />\n At midnight I rise to praise you,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>because of your righteous rules.<br />\n I am a companion of all who fear you,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>of those who keep your precepts.<br />\n The earth, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, is full of your steadfast love;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>teach me your statutes!</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Matthew 3:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40003008.01-3\">Bear fruit in keeping with repentance.</p>\n</div><h5>2 Corinthians 7:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p47007010.01-4\">For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret, whereas worldly grief produces death.</p>\n</div><h5>Luke 1:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42001006.01-5\">And they were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and statutes of the Lord. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"331": "II Timothy 2:25; Acts 11:18",
"332": "Zechariah 12:10",
"333": "Acts 11:18,20-21",
"334": "Ezekiel 18:28,30,32; Luke 15:17-18; Hosea 2:6-7",
"335": "Ezekiel 36:31; Isaiah 30:22; Philippians 3:7-8",
"336": "Joel 2:12-13; Psalms 51:1-4; Luke 15:7,10; Acts 2:37",
"337": "Jeremiah 31:18-19; Psalms 32:5",
"338": "II Corinthians 7:11",
"339": "Luke 1:16-17; I Thessalonians 1:9; Acts 26:18; Ezekiel 14:6; I Kings 8:47-48",
"340": "II Chronicles 7:14; Psalms 119:57-64; Matthew 3:8; II Corinthians 7:10; Luke 1:6"
},
"question": "What is repentance unto life?"
},
"77": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='I Corinthians 6:11; I Corinthians 1:30' data-prooftexts-index='341'>Although sanctification be inseparably joined with justification,</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 4:6,8' data-prooftexts-index='342'> yet they differ, in that God in justification imputeth the righteousness of Christ;</span><span data-prooftexts='Ezekiel 36:27; Hebrews 9:13-14' data-prooftexts-index='343'> in sanctification his Spirit infuseth grace, and enableth to the exercise thereof;</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 3:24-25' data-prooftexts-index='344'> in the former, sin is pardoned;</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 6:6,14' data-prooftexts-index='345'> in the other, it is subdued:</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 8:33-34' data-prooftexts-index='346'> the one doth equally free all believers from the revenging wrath of God, and that perfectly in this life, that they never fall into condemnation;</span><span data-prooftexts='I John 2:12-14; Hebrews 5:12-14' data-prooftexts-index='347'> the other is neither equal in all,</span><span data-prooftexts='I John 1:8,10' data-prooftexts-index='348'> nor in this life perfect in any,</span><span data-prooftexts='II Corinthians 7:1; Philippians 3:12-14' data-prooftexts-index='349'> but growing up to perfection.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"341": "<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>1 Corinthians 1:30</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46001030.01-2\">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>",
"342": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 4:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45004006.01-1\">just as David also speaks of the blessing of the one to whom God counts righteousness apart from works:</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 4:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p45004008.01-2\">blessed is the man against whom the Lord will not count his sin.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"343": "<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 9:13-14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58009013.01-2\">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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"344": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 3:24-25</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, 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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"345": "<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>",
"346": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 8:33-34</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45008033.01-1\">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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"347": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 John 2:12-14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p62002012.01-1\">I am writing to you, little children,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>because your sins are forgiven for his name's sake.<br />\n I am writing to you, fathers,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>because you know him who is from the beginning.<br />\nI am writing to you, young men,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>because you have overcome the evil one.<br />\nI write to you, children,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>because you know the Father.<br />\n I write to you, fathers,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>because you know him who is from the beginning.<br />\nI write to you, young men,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>because you are strong,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and the word of God abides in you,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and you have overcome the evil one.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 5:12-14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58005012.01-2\">For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic principles of the oracles of God. You need milk, not solid food, 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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"348": "<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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"349": "<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>Philippians 3:12-14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p50003012.05-2\">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. Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"341": "I Corinthians 6:11; I Corinthians 1:30",
"342": "Romans 4:6,8",
"343": "Ezekiel 36:27; Hebrews 9:13-14",
"344": "Romans 3:24-25",
"345": "Romans 6:6,14",
"346": "Romans 8:33-34",
"347": "I John 2:12-14; Hebrews 5:12-14",
"348": "I John 1:8,10",
"349": "II Corinthians 7:1; Philippians 3:12-14"
},
"question": "Wherein do justification and sanctification differ?"
},
"78": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Romans 7:18,23; Mark 14:66-72; Galatians 2:11-12' data-prooftexts-index='350'>The imperfection of sanctification in believers ariseth from the remnants of sin abiding in every part of them, and the perpetual lustings of the flesh against the spirit; whereby they are often foiled with temptations, and fall into many sins,</span><span data-prooftexts='Hebrews 12:1' data-prooftexts-index='351'> are hindered in all their spiritual services,</span><span data-prooftexts='Isaiah 64:6; Ex 28:38; Galatians 5:16-18' data-prooftexts-index='352'> and their best works are imperfect and defiled in the sight of God.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"350": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 7:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45007018.01-1\">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=\"p45007023.01-2\">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>Mark 14:66-72</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p41014066.04-3\">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>Galatians 2:11-12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p48002011.04-4\">But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned. For before certain men came from James, he was eating with the Gentiles; but when they came he drew back and separated himself, fearing the circumcision party. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"351": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Hebrews 12:1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p58012001.08-1\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v58012001-1\">12:1 </span>Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"352": "<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>Exodus 28:38</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p02028038.01-2\">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>Galatians 5:16-18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p48005016.05-3\">But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. 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. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"350": "Romans 7:18,23; Mark 14:66-72; Galatians 2:11-12",
"351": "Hebrews 12:1",
"352": "Isaiah 64:6; Ex 28:38; Galatians 5:16-18"
},
"question": "Whence ariseth the imperfection of sanctification in believers?"
},
"79": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Jeremiah 31:3' data-prooftexts-index='353'>True believers, by reason of the unchangeable love of God,</span><span data-prooftexts='II Timothy 2:19; Hebrews 13:20-21; II Samuel 23:5' data-prooftexts-index='354'> and his decree and covenant to give them perseverance,</span><span data-prooftexts='I Corinthians 1:8-9' data-prooftexts-index='355'> their inseparable union with Christ,</span><span data-prooftexts='Hebrews 7:25; Luke 22:32' data-prooftexts-index='356'> his continual intercession for them,</span><span data-prooftexts='I John 3:9; I John 2:27' data-prooftexts-index='357'> and the Spirit and seed of God abiding in them,</span><span data-prooftexts='Jeremiah 32:40; John 10:28' data-prooftexts-index='358'> can neither totally nor finally fall away from the state of grace,</span><span data-prooftexts='I Peter 1:5' data-prooftexts-index='359'> but are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"353": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Jeremiah 31:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p24031003.01-1\"><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>",
"354": "<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>Hebrews 13:20-21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p58013020.02-2\">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 Samuel 23:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p10023005.01-3\">“For does not my house stand so with God?<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>For he has made with me an everlasting covenant,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>ordered in all things and secure.<br />\nFor will he not cause to prosper<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>all my help and my desire? (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"355": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Corinthians 1:8-9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46001008.01-1\">who will sustain you to the end, guiltless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"356": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Hebrews 7:25</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58007025.01-1\">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.</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> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"357": "<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>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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"358": "<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.</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> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"359": "<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>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"353": "Jeremiah 31:3",
"354": "II Timothy 2:19; Hebrews 13:20-21; II Samuel 23:5",
"355": "I Corinthians 1:8-9",
"356": "Hebrews 7:25; Luke 22:32",
"357": "I John 3:9; I John 2:27",
"358": "Jeremiah 32:40; John 10:28",
"359": "I Peter 1:5"
},
"question": "May not true believers, by reason of their imperfections, and the many temptations and sins they are overtaken with, fall away from the state of grace?"
