static/confessions/wsc.json
{
"1": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Psalms 86:9; Isaiah 60:21; Romans 11:36; I Corinthians 6:20; I Corinthians 10:31; Revelation 4:11' data-prooftexts-index='1'>Man's chief end is to glorify God,</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 16:5-11; Psalms 144:15; Isaiah 12:2; Luke 2:10; Philippians 4:4; Revelation 21:3-4' data-prooftexts-index='2'> and to enjoy him forever.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"1": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 86:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19086009.01-1\">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>Isaiah 60:21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23060021.01-2\">Your people shall all be righteous;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>they shall possess the land forever,<br />\nthe branch of my planting, the work of my hands,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that I might be glorified.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Romans 11:36</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><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>1 Corinthians 6:20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46006020.01-4\">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=\"p46010031.01-5\">So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.</p>\n</div><h5>Revelation 4:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p66004011.01-6\">“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>",
"2": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 16:5-11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19016005.01-1\">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=\"p19016007.01-1\">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=\"p19016009.01-1\">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=\"p19016011.01-1\">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.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 144:15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19144015.01-2\">Blessed are the people to whom such blessings fall!<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Blessed are the people whose God is the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>!</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Isaiah 12:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23012002.01-3\">“Behold, God is my salvation;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I will trust, and will not be afraid;<br />\nfor the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> <span class=\"small-caps\">God</span> is my strength and my song,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and he has become my salvation.”</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Luke 2:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42002010.01-4\">And the angel said to them, “Fear not, for behold, I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people.</p>\n</div><h5>Philippians 4:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p50004004.01-5\">Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice.</p>\n</div><h5>Revelation 21:3-4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p66021003.01-6\">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": "Psalms 86:9; Isaiah 60:21; Romans 11:36; I Corinthians 6:20; I Corinthians 10:31; Revelation 4:11",
"2": "Psalms 16:5-11; Psalms 144:15; Isaiah 12:2; Luke 2:10; Philippians 4:4; Revelation 21:3-4"
},
"question": "What is the chief end of man?"
},
"10": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Genesis 1:27' data-prooftexts-index='26'>God created man male and female, after his own image,</span><span data-prooftexts='Colossians 3:10' data-prooftexts-index='27'> in knowledge,</span><span data-prooftexts='Ephesians 4:24' data-prooftexts-index='28'> righteousness, and holiness,</span><span data-prooftexts='Genesis 1:28; Psalms 8' data-prooftexts-index='29'> with dominion over the creatures.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"26": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Genesis 1:27</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p01001027.01-1\">So God created man in his own image,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>in the image of God he created him;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>male and female he created them. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"27": "<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>",
"28": "<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>",
"29": "<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</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>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"26": "Genesis 1:27",
"27": "Colossians 3:10",
"28": "Ephesians 4:24",
"29": "Genesis 1:28; Psalms 8"
},
"question": "How did God create man?"
},
"100": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Psalms 95:6' data-prooftexts-index='208'>The preface of the Lord's Prayer, which is, Our Father which art in heaven, teacheth us to draw near to God with all holy reverence</span><span data-prooftexts='Ephesians 3:12' data-prooftexts-index='209'> and confidence,</span><span data-prooftexts='Matthew 7:9-11; Luke 11:11-13; Romans 8:15' data-prooftexts-index='210'> as children to a father,</span><span data-prooftexts='Ephesians 3:20' data-prooftexts-index='211'> able and ready to help us;</span><span data-prooftexts='Ephesians 6:18; I Timothy 2:1-2' data-prooftexts-index='212'> and that we should pray with and for others.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"208": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 95:6</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! (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"209": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ephesians 3:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49003012.01-1\">in whom we have boldness and access with confidence through our faith in him. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"210": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 7:9-11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40007009.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">Or which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone?</span> <span class=\"woc\">Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent?</span> <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></p>\n</div><h5>Luke 11:11-13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42011011.01-2\"><span class=\"woc\">What father among you, if his son asks for a fish, will instead of a fish give him a serpent;</span> <span class=\"woc\">or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion?</span> <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>",
"211": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ephesians 3:20</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, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"212": "<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>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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"208": "Psalms 95:6",
"209": "Ephesians 3:12",
"210": "Matthew 7:9-11; Luke 11:11-13; Romans 8:15",
"211": "Ephesians 3:20",
"212": "Ephesians 6:18; I Timothy 2:1-2"
},
"question": "What doth the preface of the Lord's prayer teach us?"
},
"101": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Psalms 67:1-3; Psalms 99:3; Psalms 100:3-4' data-prooftexts-index='213'>In the first petition, which is, Hallowed be thy name, we pray that God would enable us, and others, to glorify him in all that whereby he maketh himself known;</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 11:33-36; Revelation 4:11' data-prooftexts-index='214'> and that he would dispose all things to his own glory.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"213": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 67:1-3</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</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 99:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19099003.01-2\">Let them praise your great and awesome name!<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Holy is he!</p>\n</div>\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>",
"214": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 11:33-36</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?”<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=\"p45011036.01-1\">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=\"p66004011.01-2\">“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": {
"213": "Psalms 67:1-3; Psalms 99:3; Psalms 100:3-4",
"214": "Romans 11:33-36; Revelation 4:11"
},
"question": "What do we pray for in the first petition?"
},
"102": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Matthew 12:25-28; Romans 16:20; I John 3:8' data-prooftexts-index='215'>In the second petition, which is, Thy kingdom come, we pray that Satan's kingdom may be destroyed;</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 72:8-11; Matthew 24:14; I Corinthians 15:24-25' data-prooftexts-index='216'> and that the kingdom of grace may be advanced,</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 119:5; Luke 22:32; II Thessalonians 3:1-5' data-prooftexts-index='217'> ourselves and others brought into it, and kept in it;</span><span data-prooftexts='Revelation 22:20' data-prooftexts-index='218'> and that the kingdom of glory may be hastened.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"215": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 12:25-28</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40012025.01-1\">Knowing their thoughts, he said to them, <span class=\"woc\">“Every kingdom divided against itself is laid waste, and no city or house divided against itself will stand.</span> <span class=\"woc\">And if Satan casts out Satan, he is divided against himself. How then will his kingdom stand?</span> <span class=\"woc\">And if I cast out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your sons cast them out? Therefore they will be your judges.</span> <span class=\"woc\">But if it is by the Spirit of God that I cast out demons, then the kingdom of God has come upon you.</span></p>\n</div><h5>Romans 16:20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45016020.01-2\">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>1 John 3:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p62003008.01-3\">Whoever makes a practice of sinning is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"216": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 72:8-11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19072008.01-1\">May he have dominion from sea to sea,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and from the River to the ends of the earth!<br />\n May desert tribes bow down before him,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and his enemies lick the dust!<br />\n May the kings of Tarshish and of the coastlands<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>render him tribute;<br />\nmay the kings of Sheba and Seba<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>bring gifts!<br />\n May all kings fall down before him,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>all nations serve him!</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Matthew 24:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40024014.01-2\"><span class=\"woc\">And this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.</span></p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 15:24-25</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46015024.01-3\">Then comes the end, when he delivers the kingdom to God the Father after destroying every rule and every authority and power. For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"217": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 119:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119005.01-1\">Oh that my ways may be steadfast<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>in keeping your statutes!</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Luke 22:32</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42022032.01-2\"><span class=\"woc\">but I have prayed for you that your faith may not fail. And when you have turned again, strengthen your brothers.”</span></p>\n</div><h5>2 Thessalonians 3:1-5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p53003001.04-3\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v53003001-3\">3:1 </span>Finally, brothers, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may speed ahead and be honored, as happened among you, and that we may be delivered from wicked and evil men. For not all have faith. But the Lord is faithful. He will establish you and guard you against the evil one. And we have confidence in the Lord about you, that you are doing and will do the things that we command. May the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God and to the steadfastness of Christ. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"218": "<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! (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"215": "Matthew 12:25-28; Romans 16:20; I John 3:8",
"216": "Psalms 72:8-11; Matthew 24:14; I Corinthians 15:24-25",
"217": "Psalms 119:5; Luke 22:32; II Thessalonians 3:1-5",
"218": "Revelation 22:20"
},
"question": "What do we pray for in the second petition?"
},
"103": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Psalms 19:14; Psalms 119; I Thessalonians 5:23; Hebrews 13:20-21' data-prooftexts-index='219'>In the third petition, which is, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven, we pray that God, by his grace, would make us able and willing to know, obey, and submit to his will in all things,</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 103:20-21; Hebrews 1:14' data-prooftexts-index='220'> as the angels do in heaven.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"219": "<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>Psalm 119</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119001.10-2\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v19119001-2\">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=\"p19119009.02-2\">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=\"p19119017.02-2\">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=\"p19119025.02-2\">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=\"p19119033.02-2\">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=\"p19119041.02-2\">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=\"p19119049.02-2\">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=\"p19119057.02-2\">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 \n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119065.02-2\">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=\"p19119073.02-2\">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=\"p19119081.02-2\">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=\"p19119089.02-2\">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=\"p19119097.02-2\">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=\"p19119105.02-2\">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=\"p19119113.02-2\">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=\"p19119121.02-2\">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=\"p19119129.02-2\">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=\"p19119137.02-2\">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=\"p19119145.02-2\">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=\"p19119153.02-2\">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=\"p19119161.04-2\">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=\"p19119169.02-2\">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=\"p52005023.01-3\">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.</p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 13:20-21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p58013020.02-4\">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>",
"220": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 103:20-21</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!<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>Hebrews 1:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p class=\"same-paragraph\" id=\"p58001014.01-2\">Are they not all ministering spirits sent out to serve for the sake of those who are to inherit salvation? (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"219": "Psalms 19:14; Psalms 119; I Thessalonians 5:23; Hebrews 13:20-21",
"220": "Psalms 103:20-21; Hebrews 1:14"
},
"question": "What do we pray for in the third petition?"
},
"104": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Proverbs 30:8-9; Matthew 6:31-34; Philippians 4:11,19; I Timothy 6:6-8' data-prooftexts-index='1'>In the fourth petition, which is, Give us this day our daily bread, we pray that of God's free gift we may receive a competent portion of the good things of this life, and enjoy his blessing with them.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"1": "<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.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Matthew 6:31-34</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> <span class=\"woc\">For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all.</span> <span class=\"woc\">But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.</span></p>\n <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></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.</p>\n</div><h5>Philippians 4:19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p50004019.01-4\">And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Timothy 6:6-8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p54006006.01-5\">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>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"1": "Proverbs 30:8-9; Matthew 6:31-34; Philippians 4:11,19; I Timothy 6:6-8"
},
"question": "What do we pray for in the fourth petition?"
},
"105": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Psalms 51:1-2,7,9; Daniel 9:17-19; I John 1:7' data-prooftexts-index='2'>In the fifth petition, which is, And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors, we pray that God, for Christ's sake, would freely pardon all our sins;</span><span data-prooftexts='Matthew 18:21-35; Ephesians 4:32; Colossians 3:13' data-prooftexts-index='3'> which we are the rather encouraged to ask, because by his grace we are enabled from the heart to forgive others.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"2": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 51:1-2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19051001.30-1\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v19051001-1\">51:1 </span>Have mercy on me, O God,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>according to your steadfast love;<br />\naccording to your abundant mercy<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>blot out my transgressions.<br />\n Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and cleanse me from my sin!</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 51:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19051007.01-2\">Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 51:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19051009.01-3\">Hide your face from my sins,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and blot out all my iniquities.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>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.”</p>\n</div><h5>1 John 1:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p62001007.01-5\">But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"3": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 18:21-35</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p40018021.07-1\">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=\"p40018023.01-1\"><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></p>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 4:32</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49004032.01-2\">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=\"p51003013.01-3\">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>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"2": "Psalms 51:1-2,7,9; Daniel 9:17-19; I John 1:7",
"3": "Matthew 18:21-35; Ephesians 4:32; Colossians 3:13"
},
"question": "What do we pray for in the fifth petition?"
},
"106": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Psalms 19:13; Matthew 26:41; John 17:15' data-prooftexts-index='4'>In the sixth petition, which is, And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil, we pray that God would either keep us from being tempted to sin,</span><span data-prooftexts='Luke 22:31-32; I Corinthians 10:13; II Corinthians 12:7-9; Hebrews 2:18' data-prooftexts-index='5'> or support and deliver us when we are tempted.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"4": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 19:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19019013.01-1\">Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>let them not have dominion over me!<br />\nThen I shall be blameless,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and innocent of great transgression.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Matthew 26:41</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40026041.01-2\"><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>John 17:15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43017015.01-3\"><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>",
"5": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Luke 22:31-32</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p42022031.05-1\"><span class=\"woc\">“Simon, Simon, behold, Satan demanded to have you, that he might sift you like wheat,</span> <span class=\"woc\">but I have prayed for you that your faith may not fail. And when you have turned again, strengthen your brothers.”</span></p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 10:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46010013.01-2\">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.</p>\n</div><h5>2 Corinthians 12:7-9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p47012007.01-3\">So to keep me from becoming conceited because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to harass me, to keep me from becoming conceited. Three times I pleaded with the Lord about this, that it should leave me. But he said to me, <span class=\"woc\">“My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.”</span> Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.</p>\n</div><h5>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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"4": "Psalms 19:13; Matthew 26:41; John 17:15",
"5": "Luke 22:31-32; I Corinthians 10:13; II Corinthians 12:7-9; Hebrews 2:18"
},
"question": "What do we pray for in the sixth petition?"
