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Heidelberg Catechism

  1. 1.What is your only comfort in life and in death?
  2. 2.How many things are necessary for you to know, that in this comfort you may live and die happily?
  3. 3.From where do you know your sin and misery?
  4. 4.What does the law of God require of us?
  5. 5.Can you keep all this perfectly?
  6. 6.Did God, then, create man so wicked and perverse?
  7. 7.From where, then, does this depraved nature of man come?
  8. 8.But are we so corrupt that we are wholly incapable of doing any good and inclined to all evil?
  9. 9.But does not God do man an injustice by requiring in his law what man cannot do?
  10. 10.Will God allow such disobedience and apostasy to go unpunished?
  11. 11.But is God not also merciful?
  12. 12.Since, then, by the righteous judgment of God we deserve both temporal and eternal punishment, how may we escape this punishment and be again received into favor?
  13. 13.Can we ourselves make this payment?
  14. 14.Can any mere creature pay for us?
  15. 15.What kind of mediator and redeemer, then, must we seek?
  16. 16.Why must he be a true and righteous man?
  17. 17.Why must he at the same time be true God?
  18. 18.But who is that mediator who is at the same time true God and a true and righteous man?
  19. 19.From where do you know this?
  20. 20.Are all men, then, saved by Christ just as they perished through Adam?
  21. 21.What is true faith?
  22. 22.What, then, is necessary for a Christian to believe?
  23. 23.What are these articles?
  24. 24.How are these articles divided?
  25. 25.Since there is only one God, why do you speak of three persons, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit?
  26. 26.What do you believe when you say: I believe in God the Father almighty, Creator of heaven and earth?
  27. 27.What do you understand by the providence of God?
  28. 28.What advantage is it to us to know that God has created, and by his providence still maintains, all things?
  29. 29.Why is the Son of God called Jesus, that is, Savior?
  30. 30.Do those also believe in the only Savior Jesus who seek their salvation and well-being from saints, from themselves, or from any other source?
  31. 31.Why is he called Christ, that is, Anointed?
  32. 32.Why are you called a Christian?
  33. 33.Why is he called God's only-begotten Son, since we also are children of God?
  34. 34.Why do you call him our Lord?
  35. 35.What does it mean that he was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the virgin Mary?
  36. 36.What benefit do you receive from the holy conception and birth of Christ?
  37. 37.What do you understand by the word suffered?
  38. 38.Why did he suffer under Pontius Pilate as judge?
  39. 39.Is there anything more in his being crucified than if he had died some other death?
  40. 40.Why was it necessary for Christ to humble himself even unto death?
  41. 41.Why was he buried?
  42. 42.Since Christ has died for us, why do we still have to die?
  43. 43.What further benefit do we receive from the sacrifice and death of Christ on the cross?
  44. 44.Why is there added: He descended into hell?
  45. 45.What benefit do we receive from the resurrection of Christ?
  46. 46.What do you mean by saying, He ascended into heaven?
  47. 47.Is Christ, then, not with us until the end of the world, as he has promised?
  48. 48.But are not the two natures in Christ separated from each other in this way, if the human nature is not present wherever the divine nature is?
  49. 49.What benefit do we receive from Christ's ascension into heaven?
  50. 50.Why is it added, and sits at the right hand of God?
  51. 51.What benefit do we receive from this glory of our Head, Christ?
  52. 52.What comfort is it to you that Christ shall come to judge the living and the dead?
  53. 53.What do you believe concerning the Holy Spirit?
  54. 54.What do you believe concerning the holy catholic Church?
  55. 55.What do you understand by the communion of saints?
  56. 56.What do you believe concerning the forgiveness of sins?
  57. 57.What comfort does the resurrection of the body offer you?
  58. 58.What comfort do you receive from the article about the life everlasting?
  59. 59.But what does it help you now that you believe all this?
  60. 60.How are you righteous before God?
  61. 61.Why do you say that you are righteous only by faith?
  62. 62.But why can our good works not be our righteousness before God, or at least a part of it?
  63. 63.But do our good works merit nothing, even though God promises to reward them in this life and the next?
  64. 64.But does not this teaching make people careless and ungodly?
  65. 65.Since, then, faith alone makes us share in Christ and all his benefits, where does this faith come from?
  66. 66.What are the sacraments?
  67. 67.Are both the Word and the sacraments then directed to this end, that they may point our faith to the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross as the only ground of our salvation?
  68. 68.How many sacraments has Christ instituted in the new covenant?
  69. 69.How does holy baptism signify and seal to you that the one sacrifice of Christ on the cross benefits you?
  70. 70.What does it mean to be washed with the blood and Spirit of Christ?
  71. 71.Where has Christ promised that we are washed with his blood and Spirit as surely as with the water of baptism?