},
"8": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Deuteronomy 6:4; I Corinthians 8:4,6; Isaiah 45:21-22; Isaiah 44:6' data-prooftexts-index='35'>There is but one only,</span><span data-prooftexts='Jeremiah 10:10; John 17:3; I Thessalonians 1:9; I John 5:20' data-prooftexts-index='36'> the living and true God.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"35": "<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.</p>\n</div><h5>Isaiah 45:21-22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23045021.01-4\">Declare and present your case;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>let them take counsel together!<br />\nWho told this long ago?<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Who declared it of old?<br />\nWas it not I, the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>?<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>And there is no other god besides me,<br />\na righteous God and a Savior;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>there is none besides me.</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23045022.01-4\">“Turn to me and be saved,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>all the ends of the earth!<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>For I am God, and there is no other.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Isaiah 44:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23044006.07-5\">Thus says the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, the King of Israel<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and his Redeemer, the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> of hosts:<br />\n“I am the first and I am the last;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>besides me there is no god. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"36": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Jeremiah 10:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p24010010.01-1\">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.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>John 17:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43017003.01-2\"><span class=\"woc\">And this is eternal life, that they know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.</span></p>\n</div><h5>1 Thessalonians 1:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p52001009.01-3\">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>1 John 5:20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p62005020.01-4\">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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"35": "Deuteronomy 6:4; I Corinthians 8:4,6; Isaiah 45:21-22; Isaiah 44:6",
"36": "Jeremiah 10:10; John 17:3; I Thessalonians 1:9; I John 5:20"
},
"question": "Are there more Gods than one?"
},
"80": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='I John 2:3; Hebrews 10:19-23' data-prooftexts-index='360'>Such as truly believe in Christ, and endeavor to walk in all good conscience before him,</span><span data-prooftexts='I Corinthians 2:12; I John 3:14,18-19,21,24; I John 4:13,16; Hebrews 6:11-12' data-prooftexts-index='361'> may, without extraordinary revelation, by faith grounded upon the truth of God's promises, and by the Spirit enabling them to discern in themselves those graces to which the promises of life are made,</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 8:15-16' data-prooftexts-index='362'> and bearing witness with their spirits that they are the children of God,</span><span data-prooftexts='I John 5:13; Hebrews 6:19-20; II Peter 1:5-11' data-prooftexts-index='363'> be infallibly assured that they are in the estate of grace, and shall persevere therein unto salvation.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"360": "<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>Hebrews 10:19-23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p58010019.06-2\">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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"361": "<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 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 4:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p62004013.01-6\">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>1 John 4:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p62004016.01-7\">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.</p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 6:11-12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58006011.01-8\">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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"362": "<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>",
"363": "<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>Hebrews 6:19-20</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, where Jesus has gone as a forerunner on our behalf, having become a high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.</p>\n</div><h5>2 Peter 1:5-11</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. For in this way there will be richly provided for you an entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"360": "I John 2:3; Hebrews 10:19-23",
"361": "I Corinthians 2:12; I John 3:14,18-19,21,24; I John 4:13,16; Hebrews 6:11-12",
"362": "Romans 8:15-16",
"363": "I John 5:13; Hebrews 6:19-20; II Peter 1:5-11"
},
"question": "Can true believers be infallibly assured that they are in the estate of grace, and that they shall persevere therein unto salvation?"
},
"81": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Ephesians 1:13' data-prooftexts-index='364'>Assurance of grace and salvation not being of the essence of faith,</span><span data-prooftexts='Isaiah 50:10; Psalms 88:1-3,6-7,9-10,13-15' data-prooftexts-index='365'> true believers may wait long before they obtain it;</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 77:1-12; Psalms 51:8,12; Psalms 31:22; Psalms 22:1; Ephesians 4:30; Luke 22:31-34' data-prooftexts-index='366'> and, after the enjoyment thereof, may have it weakened and intermitted, through manifold distempers, sins, temptations, and desertions;</span><span data-prooftexts='I John 3:9; Psalms 73:15,23; Isaiah 54:7-10; I Peter 4:12-14' data-prooftexts-index='367'> yet are they never left without such a presence and support of the Spirit of God as keeps them from sinking into utter despair.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"364": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ephesians 1:13</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, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"365": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Isaiah 50:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23050010.01-1\">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>Psalm 88:1-3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19088001.31-2\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v19088001-2\">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=\"p19088003.01-2\">For my soul is full of troubles,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and my life draws near to Sheol.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 88:6-7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19088006.01-3\">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</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 88:9-10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19088009.01-4\"><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></p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 88:13-15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"366": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 77:1-12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19077001.20-1\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v19077001-1\">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=\"p19077004.01-1\">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=\"p19077010.01-1\">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=\"p19077011.01-1\">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.</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.</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>Psalm 31:22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19031022.01-4\">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 22:1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19022001.20-5\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v19022001-5\">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>Ephesians 4:30</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.</p>\n</div><h5>Luke 22:31-34</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p42022031.05-7\"><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> Peter said to him, “Lord, I am ready to go with you both to prison and to death.” Jesus said, <span class=\"woc\">“I tell you, Peter, the rooster will not crow this day, until you deny three times that you know me.”</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"367": "<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>Psalm 73:15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19073015.01-2\">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 73:23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19073023.01-3\">Nevertheless, I am continually with you;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>you hold my right hand.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Isaiah 54:7-10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23054007.01-4\">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=\"p23054009.01-4\">“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>1 Peter 4:12-14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p60004012.05-5\">Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial when it comes upon you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you. But rejoice insofar as you share Christ's sufferings, that you may also rejoice and be glad when his glory is revealed. If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"364": "Ephesians 1:13",
"365": "Isaiah 50:10; Psalms 88:1-3,6-7,9-10,13-15",
"366": "Psalms 77:1-12; Psalms 51:8,12; Psalms 31:22; Psalms 22:1; Ephesians 4:30; Luke 22:31-34",
"367": "I John 3:9; Psalms 73:15,23; Isaiah 54:7-10; I Peter 4:12-14"
},
"question": "Are all true believers at all times assured of their present being in the estate of grace, and that they shall be saved?"
},
"82": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='II Corinthians 3:18' data-prooftexts-index='368'>The communion in glory which the members of the invisible church have with Christ, is in this life,</span><span data-prooftexts='Luke 23:43' data-prooftexts-index='369'> immediately after death,</span><span data-prooftexts='I Thessalonians 4:17' data-prooftexts-index='370'> and at last perfected at the resurrection and day of judgment.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"368": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>2 Corinthians 3:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p47003018.01-1\">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>",
"369": "<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> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"370": "<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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"368": "II Corinthians 3:18",
"369": "Luke 23:43",
"370": "I Thessalonians 4:17"
},
"question": "What is the communion in glory which the members of the invisible church have with Christ?"
