• Q. 3.  Whence knowest thou thy misery?
  A.  Out of the law of God.1
• Q. 4.  What doth the law of God require of us?
  A.  Christ teaches us that briefly, Matt. 22:37-40, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength. This is the first and the great commandment; and the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.2
• Q. 5.  Canst thou keep all these things perfectly?
  A.  In no wise;3 for I am prone by nature to hate God and my neighbor.4

1. Rom. 3:20.
2. Luke 10:27.
3. Rom. 3:10. 1 John 1:8.
4. Rom. 8:7.
   Tit. 3:3.

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Q.
What is your only comfort
in life and death?
A.
That I am not my own, 1
but belong with body and soul,
both in life and in death, 2
to my faithful Saviour Jesus Christ. 3
He has fully paid for all my sins
with his precious blood, 4
and has set me free
from all the power of the devil. 5
He also preserves me in such a way 6
that without the will of my heavenly Father
not a hair can fall from my head; 7
indeed, all things must work together
for my salvation. 8
Therefore, by his Holy Spirit
he also assures me
of eternal life 9
and makes me heartily willing and ready
from now on to live for him. 10
1.1 Cor 6:19, 20.
2.Rom 14:7-9.
3.1 Cor 3:23; Tit 2:14.
4.1 Pet 1:18, 19; 1 Jn 1:7; 2:2.
5.Jn 8:34-36; Heb 2:14, 15; 1 Jn 3:8.
6.Jn 6:39, 40; 10:27-30; 2 Thess 3:3; 1 Pet 1:5.
7.Mt 10:29-31; Lk 21:16-18.
8.Rom 8:28.
9.Rom 8:15, 16; 2 Cor 1:21, 22; 5:5; Eph 1:13, 14.
10.Rom 8:14.

2.Q.
What do you need to know
in order to live and die
in the joy of this comfort?
A.
First,
how great my sins and misery are; 1
second,
how I am delivered
from all my sins and misery; 2
third,
how I am to be thankful to God
for such deliverance. 3
1.Rom 3:9, 10; 1 Jn 1:10.
2.Jn 17:3; Acts 4:12; 10:43.
3.Mt 5:16; Rom 6:13; Eph 5:8-10; 1 Pet 2:9, 10

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