Westminster Larger Catechism: Q5




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Summary: <p><em>What do the Scriptures principally teach?</em></p><p><em>A. The Scriptures principally teach what man is to believe concerning God, and what duty God requires of man.</em></p><p><em>W</em></p><p><a href="https://biblia.com/bible/esv/Gen%201.1" target="_blank">Genesis 1:1</a></p><p><em>1 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.</em></p><p><a href="https://biblia.com/bible/esv/Exod%2035.6%E2%80%937" target="_blank">Exodus 35:6–7</a></p><p><em>6 blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen; goats’ hair, 7 tanned rams’ skins, and goatskins; acacia wood,</em></p><p><a href="https://biblia.com/bible/esv/Deut%2010.12%E2%80%9313" target="_blank">Deuteronomy 10:12–13</a></p><p><em>12 “And now, Israel, what does the LORD your God require of you, but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, 13 and to keep the commandments and statutes of the LORD, which I am commanding you today for your good?</em></p><p><a href="https://biblia.com/bible/esv/Ps%2048.1" target="_blank">Psalm 48:1</a></p><p><em>1 Great is the LORD and greatly to be praised</em></p><p><em>in the city of our God!</em></p><p><em>His holy mountain,</em></p><p><a href="https://biblia.com/bible/esv/John%2021.25" target="_blank">John 21:25</a></p><p><em>25 Now there are also many other things that Jesus did. Were every one of them to be written, I suppose that the world itself could not contain the books that would be written.</em></p><p><a href="https://biblia.com/bible/esv/Acts%2016.30%E2%80%9331" target="_blank">Acts 16:30–31</a></p><p><em>30 Then he brought them out and said, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?” 31 And they said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.”</em></p><p><a href="https://biblia.com/bible/esv/2%20Tim%203.15%E2%80%9317" target="_blank">2 Timothy 3:15–17</a></p>