A PURITAN CATECHISM

C. H. Spurgeon’s Introduction & Exhortation

A Puritan Catechism, also known as Charles Spurgeon’s Catechism, has been updated in modern English by Jon Cardwell, pastor of Calvary Baptist Church in Ninilchik, Alaska. The scriptures used in this updated catechism are from the English Standard Version (ESV) of the Holy Bible (see the copyright notice at the bottom of the page).

Q1.   What is the ultimate goal of man?

1. Man’s ultimate goal is to glorify God,[1] and to enjoy Him forever.[2]

Q2.   What instruction has God given to direct us how we may glorify Him?

1. The Word of God, which is contained in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments,[3] is the only instruction given to direct us how we may glorify God and enjoy Him.[4]

Q3.   What do the Scriptures mainly teach?

1. The Scriptures mainly teach what man is to believe concerning God, and what duty God requires of man.[5]

Q4.   What is God?

1. God is a Spirit,[6] infinite,[7] eternal,[8] and unchangeable,[9] in His being,[10] wisdom, power,[11] holiness,[12] justice, goodness, and truth.[13

Q5.   Are there more Gods than one?

1. There is only one,[14] the living and true God.[15]

Q6.   How many persons are there in the Godhead?

1. There are three Persons in the Godhead, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, and these three are one God, the same in essence, equal in power and glory.[16]

Q7.   What are the decrees of God?

1. The decrees of God are His eternal purpose according to the counsel of His own will, in which He has decided and ordained ahead of time whatever comes to pass, so that He alone is glorified.[17]

Q8.   How does God accomplish His decrees?

1. God accomplishes His decrees in the works of creation[18] and providence.[19]

Q9.   What is the work of creation?

1. The work of creation is God’s making all things[20] from nothing, by the Word of His power,[21] in six normal consecutive days,[22] and all very good.[23]

Q10. How did God create man?

1. God created man, male and female, after His own image,[24] in knowledge, righteousness, and holiness,[25] with dominion over the creatures.[26]

Q11. What are God’s works of providence?

1. God’s works of providence are His most holy,[27] wise,[28] and powerful[29] preserving and governing all His creatures, and all their actions.[30]

Q12. What special act of providence did God exercise toward man when He created him in his initial state?

1. When God had created man, He entered into a covenant of life with him, that upon condition of perfect obedience,[31] man was forbidden to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, upon pain of death.[32]

Q13. Did our first parents continue in the initial state that God had created them?

1. Being left to the freedom of their own will, our first parents fell from that initial state in which they were created, by sinning against God,[33] by eating the forbidden fruit.[34]

Q14. What is sin?

1. Sin is any lack of conformity to the law of God, or transgression against His law.[35]

Q15. Did all mankind fall in Adam’s first transgression?

1. The covenant being made with Adam, not only for himself but also for his posterity, all mankind descending from him by ordinary generation, sinned in him, and fell with him in his first transgression.[36]

Q16.    What state of circumstances did the fall bring to mankind?

1. The fall brought mankind into a state of sin and.[37]

Q17. What does the sinfulness of man’s fallen state consist of?

1. The sinfulness of man’s fallen state consists of the guilt of Adam’s first sin,[38] the lack of original righteousness,[39] and the corruption of his whole nature, which is commonly called original sin;[40] together with all actual transgressions which proceed from it.[41]

Q18. What is the misery of man’s fallen state?

1. All mankind, by their fall, lost communion with God,[42] are under His wrath and curse,[43] therefore, all mankind is made answerable to all the miseries in this life, to death itself, and to the pains of hell forever. [44]

Q19. Did God leave all mankind to perish in the state of sin and misery?

1. God, having out of His good pleasure from all eternity, elected some to everlasting life,[45] entered into a covenant of grace to deliver them out of the state of sin and misery, and to bring them into a state of salvation by a Redeemer.[46]

Q20. Who is the Redeemer of God’s elect?

1. The only Redeemer of God’s elect is the Lord Jesus Christ,[47] who being the eternal Son of God became man, [48] and so was and continues to be God and man, in two distinct natures and one Person, forever.[49]

Q21. How did Christ, being the Son of God, become man?