},
"83": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Ephesians 2:5-6' data-prooftexts-index='371'>The members of the invisible church have communicated to them in this life the firstfruits of glory with Christ, as they are members of him their head, and so in him are interested in that glory which he is fully possessed of;</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 5:5; II Corinthians 1:22' data-prooftexts-index='372'> and, as an earnest thereof, enjoy the sense of God's love,</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 5:1-2; Romans 14:17; II Peter 3:18' data-prooftexts-index='373'> peace of conscience, joy in the Holy Ghost, and hope of glory;</span><span data-prooftexts='Genesis 4:13; Matthew 27:4; Hebrews 10:27; Romans 2:9; Mark 9:44' data-prooftexts-index='374'> as, on the contrary, sense of God's revenging wrath, horror of conscience, and a fearful expectation of judgment, are to the wicked the beginning of their torments which they shall endure after death.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"371": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ephesians 2:5-6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49002005.01-1\">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, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"372": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 5:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45005005.01-1\">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>2 Corinthians 1:22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p47001022.01-2\">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>",
"373": "<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 14:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45014017.01-2\">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>2 Peter 3:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p61003018.01-3\">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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"374": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Genesis 4:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p01004013.01-1\">Cain said to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, “My punishment is greater than I can bear.</p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 27:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40027004.01-2\">saying, “I have sinned by betraying innocent blood.” They said, “What is that to us? See to it yourself.”</p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 10:27</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58010027.01-3\">but a fearful expectation of judgment, and a fury of fire that will consume the adversaries.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 2:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45002009.01-4\">There will be tribulation and distress for every human being who does evil, the Jew first and also the Greek,</p>\n</div><h5>Mark 9:43-45</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p41009043.01-5\"><span class=\"woc\">And if your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than with two hands to go to hell, to the unquenchable fire.</span> <span class=\"woc\">And if your foot causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life lame than with two feet to be thrown into hell.</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"371": "Ephesians 2:5-6",
"372": "Romans 5:5; II Corinthians 1:22",
"373": "Romans 5:1-2; Romans 14:17; II Peter 3:18",
"374": "Genesis 4:13; Matthew 27:4; Hebrews 10:27; Romans 2:9; Mark 9:44"
},
"question": "What is the communion in glory with Christ which the members of the invisible church enjoy in this life?"
},
"84": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Romans 6:23' data-prooftexts-index='375'>Death being threatened as the wages of sin,</span><span data-prooftexts='Hebrews 9:27' data-prooftexts-index='376'> it is appointed unto all men once to die;</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 5:12' data-prooftexts-index='377'> for that all have sinned.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"375": "<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>",
"376": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Hebrews 9:27</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58009027.01-1\">And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"377": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 5:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p45005012.07-1\">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— (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"375": "Romans 6:23",
"376": "Hebrews 9:27",
"377": "Romans 5:12"
},
"question": "Shall all men die?"
},
"85": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='I Corinthians 15:26,55-57; Hebrews 2:15; John 11:25-26' data-prooftexts-index='378'>The righteous shall be delivered from death itself at the last day, and even in death are delivered from the sting and curse of it;</span><span data-prooftexts='Isaiah 57:1-2; II Kings 22:20' data-prooftexts-index='379'> so that, although they die, yet it is out of God's love,</span><span data-prooftexts='Revelation 14:13; Ephesians 5:27' data-prooftexts-index='380'> to free them perfectly from sin and misery,</span><span data-prooftexts='Luke 23:43; Philippians 1:23' data-prooftexts-index='381'> and to make them capable of further communion with Christ in glory, which they then enter upon.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"378": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Corinthians 15:26</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46015026.01-1\">The last enemy to be destroyed is death.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 15:55-57</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p46015055.01-2\">“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=\"p46015056.01-2\">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>Hebrews 2:15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58002015.01-3\">and deliver all those who through fear of death were subject to lifelong slavery.</p>\n</div><h5>John 11:25-26</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43011025.01-4\">Jesus said to her, <span class=\"woc\">“I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live,</span> <span class=\"woc\">and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?”</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"379": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Isaiah 57:1-2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23057001.04-1\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v23057001-1\">57:1 </span>The righteous man perishes,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and no one lays it to heart;<br />\ndevout men are taken away,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>while no one understands.<br />\nFor the righteous man is taken away from calamity;<br />\n <span class=\"indent\"></span>he enters into peace;<br />\nthey rest in their beds<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>who walk in their uprightness.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>2 Kings 22:20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p12022020.01-2\">Therefore, behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you shall be gathered to your grave in peace, and your eyes shall not see all the disaster that I will bring upon this place.’” And they brought back word to the king. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"380": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Revelation 14:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p66014013.01-1\">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!”</p>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 5:27</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49005027.01-2\">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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"381": "<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>Philippians 1:23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p50001023.01-2\">I am hard pressed between the two. My desire is to depart and be with Christ, for that is far better. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"378": "I Corinthians 15:26,55-57; Hebrews 2:15; John 11:25-26",
"379": "Isaiah 57:1-2; II Kings 22:20",
"380": "Revelation 14:13; Ephesians 5:27",
"381": "Luke 23:43; Philippians 1:23"
},
"question": "Death being the wages of sin, why are not the righteous delivered from death, seeing all their sins are forgiven in Christ?"
},
"86": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Hebrews 12:23; Acts 7:55,59' data-prooftexts-index='382'>The communion in glory with Christ, which the members of the invisible church enjoy immediately after death, is, in that their souls are then made perfect in holiness,</span><span data-prooftexts='II Corinthians 5:1,6,8; Philippians 1:23; Acts 3:21; Ephesians 4:10; Luke 23:43' data-prooftexts-index='383'> and received into the highest heavens,</span><span data-prooftexts='I John 3:2; I Corinthians 13:12' data-prooftexts-index='384'> where they behold the face of God in light and glory,</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 8:23; Psalms 16:9' data-prooftexts-index='385'> waiting for the full redemption of their bodies,</span><span data-prooftexts='I Thessalonians 4:14,16' data-prooftexts-index='386'> which even in death continue united to Christ,</span><span data-prooftexts='Isaiah 57:2' data-prooftexts-index='387'> and rest in their graves as in their beds,</span><span data-prooftexts='Job 19:26-27' data-prooftexts-index='388'> till at the last day they be again united to their souls.</span><span data-prooftexts='Luke 16:23-24; Acts 1:25; Jude 6-7' data-prooftexts-index='389'> Whereas the souls of the wicked are at their death cast into hell, where they remain in torments and utter darkness, and their bodies kept in their graves, as in their prisons, till the resurrection and judgment of the great day.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"382": "<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>Acts 7:55</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44007055.01-2\">But he, full of the Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God.</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 7:59</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44007059.01-3\">And as they were stoning Stephen, he called out, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"383": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>2 Corinthians 5:1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p47005001.04-1\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v47005001-1\">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=\"p47005006.01-2\">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=\"p47005008.01-3\">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=\"p50001023.01-4\">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=\"p44003021.01-5\">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=\"p49004010.01-6\">He who descended is the one who also ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.)</p>\n</div><h5>Luke 23:43</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42023043.01-7\">And he said to him, <span class=\"woc\">“Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in Paradise.”</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"384": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 John 3:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p62003002.01-1\">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>1 Corinthians 13:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46013012.01-2\">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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"385": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 8:23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45008023.01-1\">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.</p>\n</div><h5>Psalm 16:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19016009.01-2\">Therefore my heart is glad, and my whole being rejoices;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>my flesh also dwells secure. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"386": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Thessalonians 4:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p52004014.01-1\">For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Thessalonians 4:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p52004016.01-2\">For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"387": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Isaiah 57:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23057002.01-1\"><span class=\"indent\"></span>he enters into peace;<br />\nthey rest in their beds<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>who walk in their uprightness. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"388": "<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! (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"389": "<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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"382": "Hebrews 12:23; Acts 7:55,59",
"383": "II Corinthians 5:1,6,8; Philippians 1:23; Acts 3:21; Ephesians 4:10; Luke 23:43",
"384": "I John 3:2; I Corinthians 13:12",
"385": "Romans 8:23; Psalms 16:9",
"386": "I Thessalonians 4:14,16",
"387": "Isaiah 57:2",
"388": "Job 19:26-27",
"389": "Luke 16:23-24; Acts 1:25; Jude 6-7"
},
"question": "What is the communion in glory with Christ, which the members of the invisible church enjoy immediately after death?"
