Catechesis

Keach's Catechism

Question 54

What are we especially taught by these words, "before me," in the first commandment?

Scripture

  1. Deuteronomy 30:17–18 [1]
    But if your heart turns away, and you will not hear, but are drawn away to worship other gods and serve them, I declare to you today, that you shall surely perish. You shall not live long in the land that you are going over the Jordan to enter and possess. (ESV)
  2. Psalm 44:20–21 [1]
    If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a foreign god, would not God discover this? For he knows the secrets of the heart. (ESV)
  3. Psalm 90:8 [1]
    You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence. (ESV)