1. Christ, the Son of God, became man by taking to Himself a true body,[50] and a reasonable soul,[51] being conceived by the power of the Holy Ghost in the Virgin Mary, and born of her,[52] yet without sin.[53]

Q22. What offices does Christ execute as our Redeemer?

1. Christ, as our Redeemer, executes the offices of a prophet,[54] of a priest,[55] and of a king,[56] both in His state of humiliation and exaltation.

Q23. How does Christ execute the office of a prophet?

1. Christ executes the office of a prophet, in revealing to us,[57] by His Word[58] and Spirit,[59] the will of God for our salvation.

Q24. How does Christ execute the office of a priest?

1. Christ executes the office of a priest, in His once offering up Himself a sacrifice to satisfy divine justice,[60] reconciling us to God,[61] and in making continual intercession for us.[62]

Q25. How does Christ execute the office of a king?

1. Christ executes the office of a king by bringing us into submission to Himself,[63] in ruling and defending us,[64] and in restraining and conquering all His and our enemies.

Q26. Of what did Christ’s humiliation consist?

1. Christ’s humiliation consisted in His being born, and that in a low condition,[65] made under the law,[66] undergoing the miseries of this life,[67] the wrath of God,[68] and the cursed death of the cross;[69] in being buried, and continuing under the power of death for a time.[70]

Q27. Of what did Christ’s exaltation consist?

1. Christ’s exaltation consists of Hhis rising again from the dead on the third day,[71] in ascending up into heaven and sitting at the right hand of God the Father,[72] and in coming to judge the world at the last day.[73]

Q28. How are we made partakers of the redemption purchased by Christ?

1. We are made partakers of the redemption purchased by Christ, by the persuasive and effective application of it to us[74] by His Holy Spirit.[75]

Q29. How does the Spirit apply to us the redemption purchased by Christ?

1. The Spirit applies to us the redemption purchased by Christ, by working faith in us,[76] and by it, uniting us to Christ in our effectual calling.[77]

Q30. What is effectual calling?

1. Effectual calling is the work of God’s Spirit,[78] in which He convinces us of our sin and misery,[79] enlightens our minds in the knowledge of Christ,[80] renews our wills,[81] and persuades and enables us to embrace Jesus Christ freely offered to us in the gospel.[82]

Q31. What benefits do they who are effectually called partake of in this life?

1. They that are effectually called in this life partake of justification,[83] adoption,[84] and sanctification, as well as the various benefits that either accompany or flow from them in this life.[85]

Q32. What is justification?

1. Justification is an act of God’s free grace, in which He pardons all our sins,[86] and accepts us as righteous in His sight,[87] only because of the righteousness of Christ imputed to us,[88] and that, received by faith alone.[89]

Q33. What is adoption?

1. Adoption is an act of God’s free grace,[90] in which we are received into the number of those effectually called, and have a right to all the privileges of the sons of God.[91]

Q34. What is sanctification?

1. Sanctification is the work of God’s free grace,[92] in which we are renewed in the whole man after the image of God,[93] and are enabled more and more to die to sin, and live to righteousness.[94]

Q35. What are the benefits that either accompany or flow from justification, adoption, and sanctification in this life?

1. The benefits that accompany or flow from justification, adoption, and sanctification[95] in this life are assurance of God’s love, peace of conscience, joy in the Holy Spirit,[96] increase of grace, and perseverance in it to the end.[97]

Q36. What benefits do believers receive from Christ at death?

1. The souls of believers are made perfect in holiness at their death,[98] and immediately pass into glory;[99] and being still united to Christ, their bodies,[100] rest in their graves,[101] until the resurrection.[102]

Q37. What benefits do believers receive from Christ at the resurrection?

1. At the resurrection, believers, being raised up in glory,[103] shall be openly acknowledged and acquitted in the day of judgment,[104] and made perfectly blessed both in soul and body, fully enjoying God[105] for all eternity.[106]

Q38. What shall be done to the wicked at their death?

1. The souls of the wicked shall be cast into the torments of hell at their death;[107] and their bodies will lie in their graves until the resurrection, and judgment of the great day.[108]

Q39. What shall be done to the wicked at the day of judgment?

1. At the day of judgment, the bodies of the wicked will be raised out of their graves, and they shall be sentenced to unspeakable torments with the devil and his angels for ever.[109]

Q40. What did God reveal to man for the rule of his obedience?