  72. 72.Does this outward washing with water itself wash away sins?
  73. 73.Why, then, does the Holy Spirit call baptism the washing of regeneration and the washing away of sins?
  74. 74.Should infants also be baptized?
  75. 75.How does the Lord's Supper signify and seal to you that you share in the one sacrifice of Christ on the cross and in all his benefits?
  76. 76.What does it mean to eat the crucified body of Christ and to drink his shed blood?
  77. 77.Where has Christ promised that he will feed and nourish believers with his body and blood as surely as they eat of this broken bread and drink of this cup?
  78. 78.Are then the bread and wine changed into the real body and blood of Christ?
  79. 79.Why, then, does Christ call the bread his body and the cup his blood, or the new covenant in his blood, and why does Paul speak of a participation in the body and blood of Christ?
  80. 80.What difference is there between the Lord's Supper and the papal Mass?
  81. 81.Who should come to the table of the Lord?
  82. 82.Should those also be admitted to the Lord's Supper who by their confession and life show that they are unbelieving and ungodly?
  83. 83.What are the keys of the kingdom of heaven?
  84. 84.How is the kingdom of heaven opened and shut by the preaching of the gospel?
  85. 85.How is the kingdom of heaven shut and opened by church discipline?
  86. 86.Since, then, we are redeemed from our misery by grace alone through Christ, without any merit of our own, why must we yet do good works?
  87. 87.Can those who do not turn to God from their ungrateful and impenitent ways be saved?
  88. 88.In how many things does true repentance or conversion consist?
  89. 89.What is the dying of the old nature?
  90. 90.What is the coming to life of the new nature?
  91. 91.But what are good works?
  92. 92.What does the Lord say in his law?
  93. 93.How are these commandments divided?
  94. 94.What does the Lord require in the first commandment?
  95. 95.What is idolatry?
  96. 96.What does God require in the second commandment?
  97. 97.May we then not make any image at all?
  98. 98.But may not images be tolerated in the churches as teaching aids for the unlearned?
  99. 99.What is required in the third commandment?
  100. 100.Is the profaning of God's name by swearing and cursing so serious a sin that God is angry also with those who do not do all they can to help prevent and forbid it?
  101. 101.But may we swear an oath by the name of God in a godly manner?
  102. 102.May we also swear by saints or other creatures?
  103. 103.What does God require in the fourth commandment?
  104. 104.What does God require in the fifth commandment?
  105. 105.What does God require in the sixth commandment?
  106. 106.But does this commandment speak only of killing?
  107. 107.But is it enough that we do not kill our neighbor in any such way?
  108. 108.What does the seventh commandment teach us?
  109. 109.Does God in this commandment forbid nothing more than adultery and such gross sins?
  110. 110.What does God forbid in the eighth commandment?
  111. 111.But what does God require of you in this commandment?
  112. 112.What is required in the ninth commandment?
  113. 113.What does the tenth commandment require of us?
  114. 114.But can those who are converted to God keep these commandments perfectly?
  115. 115.Since in this life no one can keep the ten commandments perfectly, why does God have them preached so strictly?
  116. 116.Why is prayer necessary for Christians?
  117. 117.What belongs to a prayer which pleases God and is heard by him?
  118. 118.What has God commanded us to ask of him?
  119. 119.What is the Lord's Prayer?
  120. 120.Why has Christ commanded us to address God as Our Father?
  121. 121.Why is there added, who art in heaven?
  122. 122.What is the first petition?
  123. 123.What is the second petition?
  124. 124.What is the third petition?
  125. 125.What is the fourth petition?
  126. 126.What is the fifth petition?
  127. 127.What is the sixth petition?
  128. 128.How do you conclude your prayer?
  129. 129.What does the word Amen mean?

Westminster Shorter Catechism

  1. 1.What is the chief end of man?
  2. 2.What rule hath God given to direct us how we may glorify and enjoy him?
  3. 3.What do the Scriptures principally teach?
  4. 4.What is God?
  5. 5.Are there more Gods than one?
  6. 6.How many persons are there in the Godhead?
  7. 7.What are the decrees of God?
  8. 8.How doth God execute his decrees?
  9. 9.What is the work of creation?
  10. 10.How did God create man?
  11. 11.What are God's works of providence?
  12. 12.What special act of providence did God exercise toward man in the estate wherein he was created?
  13. 13.Did our first parents continue in the estate wherein they were created?
  14. 14.What is sin?
  15. 15.What was the sin whereby our first parents fell from the estate wherein they were created?
  16. 16.Did all mankind fall in Adam's first transgression?
  17. 17.Into what estate did the fall bring mankind?
  18. 18.Wherein consists the sinfulness of that estate whereinto man fell?
  19. 19.What is the misery of that estate whereinto man fell?
