Heidelberg Catechism

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Author: Zacharias Ursinus; Reformed Church in America translation

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Lord's Day 1

Q. 1. What is thy only comfort in life and death?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 1, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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scripture refs: 1CO.3.23, 1CO.6.19-1CO.6.20, 1CO.6.20, 1JN.1.7, 1JN.3.8, 1PE.1.18, 1PE.1.19, 2CO.1.22, 2CO.5.5, HEB.13.21, HEB.2.14, HEB.2.15, JHN.10.28, JHN.10.29, JHN.6.39, LUK.21.18, PHP.2.13, PSA.110.3, PSA.73.25, PSA.73.26, ROM.14.7, ROM.14.7-ROM.14.9, ROM.14.8, ROM.8.14, ROM.8.16, ROM.8.28, TIT.2.14

Q. 2. How many things are necessary for thee to know, that thou, enjoying this comfort, mayest live and die happy?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 2, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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scripture refs: 2CO.9.15, JHN.1.12, JHN.3.16, MAT.11.28, PSA.116.12, PSA.50.15, ROM.3.23, ROM.6.23, ROM.7.24

Lord's Day 2

Q. 3. Whence knowest thou thy misery?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 3, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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scripture refs: ROM.3.20, ROM.7.7

Q. 4. What doth the law of God require of us?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 4, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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scripture refs: 1CO.13.1-1CO.13.8, 1JN.4.20, 1JN.4.21, 1TI.1.5, MAT.7.12, ROM.13.10

Q. 5. Canst thou keep all these things perfectly?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 5, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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Lord's Day 3

Q. 6. Did God then create man so wicked and perverse?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 6, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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Q. 7. Whence then proceeds this depravity of human nature?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 7, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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Q. 8. Are we then so corrupt that we are wholly incapable of doing any good, and inclined to all wickedness?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 8, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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Lord's Day 4

Q. 9. Doth not God then do injustice to man by requiring from him, in his law, that which he cannot perform? —(Gal. 3;10).

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 9, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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Q. 10. Will God suffer such disobedience and rebellion to go unpunished?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 10, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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Q. 11. Is not God then also merciful?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 11, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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Lord's Day 5

Q. 12. Since then, by the righteous judgment of God, we deserve temporal and eternal punishment, is there no way by which we can escape that punishment, and be again received into favor?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 12, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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scripture refs: 2CO.5.21, DEU.27.26, ISA.1.27, ROM.8.3, ROM.8.4

Q. 13. Can we ourselves then make this satisfaction?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 13, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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scripture refs: GEN.6.5, JOB.9.2, JOB.9.3, MAT.16.26, MAT.6.12, PSA.130.3, PSA.19.12, ROM.2.5

Q. 14. Can there then be found anywhere one, who is a mere creature, able to satisfy for us?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 14, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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scripture refs: GEN.2.17, HEB.10.4, HEB.2.16, JER.4.4, PSA.130.3, PSA.49.7

Q. 15. What sort of mediator and deliverer, then, must we seek for?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 15, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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Lord's Day 6

Q. 16. Why must he be very man, and also perfectly righteous?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 16, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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Q. 17. Why must he in one person be also very God?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 17, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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Q. 18. Who then is that mediator who is in one person both very God, and a real righteous man?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 18, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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Q. 19. Whence knowest thou this?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 19, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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Lord's Day 7

Q. 20. Are all men, then, as they perished in Adam, saved by Christ?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 20, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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Q. 21. What is true faith?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 21, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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Q. 22. What is then necessary for a Christian to believe?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 22, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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Q. 23. What are these articles?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 23, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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Lord's Day 8

Q. 24. How are these articles divided?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 24, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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Q. 25. Since there is but one divine essence, why speakest thou of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 25, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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scripture refs: 1CO.12.4-1CO.12.6, 2CO.13.13, ACT.5.3, ACT.5.4, EPH.4.6, HEB.1.8, ISA.44.6, ISA.45.5, JHN.10.33, JHN.14.16, JHN.14.17, JHN.15.26, JHN.5.32, MAT.12.29, MAT.28.19, MAT.3.16, MAT.3.17

Lord's Day 9

Q. 26. What believest thou when thou sayest “I believe in God the Father Almighty, maker of Heaven and Earth?”

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 26, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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Lord's Day 10