},
"107": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Daniel 9:4,7-9,16-19; Luke 18:1,7-8' data-prooftexts-index='6'>The conclusion of the Lord's Prayer, which is, For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen, teacheth us to take our encouragement in prayer from God only,</span><span data-prooftexts='I Chronicles 29:10-13; I Timothy 1:17; Revelation 5:11-13' data-prooftexts-index='7'> and in our prayers to praise him, ascribing kingdom, power, and glory to him;</span><span data-prooftexts='I Corinthians 14:16; Revelation 22:20' data-prooftexts-index='8'> and, in testimony of our desire, and assurance to be heard, we say, Amen.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"6": "<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.”</p>\n</div><h5>Luke 18:1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p42018001.07-4\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v42018001-4\">18:1 </span>And he told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart.</p>\n</div><h5>Luke 18:7-8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42018007.01-5\"><span class=\"woc\">And will not God give justice to his elect, who cry to him day and night? Will he delay long over them?</span> <span class=\"woc\">I tell you, he will give justice to them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?”</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"7": "<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>",
"8": "<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</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! (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"6": "Daniel 9:4,7-9,16-19; Luke 18:1,7-8",
"7": "I Chronicles 29:10-13; I Timothy 1:17; Revelation 5:11-13",
"8": "I Corinthians 14:16; Revelation 22:20"
},
"question": "What doth the conclusion of the Lord's prayer teach us?"
},
"11": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Psalms 145:17' data-prooftexts-index='30'>God's works of providence are, his most holy,</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 104:24' data-prooftexts-index='31'> wise,</span><span data-prooftexts='Hebrews 1:3' data-prooftexts-index='32'> and powerful</span><span data-prooftexts='Nehemiah 9:6' data-prooftexts-index='33'> preserving</span><span data-prooftexts='Ephesians 1:19-22' data-prooftexts-index='34'> and governing</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 36:6; Proverbs 16:33; Matthew 10:30' data-prooftexts-index='35'> all his creatures, and all their actions.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"30": "<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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"31": "<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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"32": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Hebrews 1:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58001003.01-1\">He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"33": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Nehemiah 9:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p16009006.01-1\"> “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>",
"34": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ephesians 1:19-22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49001019.01-1\">and what is the immeasurable greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of his great might 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, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"35": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 36:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19036006.01-1\">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>Proverbs 16:33</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20016033.01-2\">The lot is cast into the lap,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but its every decision is from the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>.<br />\n</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Matthew 10:30</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40010030.01-3\"><span class=\"woc\">But even the hairs of your head are all numbered.</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"30": "Psalms 145:17",
"31": "Psalms 104:24",
"32": "Hebrews 1:3",
"33": "Nehemiah 9:6",
"34": "Ephesians 1:19-22",
"35": "Psalms 36:6; Proverbs 16:33; Matthew 10:30"
},
"question": "What are God's works of providence?"
},
"12": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Genesis 2:16-17; James 2:10' data-prooftexts-index='36'>When God had created man, he entered into a covenant of life with him, upon condition of perfect obedience; forbidding him to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, upon pain of death.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"36": "<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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"36": "Genesis 2:16-17; James 2:10"
},
"question": "What special act of providence did God exercise toward man in the estate wherein he was created?"
},
"13": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Genesis 3:6-8,13; II Corinthians 11:3' data-prooftexts-index='37'>Our first parents, being left to the freedom of their own will, fell from the estate wherein they were created, by sinning against God.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"37": "<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>2 Corinthians 11:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p47011003.01-3\">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": {
"37": "Genesis 3:6-8,13; II Corinthians 11:3"
},
"question": "Did our first parents continue in the estate wherein they were created?"
},
"14": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Leviticus 5:17; James 4:17; I John 3:4' data-prooftexts-index='38'>Sin is any want of conformity unto, or transgression of, the law of God.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"38": "<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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"38": "Leviticus 5:17; James 4:17; I John 3:4"
},
"question": "What is sin?"
},
"15": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Genesis 3:6' data-prooftexts-index='39'>The sin whereby our first parents fell from the estate wherein they were created, was their eating the forbidden fruit.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"39": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Genesis 3:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p01003006.01-1\">So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"39": "Genesis 3:6"
},
"question": "What was the sin whereby our first parents fell from the estate wherein they were created?"
},
"16": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Genesis 2:16-17; James 2:10' data-prooftexts-index='40'>The covenant being made with Adam,</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 5:12-21; I Corinthians 15:22' data-prooftexts-index='41'> not only for himself, but for his posterity; all mankind, descending from him by ordinary generation, sinned in him, and fell with him, in his first transgression.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"40": "<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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"41": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 5:12-21</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— 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=\"p45005015.01-1\">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=\"p45005018.01-1\">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>1 Corinthians 15:22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46015022.01-2\">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": {
"40": "Genesis 2:16-17; James 2:10",
"41": "Romans 5:12-21; I Corinthians 15:22"
},
"question": "Did all mankind fall in Adam's first transgression?"
},
"17": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Genesis 3:16-19,23; Romans 3:16; Romans 5:12; Ephesians 2:1' data-prooftexts-index='42'>The fall brought mankind into an estate of sin and misery.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"42": "<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>Genesis 3:23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p01003023.01-2\">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.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 3:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p45003016.01-3\"><span class=\"indent\"></span>in their paths are ruin and misery,</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Romans 5:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p45005012.07-4\">Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned—</p>\n</div><h5>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 (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"42": "Genesis 3:16-19,23; Romans 3:16; Romans 5:12; Ephesians 2:1"
},
"question": "Into what estate did the fall bring mankind?"
},
"18": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Romans 5:12,19' data-prooftexts-index='43'>The sinfulness of that estate whereinto man fell, consists in the guilt of Adam's first sin,</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 3:10; Colossians 3:10; Ephesians 4:24' data-prooftexts-index='44'> the want of original righteousness,</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 51:5; John 3:6; Romans 3:18; Romans 8:7-8; Ephesians 2:3' data-prooftexts-index='45'> and the corruption of his whole nature,</span><span data-prooftexts='Genesis 6:5; Psalms 53:1-3; Matthew 15:19; Romans 3:10-18,23; Galatians 5:19-21; James 1:14-15' data-prooftexts-index='46'> which is commonly called original sin; together with all actual transgressions which proceed from it.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"43": "<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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"44": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 3:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45003010.01-1\">as it is written:</p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p45003010.05-1\">“None is righteous, no, not one;</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Colossians 3:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p51003010.01-2\">and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator.</p>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 4:24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49004024.01-3\">and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"45": "<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>John 3:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43003006.01-2\"><span class=\"woc\">That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.</span></p>\n</div><h5>Romans 3:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p45003018.01-3\"><span class=\"indent\"></span>“There is no fear of God before their eyes.”</p>\n</div>\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>Ephesians 2:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49002003.01-5\">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>",
"46": "<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>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.</p>\n</div><h5>James 1:14-15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p59001014.01-7\">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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"43": "Romans 5:12,19",
"44": "Romans 3:10; Colossians 3:10; Ephesians 4:24",
"45": "Psalms 51:5; John 3:6; Romans 3:18; Romans 8:7-8; Ephesians 2:3",
"46": "Genesis 6:5; Psalms 53:1-3; Matthew 15:19; Romans 3:10-18,23; Galatians 5:19-21; James 1:14-15"
},
"question": "Wherein consists the sinfulness of that estate whereinto man fell?"
},
"19": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Genesis 3:8,24; John 8:34,42,44; Ephesians 2:12; Ephesians 4:18' data-prooftexts-index='47'>All mankind by their fall lost communion with God,</span><span data-prooftexts='John 3:36; Romans 1:18; Ephesians 2:3; Ephesians 5:6' data-prooftexts-index='48'> are under his wrath</span><span data-prooftexts='Galatians 3:10; Revelation 22:3' data-prooftexts-index='49'> and curse,</span><span data-prooftexts='Genesis 3:16-19; Job 5:7; Ecclesiastes 2:22-23; Romans 8:18-23' data-prooftexts-index='50'> and so made liable to all the miseries of this life,</span><span data-prooftexts='Ezekiel 18:4; Romans 5:12; Romans 6:23' data-prooftexts-index='51'> to death</span><span data-prooftexts='Matthew 25:41,46; II Thessalonians 1:9; Revelation 14:9-11' data-prooftexts-index='52'> itself, and to the pains of hell forever.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"47": "<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 3:24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p01003024.01-2\">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=\"p43008034.01-3\">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=\"p43008042.01-4\">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=\"p43008044.01-5\"><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=\"p49002012.01-6\">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>Ephesians 4:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49004018.01-7\">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>",
"48": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>John 3:36</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43003036.01-1\">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=\"p45001018.05-2\">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 2:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49002003.01-3\">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>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>",
"49": "<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.”</p>\n</div><h5>Revelation 22:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p66022003.01-2\">No longer will there be anything accursed, but the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and his servants will worship him. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"50": "<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>",
"51": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ezekiel 18:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p26018004.01-1\">Behold, all souls are mine; the soul of the father as well as the soul of the son is mine: the soul who sins shall die.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 5:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p45005012.07-2\">Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned—</p>\n</div><h5>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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"52": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 25:41</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40025041.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">“Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.</span></p>\n</div><h5>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></p>\n</div><h5>2 Thessalonians 1:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p53001009.01-3\">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>Revelation 14:9-11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p66014009.01-4\">And another angel, a third, followed them, saying with a loud voice, “If anyone worships the beast and its image and receives a mark on his forehead or on his hand, he also will drink the wine of God's wrath, poured full strength into the cup of his anger, and he will be tormented with fire and sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb. 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.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"47": "Genesis 3:8,24; John 8:34,42,44; Ephesians 2:12; Ephesians 4:18",
"48": "John 3:36; Romans 1:18; Ephesians 2:3; Ephesians 5:6",
"49": "Galatians 3:10; Revelation 22:3",
"50": "Genesis 3:16-19; Job 5:7; Ecclesiastes 2:22-23; Romans 8:18-23",
"51": "Ezekiel 18:4; Romans 5:12; Romans 6:23",
"52": "Matthew 25:41,46; II Thessalonians 1:9; Revelation 14:9-11"
},
"question": "What is the misery of that estate whereinto man fell?"
},
"2": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Matthew 19:4-5; Genesis 2:24; Luke 24:27, 44; I Corinthians 2:13; I Corinthians 14:37; II Peter 1:20-21; II Peter 3:2, 15-16' data-prooftexts-index='3'>The Word of God, which is contained in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments,</span><span data-prooftexts='Deuteronomy 4:2; Psalms 19:7-11; Isaiah 8:20; John 15:11; John 20:30-31; Acts 17:11; II Timothy 3:15-17; I John 1:4' data-prooftexts-index='4'> is the only rule to direct us how we may glorify and enjoy him.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"3": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 19:4-5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40019004.01-1\">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=\"p01002024.01-2\">Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.</p>\n</div><h5>Luke 24:27</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42024027.01-3\">And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.</p>\n</div><h5>Luke 24:44</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42024044.01-4\">Then he said to them, <span class=\"woc\">“These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled.”</span></p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 2:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46002013.01-5\">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</div><h5>1 Corinthians 14:37</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46014037.01-6\">If anyone thinks that he is a prophet, or spiritual, he should acknowledge that the things I am writing to you are a command of the Lord.</p>\n</div><h5>2 Peter 1:20-21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p61001020.01-7\">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=\"p61003002.01-8\">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=\"p61003015.01-9\">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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"4": "<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>Psalm 19:7-11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19019007.01-2\">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.<br />\n 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.<br />\n 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>Isaiah 8:20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p23008020.01-3\">To the teaching and to the testimony! If they will not speak according to this word, it is because they have no dawn.</p>\n</div><h5>John 15:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43015011.01-4\"><span class=\"woc\">These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full.</span></p>\n</div><h5>John 20:30-31</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p43020030.06-5\">Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book; 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>Acts 17:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44017011.01-6\">Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.</p>\n</div><h5>2 Timothy 3:15-17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p55003015.01-7\">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>1 John 1:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p62001004.01-8\">And we are writing these things so that our joy may be complete. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"3": "Matthew 19:4-5; Genesis 2:24; Luke 24:27, 44; I Corinthians 2:13; I Corinthians 14:37; II Peter 1:20-21; II Peter 3:2, 15-16",
"4": "Deuteronomy 4:2; Psalms 19:7-11; Isaiah 8:20; John 15:11; John 20:30-31; Acts 17:11; II Timothy 3:15-17; I John 1:4"
},
"question": "What rule hath God given to direct us how we may glorify and enjoy him?"
},
"20": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Acts 13:48; Ephesians 1:4-5; II Thessalonians 2:13-14' data-prooftexts-index='53'>God, having out of his mere good pleasure, from all eternity, elected some to everlasting life,</span><span data-prooftexts='Genesis 3:15; Genesis 17:7; Ex 19:5-6; Jeremiah 31:31-34; Matthew 20:28; I Corinthians 11:25; Hebrews 9:15' data-prooftexts-index='54'> did enter into a covenant of grace to deliver them out of the estate of sin and misery, and to bring them into an estate of salvation by a Redeemer.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"53": "<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.</p>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 1:4-5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49001004.01-2\">even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love he predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will,</p>\n</div><h5>2 Thessalonians 2:13-14</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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"54": "<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>Genesis 17:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p01017007.01-2\">And I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your offspring after you.</p>\n</div><h5>Exodus 19:5-6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p02019005.01-3\">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; and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. These are the words that you shall speak to the people of Israel.”</p>\n</div><h5>Jeremiah 31:31-34</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p24031031.04-4\">“Behold, the days are coming, declares the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah, not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, declares the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>. But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people. And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, ‘Know the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”</p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 20:28</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40020028.01-5\"><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>1 Corinthians 11:25</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46011025.01-6\">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>Hebrews 9:15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58009015.01-7\">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": {
"53": "Acts 13:48; Ephesians 1:4-5; II Thessalonians 2:13-14",
"54": "Genesis 3:15; Genesis 17:7; Ex 19:5-6; Jeremiah 31:31-34; Matthew 20:28; I Corinthians 11:25; Hebrews 9:15"
},
"question": "Did God leave all mankind to perish in the estate of sin and misery?"