},
"87": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Daniel 12:2; Acts 24:15' data-prooftexts-index='390'>We are to believe, that at the last day there shall be a general resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust:</span><span data-prooftexts='Job 19:26; I Corinthians 15:51-53; I Thessalonians 4:15-17; John 5:28-29; Romans 8:11' data-prooftexts-index='391'> when they that are then found alive shall in a moment be changed; and the selfsame bodies of the dead which were laid in the grave, being then again united to their souls forever, shall be raised up by the power of Christ.</span><span data-prooftexts='I Corinthians 15:21-23,42-44; Philippians 3:21' data-prooftexts-index='392'> The bodies of the just, by the Spirit of Christ, and by virtue of his resurrection as their head, shall be raised in power, spiritual, incorruptible, and made like to his glorious body;</span><span data-prooftexts='John 5:27-29; Matthew 25:33' data-prooftexts-index='393'> and the bodies of the wicked shall be raised up in dishonor by him, as an offended judge.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"390": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Daniel 12:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p27012002.01-1\">And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 24:15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44024015.01-2\">having a hope in God, which these men themselves accept, that there will be a resurrection of both the just and the unjust. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"391": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Job 19:26</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,</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 15:51-53</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. For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Thessalonians 4:15-17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p52004015.01-3\">For this we declare to you by a word from the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. 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>John 5:28-29</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43005028.01-4\"><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>Romans 8:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45008011.01-5\">If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"392": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Corinthians 15:21-23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46015021.01-1\">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. But each in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, then at his coming those who belong to Christ.</p>\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.</p>\n</div><h5>Philippians 3:21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p50003021.01-3\">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>",
"393": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>John 5:27-29</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43005027.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">And he has given him authority to execute judgment, because he is the Son of Man.</span> <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>Matthew 25:33</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40025033.01-2\"><span class=\"woc\">And he will place the sheep on his right, but the goats on the left.</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"390": "Daniel 12:2; Acts 24:15",
"391": "Job 19:26; I Corinthians 15:51-53; I Thessalonians 4:15-17; John 5:28-29; Romans 8:11",
"392": "I Corinthians 15:21-23,42-44; Philippians 3:21",
"393": "John 5:27-29; Matthew 25:33"
},
"question": "What are we to believe concerning the resurrection?"
},
"88": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Ecclesiastes 12:14; II Peter 2:4,6-7,14-15; Matthew 25:46; II Corinthians 5:10; Romans 14:10,12' data-prooftexts-index='394'>Immediately after the resurrection shall follow the general and final judgment of angels and men;</span><span data-prooftexts='Matthew 24:36,42,44; Mark 13:35-37' data-prooftexts-index='395'> the day and hour whereof no man knoweth, that all may watch and pray, and be ever ready for the coming of the Lord.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"394": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ecclesiastes 12:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p21012014.01-1\">For God will bring every deed into judgment, with every secret thing, whether good or evil.</p>\n</div><h5>2 Peter 2:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p61002004.01-2\">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;</p>\n</div><h5>2 Peter 2:6-7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p61002006.01-3\">if by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction, making them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly; and if he rescued righteous Lot, greatly distressed by the sensual conduct of the wicked</p>\n</div><h5>2 Peter 2:14-15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p61002014.01-4\">They have eyes full of adultery, insatiable for sin. They entice unsteady souls. They have hearts trained in greed. Accursed children! Forsaking the right way, they have gone astray. They have followed the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved gain from wrongdoing,</p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 25:46</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40025046.01-5\"><span class=\"woc\">And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”</span></p>\n</div><h5>2 Corinthians 5:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p47005010.01-6\">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>Romans 14:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45014010.01-7\">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=\"p45014012.01-8\">So then each of us will give an account of himself to God. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"395": "<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</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></p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 24:44</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40024044.01-3\"><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=\"p41013035.01-4\"><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> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"394": "Ecclesiastes 12:14; II Peter 2:4,6-7,14-15; Matthew 25:46; II Corinthians 5:10; Romans 14:10,12",
"395": "Matthew 24:36,42,44; Mark 13:35-37"
},
"question": "What shall immediately follow after the resurrection?"
},
"89": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Matthew 25:33' data-prooftexts-index='396'>At the day of judgment, the wicked shall be set on Christ's left hand,</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 2:15-16' data-prooftexts-index='397'> and, upon clear evidence, and full conviction of their own consciences,</span><span data-prooftexts='Matthew 25:41-43' data-prooftexts-index='398'> shall have the fearful but just sentence of condemnation pronounced against them;</span><span data-prooftexts='Luke 16:26; II Thessalonians 1:8-9' data-prooftexts-index='399'> and thereupon shall be cast out from the favorable presence of God, and the glorious fellowship with Christ, his saints, and all his holy angels, into hell, to be punished with unspeakable torments, both of body and soul, with the devil and his angels forever.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"396": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 25:33</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40025033.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">And he will place the sheep on his right, but the goats on the left.</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"397": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 2:15-16</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 on that day when, according to my gospel, God judges the secrets of men by Christ Jesus. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"398": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 25:41-43</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> <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> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"399": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Luke 16:26</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42016026.01-1\"><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>2 Thessalonians 1:8-9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p53001008.01-2\">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, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"396": "Matthew 25:33",
"397": "Romans 2:15-16",
"398": "Matthew 25:41-43",
"399": "Luke 16:26; II Thessalonians 1:8-9"
},
"question": "What shall be done to the wicked at the day of judgment?"
},
"9": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Matthew 3:16-17; Matthew 28:19; II Corinthians 13:14' data-prooftexts-index='37'>There be three persons in the Godhead, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost;</span><span data-prooftexts='John 1:1; Genesis 1:1-3; John 17:5; John 10:30; Psalms 45:6; Hebrews 1:8-9; Acts 5:3-4; Romans 9:5; Colossians 2:9' data-prooftexts-index='38'> and these three are one true, eternal God, the same in substance, equal in power and glory; although distinguished by their personal properties.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"37": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 3:16-17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40003016.01-1\">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=\"p40028019.01-2\"><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></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>",
"38": "<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>Genesis 1:1-3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p class=\"chapter-first\" id=\"p01001001.06-2\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v01001001-2\">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=\"p01001003.01-2\">And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.</p>\n</div><h5>John 17:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43017005.01-3\"><span class=\"woc\">And now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had with you before the world existed.</span></p>\n</div><h5>John 10:30</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43010030.01-4\"><span class=\"woc\">I and the Father are one.”</span></p>\n</div><h5>Psalm 45:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19045006.01-5\">Your throne, O God, is forever and ever.<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>The scepter of your kingdom is a scepter of uprightness;</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.”</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Acts 5:3-4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44005003.01-7\">But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back for yourself part of the proceeds of the land? 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.”</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 9:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45009005.01-8\">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>Colossians 2:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p51002009.01-9\">For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"37": "Matthew 3:16-17; Matthew 28:19; II Corinthians 13:14",
"38": "John 1:1; Genesis 1:1-3; John 17:5; John 10:30; Psalms 45:6; Hebrews 1:8-9; Acts 5:3-4; Romans 9:5; Colossians 2:9"
},
"question": "How many persons are there in the Godhead?"