Q. 27. What dost thou mean by the Providence of God?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 27, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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scripture refs: 1SA.2.7, ACT.14.17, ACT.17.25, ACT.17.26, ACT.17.27, ACT.17.28, GEN.8.22, HEB.1.3, ISA.40.12, ISA.40.26, ISA.45.7, JER.5.24, JOB.5.18, JOB.5.19, PRO.22.2, PSA.104.13-PSA.104.15, PSA.139.7-PSA.139.10, PSA.145.15-PSA.145.16, PSA.74.16, PSA.74.17, ROM.8.28

Q. 28. What advantage is it to us to know that God has created, and by his providence doth still uphold all things?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 28, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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scripture refs: 1TH.5.18, 2SA.22.3, ACT.17.28, DEU.8.10, JAS.1.3, JOB.1.21, MAT.8.31, PRO.21.1, PSA.37.5, PSA.39.9, ROM.5.3, ROM.5.4, ROM.8.38, ROM.8.39

Lord's Day 11

Q. 29. Why is the Son of God called Jesus , that is, a Saviour?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 29, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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Q. 30. Do such then believe in Jesus the only Saviour, who seek their salvation and happiness of saints, of themselves or anywhere else?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 30, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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scripture refs: 1CO.1.13, ACT.16.31, COL.1.19, COL.1.20, COL.2.10, HEB.12.2, HEB.7.25, JHN.10.11

Lord's Day 12

Q. 31. Why is he called Christ , that is, anointed?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 31, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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Q. 32. But why art thou called a Christian?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 32, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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Lord's Day 13

Q. 33. Why is Christ called the only begotten Son of God, since we are also the children of God?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 33, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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Q. 34. Wherefore callest thou him, Our Lord ?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 34, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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Lord's Day 14

Q. 35. What is the meaning of the words, “He was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary?”

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 35, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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Q. 36. What profit dost thou receive by Christ’s holy conception and nativity?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 36, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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scripture refs: 1JN.1.7, 1TI.2.5, HEB.12.24, HEB.7.26, HEB.8.6, HEB.9.15, JHN.3.6, PSA.51.5, REV.1.5

Lord's Day 15

Q. 37. What dost thou understand by the words, He suffered?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 37, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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scripture refs: 1JN.2.2, 1JN.4.9, 1PE.2.24, 2CO.5.21, HEB.7.27, HEB.9.12, HEB.9.26, ISA.53.3, ISA.53.4-ISA.53.7, JHN.1.17, JHN.3.14, JHN.3.15, JHN.3.36, LUK.12.50, MAT.20.19, MAT.26.38, MAT.27.46, ROM.5.15, ROM.5.2

Q. 38. Why did Christ suffer under Pontius Pilate, as his judge?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 38, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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scripture refs: GAL.3.13, GAL.3.14, ISA.53.5, JHN.18.38, JHN.3.18, LUK.23.14, LUK.23.15, MAT.27.19, MAT.27.21, ROM.8.34

Q. 39. Is there anything more in his being crucified than if he had died some other death?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 39, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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scripture refs: COL.2.14, DEU.21.23, GAL.3.10, GAL.3.13, PHP.2.8, PHP.2.9

Lord's Day 16

Q. 40. Why was it necessary for Christ to humble himself even unto death?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 40, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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scripture refs: 1PE.3.18, GEN.2.17, GEN.3.15, HEB.2.9, HEB.9.28, LUK.24.26, ROM.1.32, ROM.8.3

Q. 41. Why was he also “buried”?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 41, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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scripture refs: 1CO.15.3, 1CO.15.4, ACT.13.29, ISA.53.9, MAR.15.42-MAR.15.45

Q. 42. Since then Christ died for us, why must we also die?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 42, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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Q. 43. What further benefit do we receive from the sacrifice and death of Christ on the cross?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 43, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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scripture refs: 1TH.5.5, 2CO.5.15, COL.2.12, COL.3.3, GAL.5.24, PSA.51.17, ROM.12.1, ROM.6.11, ROM.6.13, ROM.6.14, ROM.6.4, ROM.6.6, ROM.6.8

Q. 44. Why is there added, “He descended into Hell?”

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 44, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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scripture refs: 1CO.15.55, 1CO.15.57, 1TH.1.10, ISA.53.10, ISA.53.3, ISA.53.4, JHN.14.1, JHN.14.16, JHN.16.33, LUK.12.50, MAR.15.34, MAT.26.37, MAT.26.38, PSA.30.3, PSA.86.13