},
"21": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='John 14:6; Acts 4:12; I Timothy 2:5-6' data-prooftexts-index='55'>The only Redeemer of God's elect is the Lord Jesus Christ,</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 2:7; Matthew 3:17; Matthew 17:5; John 1:18' data-prooftexts-index='56'> who, being the eternal Son of God,</span><span data-prooftexts='Isaiah 9:6; Matthew 1:23; John 1:14; Galatians 4:4' data-prooftexts-index='57'> became man,</span><span data-prooftexts='Acts 1:11; Hebrews 7:24-25' data-prooftexts-index='58'> and so was, and continueth to be, God and man in two distinct natures, and one person, forever.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"55": "<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>Acts 4:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44004012.01-2\">And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”</p>\n</div><h5>1 Timothy 2:5-6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p54002005.01-3\">For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all, which is the testimony given at the proper time. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"56": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 2:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19002007.01-1\">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=\"p40003017.01-2\">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=\"p40017005.01-3\">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.”</p>\n</div><h5>John 1:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43001018.01-4\">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>",
"57": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Isaiah 9:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23009006.01-1\">For to us a child is born,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>to us a son is given;<br />\nand the government shall be upon his shoulder,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and his name shall be called<br />\nWonderful Counselor, Mighty God,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.</p>\n</div>\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.</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>",
"58": "<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>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>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"55": "John 14:6; Acts 4:12; I Timothy 2:5-6",
"56": "Psalms 2:7; Matthew 3:17; Matthew 17:5; John 1:18",
"57": "Isaiah 9:6; Matthew 1:23; John 1:14; Galatians 4:4",
"58": "Acts 1:11; Hebrews 7:24-25"
},
"question": "Who is the redeemer of God's elect?"
},
"22": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Philippians 2:7; Hebrews 2:14,17' data-prooftexts-index='59'>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' data-prooftexts-index='60'> being conceived by the power of the Holy Ghost, in the womb of the Virgin Mary, and born of her,</span><span data-prooftexts='II Corinthians 5:21; Hebrews 4:15; Hebrews 7:26; I John 3:5' data-prooftexts-index='61'> yet without sin.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"59": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Philippians 2:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p50002007.01-1\">but made himself nothing, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.</p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 2:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58002014.01-2\">Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same things, that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil,</p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 2:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58002017.01-3\">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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"60": "<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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"61": "<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>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>Hebrews 7:26</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><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.</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": {
"59": "Philippians 2:7; Hebrews 2:14,17",
"60": "Luke 1:27,31,35",
"61": "II Corinthians 5:21; Hebrews 4:15; Hebrews 7:26; I John 3:5"
},
"question": "How did Christ, being the Son of God, become man?"
},
"23": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Deuteronomy 18:18; Acts 2:33; Acts 3:22-23; Hebrews 1:1-2' data-prooftexts-index='62'>Christ, as our Redeemer, executeth the offices of a prophet,</span><span data-prooftexts='Hebrews 4:14-15; Hebrews 5:5-6' data-prooftexts-index='63'> of a priest,</span><span data-prooftexts='Isaiah 9:6-7; Luke 1:32-33; John 18:37; I Corinthians 15:25' data-prooftexts-index='64'> and of a king,</span> both in his estate of humiliation and exaltation.",
"prooftext_verses": {
"62": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Deuteronomy 18:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p05018018.01-1\">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.</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 2:33</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44002033.01-2\">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.</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 3:22-23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44003022.01-3\">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. And it shall be that every soul who does not listen to that prophet shall be destroyed from the people.’</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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"63": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Hebrews 4:14-15</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.</p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 5:5-6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58005005.01-2\">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=\"p58005005.23-2\">“You are my Son,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>today I have begotten you”;</p>\n</div>\n <p class=\"same-paragraph\" id=\"p58005006.01-2\">as he says also in another place,</p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p58005006.08-2\">“You are a priest forever,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>after the order of Melchizedek.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"64": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Isaiah 9:6-7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23009006.01-1\">For to us a child is born,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>to us a son is given;<br />\nand the government shall be upon his shoulder,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and his name shall be called<br />\nWonderful Counselor, Mighty God,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.<br />\n Of the increase of his government and of peace<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>there will be no end,<br />\non the throne of David and over his kingdom,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>to establish it and to uphold it<br />\nwith justice and with righteousness<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>from this time forth and forevermore.<br />\nThe zeal of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> of hosts will do this.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Luke 1:32-33</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</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>1 Corinthians 15:25</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46015025.01-4\">For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"62": "Deuteronomy 18:18; Acts 2:33; Acts 3:22-23; Hebrews 1:1-2",
"63": "Hebrews 4:14-15; Hebrews 5:5-6",
"64": "Isaiah 9:6-7; Luke 1:32-33; John 18:37; I Corinthians 15:25"
},
"question": "What offices doth Christ execute as our redeemer?"
},
"24": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Luke 4:18-19,21; Acts 1:1-2; Hebrews 2:3' data-prooftexts-index='65'>Christ executeth the office of a prophet, in revealing to us, by his Word</span><span data-prooftexts='John 15:26-27; Acts 1:8; I Peter 1:11' data-prooftexts-index='66'> and Spirit,</span><span data-prooftexts='John 4:41-42; John 20:30-31' data-prooftexts-index='67'> the will of God for our salvation.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"65": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Luke 4:18-19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p42004018.01-1\"><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><br />\n <span class=\"woc\">to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor.”</span></p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Luke 4:21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42004021.01-2\">And he began to say to them, <span class=\"woc\">“Today this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.”</span></p>\n</div><h5>Acts 1:1-2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p class=\"chapter-first\" id=\"p44001001.07-3\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v44001001-3\">1:1 </span>In the first book, O Theophilus, I have dealt with all that Jesus began to do and teach, until the day when he was taken up, after he had given commands through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen.</p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 2:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58002003.01-4\">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, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"66": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>John 15:26-27</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> <span class=\"woc\">And you also will bear witness, because you have been with me from the beginning.</span></p>\n</div><h5>Acts 1:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44001008.01-2\"><span class=\"woc\">But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”</span></p>\n</div><h5>1 Peter 1:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p60001011.01-3\">inquiring what person or time the Spirit of Christ in them was indicating when he predicted the sufferings of Christ and the subsequent glories. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"67": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>John 4:41-42</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43004041.01-1\">And many more believed because of his word. They said to the woman, “It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this is indeed the Savior of the world.”</p>\n</div><h5>John 20:30-31</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p43020030.06-2\">Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book; 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": {
"65": "Luke 4:18-19,21; Acts 1:1-2; Hebrews 2:3",
"66": "John 15:26-27; Acts 1:8; I Peter 1:11",
"67": "John 4:41-42; John 20:30-31"
},
"question": "How doth Christ execute the office of a prophet?"
},
"25": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Isaiah 53; Acts 8:32-35; Hebrews 9:26-28; Hebrews 10:12' data-prooftexts-index='68'>Christ executeth the office of a priest, in his once offering up of himself a sacrifice to satisfy divine justice,</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 5:10-11; II Corinthians 5:18; Colossians 1:21-22' data-prooftexts-index='69'> and reconcile us to God,</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 8:34; Hebrews 7:25; Hebrews 9:24' data-prooftexts-index='70'> and in making continual intercession for us.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"68": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Isaiah 53</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23053001.01-1\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v23053001-1\">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=\"p23053004.01-1\">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=\"p23053007.01-1\">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=\"p23053010.01-1\">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.<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>Acts 8:32-35</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44008032.01-2\">Now the passage of the Scripture that he was reading was this:</p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p44008032.13-2\">“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=\"p44008034.01-2\">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.</p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 9:26-28</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58009026.01-3\">for then he would have had to suffer repeatedly since the foundation of the world. But as it is, he has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment, so Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him.</p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 10:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58010012.01-4\">But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"69": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 5:10-11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45005010.01-1\">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. More than that, we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.</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>",
"70": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 8:34</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45008034.01-1\">Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us.</p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 7:25</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</div><h5>Hebrews 9:24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58009024.01-3\">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": {
"68": "Isaiah 53; Acts 8:32-35; Hebrews 9:26-28; Hebrews 10:12",
"69": "Romans 5:10-11; II Corinthians 5:18; Colossians 1:21-22",
"70": "Romans 8:34; Hebrews 7:25; Hebrews 9:24"
},
"question": "How doth Christ execute the office of a priest?"
},
"26": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Psalms 110:3; Matthew 28:18-20; John 17:2; Colossians 1:13' data-prooftexts-index='71'>Christ executeth the office of a king, in subduing us to himself, in ruling and defending us,</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 2:6-9; Psalms 110:1-2; Matthew 12:28; I Corinthians 15:24-26; Colossians 2:15' data-prooftexts-index='72'> and in restraining and conquering all his and our enemies.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"71": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 110:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19110003.01-1\">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>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>John 17:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43017002.01-3\"><span class=\"woc\">since you have given him authority over all flesh, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him.</span></p>\n</div><h5>Colossians 1:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p51001013.01-4\">He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"72": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 2:6-9</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 <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19002007.01-1\">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.”</p>\n</div>\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!</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Matthew 12:28</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40012028.01-3\"><span class=\"woc\">But if it is by the Spirit of God that I cast out demons, then the kingdom of God has come upon you.</span></p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 15:24-26</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46015024.01-4\">Then comes the end, when he delivers the kingdom to God the Father after destroying every rule and every authority and power. For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. The last enemy to be destroyed is death.</p>\n</div><h5>Colossians 2:15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p51002015.01-5\">He disarmed the rulers and authorities and put them to open shame, by triumphing over them in him. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"71": "Psalms 110:3; Matthew 28:18-20; John 17:2; Colossians 1:13",
"72": "Psalms 2:6-9; Psalms 110:1-2; Matthew 12:28; I Corinthians 15:24-26; Colossians 2:15"
},
"question": "How doth Christ execute the office of a king?"
},
"27": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Luke 2:7; II Corinthians 8:9; Galatians 4:4' data-prooftexts-index='73'>Christ's humiliation consisted in his being born, and that in a low condition,</span><span data-prooftexts='Galatians 4:4' data-prooftexts-index='74'> made under the law,</span><span data-prooftexts='Isaiah 53:3; Luke 9:58; John 4:6; John 11:35; Hebrews 2:18' data-prooftexts-index='75'> undergoing the miseries of this life,</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 22:1; Matthew 27:46; Isaiah 53:10; I John 2:2' data-prooftexts-index='76'> the wrath of God,</span><span data-prooftexts='Galatians 3:13; Philippians 2:8' data-prooftexts-index='77'> and the cursed death of the cross;</span><span data-prooftexts='Matthew 12:40; I Corinthians 15:3-4' data-prooftexts-index='78'> in being buried, and continuing under the power of death for a time.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"73": "<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.</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>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, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"74": "<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>",
"75": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Isaiah 53:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23053003.01-1\">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>Luke 9:58</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42009058.01-2\">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>John 4:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43004006.01-3\">Jacob's well was there; so Jesus, wearied as he was from his journey, was sitting beside the well. It was about the sixth hour.</p>\n</div><h5>John 11:35</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43011035.01-4\">Jesus wept.</p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 2:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58002018.01-5\">For because he himself has suffered when tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"76": "<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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"77": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Galatians 3:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p48003013.01-1\">Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree”—</p>\n</div><h5>Philippians 2:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p50002008.01-2\">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>",
"78": "<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>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"73": "Luke 2:7; II Corinthians 8:9; Galatians 4:4",
"74": "Galatians 4:4",
"75": "Isaiah 53:3; Luke 9:58; John 4:6; John 11:35; Hebrews 2:18",
"76": "Psalms 22:1; Matthew 27:46; Isaiah 53:10; I John 2:2",
"77": "Galatians 3:13; Philippians 2:8",
"78": "Matthew 12:40; I Corinthians 15:3-4"
},
"question": "Wherein did Christ's humiliation consist?"
},
"28": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='I Corinthians 15:4' data-prooftexts-index='79'>Christ's exaltation consisteth in his rising again from the dead on the third day,</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 68:18; Acts 1:11; Ephesians 4:8' data-prooftexts-index='80'> in ascending up into heaven,</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 110:1; Acts 2:33-34; Hebrews 1:3' data-prooftexts-index='81'> in sitting at the right hand of God the Father,</span><span data-prooftexts='Matthew 16:27; Acts 17:31' data-prooftexts-index='82'> and in coming to judge the world at the last day.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"79": "<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>",
"80": "<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>",
"81": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 110:1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19110001.10-1\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v19110001-1\">110:1 </span>The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> says to my Lord:<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>“Sit at my right hand,<br />\nuntil I make your enemies your footstool.”</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Acts 2:33-34</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44002033.01-2\">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=\"p44002034.13-2\">“‘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=\"p58001003.01-3\">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>",
"82": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 16:27</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40016027.01-1\"><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></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.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"79": "I Corinthians 15:4",
"80": "Psalms 68:18; Acts 1:11; Ephesians 4:8",
"81": "Psalms 110:1; Acts 2:33-34; Hebrews 1:3",
"82": "Matthew 16:27; Acts 17:31"
},
"question": "Wherein consisteth Christ's exaltation?"
},
"29": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Titus 3:4-7' data-prooftexts-index='83'>We are made partakers of the redemption purchased by Christ, by the effectual application of it to us by his Holy Spirit.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"83": "<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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"83": "Titus 3:4-7"
},
"question": "How are we made partakers of the redemption purchased by Christ?"
