Catechesis

Heidelberg Catechism

Question 87

Can those be saved who do not turn to God from their ungrateful and impenitent walk of life?

Scripture

  1. 1 Corinthians 6:9–10 [1]
    Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. (ESV)
  2. Galatians 5:19–21 [1]
    Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. (ESV)
  3. Ephesians 5:5–6 [1]
    For you may be sure of this, that everyone who is sexually immoral or impure, or who is covetous (that is, an idolater), has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience. (ESV)
  4. 1 John 3:14 [1]
    We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. Whoever does not love abides in death. (ESV)