},
"90": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='I Thessalonians 4:17; I Corinthians 15:42-43' data-prooftexts-index='400'>At the day of judgment, the righteous, being caught up to Christ in the clouds,</span><span data-prooftexts='Matthew 25:33; Matthew 10:32' data-prooftexts-index='401'> shall be set on his right hand, and there openly acknowledged and acquitted,</span><span data-prooftexts='I Corinthians 6:2-3' data-prooftexts-index='402'> shall join with him in the judging of reprobate angels and men,</span><span data-prooftexts='Matthew 25:34,46' data-prooftexts-index='403'> and shall be received into heaven,</span><span data-prooftexts='Ephesians 5:27; Revelation 14:13' data-prooftexts-index='404'> where they shall be fully and forever freed from all sin and misery;</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 16:11' data-prooftexts-index='405'> filled with inconceivable joys,</span><span data-prooftexts='Hebrews 12:22-23' data-prooftexts-index='406'> made perfectly holy and happy both in body and soul, in the company of innumerable saints and holy angels,</span><span data-prooftexts='I John 3:2; Romans 8:29; I Corinthians 13:12; I Thessalonians 4:17-18' data-prooftexts-index='407'> but especially in the immediate vision and fruition of God the Father, of our Lord Jesus Christ, and of the Holy Spirit, to all eternity.</span> And this is the perfect and full communion, which the members of the invisible church shall enjoy with Christ in glory, at the resurrection and day of judgment.",
"prooftext_verses": {
"400": "<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 15:42-43</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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"401": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 25:33</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40025033.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">And he will place the sheep on his right, but the goats on the left.</span></p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 10:32</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40010032.01-2\"><span class=\"woc\">So everyone who acknowledges me before men, I also will acknowledge before my Father who is in heaven,</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"402": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Corinthians 6:2-3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46006002.01-1\">Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you incompetent to try trivial cases? Do you not know that we are to judge angels? How much more, then, matters pertaining to this life! (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"403": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 25:34</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40025034.01-1\"><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></p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 25:46</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40025046.01-2\"><span class=\"woc\">And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"404": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ephesians 5:27</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49005027.01-1\">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>Revelation 14:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p66014013.01-2\">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>",
"405": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 16:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19016011.01-1\">You make known to me the path of life;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>in your presence there is fullness of joy;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>at your right hand are pleasures forevermore. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"406": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Hebrews 12:22-23</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, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"407": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 John 3:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p62003002.01-1\">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>Romans 8:29</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45008029.01-2\">For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 13:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46013012.01-3\">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>1 Thessalonians 4:17-18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p52004017.01-4\">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. Therefore encourage one another with these words. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"400": "I Thessalonians 4:17; I Corinthians 15:42-43",
"401": "Matthew 25:33; Matthew 10:32",
"402": "I Corinthians 6:2-3",
"403": "Matthew 25:34,46",
"404": "Ephesians 5:27; Revelation 14:13",
"405": "Psalms 16:11",
"406": "Hebrews 12:22-23",
"407": "I John 3:2; Romans 8:29; I Corinthians 13:12; I Thessalonians 4:17-18"
},
"question": "What shall be done to the righteous at the day of judgment?"
},
"91": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Deuteronomy 29:29; Micah 6:8; I John 5:2-3; Romans 12:1-2; I Samuel 15:22' data-prooftexts-index='408'>The duty which God requireth of man, is obedience to his revealed will.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"408": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Deuteronomy 29:29</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p05029029.01-1\">“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.</p>\n</div><h5>Micah 6:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p33006008.01-2\">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>1 John 5:2-3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p62005002.01-3\">By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments. For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 12:1-2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p45012001.04-4\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v45012001-4\">12:1 </span>I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. 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>1 Samuel 15:22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p09015022.01-5\">And Samuel said,</p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p09015022.04-5\">“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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"408": "Deuteronomy 29:29; Micah 6:8; I John 5:2-3; Romans 12:1-2; I Samuel 15:22"
},
"question": "What is the duty which God requireth of man?"
},
"92": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Genesis 1:26-27; Romans 2:14-15; Romans 10:5; Genesis 2:17' data-prooftexts-index='409'>The rule of obedience revealed to Adam in the estate of innocence, and to all mankind in him, besides a special command not to eat of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, was the moral law.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"409": "<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>Romans 2:14-15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45002014.01-2\">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=\"p45010005.07-3\">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>Genesis 2:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p01002017.01-4\">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.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"409": "Genesis 1:26-27; Romans 2:14-15; Romans 10:5; Genesis 2:17"
},
"question": "What did God at first reveal unto man as the rule of his obedience?"
},
"93": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Deuteronomy 5:1-3,31,33; Luke 10:26-27; I Thessalonians 5:23; Ephesians 4:24' data-prooftexts-index='410'>The moral law is the declaration of the will of God to mankind, directing and binding everyone to personal, perfect, and perpetual conformity and obedience thereunto, in the frame and disposition of the whole man, soul and body,</span><span data-prooftexts='Luke 1:75; Acts 24:16; I Peter 1:15-16' data-prooftexts-index='411'> and in performance of all those duties of holiness and righteousness which he oweth to God and man:</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 10:5; Galatians 3:10,12; Romans 5:12' data-prooftexts-index='412'> promising life upon the fulfilling, and threatening death upon the breach of it.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"410": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Deuteronomy 5:1-3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p05005001.04-1\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v05005001-1\">5:1 </span>And Moses summoned all Israel and said to them, “Hear, O Israel, the statutes and the rules that I speak in your hearing today, and you shall learn them and be careful to do them. The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> our God made a covenant with us in Horeb. Not with our fathers did the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> make this covenant, but with us, who are all of us here alive today.</p>\n</div><h5>Deuteronomy 5:31</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p05005031.01-2\">But you, stand here by me, and I will tell you the whole commandment and the statutes and the rules that you shall teach them, that they may do them in the land that I am giving them to possess.’</p>\n</div><h5>Deuteronomy 5:33</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p05005033.01-3\">You shall walk in all the way that the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God has commanded you, that you may live, and that it may go well with you, and that you may live long in the land that you shall possess.</p>\n</div><h5>Luke 10:26-27</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42010026.01-4\">He said to him, <span class=\"woc\">“What is written in the Law? How do you read it?”</span> And he answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.”</p>\n</div><h5>1 Thessalonians 5:23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p52005023.01-5\">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.</p>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 4:24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49004024.01-6\">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>",
"411": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Luke 1:75</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p42001075.01-1\"><span class=\"indent\"></span>in holiness and righteousness before him all our days.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Acts 24:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44024016.01-2\">So I always take pains to have a clear conscience toward both God and man.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Peter 1:15-16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p60001015.01-3\">but as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, since it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"412": "<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>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.”</p>\n</div><h5>Galatians 3:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p48003012.01-3\">But the law is not of faith, rather “The one who does them shall live by them.”</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— (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"410": "Deuteronomy 5:1-3,31,33; Luke 10:26-27; I Thessalonians 5:23; Ephesians 4:24",
"411": "Luke 1:75; Acts 24:16; I Peter 1:15-16",
"412": "Romans 10:5; Galatians 3:10,12; Romans 5:12"
},
"question": "What is the moral law?"