},
"3": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Genesis 1:1; John 5:39; John 20:31; Romans 10:17; II Timothy 3:15' data-prooftexts-index='5'>The Scriptures principally teach, what man is to believe concerning God,</span><span data-prooftexts='Deuteronomy 10:12-13; Joshua 1:8; Psalms 119:105; Micah 6:8; II Timothy 3:16-17' data-prooftexts-index='6'> and what duty God requires of man.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"5": "<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>John 5:39</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43005039.01-2\"><span class=\"woc\">You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me,</span></p>\n</div><h5>John 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.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 10:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45010017.01-4\">So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.</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>",
"6": "<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>Joshua 1:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p06001008.01-2\">This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.</p>\n</div><h5>Psalm 119:105</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\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.</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=\"p33006008.01-4\">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>2 Timothy 3:16-17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p55003016.01-5\">All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, 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>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"5": "Genesis 1:1; John 5:39; John 20:31; Romans 10:17; II Timothy 3:15",
"6": "Deuteronomy 10:12-13; Joshua 1:8; Psalms 119:105; Micah 6:8; II Timothy 3:16-17"
},
"question": "What do the scriptures principally teach?"
},
"30": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Romans 10:17; I Corinthians 2:12-16; Ephesians 2:8; Philippians 1:29' data-prooftexts-index='84'>The Spirit applieth to us the redemption purchased by Christ, by working faith in us,</span><span data-prooftexts='John 15:5; I Corinthians 1:9; Ephesians 3:17' data-prooftexts-index='85'> and thereby uniting us to Christ in our effectual calling.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"84": "<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>Philippians 1:29</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p50001029.01-4\">For it has been granted to you that for the sake of Christ you should not only believe in him but also suffer for his sake, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"85": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>John 15:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43015005.01-1\"><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>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.</p>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 3:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49003017.01-3\">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>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"84": "Romans 10:17; I Corinthians 2:12-16; Ephesians 2:8; Philippians 1:29",
"85": "John 15:5; I Corinthians 1:9; Ephesians 3:17"
},
"question": "How doth the Spirit apply to us the redemption purchased by Christ?"
},
"31": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Acts 26:18; I Corinthians 2:10, 12; II Corinthians 4:6; Ephesians 1:17-18' data-prooftexts-index='86'>Effectual calling is the work of God's Spirit, whereby, convincing us of our sin and misery, enlightening our minds in the knowledge of Christ,</span><span data-prooftexts='Deuteronomy 30:6; Ezekiel 36:26-27; John 3:5; Titus 3:5' data-prooftexts-index='87'> and renewing our wills,</span><span data-prooftexts='John 6:44-45; Acts 16:14' data-prooftexts-index='88'> he doth persuade and enable us to embrace Jesus Christ,</span><span data-prooftexts='Isaiah 45:22; Matthew 11:28-30; Revelation 22:17' data-prooftexts-index='89'> freely offered to us in the gospel.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"86": "<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>",
"87": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Deuteronomy 30:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p05030006.01-1\">And the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your offspring, so that you will love the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.</p>\n</div><h5>Ezekiel 36:26-27</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 3:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43003005.01-3\">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=\"p56003005.01-4\">he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"88": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>John 6:44-45</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43006044.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day.</span> <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=\"p44016014.01-2\">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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"89": "<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 11:28-30</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40011028.01-2\"><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=\"p66022017.01-3\">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": {
"86": "Acts 26:18; I Corinthians 2:10, 12; II Corinthians 4:6; Ephesians 1:17-18",
"87": "Deuteronomy 30:6; Ezekiel 36:26-27; John 3:5; Titus 3:5",
"88": "John 6:44-45; Acts 16:14",
"89": "Isaiah 45:22; Matthew 11:28-30; Revelation 22:17"
},
"question": "What is effectual calling?"
},
"32": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Romans 8:30; I Corinthians 1:30; I Corinthians 6:11; Ephesians 1:5' data-prooftexts-index='90'>They that are effectually called do in this life partake of justification, adoption, and sanctification, and the several benefits which in this life do either accompany or flow from them.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"90": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 8:30</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45008030.01-1\">And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified.</p>\n</div><h5>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,</p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 6:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46006011.01-3\">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>Ephesians 1:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49001005.01-4\">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": {
"90": "Romans 8:30; I Corinthians 1:30; I Corinthians 6:11; Ephesians 1:5"
},
"question": "What benefits do they that are effectually called partake of in this life?"
},
"33": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Romans 3:24' data-prooftexts-index='91'>Justification is an act of God's free grace,</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 4:6-8; II Corinthians 5:19' data-prooftexts-index='92'> wherein he pardoneth all our sins,</span><span data-prooftexts='II Corinthians 5:21' data-prooftexts-index='93'> and accepteth us as righteous in his sight,</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 4:6, 11; Romans 5:19' data-prooftexts-index='94'> only for the righteousness of Christ imputed to us,</span><span data-prooftexts='Galatians 2:16; Philippians 3:9' data-prooftexts-index='95'> and received by faith alone.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"91": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 3:24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45003024.01-1\">and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"92": "<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>2 Corinthians 5:19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p47005019.01-2\">that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"93": "<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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"94": "<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 4:11</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 5:19</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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"95": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Galatians 2:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p48002016.01-1\">yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.</p>\n</div><h5>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— (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"91": "Romans 3:24",
"92": "Romans 4:6-8; II Corinthians 5:19",
"93": "II Corinthians 5:21",
"94": "Romans 4:6, 11; Romans 5:19",
"95": "Galatians 2:16; Philippians 3:9"
},
"question": "What is justification?"
},
"34": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='I John 3:1' data-prooftexts-index='96'>Adoption is an act of God's free grace,</span><span data-prooftexts='John 1:12; Romans 8:17' data-prooftexts-index='97'> whereby we are received into the number, and have a right to all the privileges, of the sons of God.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"96": "<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>",
"97": "<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 8:17</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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"96": "I John 3:1",
"97": "John 1:12; Romans 8:17"
},
"question": "What is adoption?"
},
"35": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Ezekiel 36:27; Philippians 2:13; II Thessalonians 2:13' data-prooftexts-index='98'>Sanctification is the work of God's free grace,</span><span data-prooftexts='II Corinthians 5:17; Ephesians 4:23-24; I Thessalonians 5:23' data-prooftexts-index='99'> whereby we are renewed in the whole man after the image of God,</span><span data-prooftexts='Ezekiel 36:25-27; Romans 6:4, 6, 12-14; II Corinthians 7:1; I Peter 2:24' data-prooftexts-index='100'> and are enabled more and more to die unto sin, and live unto righteousness.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"100": "<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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"98": "<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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"99": "<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>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"100": "Ezekiel 36:25-27; Romans 6:4, 6, 12-14; II Corinthians 7:1; I Peter 2:24",
"98": "Ezekiel 36:27; Philippians 2:13; II Thessalonians 2:13",
"99": "II Corinthians 5:17; Ephesians 4:23-24; I Thessalonians 5:23"
},
"question": "What is sanctification?"
},
"36": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Romans 5:5' data-prooftexts-index='101'>The benefits which in this life do accompany or flow from justification, adoption, and sanctification, are, assurance of God's love,</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 5:1' data-prooftexts-index='102'> peace of conscience,</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 14:17' data-prooftexts-index='103'> joy in the Holy Ghost,</span><span data-prooftexts='II Peter 3:18' data-prooftexts-index='104'> increase of grace,</span><span data-prooftexts='Philippians 1:6; I Peter 1:5' data-prooftexts-index='105'> and perseverance therein to the end.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"101": "<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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"102": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 5:1</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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"103": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 14:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45014017.01-1\">For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking but of righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"104": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>2 Peter 3:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p61003018.01-1\">But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"105": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Philippians 1:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p50001006.01-1\">And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Peter 1:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p60001005.01-2\">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": {
"101": "Romans 5:5",
"102": "Romans 5:1",
"103": "Romans 14:17",
"104": "II Peter 3:18",
"105": "Philippians 1:6; I Peter 1:5"
},
"question": "What are the benefits which in this life do accompany or flow from justification, adoption and sanctification?"
},
"37": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Hebrews 12:23' data-prooftexts-index='106'>The souls of believers are at their death made perfect in holiness,</span><span data-prooftexts='Luke 23:43; II Corinthians 5:6, 8; Philippians 1:23' data-prooftexts-index='107'> and do immediately pass into glory;</span><span data-prooftexts='I Thessalonians 4:14' data-prooftexts-index='108'> and their bodies, being still united to Christ,</span><span data-prooftexts='Daniel 12:2; John 5:28-29; Acts 24:15' data-prooftexts-index='109'> do rest in their graves, till the resurrection.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"106": "<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, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"107": "<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>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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"108": "<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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"109": "<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>John 5:28-29</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43005028.01-2\"><span class=\"woc\">Do not marvel at this, for an hour is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice</span> <span class=\"woc\">and come out, those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment.</span></p>\n</div><h5>Acts 24:15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44024015.01-3\">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>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"106": "Hebrews 12:23",
"107": "Luke 23:43; II Corinthians 5:6, 8; Philippians 1:23",
"108": "I Thessalonians 4:14",
"109": "Daniel 12:2; John 5:28-29; Acts 24:15"
},
"question": "What benefits do believers receive from Christ at death?"
},
"38": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='I Corinthians 15:42-43' data-prooftexts-index='110'>At the resurrection, believers, being raised up in glory,</span><span data-prooftexts='Matthew 25:33-34,46' data-prooftexts-index='111'> shall be openly acknowledged and acquitted in the day of judgment,</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 8:29; I John 3:2' data-prooftexts-index='112'> and made perfectly blessed in the full enjoying of God</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 16:11; I Thessalonians 4:17' data-prooftexts-index='113'> to all eternity.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"110": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Corinthians 15:42-43</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46015042.01-1\">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>",
"111": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 25:33-34</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> <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>",
"112": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 8:29</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45008029.01-1\">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 John 3:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p62003002.01-2\">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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"113": "<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.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>1 Thessalonians 4:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p52004017.01-2\">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": {
"110": "I Corinthians 15:42-43",
"111": "Matthew 25:33-34,46",
"112": "Romans 8:29; I John 3:2",
"113": "Psalms 16:11; I Thessalonians 4:17"
},
"question": "What benefits do believers receive from Christ at the resurrection?"
},
"39": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Deuteronomy 29:29; Micah 6:8; I John 5:2-3' data-prooftexts-index='114'>The duty which God requireth of man, is obedience to his revealed will.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"114": "<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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"114": "Deuteronomy 29:29; Micah 6:8; I John 5:2-3"
},
"question": "What is the duty which God requireth of man?"
