Heidelberg Catechism: Lord’s Day One

Heidelberg Catechism: Lord’s Day One

  1. Q. What is your only comfort in life and death?
    A. That I am not my own, 1
    but belong with body and soul,
    both in life and in death, 2
    to my faithful Saviour Jesus Christ. 3
    He has fully paid for all my sins
    with his precious blood, 4
    and has set me free
    from all the power of the devil. 5
    He also preserves me in such a way 6
    that without the will of my heavenly Father
    not a hair can fall from my head; 7
    indeed, all things must work together
    for my salvation. 8
    Therefore, by his Holy Spirit
    he also assures me
    of eternal life 9
    and makes me heartily willing and ready
    from now on to live for him. 10
    1.1 Cor 6:19, 20.
    2.Rom 14:7-9.
    3.1 Cor 3:23; Tit 2:14.
    4.1 Pet 1:18, 19; 1 Jn 1:7; 2:2.
    5.Jn 8:34-36; Heb 2:14, 15; 1 Jn 3:8.
    6.Jn 6:39, 40; 10:27-30; 2 Thess 3:3; 1 Pet 1:5.
    7.Mt 10:29-31; Lk 21:16-18.
    8.Rom 8:28.
    9.Rom 8:15, 16; 2 Cor 1:21, 22; 5:5; Eph 1:13, 14.
    10.Rom 8:14.
  2. Q. What do you need to know in order to live and die in the joy of this comfort?
    A. First,
    how great my sins and misery are; 1
    second,
    how I am delivered
    from all my sins and misery; 2
    third,
    how I am to be thankful to God
    for such deliverance. 3
    1.Rom 3:9, 10; 1 Jn 1:10.
    2.Jn 17:3; Acts 4:12; 10:43.
    3.Mt 5:16; Rom 6:13; Eph 5:8-10; 1 Pet 2:9, 10.