1. The rule which God first revealed to man for his obedience is the moral law, which is summarized in the Ten Commandments.[110]

Q41. What is the sum of the Ten Commandments?

1. 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.[111]

Q42. What is the first commandment?

1. The first commandment is, “You shall have no other gods before me.”[112]

Q43. What is required in the first commandment?

1. The first commandment requires us to know[113] and acknowledge God to be the only true God, that He is our God,[114] and to worship and glorify Him accordingly.[115]

Q44. What is the second commandment?

1. The second commandment is, “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 LORD 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.”[116]

Q45. What is required in the second commandment?

1. The second commandment requires that we receive and observe,[117] and keep pure and entire all such religious worship and ordinances as God has appointed in His Word.[118]

Q46. What is forbidden in the second commandment?

1. The second commandment forbids the worship of God by use of images,[119] or any other way not appointed in His Word.[120]

Q47. What is the third commandment?

1. The third commandment is, “You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.”[121]

Q48. What is required in the third commandment?

1. The third commandment requires the holy and reverent use of God’s names,[122] titles, attributes,[123] ordinances,[124] Word,[125] and works.[126]

Q49. What is the fourth commandment?

1. The fourth commandment is, “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 LORD 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 LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.”[127]

Q50. What is required in the fourth commandment?

1. The fourth commandment requires that such set times as God has appointed in His Word are kept holy unto Him, expressly one whole day in seven as a holy Sabbath to Himself.[128]

Q51. How is the Sabbath to be sanctified?

1. 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;[129] and spending the whole time in the public and private exercises of God’s worship,[130] except so much as is taken up in the works of necessity and mercy.[131]

Q52. What is the fifth commandment?

1. The fifth commandment is, “Honor your father and your mother that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.”[132]

Q53. What is required in the fifth commandment?

1. The fifth commandment requires preserving the honor, and performing the duties belonging to every person in their various positions and relationships as superiors,[133] inferiors,[134] or equals.[135]

Q54. What is the reason attached to the fifth commandment?

1. The reason attached to the fifth commandment is a promise of long life and prosperity¾ as far as it shall serve for God’s glory, and for his or her own good¾ to all such as keep this commandment.[136]

Q55. What is the sixth commandment?

1. The sixth commandment is, “You shall not murder.”[137]

Q56. What is forbidden in the sixth commandment?

1. The sixth commandment forbids the taking away of our own life,[138] the life of our neighbor unjustly,[139] or whatever has a tendency toward it.[140]

Q57. What is the seventh commandment?

1. The seventh commandment is, “You shall not commit adultery.”[141]

Q58. What is forbidden in the seventh commandment?

1. The seventh commandment forbids all impure thoughts,[142] words,[143] and actions.[144]

Q59. What is the eighth commandment?

1. The eighth commandment is, “You shall not steal.”[145]

Q60. What is forbidden in the eighth commandment?

1. The eighth commandment forbids whatever does or may unjustly hinder our own[146] or our neighbor’s wealth, or outward circumstances.[147]

Q61. What is the ninth commandment?

1. The ninth commandment is, “You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.”[148]

Q62. What is required in the ninth commandment?

1. The ninth commandment requires maintaining and promoting the truth between man and man,[149] for the sake of our own good name,[150] and that of our neighbor’s,[151] especially in witness-bearing.[152]

Q63. What is the tenth commandment?

1. The tenth commandment is, “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.”[153]

Q64. What is forbidden in the tenth commandment?

1. The tenth commandment forbids all discontentment with our own estate,[154] envying or grieving at the good of our neighbor,[155] and all inordinate motions and affections to anything that belongs to him.[156]

Q65. Is any man able to perfectly keep the commandments of God?

1. No mere man, since the fall, is able to perfectly keep the commandments of God in his life,[157] but daily breaks them in thought,[158] word,[159] and deed.[160]

Q66. Are all transgressions of the law equally heinous?

1. Some sins in themselves, and by reason of various aggravations, are more heinous in the sight of God than others.[161]

Q67. What does every sin deserve?

1. Every sin deserves God’s wrath and curse, both in this life, and that which is to come.[162]

Q68. How may we escape His wrath and curse due to us for sin?

