A Puritan Catechism

Question 1: What is the chief end of man?

1Co 10:31; Ps 73:25; Ps 73:26

Question 2: What rule has God given to direct us how we may glorify him?

Eph 2:20; 2Ti 3:16; 1Jo 1:3

Question 3: What do the Scriptures principally teach?

2Ti 1:13; Ec 12:13

Question 4: What is God?

Joh 4:24; Job 11:7; Ps 90:2; 1Ti 1:17; Jas 1:17; Ex 3:14; Ps 147:5; Re 4:8; Ex 34:6; Ex 34:7

Question 5: Are there more Gods than one?

De 6:4; Jer 10:10

Question 6: How many persons are there in the Godhead?

1Jo 5:7; Mt 28:19

Question 7: What are the decrees of God?

Eph 1:11; Eph 1:12

Question 8: How does God execute his decrees?

Re 4:11; Da 4:35

Question 9: What is the work of creation?

Ge 1:1; Heb 11:3; Ex 20:11; Ge 1:31

Question 10: How did God create man?

Ge 1:27; Col 3:10; Eph 4:24; Ge 1:28

Question 11: What are God's works of providence?

Ps 145:17; Isa 28:29; Heb 1:3; Ps 103:19; Mt 10:29

Question 12: What special act of providence did God exercise toward man in the state wherein he was created?

Ga 3:12; Ge 2:17

Question 13: Did our first parents continue in the state wherein they were created?

Ec 7:29; Ge 3:6-8

Question 14: What is sin?

1Jo 3:4

Question 15: Did all mankind fall in Adam's first transgression?

1Co 15:22; Ro 5:12

Question 16: Into what estate did the fall bring mankind?

Ro 5:18

Question 17: Wherein consists the sinfulness of that state whereinto man fell?

Ro 5:19; Ro 3:10; Eph 2:1; Ps 51:5; Mt 15:19

Question 18: What is the misery of that state whereinto man fell?

Ge 3:8; Ge 3:24; Eph 2:3; Ga 3:10; Ro 6:23; Mt 25:41

Question 19: Did God leave all mankind to perish in the state of sin and misery?

2Th 2:13; Ro 5:21

Question 20: Who is the Redeemer of God's elect?

1Ti 2:5; Joh 1:14; 1Ti 3:16; Col 2:9

Question 21: How did Christ, being the Son of God, become man?

Heb 2:14; Mt 26:38; Heb 4:15; Lu 1:31; Lu 1:35; Heb 7:26

Question 22: What offices does Christ execute as our Redeemer?

Ac 3:22; Heb 5:6; Ps 2:6

Question 23: How does Christ execute the office of a prophet?

Joh 1:18; Joh 20:31; Joh 14:26

Question 24: How does Christ execute the office of a priest?

Heb 9:28; Heb 2:17; Heb 7:25

Question 25: How does Christ execute the office of a king?

Ps 110:3; Mt 2:6; 1Co 15:25

Question 26: Wherein did Christ's humiliation consist?

Lu 2:7; Ga 4:4; Isa 53:3; Mt 27:46; Php 2:8; Mt 12:40

Question 27: Wherein consists Christ's exaltation?

1Co 15:4; Mr 16:19; Ac 17:31

Question 28: How are we made partakers of the redemption purchased by Christ?

Joh 1:12; Tit 3:5; Tit 3:6

Question 29: How does the Spirit apply to us the redemption purchased by Christ?

Eph 2:8; Eph 3:17

Question 30: What is effectual calling?

2Ti 1:9; Ac 2:37; Ac 26:18; Eze 36:26; Joh 6:44; Joh 6:45

Question 31: What benefits do they who are effectually called, partake of in this life?

Ro 8:30; Eph 1:5; 1Co 1:30

Question 32: What is justification?

Ro 3:24; Eph 1:7; 2Co 5:21; Ro 5:19; Ga 2:16; Php 3:9

Question 33: What is adoption?

1Jo 3:1; Joh 1:12; Ro 8:17

Question 34: What is sanctification?

2Th 2:13; Eph 4:24; Ro 6:11

Question 35: What are the benefits which in this life do either accompany or flow from justification, adoption, and sanctification?

Ro 5:1; Ro 5:2; Ro 5:5; Ro 14:17; Pr 4:18; 1Jo 5:13; 1Pe 1:5

Question 36: What benefits do believers receive from Christ at their death?

Heb 12:23; Php 1:23; 2Co 5:8; Lu 23:43; 1Th 4:14; Isa 57:2; Job 19:26

Question 37: What benefits do believers receive from Christ at the resurrection?

1Co 15:43; Mt 10:32; 1Jo 3:2; 1Th 4:17

Question 38: What shall be done to the wicked at their death?

Lu 16:22-24; Ps 49:14

Question 39: What shall be done to the wicked at the day of judgment?

Da 12:2; Joh 5:28; Joh 5:29; 2Th 1:9; Mt 25:41

Question 40: What did God reveal to man for the rule of his obedience?

De 10:4; Mt 19:17

Question 41: What is the sum of the ten commandments?

Mt 22:37-40

Question 42: Which is the first commandment?

Question 43: What is required in the first commandment?

1Ch 28:9; De 26:17; Mt 4:10

Question 44: Which is the second commandment?

Question 45: What is required in the second commandment?

De 32:46; Mt 28:20; De 12:32

Question 46: What is forbidden in the second commandment?

De 4:15; De 4:16; Col 2:18

Question 47: Which is the third commandment?

Question 48: What is required in the third commandment?

Ps 29:2; Re 15:3; Re 15:4; Ec 5:1; Ps 138:2; Job 36:24; De 28:58; De 28:59

Question 49: Which is the fourth commandment?

Question 50: What is required in the fourth commandment?

Le 19:30; De 5:12

Question 51: How is the Sabbath to be sanctified?

Le 23:3; Ps 92:1; Ps 92:2; Isa 58:13; Isa 58:14; Mt 12:11; Mt 12:12

Question 52: Which is the fifth commandment?

Question 53: What is required in the fifth commandment?

Eph 5:21; Eph 5:22; Ro 13:1; Eph 6:9; Ro 12:10

Question 54: What is the reason annexed to the fifth commandment?

Eph 6:2; Eph 6:3

Question 55: Which is the sixth commandment?

Question 56: What is forbidden in the sixth commandment?

Ac 16:28; Ge 9:6; Pr 24:11; Pr 24:12

Question 57: Which is the seventh commandment?

Question 58: What is forbidden in the seventh commandment?

Mt 5:28; Col 4:6; Eph 5:4; 2Ti 2:22; Eph 5:3

Question 59: Which is the eighth commandment?

Question 60: What is forbidden in the eighth commandment?

1Ti 5:8; Pr 28:19; Eph 4:28