},
"94": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Romans 8:3; Galatians 2:16' data-prooftexts-index='413'>Although no man, since the fall, can attain to righteousness and life by the moral law;</span><span data-prooftexts='I Timothy 1:8' data-prooftexts-index='414'> yet there is great use thereof, as well common to all men, as peculiar either to the unregenerate, or the regenerate.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"413": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 8:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45008003.01-1\">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>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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"414": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Timothy 1:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p54001008.01-1\">Now we know that the law is good, if one uses it lawfully, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"413": "Romans 8:3; Galatians 2:16",
"414": "I Timothy 1:8"
},
"question": "Is there any use of the moral law to man since the fall?"
},
"95": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Romans 1:20; Leviticus 11:44-45; Leviticus 20:7-8; Romans 7:12' data-prooftexts-index='415'>The moral law is of use to all men, to inform them of the holy nature and will of God,</span><span data-prooftexts='Micah 6:8; James 2:10-11; Romans 1:32' data-prooftexts-index='416'> and of their duty, binding them to walk accordingly;</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 19:11-12; Romans 3:20; Romans 7:7' data-prooftexts-index='417'> to convince them of their disability to keep it, and of the sinful pollution of their nature, hearts, and lives;</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 3:9,23' data-prooftexts-index='418'> to humble them in the sense of their sin and misery,</span><span data-prooftexts='Galatians 3:21-22,24' data-prooftexts-index='419'> and thereby help them to a clearer sight of the need they have of Christ,</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 10:4' data-prooftexts-index='420'> and of the perfection of his obedience.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"415": "<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>Leviticus 11:44-45</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p03011044.01-2\">For I am the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God. Consecrate yourselves therefore, and be holy, for I am holy. You shall not defile yourselves with any swarming thing that crawls on the ground. For I am the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> who brought you up out of the land of Egypt to be your God. You shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.”</p>\n</div><h5>Leviticus 20:7-8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p03020007.01-3\">Consecrate yourselves, therefore, and be holy, for I am the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God. Keep my statutes and do them; I am the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> who sanctifies you.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 7:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45007012.01-4\">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>",
"416": "<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>James 2:10-11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p59002010.01-2\">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.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 1:32</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45001032.01-3\">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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"417": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 19:11-12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19019011.01-1\">Moreover, by them is your servant warned;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>in keeping them there is great reward.</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19019012.01-1\">Who can discern his errors?<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Declare me innocent from hidden faults.</p>\n</div>\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.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 7:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p45007007.05-3\">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.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"418": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 3:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p45003009.05-1\">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 3:23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45003023.01-2\">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>",
"419": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Galatians 3:21-22</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. But the Scripture imprisoned everything under sin, so that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.</p>\n</div><h5>Galatians 3:24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p48003024.01-2\">So then, the law was our guardian until Christ came, in order that we might be justified by faith. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"420": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 10:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45010004.01-1\">For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"415": "Romans 1:20; Leviticus 11:44-45; Leviticus 20:7-8; Romans 7:12",
"416": "Micah 6:8; James 2:10-11; Romans 1:32",
"417": "Psalms 19:11-12; Romans 3:20; Romans 7:7",
"418": "Romans 3:9,23",
"419": "Galatians 3:21-22,24",
"420": "Romans 10:4"
},
"question": "Of what use is the moral law to all men?"
},
"96": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Psalms 51:13; I Timothy 1:9-11' data-prooftexts-index='421'>The moral law is of use to unregenerate men, to awaken their consciences to flee from wrath to come,</span><span data-prooftexts='Galatians 3:24' data-prooftexts-index='422'> and to drive them to Christ;</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 1:20; Romans 2:15' data-prooftexts-index='423'> or, upon their continuance in the estate and way of sin, to leave them inexcusable,</span><span data-prooftexts='Galatians 3:10' data-prooftexts-index='424'> and under the curse thereof.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"421": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 51:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\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.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>1 Timothy 1:9-11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p54001009.01-2\">understanding this, that the law is not laid down for the just but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who strike their fathers and mothers, for murderers, the sexually immoral, men who practice homosexuality, enslavers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine, in accordance with the gospel of the glory of the blessed God with which I have been entrusted. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"422": "<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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"423": "<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>Romans 2:15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45002015.01-2\">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>",
"424": "<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>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"421": "Psalms 51:13; I Timothy 1:9-11",
"422": "Galatians 3:24",
"423": "Romans 1:20; Romans 2:15",
"424": "Galatians 3:10"
},
"question": "What particular use is there of the moral law to unregenerate men?"
},
"97": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Romans 6:14; Romans 7:4,6; Galatians 4:4-5; Colossians 2:13-14' data-prooftexts-index='425'>Although they that are regenerate, and believe in Christ, be delivered from the moral law as a covenant of works,</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 3:20' data-prooftexts-index='426'> so as thereby they are neither justified</span><span data-prooftexts='Galatians 5:23; Romans 8:1' data-prooftexts-index='427'> nor condemned;</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 7:24-25; Galatians 3:13-14; Romans 8:3-4; Acts 13:38-39' data-prooftexts-index='428'> yet, besides the general uses thereof common to them with all men, it is of special use, to show them how much they are bound to Christ for his fulfilling it, and enduring the curse thereof in their stead, and for their good;</span><span data-prooftexts='Luke 1:68-69,74-75; Colossians 1:12-14; Romans 6:14' data-prooftexts-index='429'> and thereby to provoke them to more thankfulness,</span><span data-prooftexts='Deuteronomy 30:19-20; Romans 7:22; Romans 12:2; Titus 2:11-14; James 1:25' data-prooftexts-index='430'> and to express the same in their greater care to conform themselves thereunto as the rule of their obedience.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"425": "<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>Romans 7:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45007004.01-2\">Likewise, my brothers, you also have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 7:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45007006.01-3\">But now we are released from the law, having died to that which held us captive, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit and not in the old way of the written code.</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>Colossians 2:13-14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p51002013.01-5\">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, by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"426": "<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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"427": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Galatians 5:23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p48005023.01-1\">gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.</p>\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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"428": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 7:24-25</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45007024.01-1\">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>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 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.</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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"429": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Luke 1:68-69</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p42001068.01-1\">“Blessed be the Lord God of Israel,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for he has visited and redeemed his people<br />\n and has raised up a horn of salvation for us<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>in the house of his servant David,</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Luke 1:74-75</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p42001074.01-2\"><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.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Colossians 1:12-14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p51001012.01-3\">giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in light. He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.</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>",
"430": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Deuteronomy 30:19-20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p05030019.01-1\">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, loving the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God, obeying his voice and holding fast to him, for he is your life and length of days, that you may dwell in the land that the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.”</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 12:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45012002.01-3\">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>Titus 2:11-14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p56002011.01-4\">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, waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, 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>James 1:25</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p59001025.01-5\">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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"425": "Romans 6:14; Romans 7:4,6; Galatians 4:4-5; Colossians 2:13-14",
"426": "Romans 3:20",
"427": "Galatians 5:23; Romans 8:1",
"428": "Romans 7:24-25; Galatians 3:13-14; Romans 8:3-4; Acts 13:38-39",
"429": "Luke 1:68-69,74-75; Colossians 1:12-14; Romans 6:14",
"430": "Deuteronomy 30:19-20; Romans 7:22; Romans 12:2; Titus 2:11-14; James 1:25"
},
"question": "What special use is there of the moral law to the regenerate?"