},
"4": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Deuteronomy 4:15-19; Luke 24:39; John 1:18; John 4:24; Acts 17:29' data-prooftexts-index='7'>God is a Spirit,</span><span data-prooftexts='I Kings 8:27; Psalms 139:7-10; Psalms 145:3; Psalms 147:5; Jeremiah 23:24; Romans 11:33-36' data-prooftexts-index='8'> infinite,</span><span data-prooftexts='Deuteronomy 33:27; Psalms 90:2; Psalms 102:12, 24-27; Revelation 1:4, 8' data-prooftexts-index='9'> eternal,</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 33:11; Malachi 3:6; Hebrews 1:12; Hebrews 6:17-18; Hebrews 13:8; James 1:17' data-prooftexts-index='10'> and unchangeable,</span><span data-prooftexts='Exodus 3:14; Psalms 115:2-3; I Timothy 1:17; I Timothy 6:15-16' data-prooftexts-index='11'> in his being,</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 104:24; Romans 11:33-34; Hebrews 4:13; I John 3:20' data-prooftexts-index='12'> wisdom,</span><span data-prooftexts='Genesis 17:1; Psalms 62:11; Jeremiah 32:17; Matthew 19:26; Revelation 1:8' data-prooftexts-index='13'> power,</span><span data-prooftexts='Habakkuk 1:13; I Peter 1:15-16; I John 3:3, 5; Revelation 15:4' data-prooftexts-index='14'> holiness,</span><span data-prooftexts='Genesis 18:25; Exodus 34:6-7; Deuteronomy 32:4; Psalms 96:13; Romans 3:5, 26' data-prooftexts-index='15'> justice,</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 103:5; Psalms 107:8; Matthew 19:17; Romans 2:4' data-prooftexts-index='16'> goodness,</span><span data-prooftexts='Exodus 34:6; Deuteronomy 32:4; Psalms 86:15; Psalms 117:2; Hebrews 6:18' data-prooftexts-index='17'> and truth.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"10": "<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>Malachi 3:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p39003006.03-2\">“For I the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> do not change; therefore you, O children of Jacob, are not consumed.</p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 1:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p58001012.01-3\">like a robe you will roll them up,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>like a garment they will be changed.<br />\nBut you are the same,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and your years will have no end.”</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 6:17-18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58006017.01-4\">So when God desired to show more convincingly to the heirs of the promise the unchangeable character of his purpose, he guaranteed it with an oath, so that by two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled for refuge might have strong encouragement to hold fast to the hope set before us.</p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 13:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58013008.01-5\">Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.</p>\n</div><h5>James 1:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p59001017.01-6\">Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"11": "<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>Psalm 115:2-3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19115002.01-2\">Why should the nations say,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>“Where is their God?”<br />\n Our God is in the heavens;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>he does all that he pleases.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>1 Timothy 1:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p54001017.01-3\">To the King of ages, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Timothy 6:15-16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p54006015.01-4\">which he will display at the proper time—he who is the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords, who alone has immortality, who dwells in unapproachable light, whom no one has ever seen or can see. To him be honor and eternal dominion. Amen. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"12": "<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>Romans 11:33-34</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45011033.01-2\">Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!</p>\n <div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p45011034.01-2\">“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>Hebrews 4:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58004013.01-3\">And no creature is hidden from his sight, but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give account.</p>\n</div><h5>1 John 3:20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p62003020.01-4\">for whenever our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and he knows everything. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"13": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Genesis 17:1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p01017001.07-1\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v01017001-1\">17:1 </span>When Abram was ninety-nine years old the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be blameless,</p>\n</div><h5>Psalm 62:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19062011.01-2\">Once God has spoken;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>twice have I heard this:<br />\nthat power belongs to God,</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Jeremiah 32:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p24032017.01-3\">‘Ah, Lord <span class=\"small-caps\">God</span>! It is you who have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm! Nothing is too hard for you.</p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 19:26</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40019026.01-4\">But Jesus looked at them and said, <span class=\"woc\">“With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”</span></p>\n</div><h5>Revelation 1:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p66001008.01-5\">“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"14": "<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>1 Peter 1:15-16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p60001015.01-2\">but as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, since it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.”</p>\n</div><h5>1 John 3:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p62003003.01-3\">And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure.</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.</p>\n</div><h5>Revelation 15:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p66015004.01-5\">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>",
"15": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Genesis 18:25</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p01018025.01-1\">Far be it from you to do such a thing, to put the righteous to death with the wicked, so that the righteous fare as the wicked! Far be that from you! Shall not the Judge of all the earth do what is just?”</p>\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>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.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 96:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19096013.01-4\"><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.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Romans 3:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p class=\"same-paragraph\" id=\"p45003005.01-5\">But if our unrighteousness serves to show the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unrighteous to inflict wrath on us? (I speak in a human way.)</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 3:26</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45003026.01-6\">It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"16": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 103:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19103005.01-1\">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 107:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19107008.01-2\">Let them thank the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> for his steadfast love,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for his wondrous works to the children of man!</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Matthew 19:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40019017.01-3\">And he said to him, <span class=\"woc\">“Why do you ask me about what is good? There is only one who is good. If you would enter life, keep the commandments.”</span></p>\n</div><h5>Romans 2:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45002004.01-4\">Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God's kindness is meant to lead you to repentance? (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"17": "<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>Deuteronomy 32:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p05032004.01-2\">“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>Psalm 86:15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19086015.01-3\">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.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 117:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19117002.01-4\">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>Hebrews 6:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58006018.01-5\">so that by two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled for refuge might have strong encouragement to hold fast to the hope set before us. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"7": "<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>Luke 24:39</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42024039.01-2\"><span class=\"woc\">See my hands and my feet, that it is I myself. Touch me, and see. For a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see that I have.”</span></p>\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 4:24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43004024.01-4\"><span class=\"woc\">God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”</span></p>\n</div><h5>Acts 17:29</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p class=\"same-paragraph\" id=\"p44017029.01-5\">Being then God's offspring, we ought not to think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of man. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"8": "<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 139:7-10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19139007.01-2\">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.</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.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Jeremiah 23:24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p24023024.01-5\">Can a man hide himself in secret places so that I cannot see him? declares the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>. Do I not fill heaven and earth? declares the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 11:33-36</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45011033.01-6\">Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!</p>\n <div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p45011034.01-6\">“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=\"p45011036.01-6\">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>",
"9": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Deuteronomy 33:27</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p05033027.01-1\">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.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 90:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19090002.01-2\">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>Psalm 102:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19102012.01-3\">But you, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, are enthroned forever;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>you are remembered throughout all generations.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Psalm 102:24-27</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19102024.01-4\">“O my God,” I say, “take me not away<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>in the midst of my days—<br />\nyou whose years endure<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>throughout all generations!”</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19102025.01-4\">Of old you laid the foundation of the earth,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and the heavens are the work of your hands.<br />\n They will perish, but you will remain;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>they will all wear out like a garment.<br />\nYou will change them like a robe, and they will pass away,<br />\n <span class=\"indent\"></span>but you are the same, and your years have no end.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Revelation 1:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p66001004.06-5\">John to the seven churches that are in Asia:</p>\n<p id=\"p66001004.15-5\">Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne,</p>\n</div><h5>Revelation 1:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p66001008.01-6\">“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"10": "Psalms 33:11; Malachi 3:6; Hebrews 1:12; Hebrews 6:17-18; Hebrews 13:8; James 1:17",
"11": "Exodus 3:14; Psalms 115:2-3; I Timothy 1:17; I Timothy 6:15-16",
"12": "Psalms 104:24; Romans 11:33-34; Hebrews 4:13; I John 3:20",
"13": "Genesis 17:1; Psalms 62:11; Jeremiah 32:17; Matthew 19:26; Revelation 1:8",
"14": "Habakkuk 1:13; I Peter 1:15-16; I John 3:3, 5; Revelation 15:4",
"15": "Genesis 18:25; Exodus 34:6-7; Deuteronomy 32:4; Psalms 96:13; Romans 3:5, 26",
"16": "Psalms 103:5; Psalms 107:8; Matthew 19:17; Romans 2:4",
"17": "Exodus 34:6; Deuteronomy 32:4; Psalms 86:15; Psalms 117:2; Hebrews 6:18",
"7": "Deuteronomy 4:15-19; Luke 24:39; John 1:18; John 4:24; Acts 17:29",
"8": "I Kings 8:27; Psalms 139:7-10; Psalms 145:3; Psalms 147:5; Jeremiah 23:24; Romans 11:33-36",
"9": "Deuteronomy 33:27; Psalms 90:2; Psalms 102:12, 24-27; Revelation 1:4, 8"
},
"question": "What is God?"
},
"40": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Romans 2:14-15; Romans 10:5' data-prooftexts-index='115'>The rule which God at first revealed to man for his obedience, was the moral law.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"115": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 2:14-15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45002014.01-1\">For when Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law. They show that the work of the law is written on their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness, and their conflicting thoughts accuse or even excuse them</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 10:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p45010005.07-2\">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>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"115": "Romans 2:14-15; Romans 10:5"
},
"question": "What did God at first reveal to man for the rule of his obedience?"
},
"41": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Deuteronomy 4:13; Matthew 19:17-19' data-prooftexts-index='116'>The moral law is summarily comprehended in the Ten Commandments.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"116": "<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>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": {
"116": "Deuteronomy 4:13; Matthew 19:17-19"
},
"question": "Where is the moral law summarily comprehended?"
},
"42": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Matthew 22:37-40' data-prooftexts-index='117'>The sum of the Ten Commandments is, to love the Lord our God with all our heart, with all our soul, with all our strength, and with all our mind; and our neighbor as ourselves.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"117": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 22:37-40</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40022037.01-1\">And he said to him, <span class=\"woc\">“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.</span> <span class=\"woc\">This is the great and first commandment.</span> <span class=\"woc\">And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.</span> <span class=\"woc\">On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"117": "Matthew 22:37-40"
},
"question": "What is the sum of the ten commandments?"
},
"43": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Ex 20:2; Deuteronomy 5:6' data-prooftexts-index='118'>The preface to the Ten Commandments is 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>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"118": "<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>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"118": "Ex 20:2; Deuteronomy 5:6"
},
"question": "What is the preface to the ten commandments?"
},
"44": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Luke 1:74-75; I Peter 1:14-19' data-prooftexts-index='119'>The preface to the Ten Commandments teacheth us, that because God is the Lord, and our God, and Redeemer, therefore we are bound to keep all his commandments.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"119": "<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>1 Peter 1:14-19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p60001014.01-2\">As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance, 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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"119": "Luke 1:74-75; I Peter 1:14-19"
},
"question": "What doth the preface to the ten commandments teach us?"
},
"45": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Ex 20:3; Deuteronomy 5:7' data-prooftexts-index='120'>The first commandment is, Thou shalt have no other gods before me.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"120": "<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": {
"120": "Ex 20:3; Deuteronomy 5:7"
},
"question": "Which is the first commandment?"
},
"46": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='I Chronicles 28:9; Isaiah 45:20-25; Matthew 4:10' data-prooftexts-index='121'>The first commandment requireth us to know and acknowledge God to be the only true God, and our God; and to worship and glorify him accordingly.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"121": "<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>Isaiah 45:20-25</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23045020.01-2\">“Assemble yourselves and come;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>draw near together,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>you survivors of the nations!<br />\nThey have no knowledge<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>who carry about their wooden idols,<br />\nand keep on praying to a god<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that cannot save.<br />\n 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=\"p23045022.01-2\">“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.<br />\n 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 <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23045024.01-2\">“Only in the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, it shall be said of me,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>are righteousness and strength;<br />\nto him shall come and be ashamed<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>all who were incensed against him.<br />\n In the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> all the offspring of Israel<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>shall be justified and shall glory.”</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Matthew 4:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40004010.01-3\">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> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"121": "I Chronicles 28:9; Isaiah 45:20-25; Matthew 4:10"
},
"question": "What is required in the first commandment?"
},
"47": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Psalms 14:1' data-prooftexts-index='122'>The first commandment forbiddeth the denying,</span><span data-prooftexts='Romans 1:20-21' data-prooftexts-index='123'> or not worshiping and glorifying, the true God as God,</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 81:10-11' data-prooftexts-index='124'> and our God;</span><span data-prooftexts='Ezekiel 8:16-18; Romans 1:25' data-prooftexts-index='125'> and the giving of that worship and glory to any other, which is due to him alone.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"122": "<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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"123": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 1:20-21</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. 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>",
"124": "<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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"125": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ezekiel 8:16-18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p26008016.01-1\">And he brought me into the inner court of the house of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>. And behold, at the entrance of the temple of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men, with their backs to the temple of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, and their faces toward the east, worshiping the sun toward the east. Then he said to me, “Have you seen this, O son of man? Is it too light a thing for the house of Judah to commit the abominations that they commit here, that they should fill the land with violence and provoke me still further to anger? Behold, they put the branch to their nose. Therefore I will act in wrath. My eye will not spare, nor will I have pity. And though they cry in my ears with a loud voice, I will not hear them.”</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 1:25</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45001025.01-2\">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>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"122": "Psalms 14:1",
"123": "Romans 1:20-21",
"124": "Psalms 81:10-11",
"125": "Ezekiel 8:16-18; Romans 1:25"
},
"question": "What is forbidden in the first commandment?"
},
"48": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Deuteronomy 30:17-18; Psalms 44:20-21; Ezekiel 8:12' data-prooftexts-index='126'>These words, before me, in the first commandment teach us, that God, who seeth all things, taketh notice of, and is much displeased with, the sin of having any other God.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"126": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Deuteronomy 30:17-18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p05030017.01-1\">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>Psalm 44:20-21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19044020.01-2\">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>Ezekiel 8:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p26008012.01-3\">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>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"126": "Deuteronomy 30:17-18; Psalms 44:20-21; Ezekiel 8:12"
},
"question": "What are we specially taught by these words before me in the first commandment?"
},
"49": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Ex 20:4-6; Deuteronomy 5:8-10' data-prooftexts-index='127'>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": {
"127": "<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": {
"127": "Ex 20:4-6; Deuteronomy 5:8-10"
},
"question": "Which is the second commandment?"
},
"5": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Deuteronomy 6:4; Isaiah 44:6; Isaiah 45:21-22; I Corinthians 8:4-6' data-prooftexts-index='18'>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='19'> the living and true God.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"18": "<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>Isaiah 44:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23044006.07-2\">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.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Isaiah 45:21-22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23045021.01-3\">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=\"p23045022.01-3\">“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>1 Corinthians 8:4-6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46008004.01-4\">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.” For although there may be so-called gods in heaven or on earth—as indeed there are many “gods” and many “lords”— yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"19": "<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": {
"18": "Deuteronomy 6:4; Isaiah 44:6; Isaiah 45:21-22; I Corinthians 8:4-6",
"19": "Jeremiah 10:10; John 17:3; I Thessalonians 1:9; I John 5:20"
},
"question": "Are there more Gods than one?"
},
"50": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Deuteronomy 12:32; Matthew 28:20' data-prooftexts-index='128'>The second commandment requireth the receiving, observing, and keeping pure and entire, all such religious worship and ordinances as God hath appointed in his Word.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"128": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Deuteronomy 12:32</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p05012032.01-1\"> “Everything that I command you, you shall be careful to do. You shall not add to it or take from it.</p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 28:20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40028020.01-2\"><span class=\"woc\">teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"128": "Deuteronomy 12:32; Matthew 28:20"
},
"question": "What is required in the second commandment?"
},
"51": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Deuteronomy 4:15-19; Romans 1:22-23' data-prooftexts-index='129'>The second commandment forbiddeth the worshiping of God by images,</span><span data-prooftexts='Leviticus 10:1-2; Jeremiah 19:4-5; Colossians 2:18-23' data-prooftexts-index='130'> or any other way not appointed in his Word.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"129": "<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>Romans 1:22-23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45001022.01-2\">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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"130": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Leviticus 10:1-2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p03010001.07-1\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v03010001-1\">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 19:4-5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p24019004.01-2\">Because the people have forsaken me and have profaned this place by making offerings in it to other gods whom neither they nor their fathers nor the kings of Judah have known; and because they have filled this place with the blood of innocents, 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—</p>\n</div><h5>Colossians 2:18-23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p51002018.01-3\">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, and not holding fast to the Head, from whom the whole body, nourished and knit together through its joints and ligaments, grows with a growth that is from God.</p>\n <p id=\"p51002020.01-3\">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? 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>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"129": "Deuteronomy 4:15-19; Romans 1:22-23",
"130": "Leviticus 10:1-2; Jeremiah 19:4-5; Colossians 2:18-23"
},
"question": "What is forbidden in the second commandment?"
},
"52": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Psalms 95:2-3, 6-7; Psalms 96:9-10' data-prooftexts-index='131'>The reasons annexed to the second commandment are, God's sovereignty over us,</span><span data-prooftexts='Ex 19:5; Psalms 45:11; Isaiah 54:5' data-prooftexts-index='132'> his propriety in us,</span><span data-prooftexts='Ex 34:14; I Corinthians 10:22' data-prooftexts-index='133'> and the zeal he hath to his own worship.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"131": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 95:2-3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19095002.01-1\">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=\"p19095006.01-2\">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!<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>Psalm 96:9-10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19096009.01-3\">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=\"p19096010.01-3\">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.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"132": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Exodus 19:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p02019005.01-1\">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>Psalm 45:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19045011.01-2\"><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>Isaiah 54:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23054005.01-3\">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>",
"133": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Exodus 34:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p02034014.01-1\">(for you shall worship no other god, for the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God),</p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 10:22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46010022.01-2\">Shall we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he? (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"131": "Psalms 95:2-3, 6-7; Psalms 96:9-10",
"132": "Ex 19:5; Psalms 45:11; Isaiah 54:5",
"133": "Ex 34:14; I Corinthians 10:22"
},
"question": "What are the reasons annexed to the second commandment?"
