Westminster Larger Catechism, Question 104
Question 104
What are the duties required in the first commandment?
The duties required in the first commandment are, the knowing and acknowledging of God to be the only true God, and our God; and to worship and glorify him accordingly, by thinking, meditating, remembering, highly esteeming, honoring, adoring, choosing, loving, desiring, fearing of him; believing him; trusting, hoping, delighting, rejoicing in him; being zealous for him; calling upon him, giving all praise and thanks, and yielding all obedience and submission to him with the whole man; being careful in all things to please him, and sorrowful when in anything he is offended; and walking humbly with him.
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1 Chronicles 28:99As for you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve Him wholeheartedly and with a willing mind, for the LORD searches every heart and understands the intent of every thought. If you seek Him, He will be found by you; but if you forsake Him, He will reject you forever.
Deuteronomy 26:1717Today you have proclaimed that the LORD is your God and that you will walk in His ways, keep His statutes and commandments and ordinances, and listen to His voice.
Isaiah 43:1010“You are My witnesses,” declares the LORD, “and My servant whom I have chosen, so that you may consider and believe Me and understand that I am He. Before Me no god was formed, and after Me none will come.
Jeremiah 14:2222Can the worthless idols of the nations bring rain? Do the skies alone send showers? Is this not by You, O LORD our God? So we put our hope in You, for You have done all these things.
Psalms 29:22Ascribe to the LORD the glory due His name; worship the LORD in the splendor of His holiness.
Psalms 95:6-76O come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the LORD our Maker.
7For He is our God, and we are the people of His pasture, the sheep under His care. Today, if you hear His voice,
Matthew 4:1010“Away from Me, Satan!” Jesus declared. “For it is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God and serve Him only.’”
Malachi 3:1616At that time those who feared the LORD spoke with one another, and the LORD listened and heard them. So a scroll of remembrance was written before Him regarding those who feared the LORD and honored His name.
Psalms 63:66When I remember You on my bed, I think of You through the watches of the night.
Ecclesiastes 12:11Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the days of adversity come and the years approach of which you will say, “I find no pleasure in them,”
Psalms 71:1919Your righteousness reaches to the heavens, O God, You who have done great things. Who, O God, is like You?
Malachi 1:66“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. But if I am a father, where is My honor? And if I am a master, where is your fear of Me?” says the LORD of Hosts to you priests who despise My name. “But you ask, ‘How have we despised Your name?’
Isaiah 45:2323By Myself I have sworn; truth has gone out from My mouth, a word that will not be revoked: Every knee will bow before Me, every tongue will swear allegiance.
Joshua 24:1515But if it is unpleasing in your sight to serve the LORD, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living. As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD!”
Joshua 24:2222Then Joshua told them, “You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen to serve the LORD.” “We are witnesses!” they said.
Deuteronomy 6:55And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.
Psalms 73:2525Whom have I in heaven but You? And on earth I desire no one besides You.
Isaiah 8:1313The LORD of Hosts is the One you shall regard as holy. Only He should be feared; only He should be dreaded.
Exodus 14:3131When Israel saw the great power that the LORD had exercised over the Egyptians, the people feared the LORD and believed in Him and in His servant Moses.
Isaiah 26:44Trust in the LORD forever, because GOD the LORD is the Rock eternal.
Psalms 130:77O Israel, put your hope in the LORD, for with the LORD is loving devotion, and with Him is redemption in abundance.
Psalms 37:44Delight yourself in the LORD, and He will give you the desires of your heart.
Psalms 32:1111Be glad in the LORD and rejoice, O righteous ones; shout for joy, all you upright in heart.
Romans 12:1111Do not let your zeal subside; keep your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord.
Numbers 25:1111“Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned My wrath away from the Israelites; for he was zealous for My sake among them, so that I did not consume the Israelites in My zeal.
Philippians 4:66Be anxious for nothing, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.
Jeremiah 7:2828Therefore you must say to them, ‘This is the nation that would not listen to the voice of the LORD their God and would not receive correction. Truth has perished; it has disappeared from their lips.
James 4:77Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
1 John 3:22Beloved, we are now children of God, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that when Christ appears, we will be like Him, for we will see Him as He is.
Jeremiah 31:1818I have surely heard Ephraim’s moaning: ‘You disciplined me severely, like an untrained calf. Restore me, that I may return, for You are the LORD my God.
Psalms 119:136136My eyes shed streams of tears because Your law is not obeyed.
Micah 6:88He has shown you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
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