},
"98": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Deuteronomy 4:13; Deuteronomy 10:4; Ex 34:1-4; Romans 13:8-10; James 2:8,10-12' data-prooftexts-index='431'>The moral law is summarily comprehended in the Ten Commandments, which were delivered by the voice of God upon Mount Sinai, and written by him in two tables of stone;</span><span data-prooftexts='Matthew 22:37-40; Matthew 19:17-19' data-prooftexts-index='432'> and are recorded in the twentieth chapter of Exodus: the four first commandments containing our duty to God, and the other six our duty to man.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"431": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Deuteronomy 4:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p05004013.01-1\">And he declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, that is, the Ten Commandments, and he wrote them on two tablets of stone.</p>\n</div><h5>Deuteronomy 10:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p05010004.01-2\">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 34:1-4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p02034001.05-3\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v02034001-3\">34:1 </span>The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> said to Moses, “Cut for yourself two tablets of stone like the first, and I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke. Be ready by the morning, and come up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and present yourself there to me on the top of the mountain. No one shall come up with you, and let no one be seen throughout all the mountain. Let no flocks or herds graze opposite that mountain.” So Moses cut two tablets of stone like the first. And he rose early in the morning and went up on Mount Sinai, as the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> had commanded him, and took in his hand two tablets of stone.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 13:8-10</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.” Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.</p>\n</div><h5>James 2:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p59002008.01-5\">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=\"p59002010.01-6\">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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"432": "<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></p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 19:17-19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40019017.01-2\">And he said to him, <span class=\"woc\">“Why do you ask me about what is good? There is only one who is good. If you would enter life, keep the commandments.”</span> He said to him, “Which ones?” And Jesus said, <span class=\"woc\">“You shall not murder, You shall not commit adultery, You shall not steal, You shall not bear false witness,</span> <span class=\"woc\">Honor your father and mother, and, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"431": "Deuteronomy 4:13; Deuteronomy 10:4; Ex 34:1-4; Romans 13:8-10; James 2:8,10-12",
"432": "Matthew 22:37-40; Matthew 19:17-19"
},
"question": "Where is the moral law summarily comprehended?"
},
"99": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Psalms 19:7; James 2:10; Matthew 5:21-22' data-prooftexts-index='433'>For the right understanding of the Ten Commandments, these rules are to be observed:<ol><li>That the law is perfect, and bindeth every one to full conformity in the whole man unto the righteousness thereof, and unto entire obedience forever; so as to require the utmost perfection of every duty, and to forbid the least degree of every sin.</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 7:14; Deuteronomy 6:5; Matthew 22:37-39; Matthew 5:21-22,27-28,33-34,37-39,43-44' data-prooftexts-index='434'></li><li>That it is spiritual, and so reacheth the understanding, will, affections, and all other powers of the soul; as well as words, works, and gestures.</span><span data-prooftexts='Colossians 3:5; Amos 8:5; Proverbs 1:19; I Timothy 6:10' data-prooftexts-index='435'></li><li>That one and the same thing, in divers respects, is required or forbidden in several commandments.</span><span data-prooftexts='Isaiah 58:13; Deuteronomy 6:13; Matthew 4:9-10; Matthew 15:4-6' data-prooftexts-index='436'></li><li>That as, where a duty is commanded, the contrary sin is forbidden</span><span data-prooftexts='Matthew 5:21-25; Ephesians 4:28' data-prooftexts-index='437'>; and, where a sin is forbidden, the contrary duty is commanded</span><span data-prooftexts='Ex 20:12; Proverbs 30:17' data-prooftexts-index='438'>: so, where a promise is annexed, the contrary threatening is included</span><span data-prooftexts='Jeremiah 18:7-8; Psalms 15:1,4-5; Psalms 24:4-5' data-prooftexts-index='439'>; and, where a threatening is annexed, the contrary promise is included.</span><span data-prooftexts='Job 13:7-8; Romans 3:8; Job 36:21; Hebrews 11:25' data-prooftexts-index='440'></li><li>That what God forbids, is at no time to be done;</span><span data-prooftexts='Deuteronomy 4:8-9; Luke 17:10' data-prooftexts-index='441'> what he commands, is always our duty;</span><span data-prooftexts='Matthew 12:7' data-prooftexts-index='442'> and yet every particular duty is not to be done at all times.</span><span data-prooftexts='Matthew 5:21-22,27-28; Matthew 15:4-6; I Thessalonians 5:22; Jude 23; Galatians 5:26; Colossians 3:21' data-prooftexts-index='443'></li><li>That under one sin or duty, all of the same kind are forbidden or commanded; together with all the causes, means, occasions, and appearances thereof, and provocations thereunto.</span><span data-prooftexts='Ex 20:10; Leviticus 19:17; Genesis 18:19; Joshua 24:15; Deuteronomy 6:6-7; Hebrews 10:24-25' data-prooftexts-index='444'></li><li>That what is forbidden or commanded to ourselves, we are bound, according to our places, to endeavor that it may be avoided or performed by others, according to the duty of their places.</span><span data-prooftexts='II Corinthians 1:24' data-prooftexts-index='445'></li><li>That in what is commanded to others, we are bound, according to our places and callings, to be helpful to them;</span><span data-prooftexts='I Timothy 5:22; Ephesians 5:11' data-prooftexts-index='446'> and to take heed of partaking with others in what is forbidden them.</span></li></ol>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"433": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 19:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19019007.01-1\">The law of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> is perfect,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>reviving the soul;<br />\nthe testimony of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> is sure,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>making wise the simple;</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>James 2:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p59002010.01-2\">For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become accountable for all of it.</p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 5:21-22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p40005021.02-3\"><span class=\"woc\">“You have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not murder; and whoever murders will be liable to judgment.’</span> <span class=\"woc\">But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment; whoever insults his brother will be liable to the council; and whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be liable to the hell of fire.</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"434": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 7:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45007014.01-1\">For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold under sin.</p>\n</div><h5>Deuteronomy 6:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p05006005.01-2\">You shall love the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.</p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 22:37-39</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40022037.01-3\">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></p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 5:21-22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p40005021.02-4\"><span class=\"woc\">“You have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not murder; and whoever murders will be liable to judgment.’</span> <span class=\"woc\">But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment; whoever insults his brother will be liable to the council; and whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be liable to the hell of fire.</span></p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 5:27-28</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p40005027.02-5\"><span class=\"woc\">“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’</span> <span class=\"woc\">But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.</span></p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 5:33-34</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p40005033.02-6\"><span class=\"woc\">“Again you have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not swear falsely, but shall perform to the Lord what you have sworn.’</span> <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 5:37-39</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40005037.01-7\"><span class=\"woc\">Let what you say be simply ‘Yes’ or ‘No’; anything more than this comes from evil.</span></p>\n \n<p id=\"p40005038.02-7\"><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>Matthew 5:43-44</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p40005043.04-8\"><span class=\"woc\">“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’</span> <span class=\"woc\">But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"435": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Colossians 3:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p51003005.01-1\">Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.</p>\n</div><h5>Amos 8:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p30008005.01-2\">saying, “When will the new moon be over,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that we may sell grain?<br />\nAnd the Sabbath,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that we may offer wheat for sale,<br />\nthat we may make the ephah small and the shekel great<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and deal deceitfully with false balances,</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Proverbs 1:19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20001019.01-3\">Such are the ways of everyone who is greedy for unjust gain;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>it takes away the life of its possessors.