},
"53": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Ex 20:7; Deuteronomy 5:11' data-prooftexts-index='134'>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": {
"134": "<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": {
"134": "Ex 20:7; Deuteronomy 5:11"
},
"question": "Which is the third commandment?"
},
"54": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Deuteronomy 10:20; Psalms 29:2; Matthew 6:9' data-prooftexts-index='135'>The third commandment requireth the holy and reverent use of God's names, titles,</span><span data-prooftexts='I Chronicles 29:10-13; Revelation 15:3-4' data-prooftexts-index='136'> attributes,</span><span data-prooftexts='Acts 2:42; I Corinthians 11:27-28' data-prooftexts-index='137'> ordinances,</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 138:2; Revelation 22:18-19' data-prooftexts-index='138'> Word,</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 107:21-22; Revelation 4:11' data-prooftexts-index='139'> and works.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"135": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Deuteronomy 10:20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p05010020.01-1\">You shall fear the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God. You shall serve him and hold fast to him, and by his name you shall swear.</p>\n</div><h5>Psalm 29:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19029002.01-2\">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>Matthew 6:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40006009.01-3\"><span class=\"woc\">Pray then like this:</span></p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p40006009.05-3\"><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>",
"136": "<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>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.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>",
"137": "<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.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 11:27-28</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"138": "<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.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Revelation 22:18-19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p66022018.01-2\">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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"139": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 107:21-22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19107021.01-1\">Let them thank the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> for his steadfast love,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for his wondrous works to the children of man!<br />\n And let them offer sacrifices of thanksgiving,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and tell of his deeds in songs of joy!</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Revelation 4:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><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": {
"135": "Deuteronomy 10:20; Psalms 29:2; Matthew 6:9",
"136": "I Chronicles 29:10-13; Revelation 15:3-4",
"137": "Acts 2:42; I Corinthians 11:27-28",
"138": "Psalms 138:2; Revelation 22:18-19",
"139": "Psalms 107:21-22; Revelation 4:11"
},
"question": "What is required in the third commandment?"
},
"55": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Leviticus 19:12; Matthew 5:33-37; James 5:12' data-prooftexts-index='140'>The third commandment forbiddeth all profaning or abusing of anything whereby God maketh himself known.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"140": "<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>.</p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 5:33-37</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p40005033.02-2\"><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> <span class=\"woc\">And do not take an oath by your head, for you cannot make one hair white or black.</span> <span class=\"woc\">Let what you say be simply ‘Yes’ or ‘No’; anything more than this comes from evil.</span></p>\n</div><h5>James 5:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p59005012.01-3\">But above all, my brothers, do not swear, either by heaven or by earth or by any other oath, but let your “yes” be yes and your “no” be no, so that you may not fall under condemnation. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"140": "Leviticus 19:12; Matthew 5:33-37; James 5:12"
},
"question": "What is forbidden in the third commandment?"
},
"56": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Deuteronomy 28:58-59; I Samuel 3:13; I Samuel 4:11' data-prooftexts-index='141'>The reason annexed to the third commandment is, that however the breakers of this commandment may escape punishment from men, yet the Lord our God will not suffer them to escape his righteous judgment.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"141": "<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>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 4:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p09004011.01-3\">And the ark of God was captured, and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, died. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"141": "Deuteronomy 28:58-59; I Samuel 3:13; I Samuel 4:11"
},
"question": "What is the reason annexed to the third commandment?"
},
"57": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Ex 20:8-11; Deuteronomy 5:12-15' data-prooftexts-index='142'>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": {
"142": "<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": {
"142": "Ex 20:8-11; Deuteronomy 5:12-15"
},
"question": "Which is the fourth commandment?"
},
"58": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Ex 31:13,16-17' data-prooftexts-index='143'>The fourth commandment requireth the keeping holy to God such set times as he hath appointed in his Word; expressly one whole day in seven, to be a holy Sabbath to himself.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"143": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Exodus 31:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p02031013.01-1\">“You are to speak to the people of Israel and say, ‘Above all you shall keep my Sabbaths, for this is a sign between me and you throughout your generations, that you may know that I, the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, sanctify you.</p>\n</div><h5>Exodus 31:16-17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p02031016.01-2\">Therefore the people of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, observing the Sabbath throughout their generations, as a covenant forever. It is a sign forever between me and the people of Israel that in six days the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested and was refreshed.’” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"143": "Ex 31:13,16-17"
},
"question": "What is required in the fourth commandment?"
},
"59": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Genesis 2:2-3; Ex 20:11' data-prooftexts-index='144'>From the beginning of the world to the resurrection of Christ, God appointed the seventh day of the week to be the weekly Sabbath;</span><span data-prooftexts='Mark 2:27-28; Acts 20:7; I Corinthians 16:2; Revelation 1:10' data-prooftexts-index='145'> and the first day of the week ever since, to continue to the end of the world, which is the Christian Sabbath.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"144": "<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>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>",
"145": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Mark 2:27-28</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p41002027.01-1\">And he said to them, <span class=\"woc\">“The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.</span> <span class=\"woc\">So the Son of Man is lord even of the Sabbath.”</span></p>\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>1 Corinthians 16:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46016002.01-3\">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>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>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"144": "Genesis 2:2-3; Ex 20:11",
"145": "Mark 2:27-28; Acts 20:7; I Corinthians 16:2; Revelation 1:10"
},
"question": "Which day of the seven hath God appointed to be the weekly sabbath?"
},
"6": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Matthew 3:16-17; Matthew 28:19; II Corinthians 13:14; I Peter 1:2' data-prooftexts-index='20'>There are three persons in the Godhead; the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost;</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 45:6; John 1:1; John 17:5; Acts 5:3-4; Romans 9:5; Colossians 2:9; Jude 24-25' data-prooftexts-index='21'> and these three are one God, the same in substance, equal in power and glory.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"20": "<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.</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>",
"21": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 45:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19045006.01-1\">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>John 1:1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p class=\"chapter-first\" id=\"p43001001.05-2\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v43001001-2\">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 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>Acts 5:3-4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44005003.01-4\">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=\"p45009005.01-5\">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=\"p51002009.01-6\">For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily,</p>\n</div><h5>Jude 1:24-25</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p65001024.02-7\">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, to the only God, our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"20": "Matthew 3:16-17; Matthew 28:19; II Corinthians 13:14; I Peter 1:2",
"21": "Psalms 45:6; John 1:1; John 17:5; Acts 5:3-4; Romans 9:5; Colossians 2:9; Jude 24-25"
},
"question": "How many persons are there in the godhead?"
},
"60": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Ex 20:10; Nehemiah 13:15-22; Isaiah 58:13-14' data-prooftexts-index='146'>The Sabbath is to be sanctified by a holy resting all that day, even from such worldly employments and recreations as are lawful on other days;</span><span data-prooftexts='Ex 20:8; Leviticus 23:3; Luke 4:16; Acts 20:7' data-prooftexts-index='147'> and spending the whole time in the public and private exercises of God's worship,</span><span data-prooftexts='Matthew 12:1-13' data-prooftexts-index='148'> except so much as is to be taken up in the works of necessity and mercy.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"146": "<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>Nehemiah 13:15-22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p16013015.01-2\">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=\"p16013019.01-2\">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.</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>",
"147": "<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>Leviticus 23:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p03023003.03-2\">“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>Luke 4:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p42004016.05-3\">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=\"p44020007.06-4\">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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"148": "<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>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"146": "Ex 20:10; Nehemiah 13:15-22; Isaiah 58:13-14",
"147": "Ex 20:8; Leviticus 23:3; Luke 4:16; Acts 20:7",
"148": "Matthew 12:1-13"
},
"question": "How is the sabbath to be sanctified?"
},
"61": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Nehemiah 13:15-22; Isaiah 58:13-14; Amos 8:4-6' data-prooftexts-index='149'>The fourth commandment forbiddeth the omission, or careless performance, of the duties required, and the profaning the day by idleness, or doing that which is in itself sinful, or by unnecessary thoughts, words, or works, about our worldly employments or recreations.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"149": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Nehemiah 13:15-22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p16013015.01-1\">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=\"p16013019.01-1\">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.</p>\n</div><h5>Isaiah 58:13-14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23058013.01-2\">“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>Amos 8:4-6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p30008004.01-3\">Hear this, you who trample on the needy<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and bring the poor of the land to an end,<br />\n 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,<br />\n that we may buy the poor for silver<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and the needy for a pair of sandals<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and sell the chaff of the wheat?” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"149": "Nehemiah 13:15-22; Isaiah 58:13-14; Amos 8:4-6"
},
"question": "What is forbidden in the fourth commandment?"
},
"62": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Ex 20:9; Ex 31:15; Leviticus 23:3' data-prooftexts-index='150'>The reasons annexed to the fourth commandment are, God's allowing us six days of the week for our own employments,</span><span data-prooftexts='Genesis 2:2-3; Ex 20:11; 31:17' data-prooftexts-index='151'> his challenging a special propriety in the seventh, his own example, and his blessing the Sabbath day.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"150": "<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,</p>\n</div><h5>Exodus 31:15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p02031015.01-2\">Six days shall work be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, holy to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day shall be put to death.</p>\n</div><h5>Leviticus 23:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p03023003.03-3\">“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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"151": "<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>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.</p>\n</div><h5>Exodus 31:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p02031017.01-3\">It is a sign forever between me and the people of Israel that in six days the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested and was refreshed.’” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"150": "Ex 20:9; Ex 31:15; Leviticus 23:3",
"151": "Genesis 2:2-3; Ex 20:11; 31:17"
},
"question": "What are the reasons annexed to the fourth commandment?"
},
"63": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Ex 20:12; Deuteronomy 5:16' data-prooftexts-index='152'>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": {
"152": "<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": {
"152": "Ex 20:12; Deuteronomy 5:16"
},
"question": "Which is the fifth commandment?"
},
"64": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Romans 13:1,7; Ephesians 5:21-22,24; Ephesians 6:1,4-5,9; I Peter 2:17' data-prooftexts-index='153'>The fifth commandment requireth the preserving the honor, and performing the duties, belonging to everyone in their several places and relations, as superiors, inferiors, or equals.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"153": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 13:1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p45013001.05-1\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v45013001-1\">13:1 </span>Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 13:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45013007.01-2\">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 5:21-22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49005021.01-3\">submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ.</p>\n \n<p id=\"p49005022.04-3\">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=\"p49005024.01-4\">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=\"p49006001.04-5\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v49006001-5\">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=\"p49006004.01-6\">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=\"p49006005.04-6\">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=\"p49006009.01-7\">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.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Peter 2:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p60002017.01-8\">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>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"153": "Romans 13:1,7; Ephesians 5:21-22,24; Ephesians 6:1,4-5,9; I Peter 2:17"
},
"question": "What is required in the fifth commandment?"
},
"65": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Matthew 15:4-6; Romans 13:8' data-prooftexts-index='154'>The fifth commandment forbiddeth the neglecting of, or doing anything against, the honor and duty which belongeth to everyone in their several places and relations.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"154": "<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>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"154": "Matthew 15:4-6; Romans 13:8"
},
"question": "What is forbidden in the fifth commandment?"
},
"66": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Ex 20:12; Deuteronomy 5:16; Ephesians 6:2-3' data-prooftexts-index='155'>The reason annexed to the fifth commandment is, a 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": {
"155": "<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.</p>\n</div><h5>Ephesians 6:2-3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49006002.01-3\">“Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"155": "Ex 20:12; Deuteronomy 5:16; Ephesians 6:2-3"
},
"question": "What is the reason annexed to the fifth commandment?"
},
"67": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Ex 20:13; Deuteronomy 5:17' data-prooftexts-index='156'>The sixth commandment is, Thou shalt not kill.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"156": "<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": {
"156": "Ex 20:13; Deuteronomy 5:17"
},
"question": "Which is the sixth commandment?"
},
"68": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Ephesians 5:28-29' data-prooftexts-index='157'>The sixth commandment requireth all lawful endeavors to preserve our own life, and the life of others.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"157": "<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>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"157": "Ephesians 5:28-29"
},
"question": "What is required in the sixth commandment?"
},
"69": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Genesis 9:6; Matthew 5:22; I John 3:15' data-prooftexts-index='158'>The sixth commandment forbiddeth the taking away of our own life, or the life of our neighbor unjustly, or whatsoever tendeth thereunto.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"158": "<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.</p>\n</div>\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>1 John 3:15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p62003015.01-3\">Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"158": "Genesis 9:6; Matthew 5:22; I John 3:15"
},
"question": "What is forbidden in the sixth commandment?"
},
"7": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Psalms 33:11; Isaiah 14:24; Acts 2:23; Ephesians 1:11-12' data-prooftexts-index='22'>The decrees of God are, his eternal purpose, according to the counsel of his will, whereby, for his own glory, he hath foreordained whatsoever comes to pass.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"22": "<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>Ephesians 1:11-12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49001011.01-4\">In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will, so that we who were the first to hope in Christ might be to the praise of his glory. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"22": "Psalms 33:11; Isaiah 14:24; Acts 2:23; Ephesians 1:11-12"
},
"question": "What are the decrees of God?"
},
"70": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Ex 20:14; Deuteronomy 5:18' data-prooftexts-index='159'>The seventh commandment is, Thou shalt not commit adultery.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"159": "<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": {
"159": "Ex 20:14; Deuteronomy 5:18"
},
"question": "Which is the seventh commandment?"