  20. 20.Did God leave all mankind to perish in the estate of sin and misery?
  21. 21.Who is the Redeemer of God's elect?
  22. 22.How did Christ, being the Son of God, become man?
  23. 23.What offices doth Christ execute as our Redeemer?
  24. 24.How doth Christ execute the office of a prophet?
  25. 25.How doth Christ execute the office of a priest?
  26. 26.How doth Christ execute the office of a king?
  27. 27.Wherein did Christ's humiliation consist?
  28. 28.Wherein consisteth Christ's exaltation?
  29. 29.How are we made partakers of the redemption purchased by Christ?
  30. 30.How doth the Spirit apply to us the redemption purchased by Christ?
  31. 31.What is effectual calling?
  32. 32.What benefits do they that are effectually called partake of in this life?
  33. 33.What is justification?
  34. 34.What is adoption?
  35. 35.What is sanctification?
  36. 36.What are the benefits which in this life do accompany or flow from justification, adoption and sanctification?
  37. 37.What benefits do believers receive from Christ at death?
  38. 38.What benefits do believers receive from Christ at the resurrection?
  39. 39.What is the duty which God requireth of man?
  40. 40.What did God at first reveal to man for the rule of his obedience?
  41. 41.Where is the moral law summarily comprehended?
  42. 42.What is the sum of the ten commandments?
  43. 43.What is the preface to the ten commandments?
  44. 44.What doth the preface to the ten commandments teach us?
  45. 45.Which is the first commandment?
  46. 46.What is required in the first commandment?
  47. 47.What is forbidden in the first commandment?
  48. 48.What are we specially taught by these words before me in the first commandment?
  49. 49.Which is the second commandment?
  50. 50.What is required in the second commandment?
  51. 51.What is forbidden in the second commandment?
  52. 52.What are the reasons annexed to the second commandment?
  53. 53.Which is the third commandment?
  54. 54.What is required in the third commandment?
  55. 55.What is forbidden in the third commandment?
  56. 56.What is the reason annexed to the third commandment?
  57. 57.Which is the fourth commandment?
  58. 58.What is required in the fourth commandment?
  59. 59.Which day of the seven hath God appointed to be the weekly sabbath?
  60. 60.How is the sabbath to be sanctified?
  61. 61.What is forbidden in the fourth commandment?
  62. 62.What are the reasons annexed to the fourth commandment?
  63. 63.Which is the fifth commandment?
  64. 64.What is required in the fifth commandment?
  65. 65.What is forbidden in the fifth commandment?
  66. 66.What is the reason annexed to the fifth commandment?
  67. 67.Which is the sixth commandment?
  68. 68.What is required in the sixth commandment?
  69. 69.What is forbidden in the sixth commandment?
  70. 70.Which is the seventh commandment?
  71. 71.What is required in the seventh commandment?
  72. 72.What is forbidden in the seventh commandment?
  73. 73.Which is the eighth commandment?
  74. 74.What is required in the eighth commandment?
  75. 75.What is forbidden in the eighth commandment?
  76. 76.Which is the ninth commandment?
  77. 77.What is required in the ninth commandment?
  78. 78.What is forbidden in the ninth commandment?
  79. 79.Which is the tenth commandment?
  80. 80.What is required in the tenth commandment?
  81. 81.What is forbidden in the tenth commandment?
  82. 82.Is any man able perfectly to keep the commandments of God?
  83. 83.Are all transgressions of the law equally heinous?
  84. 84.What doth every sin deserve?
  85. 85.What doth God require of us that we may escape his wrath and curse due to us for sin?
  86. 86.What is faith in Jesus Christ?
  87. 87.What is repentance unto life?
  88. 88.What are the outward means whereby Christ communicateth to us the benefits of redemption?
  89. 89.How is the word made effectual to salvation?
  90. 90.How is the word to be read and heard, that it may become effectual to salvation?
  91. 91.How do the sacraments become effectual means of salvation?
  92. 92.What is a sacrament?
  93. 93.Which are the sacraments of the New Testament?
  94. 94.What is baptism?
  95. 95.To whom is baptism to be administered?
  96. 96.What is the Lord's supper?
  97. 97.What is required to the worthy receiving of the Lord's supper?
  98. 98.What is prayer?
  99. 99.What rule hath God given for our direction in prayer?
  100. 100.What doth the preface of the Lord's prayer teach us?
  101. 101.What do we pray for in the first petition?
  102. 102.What do we pray for in the second petition?
  103. 103.What do we pray for in the third petition?
  104. 104.What do we pray for in the fourth petition?
  105. 105.What do we pray for in the fifth petition?
  106. 106.What do we pray for in the sixth petition?
  107. 107.What doth the conclusion of the Lord's prayer teach us?