Catechesis

Westminster Shorter Catechism

Question 36

What are the benefits which in this life do accompany or flow from justification, adoption aad sanctification?

Scripture

  1. Romans 5:1–2 [1]
    Peace with God Through Faith Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. (ESV)
  2. Romans 5:5 [1]
    and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. (ESV)
  3. Romans 14:17 [1]
    For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking but of righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. (ESV)
  4. Colossians 1:10–11 [2]
    so as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him: bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God; being strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy; (ESV)
  5. Proverbs 4:18 [2]
    But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, which shines brighter and brighter until full day. (ESV)
  6. Ephesians 3:16–18 [2]
    that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, (ESV)
  7. 2 Peter 3:18 [2]
    But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen. (ESV)
  8. Jeremiah 32:40 [3]
    I will make with them an everlasting covenant, that I will not turn away from doing good to them. And I will put the fear of me in their hearts, that they may not turn from me. (ESV)
  9. 1 John 2:19 [3]
    They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us. But they went out, that it might become plain that they all are not of us. (ESV)
  10. 1 John 2:27 [3]
    But the anointing that you received from him abides in you, and you have no need that anyone should teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about everything, and is true, and is no lie—just as it has taught you, abide in him. (ESV)
  11. Revelation 14:12 [3]
    Here is a call for the endurance of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God and their faith in Jesus. (ESV)
  12. 1 Peter 1:5 [3]
    who by God’s power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. (ESV)
  13. 1 John 5:13 [3]
    That You May Know I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life. (ESV)