Heidelberg Catechism

OF GOD THE HOLY GHOST

LORD’S DAY 20

Question 53: What dost thou believe concerning the Holy Ghost?

Answer: First, that He is true and coeternal God with the Father and the Son;1 secondly, that He is also given me,2 to make me by a true faith, partaker of Christ and all His benefits,3 that He may comfort me4 and abide with me for ever.5

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1Gen. 1:2, And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.Isa. 48:16, Come ye near unto Me, hear ye this; I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, there am I: and now the LORD God, and His Spirit, hath sent Me.

1 Cor. 3:16, Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

2Matt. 28:19, Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.

2 Cor. 1:22, Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.

3Gal. 3:14, That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

1 Pet. 1:2, Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.

4Acts 9:31, Then had the churches rest throughout all Judaea and Galilee and Samaria, and were edified; and walking in the fear of the Lord, and in the comfort of the Holy Ghost, were multiplied.

5John 14:16, And I will pray the Father, and He shall give you another Comforter, that He may abide with you for ever.

1 Pet. 4:14, If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part He is evil spoken of, but on your part He is glorified.