1. To escape the wrath and curse of God due to us for sin, we must believe in the Lord Jesus Christ,[163] trusting alone to His blood and righteousness. This faith is accompanied by repentance for the past[164] and leads to holiness in the future.

Q69. What is faith in Jesus Christ?

1. Faith in Jesus Christ is a saving grace,[165] in which we receive[166] and rest upon Him alone for salvation,[167] as He is set forth in the gospel.[168]

Q70. What is repentance unto life?

1. Repentance unto life is a saving grace,[169] in which a sinner, out of a true sense of his sin,[170] and apprehension of the mercy of God in Christ,[171] does with grief and hatred of his sin, turn from it unto God,[172] with full purpose to strive after new obedience.[173]

Q71. What are the outward means by which the Holy Spirit communicates to us the benefits of redemption?

1. The outward and ordinary means by which the Holy Spirit communicates to us the benefits of Christ’s redemption are the Word, by which souls are begotten to spiritual life; Baptism, the Lord’s Supper, Prayer, and Meditation, by all which believers are further edified in their most holy faith.[174]

Q72. How is the Word made powerful and effective to salvation?

1. The Spirit of God makes the reading, but especially the preaching of the Word, an effectual means of convicting and converting sinners,[175] and of building them up in holiness and comfort[176] through faith to salvation.[177]

Q73. How is the Word to be read and heard that it may become powerful and effective to salvation?

1. That the Word may become powerful and effective to salvation, we must give attention to it with diligence,[178] preparation,[179] and prayer,[180] receive it with faith[181] and love,[182] lay it up into our hearts,[183] and practice it in our lives.[184]

Q74. How do Baptism and the Lord’s Supper become spiritually helpful?

1. Baptism and the Lord’s Supper become spiritually helpful, not from any virtue in them, or in him who does administer them,[185] but only by the blessing of Christ,[186] and the working of the Spirit in those who receive them by faith.[187]

Q75. What is Baptism?

1. Baptism is an ordinance of the New Testament instituted by Jesus Christ,[188] to be to the person baptized a sign of his fellowship with Him in His death, burial, and resurrection,[189] of his being engrafted into Him,[190] of forgiveness of sins,[191] and of his giving up himself to God through Jesus Christ, to live and walk in newness of life.[192]

Q76. To whom is Baptism to be administered?

1. Baptism is to be administered to all those who actually profess repentance towards God,[193] and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, and to no one else.

Q77. Are the infants of those professing faith to be baptized?

1. The infants of those professing believers are not to be baptized because there is neither command nor example in the Holy Scriptures for their baptism.[194]

Q78. How is Baptism rightly administered?

1. Baptism is rightly administered by immersion, or dipping the whole body of the person in water,[195] in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, according to Christ’s institution, and the practice of the apostles,[196] and not by sprinkling or pouring of water, or dipping some part of the body, after the tradition of men.[197]

Q79. What is the duty of those who have been rightly baptized?

1. It is the duty of those who are rightly baptized to give themselves up to some particular and orderly Church of Jesus Christ[198] that they may walk in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.[199]

Q80. What is the Lord’s Supper?

1. The Lord’s Supper is an ordinance of the New Testament, instituted by Jesus Christ; in which, by giving and receiving bread and wine according to His appointment, His death is proclaimed;[200] and the worthy receivers are made partakers of His body and blood, not after a corporeal and carnal manner, but by faith, with all His benefits, to their spiritual nourishment, and growth in grace.[201]

Q81. What is required for the worthy receiving of the Lord’s Supper?

1. It is required of them who would worthily partake of the Lord’s Supper, that they examine themselves of their knowledge to discern the Lord’s body,[202] of their faith to feed upon Him,[203] of their repentance,[204] love,[205] and new obedience;[206] for fear that coming unworthily, they eat and drink judgment to themselves.[207]

Q82. What is meant by the words, “until He comes,” which are used by the apostle Paul in reference to the Lord’s Supper?