Lord's Day 17

Q. 45. What does the resurrection of Christ profit us?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 45, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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Q. 46. How dost thou understand these words, He ascended into heaven?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 46, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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Q. 47. Is not Christ then with us, even to the end of the world, as he hath promised?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 47, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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scripture refs: 2CO.13.14, ACT.3.21, HEB.8.4, JER.23.24, JHN.14.16, JHN.14.17, JHN.16.28, MAT.18.20, MAT.26.11, MAT.28.20, PSA.139.7-PSA.139.10

Q. 48. But if his human nature is not present wherever his Godhead is, are then these two natures in Christ separated from one another?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 48, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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scripture refs: 1KI.8.27, ACT.17.27, COL.2.9, JOB.11.7-JOB.11.9, JOB.3.13, PHP.2.6-PHP.2.7

Q. 49. Of what advantage to us is Christ’s ascension into heaven?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 49, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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scripture refs: 1CO.12.27, 1JN.2.1, 2CO.1.22, COL.3.1-COL.3.3, EPH.1.13, EPH.1.14, EPH.1.22, EPH.2.4-EPH.2.6, HEB.9.24, JHN.14.2, JHN.14.3, JHN.16.7, PHP.3.20, ROM.8.34

Lord's Day 19

Q. 50. Why is it added, And sitteth at the right hand of God?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 50, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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Q. 51. What profit is this glory of Christ, our head, unto us?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 51, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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scripture refs: 1CO.15.25-1CO.15.27, 2CO.12.9, ACT.10.45, ACT.2.33, EPH.4.8, JHN.10.28, JHN.16.33

Q. 52. What comfort is it to thee, that Christ shall come again to judge the quick and the dead?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 52, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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scripture refs: 1TH.4.16-1TH.4.18, 1TH.4.17, 2TH.1.7-2TH.1.10, ACT.1.11, ACT.10.42, GAL.3.13, JHN.14.3, JHN.17.24, JHN.19.37, LUK.21.18, MAT.25.34, PHP.3.20, REV.20.10, ROM.8.1

Lord's Day 20

Q. 53. What dost thou believe concerning the Holy Ghost?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 53, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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Q. 54. What believest thou concerning the “Holy Catholic Church” of Christ?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 54, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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Q. 55. What do you understand by, “The Communion of Saints?”

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 55, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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Q. 56. What believest thou concerning, “The Forgiveness of sins?”

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 56, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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Q. 57. What comfort doth the “Resurrection of the body” afford thee?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 57, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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Q. 58. What comfort takest thou from the article of “Life everlasting”?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 58, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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Q. 59. But what doth it profit thee now that thou believest all this?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 59, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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Q. 60. How art thou righteous before God?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 60, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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Q. 61. What sayest thou that thou art righteous by faith only?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 61, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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Q. 62. But why cannot our good works be the whole or part of our righteousness before God?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 62, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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Q. 63. What! do not our good works merit, which yet God will reward in this and a future life?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 63, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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Q. 64. But doth not this doctrine make men careless and profane?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 64, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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Q. 65. Since then we are made partakers of Christ, and all his benefits, by faith only, whence doth this faith proceed?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 65, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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Q. 66. What are the sacraments?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 66, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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Q. 67. Are both word and sacraments then ordained and appointed for this end, that they may direct our faith to the sacrifice of Jesus Christ, on the cross, as the only ground of our salvation?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 67, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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Q. 68. How many sacraments has Christ instituted in the new covenant or testament?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 68, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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Q. 69. How art thou admonished and assured, by holy baptism, that the one sacrifice of Christ upon the cross is of real advantage to thee?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 69, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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Q. 70. What is it to be washed with the blood and the spirit of Christ?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 70, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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Q. 71. Where has Christ promised us that he will certainly wash us by his blood and Spirit, as we are washed with the water of baptism?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 71, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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Q. 72. Is then the external baptism with water, the washing away of sin itself?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 72, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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Q. 73. Why then doth the Holy Ghost call baptism “the washing of regeneration” and the washing away of sins?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 73, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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Q. 74. Are infants also to be baptized?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 74, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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Q. 75. How art thou admonished and assured in the Lord’s supper, that thou art a partaker of that one sacrifice of Christ, accomplished on the cross, of all his benefits?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 75, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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Q. 76. What is it to eat the crucified body, and drink the shed blood of Christ?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 76, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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Q. 77. Where has Christ promised, that he will as certainly feed and nourish believers with his body and blood, as they eat of this broken bread, and drink of this cup?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 77, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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Q. 78. Do then the bread and wine become the very body and blood of Christ?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 78, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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Q. 79. Why then doth Christ call the bread his body, and the cup his blood, or the new covenant in his blood, and Paul, the “communion of the body and blood of Christ?”

