Catechesis

Westminster Shorter Catechism

Question 90

How is the word to be read and heard, that it may become effectual to salvation?

Scripture

  1. Proverbs 8:34 [1]
    Blessed is the one who listens to me, watching daily at my gates, waiting beside my doors. (ESV)
  2. Luke 8:18 [2]
    Take care then how you hear, for to the one who has, more will be given, and from the one who has not, even what he thinks that he has will be taken away.” (ESV)
  3. 1 Peter 2:1–2 [2]
    A Living Stone and a Holy People So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation— (ESV)
  4. Psalm 119:18 [3]
    Open my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of your law. (ESV)
  5. Hebrews 4:2 [4]
    For good news came to us just as to them, but the message they heard did not benefit them, because they were not united by faith with those who listened. (ESV)
  6. 2 Thessalonians 2:10 [5]
    and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. (ESV)
  7. Psalm 119:11 [6]
    I have stored up your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you. (ESV)
  8. Luke 8:15 [7]
    As for that in the good soil, they are those who, hearing the word, hold it fast in an honest and good heart, and bear fruit with patience. (ESV)
  9. James 1:25 [7]
    But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing. (ESV)