A.        They plainly teach us that our Lord Jesus Christ will come a second time, which is the joy and hope of all believers.[208]

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Scripture Proofs

[1] 1 Corinthians 10:31

[2] Psalm 73:25, 26

[3] Ephesians 2:20; 2 Timothy 3:16

[4] 1 John 1:3, 4

[5] Ecclesiastes 12:13; 2 Timothy 1:13

[6] John 4:24

[7] Job 11:7

[8] Psalm 90:2; 1 Timothy 1:17

[9] James 1:17

[10] Exodus 3:14

[11] Psalm 147:5

[12] Revelation 4:8

[13] Exodus 34:6, 7

[14] Deuteronomy 6:4

[15] Jeremiah 10:10

[16] Matthew 28:19; 1 John 5:7 (Although it is not included in newer translations such as the NIV, NLT, and etc., the KJV and the NKJV contain the following words that have been translated from the “majority texts” of the Greek manuscripts: “For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.” There are certainly other passages that imply the triune Godhead in Scripture, i.e., the resurrection of Christ was accomplished by the Father (Ephesians 1:17-20), the Son (John 2:19), and the Holy Spirit (Romans 8:11). This doctrine is also referred to as “The Trinity.”).

[17] Ephesians 1:11, 12

[18] Revelation 4:11

[19] Daniel 4:35

[20] Genesis 1:1

[21] Psalm 33:6, 9; Hebrews 11:3

[22] Exodus 20:11

[23] Genesis 1:31

[24] Genesis 1:27

[25] Ephesians 4:24; Colossians 3:10

[26] Genesis 1:28

[27] Psalm 145:17

[28] Isaiah 28:29

[29] Hebrews 1:3

[30] Psalm 103:19; Matthew 10:29

[31] Galatians 3:12

[32] Genesis 2:17

[33] Ecclesiastes 7:29

[34] Genesis 3:6-8

[35] 1 John 3:4

[36] Romans 5:12; 1 Corinthians 15:22

[37] Romans 5:18

[38] Romans 5:19

[39] Romans 3:10

[40] Psalm 51:5; Ephesians 2:1

[41] Matthew 15:19

[42] Genesis 3:8, 24

[43] Ephesians 2:3; Galatians 3:10

[44] Romans 6:23; Matthew 25:41

[45] 2 Thessalonians 2:13

[46] Romans 5:21

[47] 1 Timothy 2:5

[48] John 1:14

[49] 1 Timothy 3:16; Colossians 2:9

[50] Hebrews 2:14

[51] Matthew 26:38; Hebrews 4:15

[52] Luke 1:31, 35

[53] Hebrews 7:26

[54] Acts 3:22

[55] Hebrews 5:6

[56] Psalm 2:6

[57] John 1:18

[58] John 20:31

[59] John 14:26

[60] Hebrews 9:28

[61] Hebrews 2:17

[62] Hebrews 7:25

[63] Psalm 110:3

[64] Matthew 2:6; 1 Corinthians 15:25

[65] Luke 2:7

[66] Galatians 4:4

[67] Isaiah 53:3

[68] Matthew 27:46

[69] Philippians 2:8

[70] Matthew 12:40

[71] 1 Corinthians 15:4

[72] Mark 16:19

[73] Matthew 16:27; Acts 17:31

[74] John 1:12

[75] Titus 3:6, 8

[76] Ephesians 2:8

[77] Ephesians 3:17

[78] 2 Timothy 1:19

[79] Acts 2:37

[80] Acts 26:18

[81] Ezekiel 36:26, 27

[82] John 6:44, 45

[83] Romans 8:30

[84] Ephesians 1:5

[85]1 Corinthians 1:30

[86] Romans 3:24; Ephesians 1:7

[87] 2 Corinthians 5:21

[88] Romans 5:19

[89] Galatians 2:16; Philippians 3:9

[90] 1 John 3:1

[91] John 1:12; Romans 8:17

[92] 2 Thessalonians 2:13

[93] Ephesians 4:24

[94] Romans 6:11

[95] Romans 5:1-2, 5

[96] Romans 14:17

[97] Philippians 4:18; 1 Peter 1:5; 1 John 5:13

[98] Hebrews 12:23

[99] Luke 23:43; 2 Corinthians 5:8; Philippians 1:23