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 79, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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Q. 80. What difference is there between the Lord’s supper and the Popish mass?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 80, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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Q. 81. For whom is the Lord’s supper instituted?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 81, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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Q. 82. Are they also to be admitted to this supper, who, by confession and life, declare themselves infidels and ungodly?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 82, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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Q. 83. What are the keys of the kingdom of heaven?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 83, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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Q. 84. How is the kingdom of heaven opened and shut by the preaching of the holy gospel?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 84, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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Q. 85. How is the kingdom of heaven shut and opened by Christian discipline?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 85, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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Q. 86. Since then we are delivered from our misery, merely of grace through Christ, without any merit of ours, why must we still do good works?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 86, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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Q. 87. Cannot they then be saved, who, continuing in their wicked and ungrateful lives, are not converted to God?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 87, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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Q. 88. In how many parts doth the true conversion of man consist?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 88, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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Q. 89. What is the mortification of the old man?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 89, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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Q. 90. What is the quickening of the new man?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 90, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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Q. 91. But what are good works?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 91, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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Q. 92. What is the Law of God?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 92, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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Q. 93. How are these ten commandments divided?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 93, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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Q. 94. What doth God enjoin in the first command?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 94, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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Q. 95. What is idolatry?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 95, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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Q. 96. What doth God require in the second command?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 96, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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Q. 97. Are images then not at all to be made?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 97, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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Q. 98. But may not images be tolerated in the churches, as books to the laity?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 98, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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Q. 99. What is required in the third command?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 99, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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Q. 100. Is then the profaning of God’s name, by swearing and cursing, so heinous a sin, that his wrath is kindled against those who do not endeavour, as much as in them lies, to prevent and forbid such cursing and swearing?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 100, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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Q. 101. May we then swear religiously by the name of God?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 101, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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Q. 102. May we also swear by saints, or any other creatures?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 102, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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Q. 103. What doth God require in the fourth command?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 103, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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Q. 104. What doth God require in the fifth command?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 104, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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Q. 105. What doth God require in the sixth command?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 105, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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Q. 106. But this command seems only to speak of murder?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 106, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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Q. 107. But is it enough that we do not kill any man in the manner mentioned above?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 107, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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Q. 108. What doth the seventh command teach us?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 108, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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scripture refs: 1CO.7.9, 1TH.4.3, 1TH.4.4, EPH.5.3, HEB.13.4, LEV.20.10

Q. 109. Doth God forbid, in this command, only adultery and such like gross sins?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 109, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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scripture refs: 1CO.15.33, 1CO.3.16, 1CO.3.17, 1CO.6.18-1CO.6.20, 1TH.4.4, 1TH.4.5, 2CO.6.16, 2TI.2.22, EPH.4.20, EPH.5.18, EPH.5.3, EPH.5.4, MAT.5.28, PRO.23.31, PRO.23.33

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Q. 110. What doth God forbid in the eighth command?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 110, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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scripture refs: 1CO.6.10, 1TH.4.6, 1TI.6.10, 1TI.6.9, AMO.8.4-AMO.8.7, DEU.25.13-DEU.25.15, JER.22.13, JHN.6.12, LEV.19.11, LEV.19.13, LEV.19.35, LEV.19.36, LUK.12.15, LUK.3.14, PRO.11.1

Q. 111. But what doth God require in this command?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 111, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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scripture refs: 2TH.3.10, 2TH.3.11, DEU.22.1-DEU.22.3, EPH.4.28, HEB.13.16, MAT.7.12, PHP.2.4

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Q. 112. What is required in the ninth command?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 112, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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scripture refs: 1PE.4.8, 1SA.16.18, 2CO.12.20, EPH.4.15, JAS.4.11, LEV.19.11, MAT.7.1, PRO.19.9, PRO.4.24, PSA.101.5, PSA.15.1, PSA.15.2, PSA.15.3

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Q. 113. What doth the tenth command require of us?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 113, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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scripture refs: GAL.5.24, MAT.15.19, MAT.15.20, MAT.5.48, PRO.4.23, PRO.8.13, PSA.119.104, ROM.7.22, ROM.7.7

Q. 114. But can those who are converted to God, perfectly keep these commandments?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 114, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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scripture refs: 1JN.1.8, ECC.7.20, JAS.3.2, JOB.9.1-JOB.9.3, PHP.3.13, PHP.3.14, PSA.119.106, PSA.119.127, PSA.119.128, PSA.119.60, PSA.19.12, ROM.7.22