},
"71": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='I Corinthians 7:2-3,5; I Thessalonians 4:3-5' data-prooftexts-index='160'>The seventh commandment requireth the preservation of our own and our neighbor's chastity, in heart, speech, and behavior.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"160": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Corinthians 7:2-3</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.</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.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Thessalonians 4:3-5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p52004003.01-3\">For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality; 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; (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"160": "I Corinthians 7:2-3,5; I Thessalonians 4:3-5"
},
"question": "What is required in the seventh commandment?"
},
"72": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Matthew 5:28; Ephesians 5:3-4' data-prooftexts-index='161'>The seventh commandment forbiddeth all unchaste thoughts, words, and actions.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"161": "<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>Ephesians 5:3-4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49005003.01-2\">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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"161": "Matthew 5:28; Ephesians 5:3-4"
},
"question": "What is forbidden in the seventh commandment?"
},
"73": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Ex 20:15; Deuteronomy 5:19' data-prooftexts-index='162'>The eighth commandment is, Thou shalt not steal.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"162": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Exodus 20:15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p02020015.01-1\">“You shall not steal.</p>\n</div><h5>Deuteronomy 5:19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p05005019.01-2\">“‘And you shall not steal. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"162": "Ex 20:15; Deuteronomy 5:19"
},
"question": "Which is the eighth commandment?"
},
"74": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Leviticus 25:35; Ephesians 4:28; Philippians 2:4' data-prooftexts-index='163'>The eighth commandment requireth the lawful procuring and furthering the wealth and outward estate of ourselves and others.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"163": "<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>Ephesians 4:28</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49004028.01-2\">Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need.</p>\n</div><h5>Philippians 2:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p50002004.01-3\">Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"163": "Leviticus 25:35; Ephesians 4:28; Philippians 2:4"
},
"question": "What is required in the eighth commandment?"
},
"75": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Proverbs 28:19-24; Ephesians 4:28; II Thessalonians 3:10; I Timothy 5:8' data-prooftexts-index='164'>The eighth commandment forbiddeth whatsoever doth, or may, unjustly hinder our own, or our neighbor's, wealth or outward estate.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"164": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Proverbs 28:19-24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20028019.01-1\">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.<br />\n A faithful man will abound with blessings,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but whoever hastens to be rich will not go unpunished.<br />\n To show partiality is not good,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>but for a piece of bread a man will do wrong.<br />\n A stingy man hastens after wealth<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and does not know that poverty will come upon him.<br />\n Whoever rebukes a man will afterward find more favor<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>than he who flatters with his tongue.<br />\n Whoever robs his father or his mother<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and says, “That is no transgression,”<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>is a companion to a man who destroys. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"164": "Proverbs 28:19-24; Ephesians 4:28; II Thessalonians 3:10; I Timothy 5:8"
},
"question": "What is forbidden in the eighth commandment?"
},
"76": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Ex 20:16; Deuteronomy 5:20' data-prooftexts-index='165'>The ninth commandment is, Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"165": "<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": {
"165": "Ex 20:16; Deuteronomy 5:20"
},
"question": "Which is the ninth commandment?"
},
"77": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Zechariah 8:16; Acts 25:10; III John 12' data-prooftexts-index='166'>The ninth commandment requireth the maintaining and promoting of truth between man and man, and of our own and our neighbor's good name,</span><span data-prooftexts='Proverbs 14:5, 25' data-prooftexts-index='167'> especially in witness bearing.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"166": "<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>Acts 25:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44025010.01-2\">But Paul said, “I am standing before Caesar's tribunal, where I ought to be tried. To the Jews I have done no wrong, as you yourself know very well.</p>\n</div><h5>3 John 1:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p64001012.01-3\">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>",
"167": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Proverbs 14:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20014005.01-1\">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=\"p20014025.01-2\">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>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"166": "Zechariah 8:16; Acts 25:10; III John 12",
"167": "Proverbs 14:5, 25"
},
"question": "What is required in the ninth commandment?"
},
"78": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Leviticus 19:16; Psalms 15:3; Proverbs 6:16-19; Luke 3:14' data-prooftexts-index='168'>The ninth commandment forbiddeth whatsoever is prejudicial to truth, or injurious to our own, or our neighbor's, good name.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"168": "<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>.</p>\n</div><h5>Psalm 15:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19015003.01-2\">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;</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Proverbs 6:16-19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20006016.01-3\">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:<br />\n haughty eyes, a lying tongue,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and hands that shed innocent blood,<br />\n a heart that devises wicked plans,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>feet that make haste to run to evil,<br />\n a false witness who breathes out lies,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and one who sows discord among brothers.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Luke 3:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42003014.01-4\">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.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"168": "Leviticus 19:16; Psalms 15:3; Proverbs 6:16-19; Luke 3:14"
},
"question": "What is forbidden in the ninth commandment?"
},
"79": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Ex 20:17; Deuteronomy 5:21' data-prooftexts-index='169'>The tenth commandment is, Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt 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": {
"169": "<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": {
"169": "Ex 20:17; Deuteronomy 5:21"
},
"question": "Which is the tenth commandment?"
},
"8": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Psalms 148:8; Isaiah 40:26; Daniel 4:35; Acts 4:24-28; Revelation 4:11' data-prooftexts-index='23'>God executeth his decrees in the works of creation and providence.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"23": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 148:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19148008.01-1\">fire and hail, snow and mist,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>stormy wind fulfilling his word!</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Isaiah 40:26</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23040026.01-2\">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</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.</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.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"23": "Psalms 148:8; Isaiah 40:26; Daniel 4:35; Acts 4:24-28; Revelation 4:11"
},
"question": "How doth God execute his decrees?"
},
"80": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Psalms 34:1; Philippians 4:11; I Timothy 6:6; Hebrews 13:5' data-prooftexts-index='170'>The tenth commandment requireth full contentment with our own condition,</span><span data-prooftexts='Luke 15:6, 9, 11-32; Romans 12:15; Philippians 2:4' data-prooftexts-index='171'> with a right and charitable frame of spirit toward our neighbor, and all that is his.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"170": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 34:1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19034001.28-1\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v19034001-1\">34:1 </span>I will bless the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> at all times;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>his praise shall continually be in my mouth.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Philippians 4:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p50004011.01-2\">Not that I am speaking of being in need, for I have learned in whatever situation I am to be content.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Timothy 6:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p54006006.01-3\">Now there is great gain in godliness with contentment,</p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 13:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58013005.01-4\">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.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"171": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Luke 15:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42015006.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep that was lost.’</span></p>\n</div><h5>Luke 15:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42015009.01-2\"><span class=\"woc\">And when she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found the coin that I had lost.’</span></p>\n</div><h5>Luke 15:11-32</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p42015011.07-3\">And he said, <span class=\"woc\">“There was a man who had two sons.</span> <span class=\"woc\">And the younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the share of property that is coming to me.’ And he divided his property between them.</span> <span class=\"woc\">Not many days later, the younger son gathered all he had and took a journey into a far country, and there he squandered his property in reckless living.</span> <span class=\"woc\">And when he had spent everything, a severe famine arose in that country, and he began to be in need.</span> <span class=\"woc\">So he went and hired himself out to one of the citizens of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed pigs.</span> <span class=\"woc\">And he was longing to be fed with the pods that the pigs ate, and no one gave him anything.</span></p>\n <p id=\"p42015017.01-3\"><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> <span class=\"woc\">And he arose and came to his father. But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and felt compassion, and ran and embraced him and kissed him.</span> <span class=\"woc\">And the son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’</span> <span class=\"woc\">But the father said to his servants, ‘Bring quickly the best robe, and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet.</span> <span class=\"woc\">And bring the fattened calf and kill it, and let us eat and celebrate.</span> <span class=\"woc\">For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found.’ And they began to celebrate.</span></p>\n <p id=\"p42015025.01-3\"><span class=\"woc\">“Now his older son was in the field, and as he came and drew near to the house, he heard music and dancing.</span> <span class=\"woc\">And he called one of the servants and asked what these things meant.</span> <span class=\"woc\">And he said to him, ‘Your brother has come, and your father has killed the fattened calf, because he has received him back safe and sound.’</span> <span class=\"woc\">But he was angry and refused to go in. His father came out and entreated him,</span> <span class=\"woc\">but he answered his father, ‘Look, these many years I have served you, and I never disobeyed your command, yet you never gave me a young goat, that I might celebrate with my friends.</span> <span class=\"woc\">But when this son of yours came, who has devoured your property with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him!’</span> <span class=\"woc\">And he said to him, ‘Son, you are always with me, and all that is mine is yours.</span> <span class=\"woc\">It was fitting to celebrate and be glad, for this your brother was dead, and is alive; he was lost, and is found.’”</span></p>\n</div><h5>Romans 12:15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45012015.01-4\">Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep.</p>\n</div><h5>Philippians 2:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p50002004.01-5\">Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"170": "Psalms 34:1; Philippians 4:11; I Timothy 6:6; Hebrews 13:5",
"171": "Luke 15:6, 9, 11-32; Romans 12:15; Philippians 2:4"
},
"question": "What is required in the tenth commandment?"
},
"81": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='I Corinthians 10:10; James 3:14-16' data-prooftexts-index='172'>The tenth commandment forbiddeth all discontentment with our own estate,</span><span data-prooftexts='Galatians 5:26; Colossians 3:5' data-prooftexts-index='173'> envying or grieving at the good of our neighbor, and all inordinate motions and affections to anything that is his.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"172": "<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>James 3:14-16</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. This is not the wisdom that comes down from above, but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic. 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>",
"173": "<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>Colossians 3:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p51003005.01-2\">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>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"172": "I Corinthians 10:10; James 3:14-16",
"173": "Galatians 5:26; Colossians 3:5"
},
"question": "What is forbidden in the tenth commandment?"
},
"82": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Genesis 8:21; Romans 3:9-23' data-prooftexts-index='174'>No mere man, since the fall, is able in this life perfectly to keep the commandments of God, but doth daily break them in thought, word, and deed.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"174": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Genesis 8:21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p01008021.01-1\">And when the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> smelled the pleasing aroma, the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> said in his heart, “I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the intention of man's heart is evil from his youth. Neither will I ever again strike down every living creature as I have done.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 3:9-23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p45003009.05-2\">What then? Are we Jews any better off? No, not at all. For we have already charged that all, both Jews and Greeks, are under sin, as it is written:</p>\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p45003010.05-2\">“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=\"p45003019.01-2\">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=\"p45003021.07-2\">But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it— the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction: for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"174": "Genesis 8:21; Romans 3:9-23"
},
"question": "Is any man able perfectly to keep the commandments of God?"
},
"83": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Ezekiel 8:6, 13, 15; Matthew 11:20-24; John 19:11' data-prooftexts-index='175'>Some sins in themselves, and by reason of several aggravations, are more heinous in the sight of God than others.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"175": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ezekiel 8:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p26008006.01-1\">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=\"p26008013.01-2\">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=\"p26008015.01-3\">Then he said to me, “Have you seen this, O son of man? You will see still greater abominations than these.”</p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 11:20-24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p40011020.05-4\">Then he began to denounce the cities where most of his mighty works had been done, because they did not repent. <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 19:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p43019011.01-5\">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> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"175": "Ezekiel 8:6, 13, 15; Matthew 11:20-24; John 19:11"
},
"question": "Are all transgressions of the law equally heinous?"
},
"84": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Matthew 25:41; Galatians 3:10; Ephesians 5:6; James 2:10' data-prooftexts-index='176'>Every sin deserveth God's wrath and curse, both in this life, and that which is to come.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"176": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 25:41</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40025041.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">“Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.</span></p>\n</div><h5>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>Ephesians 5:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49005006.01-3\">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>James 2:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p59002010.01-4\">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": {
"176": "Matthew 25:41; Galatians 3:10; Ephesians 5:6; James 2:10"
},
"question": "What doth every sin deserve?"
},
"85": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Mark 1:15; Acts 20:21' data-prooftexts-index='177'>To escape the wrath and curse of God, due to us for sin, God requireth of us faith in Jesus Christ, repentance unto life,</span><span data-prooftexts='Acts 2:38; I Corinthians 11:24-25; Colossians 3:16' data-prooftexts-index='178'> with the diligent use of all the outward means whereby Christ communicateth to us the benefits of redemption.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"177": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Mark 1:15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p41001015.01-1\">and saying, <span class=\"woc\">“The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel.”</span></p>\n</div><h5>Acts 20:21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44020021.01-2\">testifying both to Jews and to Greeks of repentance toward God and of faith in our Lord Jesus Christ. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"178": "<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 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></p>\n</div><h5>Colossians 3:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p51003016.01-3\">Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"177": "Mark 1:15; Acts 20:21",
"178": "Acts 2:38; I Corinthians 11:24-25; Colossians 3:16"
},
"question": "What doth God require of us that we may escape his wrath and curse due to us for sin?"
},
"86": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Ephesians 2:8-9; Romans 4:16' data-prooftexts-index='179'>Faith in Jesus Christ is a saving grace,</span><span data-prooftexts='John 20:30-31; Galatians 2:15-16; Philippians 3:3-11' data-prooftexts-index='180'> whereby we receive and rest upon him alone for salvation, as he is offered to us in the gospel.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"179": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ephesians 2:8-9</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, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 4:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45004016.01-2\">That is why it depends on faith, in order that the promise may rest on grace and be guaranteed to all his offspring—not only to the adherent of the law but also to the one who shares the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"180": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>John 20:30-31</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p43020030.06-1\">Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book; 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>Galatians 2:15-16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p class=\"same-paragraph\" id=\"p48002015.04-2\">We ourselves are Jews by birth and not Gentile sinners; 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 3:3-11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p50003003.01-3\">For we are the circumcision, who worship by the Spirit of God and glory in Christ Jesus and put no confidence in the flesh— 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— that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, that by any means possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"179": "Ephesians 2:8-9; Romans 4:16",
"180": "John 20:30-31; Galatians 2:15-16; Philippians 3:3-11"
},
"question": "What is faith in Jesus Christ?"
