Catechesis

Westminster Shorter Catechism

Question 105

What do we pray for in the fifth petition?

Scripture

  1. Psalm 51:1 [1]
    Create in Me a Clean Heart, O God To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet went to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions. (ESV)
  2. Romans 3:24–25 [1]
    and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God’s righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins. (ESV)
  3. Luke 11:4 [2]
    and forgive us our sins, for we ourselves forgive everyone who is indebted to us. And lead us not into temptation.” (ESV)
  4. Matthew 18:35 [2]
    So also my heavenly Father will do to every one of you, if you do not forgive your brother from your heart.” (ESV)
  5. Matthew 6:14–15 [2]
    For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you, but if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses. (ESV)