Q. 115. Why will God then have the ten commands so strictly preached, since no man in this life can keep them?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 115, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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scripture refs: 1CO.13.10, 1CO.13.9, 1JN.3.2, DEU.31.11-DEU.31.13, MAT.5.6, PHP.3.12-PHP.3.14, PSA.119.4, PSA.119.5, PSA.51.10, ROM.10.3, ROM.10.4, ROM.3.20, ROM.7.7

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Q. 116. Why is prayer necessary for Christians?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 116, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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scripture refs: DEU.4.29, JER.29.13, LUK.11.13, MAT.7.7, PSA.50.14, PSA.50.15

Q. 117. What are the requisites of that prayer, which is acceptable to God, and which he will hear?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 117, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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scripture refs: 1JN.5.14, DAN.9.17, DAN.9.18, EPH.3.12, EZR.9.6, ISA.45.22, ISA.45.23, JHN.14.13, JHN.15.7, JHN.16.23, JHN.4.23, JHN.4.24, JHN.5.14, LAM.3.41, LUK.18.13, MAT.4.10, PSA.145.18, PSA.34.18, PSA.81.8, PSA.81.9

Q. 118. What hath God commanded us to ask of him?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 118, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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scripture refs: none

Q. 119. What are the words of that Prayer?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 119, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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Q. 120. Why hath Christ commanded us to address God thus: Our Father?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 120, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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scripture refs: EPH.1.5, GAL.4.6, JHN.1.12

Q. 121. Why is there added: Which art in Heaven?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 121, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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scripture refs: 1KI.8.27, 2CH.20.6, ACT.17.24, ACT.17.25, EPH.3.20, PSA.115.3, ROM.10.12

Lord's Day 47

Q. 122. What is the first petition?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 122, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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scripture refs: 1PE.2.12, 1TI.6.1, DAN.9.14, DEU.3.24, EPH.1.16, EPH.1.17, JHN.17.3, MAT.5.16, PSA.103.8, PSA.104.24, PSA.31.4, PSA.51.15, PSA.71.8, ROM.1.19, ROM.1.20

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Q. 123. What is the second petition?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 123, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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scripture refs: 1CO.15.24, 1CO.15.28, 1JN.3.8, PSA.118.25, PSA.118.26, PSA.119.5, PSA.122.6, PSA.122.7, PSA.129.5, PSA.143.10, PSA.25.4, PSA.25.5, PSA.5.10, PSA.51.18, REV.22.20, ROM.16.20

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Q. 124. What is the third petition?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 124, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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scripture refs: ACT.21.14, EPH.4.1, HEB.1.14, MAT.16.24, PSA.103.20, PSA.103.21, PSA.119.33-PSA.119.36, TIT.2.12

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Q. 125. What is the fourth petition?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 125, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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scripture refs: ACT.14.15, ACT.14.17, ACT.17.25, DEU.8.3, PRO.10.12, PRO.30.7-PRO.30.9, PSA.127.1, PSA.127.2, PSA.145.15, PSA.146.3-PSA.146.7, PSA.55.22, PSA.62.10, PSA.62.8, PSA.85.12

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Q. 126. What is the fifth petition?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 126, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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scripture refs: COL.3.13, EPH.1.7, GAL.5.22, GAL.5.23, MAT.18.35, MAT.6.14, MAT.6.15, PSA.25.7, PSA.51.1, PSA.51.2, PSA.51.7, PSA.51.9, ROM.4.7, ROM.4.8

Lord's Day 52

Q. 127. What is the sixth petition?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 127, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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scripture refs: 1PE.5.8, 1TH.3.13, 1TH.5.23, 2CO.12.7, 2CO.12.8, EPH.3.14-EPH.3.16, EPH.6.10-EPH.6.13, EPH.6.12, GAL.5.17, JAS.1.14, JHN.15.19, JHN.15.5, LUK.22.31, LUK.22.32, PRO.1.10, ROM.16.20

Q. 128. How do you conclude your prayer?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 128, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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scripture refs: 2CH.20.6, DAN.9.19, ISA.33.22, ISA.37.20, JER.33.8, JER.33.9, JHN.14.13, PSA.10.16, PSA.115.1, PSA.47.2, PSA.5.2

Q. 129. What doth the word “Amen” signify?

Heidelberg Catechism Q. 129, Wikisource 1879 Reformed Church in America translation.

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scripture refs: 1JN.5.14, 1JN.5.15, 2CO.1.20, 2TI.2.12, ISA.65.24, JER.28.6, REV.3.14