},
"87": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Acts 11:18; II Timothy 2:25' data-prooftexts-index='181'>Repentance unto life is a saving grace,</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 51:1-4; Joel 2:13; Luke 15:7, 10; Acts 2:37' data-prooftexts-index='182'> whereby a sinner, out of a true sense of his sin, and apprehension of the mercy of God in Christ,</span><span data-prooftexts='Jeremiah 31:18-19; Luke 1:16-17; I Thessalonians 1:9' data-prooftexts-index='183'> doth, with grief and hatred of his sin, turn from it unto God,</span><span data-prooftexts='II Chronicles 7:14; Psalms 119:57-64; Matthew 3:8; II Corinthians 7:10' data-prooftexts-index='184'> with full purpose of, and endeavor after, new obedience.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"181": "<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>2 Timothy 2:25</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p55002025.01-2\">correcting his opponents with gentleness. God may perhaps grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"182": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 51:1-4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19051001.30-1\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v19051001-1\">51:1 </span>Have mercy on me, O God,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>according to your steadfast love;<br />\naccording to your abundant mercy<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>blot out my transgressions.<br />\n Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and cleanse me from my sin!</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19051003.01-1\">For I know my transgressions,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and my sin is ever before me.<br />\n Against you, you only, have I sinned<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and done what is evil in your sight,<br />\nso that you may be justified in your words<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and blameless in your judgment.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Joel 2:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p29002013.01-2\"><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>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>",
"183": "<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>Luke 1:16-17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42001016.01-2\">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=\"p52001009.01-3\">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, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"184": "<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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"181": "Acts 11:18; II Timothy 2:25",
"182": "Psalms 51:1-4; Joel 2:13; Luke 15:7, 10; Acts 2:37",
"183": "Jeremiah 31:18-19; Luke 1:16-17; I Thessalonians 1:9",
"184": "II Chronicles 7:14; Psalms 119:57-64; Matthew 3:8; II Corinthians 7:10"
},
"question": "What is repentance unto life?"
},
"88": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Matthew 28:18-20; Acts 2:41-42' data-prooftexts-index='185'>The outward and ordinary means whereby Christ communicateth to us the benefits of redemption are, his ordinances, especially the Word, sacraments, and prayer; all which are made effectual to the elect for salvation.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"185": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 28:18-20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40028018.01-1\">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>Acts 2:41-42</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 \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": {
"185": "Matthew 28:18-20; Acts 2:41-42"
},
"question": "What are the outward and ordinary means whereby Christ communicateth to us the benefits of redemption?"
},
"89": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Nehemiah 8:8-9; Acts 20:32; Romans 10:14-17; II Timothy 3:15-17' data-prooftexts-index='186'>The Spirit of God maketh the reading, but especially the preaching, of the Word, an effectual means of convincing and converting sinners, and of building them up in holiness and comfort, through faith, unto salvation.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"186": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Nehemiah 8:8-9</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 \n<p id=\"p16008009.05-1\">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.</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 20:32</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44020032.01-2\">And now I commend you to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 10:14-17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45010014.01-3\">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>2 Timothy 3:15-17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p55003015.01-4\">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>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"186": "Nehemiah 8:8-9; Acts 20:32; Romans 10:14-17; II Timothy 3:15-17"
},
"question": "How is the word made effectual to salvation?"
},
"9": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Genesis 1:1; Psalms 33:6,19; Hebrews 11:3' data-prooftexts-index='24'>The work of creation is, God's making all things of nothing, by the word of his power,</span><span data-prooftexts='Genesis 1:31' data-prooftexts-index='25'> in the space of six days, and all very good.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"24": "<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 33:19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19033019.01-3\">that he may deliver their soul from death<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and keep them alive in famine.</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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"25": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Genesis 1:31</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p01001031.01-1\">And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"24": "Genesis 1:1; Psalms 33:6,19; Hebrews 11:3",
"25": "Genesis 1:31"
},
"question": "What is the work of creation?"
},
"90": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Deuteronomy 6:16-25; Psalms 119:18; I Peter 2:1-2' data-prooftexts-index='187'>That the Word may become effectual to salvation, we must attend thereunto with diligence, preparation, and prayer;</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 119:11; II Thessalonians 2:10; Hebrews 4:2; James 1:22-25' data-prooftexts-index='188'> receive it with faith and love, lay it up in our hearts, and practice it in our lives.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"187": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Deuteronomy 6:16-25</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p05006016.01-1\">“You shall not put the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God to the test, as you tested him at Massah. You shall diligently keep the commandments of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God, and his testimonies and his statutes, which he has commanded you. And you shall do what is right and good in the sight of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, that it may go well with you, and that you may go in and take possession of the good land that the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> swore to give to your fathers by thrusting out all your enemies from before you, as the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> has promised.</p>\n <p id=\"p05006020.01-1\">“When your son asks you in time to come, ‘What is the meaning of the testimonies and the statutes and the rules that the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> our God has commanded you?’ then you shall say to your son, ‘We were Pharaoh's slaves in Egypt. And the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand. And the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> showed signs and wonders, great and grievous, against Egypt and against Pharaoh and all his household, before our eyes. And he brought us out from there, that he might bring us in and give us the land that he swore to give to our fathers. And the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as we are this day. And it will be righteousness for us, if we are careful to do all this commandment before the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> our God, as he has commanded us.’</p>\n</div><h5>Psalm 119:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119018.01-2\">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>1 Peter 2:1-2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p60002001.08-3\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v60002001-3\">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— (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"188": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 119:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19119011.01-1\">I have stored up your word in my heart,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that I might not sin against you.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>2 Thessalonians 2:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p53002010.01-2\">and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.</p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 4:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58004002.01-3\">For good news came to us just as to them, but the message they heard did not benefit them, because they were not united by faith with those who listened.</p>\n</div><h5>James 1:22-25</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p59001022.01-4\">But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like. But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"187": "Deuteronomy 6:16-25; Psalms 119:18; I Peter 2:1-2",
"188": "Psalms 119:11; II Thessalonians 2:10; Hebrews 4:2; James 1:22-25"
},
"question": "How is the word to be read and heard, that it may become effectual to salvation?"
},
"91": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='I Corinthians 3:7; I Corinthians 1:12-17' data-prooftexts-index='189'>The sacraments become effectual means of salvation, not from any virtue in them, or in him that doth administer them; but only by the blessing of Christ, and the working of his Spirit in them that by faith receive them.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"189": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Corinthians 3:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46003007.01-1\">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=\"p46001012.01-2\">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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"189": "I Corinthians 3:7; I Corinthians 1:12-17"
},
"question": "How do the sacraments become effectual means of salvation?"
},
"92": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Matthew 28:19; Matthew 26:26-28; Mark 14:22-25; Luke 22:19-20; I Corinthians 1:22-26' data-prooftexts-index='190'>A sacrament is a holy ordinance instituted by Christ;</span><span data-prooftexts='Galatians 3:27; I Corinthians 10:16-17' data-prooftexts-index='191'> wherein by sensible signs, Christ, and the benefits of the new covenant, are represented, sealed, and applied to believers.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"190": "<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>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 14:22-25</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> <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=\"p42022019.01-4\">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></p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 1:22-26</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46001022.01-5\">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. For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.</p>\n <p id=\"p46001026.01-5\">For consider your calling, brothers: not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"191": "<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>1 Corinthians 10:16-17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46010016.01-2\">The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a participation in the blood of Christ? The bread that we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ? Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"190": "Matthew 28:19; Matthew 26:26-28; Mark 14:22-25; Luke 22:19-20; I Corinthians 1:22-26",
"191": "Galatians 3:27; I Corinthians 10:16-17"
},
"question": "What is a sacrament?"
},
"93": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Matthew 28:19' data-prooftexts-index='192'>The sacraments of the New Testament are, baptism,</span><span data-prooftexts='I Corinthians 11:23-26' data-prooftexts-index='193'> and the Lord's Supper.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"192": "<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>",
"193": "<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>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"192": "Matthew 28:19",
"193": "I Corinthians 11:23-26"
},
"question": "Which are the sacraments of the New Testament?"
},
"94": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Matthew 28:19' data-prooftexts-index='194'>Baptism is a sacrament, wherein the washing with water in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost,</span><span data-prooftexts='Acts 2:38-42; Acts 22:16; Romans 6:3-4; Galatians 3:26-27; I Peter 3:21' data-prooftexts-index='195'> doth signify and seal our ingrafting into Christ, and partaking of the benefits of the covenant of grace, and our engagement to be the Lord's.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"194": "<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>",
"195": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Acts 2:38-42</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.” 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=\"p44002042.06-1\">And they devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers.</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 22:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44022016.01-2\">And now why do you wait? Rise and be baptized and wash away your sins, calling on his name.’</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 6:3-4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45006003.01-3\">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>Galatians 3:26-27</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p48003026.01-4\">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.</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>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"194": "Matthew 28:19",
"195": "Acts 2:38-42; Acts 22:16; Romans 6:3-4; Galatians 3:26-27; I Peter 3:21"
},
"question": "What is baptism?"
},
"95": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Acts 2:41; Acts 8:12,36,38; Acts 18:8' data-prooftexts-index='196'>Baptism is not to be administered to any that are out of the visible church, till they profess their faith in Christ, and obedience to him;</span><span data-prooftexts='Genesis 17:7,9-11; Acts 2:38-39; Acts 16:32-33; Colossians 2:11-12' data-prooftexts-index='197'> but the infants of such as are members of the visible church are to be baptized.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"196": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Acts 2:41</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44002041.01-1\">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=\"p44008012.01-2\">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=\"p44008036.01-3\">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=\"p44008038.01-4\">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 18:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44018008.01-5\">Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord, together with his entire household. And many of the Corinthians hearing Paul believed and were baptized. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"197": "<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 17:9-11</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. 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.</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>Acts 16:32-33</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44016032.01-4\">And they spoke the word of the Lord to him and to all who were in his house. And he took them the same hour of the night and washed their wounds; and he was baptized at once, he and all his family.</p>\n</div><h5>Colossians 2:11-12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p51002011.01-5\">In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"196": "Acts 2:41; Acts 8:12,36,38; Acts 18:8",
"197": "Genesis 17:7,9-11; Acts 2:38-39; Acts 16:32-33; Colossians 2:11-12"
},
"question": "To whom is baptism to be administered?"
},
"96": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Luke 22:19-20; I Corinthians 11:23-26' data-prooftexts-index='198'>The Lord's Supper is a sacrament, wherein, by giving and receiving bread and wine, according to Christ's appointment, his death is showed forth;</span><span data-prooftexts='I Corinthians 10:16-17' data-prooftexts-index='199'> and the worthy receivers are, not after a corporal and carnal manner, but by faith, made partakers of his body and blood, with all his benefits, to their spiritual nourishment, and growth in grace.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"198": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Luke 22:19-20</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> And likewise the cup after they had eaten, saying, <span class=\"woc\">“This cup that is poured out for you is the new covenant in my blood.</span></p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 11:23-26</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46011023.01-2\">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>",
"199": "<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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"198": "Luke 22:19-20; I Corinthians 11:23-26",
"199": "I Corinthians 10:16-17"
},
"question": "What is the Lord's supper?"
},
"97": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='I Corinthians 11:27-32' data-prooftexts-index='200'>It is required of them that would worthily partake of the Lord's Supper, that they examine themselves of their knowledge to discern the Lord's body, of their faith to feed upon him, of their repentance, love, and new obedience; lest, coming unworthily, they eat and drink judgment to themselves.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"200": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Corinthians 11:27-32</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. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"200": "I Corinthians 11:27-32"
},
"question": "What is required to the worthy receiving of the Lord's supper?"
},
"98": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='Psalms 10:17; Psalms 62:8; Matthew 7:7-8' data-prooftexts-index='201'>Prayer is an offering up of our desires unto God,</span><span data-prooftexts='I John 5:14' data-prooftexts-index='202'> for things agreeable to his will,</span><span data-prooftexts='John 16:23-24' data-prooftexts-index='203'> in the name of Christ,</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 32:5-6; Daniel 9:4-19; I John 1:9' data-prooftexts-index='204'> with confession of our sins,</span><span data-prooftexts='Psalms 103:1-5; Psalms 136; Philippians 4:6' data-prooftexts-index='205'> and thankful acknowledgment of his mercies.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"201": "<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>",
"202": "<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>",
"203": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>John 16:23-24</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> <span class=\"woc\">Until now you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full.</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"204": "<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>Daniel 9:4-19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p27009004.01-2\">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=\"p27009016.01-2\">“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.”</p>\n</div><h5>1 John 1:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p62001009.01-3\">If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>",
"205": "<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 103:1-5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19103001.09-1\"><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!<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=\"p19136001.06-2\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v19136001-2\">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=\"p19136004.01-2\">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=\"p19136010.01-2\">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=\"p19136017.01-2\">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=\"p19136023.01-2\">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=\"p19136026.01-2\">Give thanks to the God of heaven,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for his steadfast love endures forever.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Philippians 4:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p50004006.01-3\">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>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"201": "Psalms 10:17; Psalms 62:8; Matthew 7:7-8",
"202": "I John 5:14",
"203": "John 16:23-24",
"204": "Psalms 32:5-6; Daniel 9:4-19; I John 1:9",
"205": "Psalms 103:1-5; Psalms 136; Philippians 4:6"
},
"question": "What is prayer?"
},
"99": {
"answer": "<span data-prooftexts='I John 5:14' data-prooftexts-index='206'>The whole Word of God is of use to direct us in prayer;</span><span data-prooftexts='Matthew 6:9-13' data-prooftexts-index='207'> but the special rule of direction is that form of prayer which Christ taught his disciples, commonly called the Lord's Prayer.</span>",
"prooftext_verses": {
"206": "<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>",
"207": "<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> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>"
},
"prooftexts": {
"206": "I John 5:14",
"207": "Matthew 6:9-13"
},
"question": "What rule hath God given for our direction in prayer?"
}
}