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>1 Timothy 6:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p54006010.01-4\">For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"436": "<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>Deuteronomy 6:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p05006013.01-2\">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>Matthew 4:9-10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40004009.01-3\">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=\"p40004010.13-3\"><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>Matthew 15:4-6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40015004.01-4\"><span class=\"woc\">For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.’</span> <span class=\"woc\">But you say, ‘If anyone tells his father or his mother, “What you would have gained from me is given to God,”</span> <span class=\"woc\">he need not honor his father.’</span> <span class=\"woc\">So for the sake of your tradition you have made void the word of God.</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"437": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 5:21-25</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p40005021.02-1\"><span class=\"woc\">“You have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not murder; and whoever murders will be liable to judgment.’</span> <span class=\"woc\">But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment; whoever insults his brother will be liable to the council; and whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be liable to the hell of fire.</span> <span class=\"woc\">So if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you,</span> <span class=\"woc\">leave your gift there before the altar and go. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.</span> <span class=\"woc\">Come to terms quickly with your accuser while you are going with him to court, lest your accuser hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the guard, and you be put in prison.</span></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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"438": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Exodus 20:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p02020012.01-1\">“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God is giving you.</p>\n</div><h5>Proverbs 30:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20030017.01-2\">The eye that mocks a father<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and scorns to obey a mother<br />\nwill be picked out by the ravens of the valley<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and eaten by the vultures. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"439": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Jeremiah 18:7-8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p24018007.01-1\">If at any time I declare concerning a nation or a kingdom, that I will pluck up and break down and destroy it, and if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turns from its evil, I will relent of the disaster that I intended to do to it.</p>\n</div><h5>Psalm 15:1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19015001.12-2\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v19015001-2\">15:1 </span>O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, who shall sojourn in your tent?<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Who shall dwell on your holy hill?</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 15:4-5</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;<br />\n who does not put out his money at interest<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and does not take a bribe against the innocent.<br />\nHe who does these things shall never be moved.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 24:4-5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19024004.01-4\">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.<br />\n He will receive blessing from the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span><br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and righteousness from the God of his salvation. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"440": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Job 13:7-8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p18013007.01-1\">Will you speak falsely for God<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and speak deceitfully for him?<br />\n Will you show partiality toward him?<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Will you plead the case for God?</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Romans 3:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45003008.01-2\">And why not do evil that good may come?—as some people slanderously charge us with saying. Their condemnation is just.</p>\n</div><h5>Job 36:21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p18036021.01-3\">Take care; do not turn to iniquity,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for this you have chosen rather than affliction.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 11:25</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58011025.01-4\">choosing rather to be mistreated with the people of God than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"441": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Deuteronomy 4:8-9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p05004008.01-1\">And what great nation is there, that has statutes and rules so righteous as all this law that I set before you today?</p>\n <p id=\"p05004009.01-1\">“Only take care, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things that your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life. Make them known to your children and your children's children—</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>",
"442": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 12:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40012007.01-1\"><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> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"443": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 5:21-22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p40005021.02-1\"><span class=\"woc\">“You have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not murder; and whoever murders will be liable to judgment.’</span> <span class=\"woc\">But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment; whoever insults his brother will be liable to the council; and whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be liable to the hell of fire.</span></p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 5:27-28</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p40005027.02-2\"><span class=\"woc\">“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’</span> <span class=\"woc\">But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.</span></p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 15:4-6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40015004.01-3\"><span class=\"woc\">For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.’</span> <span class=\"woc\">But you say, ‘If anyone tells his father or his mother, “What you would have gained from me is given to God,”</span> <span class=\"woc\">he need not honor his father.’</span> <span class=\"woc\">So for the sake of your tradition you have made void the word of God.</span></p>\n</div><h5>1 Thessalonians 5:22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p52005022.01-4\">Abstain from every form of evil.</p>\n</div><h5>Jude 1:23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p65001023.01-5\">save others by snatching them out of the fire; to others show mercy with fear, hating even the garment stained by the flesh.</p>\n</div><h5>Galatians 5:26</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p48005026.01-6\">Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.</p>\n</div><h5>Colossians 3:21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p51003021.01-7\">Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"444": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Exodus 20:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p02020010.01-1\">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>Leviticus 19:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p03019017.01-2\">“You shall not hate your brother in your heart, but you shall reason frankly with your neighbor, lest you incur sin because of him.</p>\n</div><h5>Genesis 18:19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p01018019.01-3\">For I have chosen him, that he may command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> by doing righteousness and justice, so that the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> may bring to Abraham what he has promised him.”</p>\n</div><h5>Joshua 24:15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p06024015.01-4\">And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>.”</p>\n</div><h5>Deuteronomy 6:6-7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p05006006.01-5\">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>Hebrews 10:24-25</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58010024.01-6\">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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"445": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>2 Corinthians 1:24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p47001024.01-1\">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>",
"446": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Timothy 5:22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p54005022.01-1\">Do not be hasty in the laying on of hands, nor take part in the sins of others; keep yourself pure.</p>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 5:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49005011.01-2\">Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"433": "Psalms 19:7; James 2:10; Matthew 5:21-22",
"434": "Romans 7:14; Deuteronomy 6:5; Matthew 22:37-39; Matthew 5:21-22,27-28,33-34,37-39,43-44",
"435": "Colossians 3:5; Amos 8:5; Proverbs 1:19; I Timothy 6:10",
"436": "Isaiah 58:13; Deuteronomy 6:13; Matthew 4:9-10; Matthew 15:4-6",
"437": "Matthew 5:21-25; Ephesians 4:28",
"438": "Ex 20:12; Proverbs 30:17",
"439": "Jeremiah 18:7-8; Psalms 15:1,4-5; Psalms 24:4-5",
"440": "Job 13:7-8; Romans 3:8; Job 36:21; Hebrews 11:25",
"441": "Deuteronomy 4:8-9; Luke 17:10",
"442": "Matthew 12:7",
"443": "Matthew 5:21-22,27-28; Matthew 15:4-6; I Thessalonians 5:22; Jude 23; Galatians 5:26; Colossians 3:21",
"444": "Ex 20:10; Leviticus 19:17; Genesis 18:19; Joshua 24:15; Deuteronomy 6:6-7; Hebrews 10:24-25",
"445": "II Corinthians 1:24",
"446": "I Timothy 5:22; Ephesians 5:11"
},
"question": "What rules are to be observed for the right understanding of the Ten Commandments?"
}
}