[100] 1 Thessalonians 4:14

[101] Isaiah 57:2

[102] Job 19:26

[103] 1 Corinthians 15:43

[104] Matthew 10:32

[105] 1 John 3:2

[106] 1 Thessalonians 4:17

_[107] Luke 16:22-24

[108] Psalm 49:14

[109] Daniel 12:2; John 5:28, 29; 2 Thessalonians 1:9; Matthew 25:41

[110] Deuteronomy 10:4; Matthew 19:17

[111] Matthew 22:37-40

[112] Exodus 20:3

[113] 1 Chronicles 28:9

[114] Deuteronomy 26:17

[115] Matthew 4:10

[116] Exodus 20:4-6

[117] Deuteronomy 32:46; Matthew 28:20

[118] Deuteronomy 12:32

[119] Deuteronomy 4:15, 16

[120] Colossians 2:18

[121] Exodus 20:7

[122] Psalm 29:2

[123] Revelation 15:3, 4

[124] Ecclesiastes 5:1

[125] Psalm 138:2

[126] Job 36:24; Deuteronomy 28:58, 59

[127] Exodus 20:8-11

[128] Leviticus 19:30; Deuteronomy 5:12

[129] Leviticus 23:3

[130] Psalm 92:1, 2; Isaiah 58:13, 14

[131] Matthew 12:11, 12

[132] Exodus 20:12

[133] Romans 13:1; Ephesians 5:21, 22; Ephesians 6:1, 5

[134] Ephesians 6:9

[135] Romans 12:10

[136] Ephesians 6:2, 3

[137] Exodus 20:13

[138] Acts 16:28

[139] Genesis 9:6

[140] Proverbs 24:11, 12

[141] Exodus 20:14

[142] Matthew 5:28; Colossians 4:6

[143] Ephesians 5:4; 2 Timothy 2:22

[144] Ephesians 5:3

[145] Exodus 20:15

[146] 1 Timothy 5:8; Proverbs 28:19; Proverbs 21:6

[147] Ephesians 4:28

[148] Exodus 20:16

[149] Zechariah 8:16

[150] 1 Peter 3:16; Acts 25:10

[151] 3 John 12

[152] Proverbs 14:5, 25

[153] Exodus 20:17

[154] 1 Corinthians 10:10

[155] Galatians 5:26

[156] Colossians 3:5

[157] Ecclesiastes 7:20

[158] Genesis 8:21

[159] James 3:8

[160] James 3:2

[161] John 19:11; 1 John 5:15

[162] Ephesians 5:6; Psalm 11:6

[163] John 3:16

[164] Acts 20:21

[165] Hebrews 10:39

[166] John 1:12

[167] Philippians 3:9

[168] Isaiah 33:22

[169] Acts 11:18

[170] Acts 2:37

[171] Joel 2:13

[172] Jeremiah 31:18, 19

[173] Psalm 119:59

[174] Acts 2:41, 42; James 1:18

[175] Psalm 19:7

[176] 1 Thessalonians 1:6

[177] Romans 1:16

[178] Proverbs 8:34

[179] 1 Peter 2:1, 2

[180] Psalm 119:18

[181] Hebrews 4:2

[182] 2 Thessalonians 2:10

[183] Psalm 119:11

[184] Hebrews 4:2; James 1:25

[185] 1 Corinthians 3:7; 1 Peter 3:21

[186] 1 Corinthians 3:6

[187]  1 Corinthians 12:13

[188] Matthew 28:19

[189] Romans 6:3; Colossians 2:12

[190] Galatians 3:27

[191] Mark 1:4; Acts 22:16

[192] Acts 2:38-42; Acts 22:16; Romans 6:4, 5; Galatians 3:26, 27; 1 Peter 3:21

[193] Acts 2:38; Matthew 3:6; Mark 16:16; Acts 8:12, 36, 37; Acts 10:47, 48

[194] Exodus 23:13; Proverbs 30:6

[195] Matthew 3:16; John 3:23

[196] Matthew 28:19, 20

[197] John 4:1, 2; Acts 8:38, 39

[198] Acts 2:47; 9:26; 1 Peter 2:5

[199] Luke 1:6

[200] 1 Corinthians 11:23-26

[201] 1 Corinthians 10:16

[202] 1 Corinthians 11:28, 29

[203] 2 Corinthians 13:5

[204] 1 Corinthians 11:31

[205] 1 Corinthians 11:18-20

[206] 1 Corinthians 5:8

[207] 1 Corinthians 11:27-29

[208] Acts 1:11; 1 Corinthians 11:26; 1 Thessalonians 4:16

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