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Question What are the sins forbidden in the first commandment? of the Westminster Larger Catechism

Question What are the sins forbidden in the first commandment? of the Westminster Larger Catechism - answer with proof texts
Q. 105. What are the sins forbidden in the first commandment?
A. The sins forbidden in the first commandment are atheism, in denying, or not having a God; idolatry, in having or worshiping more gods than one, or any with, or instead of the true God; the not having and avouching him for God, and our God; the omission or neglect of any thing due to him, required in this commandment; ignorance, forgetfulness, misapprehensions, false opinions, unworthy and wicked thoughts of him; bold and curious searching into his secrets; all profaneness, hatred of God; self-love, self-seeking, and all other inordinate and immoderate setting of our mind, will, or affections upon other things, and taking them off from him in whole or in part; vain credulity, unbelief, heresy, misbelief, distrust, despair, incorrigibleness, and insensibleness under judgments; hardness of heart; pride; presumption; carnal security; tempting of God; using unlawful means, and trusting in lawful means; carnal delights and joys; corrupt, blind, and indiscreet zeal; lukewarmness, and deadness in the things of God; estranging ourselves, and apostatizing from God; praying, or giving any religious worship, to saints, angels, or any other creatures; all compacts and consulting with the devil, and hearkening to his suggestions; making men the lords of our faith and conscience; slighting and despising God and his commands; resisting and grieving of his Spirit, discontent and impatience at his dispensations, charging him foolishly for the evils he inflicts on us; and ascribing the praise of any good we either are, have, or can do, to fortune, idols, ourselves, or any other creature.
  • Psalms 14:1; Ephesians 2:12.
  • Jeremiah 2:27-28; 1 Thessalonians 1:9.
  • Psalms 81:11.
  • Isaiah 43:22-24.
  • Jeremiah 4:22; Hosea 4:1, 6.
  • Jeremiah 2:32.
  • Acts 17:23, 29.
  • Isaiah 40:18.
  • Psalms 50:21.
  • Deuteronomy 29:29.
  • Titus 1:16.
  • Hebrews 12:16.
  • Romans 1:30.
  • 2 Timothy 3:2.
  • Philippians 2:21.
  • 1 John 2:15,16.
  • 1 Samuel 2:29.
  • Colossians 3:2,5.
  • 1 John 4:1.
  • Hebrews 3:12.
  • Galatians 5:20.
  • Titus 3:10.
  • Acts 26:9.
  • Psalms 78:22.
  • Genesis 4:13.
  • Jeremiah 5:3.
  • Isaiah 42:25.
  • Romans 2:5.
  • Jeremiah 13:15.
  • Psalms 19:13.
  • Zephaniah 1:12.
  • Matthew 4:7.
  • Romans 3:8.
  • Jeremiah 17:5.
  • 2 Timothy 3:4.
  • Galatians 4:17.
  • John 16:2.
  • Romans 10:2.
  • Luke 9:54,55.
  • Revelation 3:16.
  • Revelation 3:1.
  • Ezekiel 14:5.
  • Isaiah 1:4,5.
  • Romans 1:25.
  • Romans 10:13,14.
  • Hosea 4:12.
  • Acts 10:25,26.
  • Revelation 19:10.
  • Matthew 4:10.
  • Colossians 2:18.
  • Leviticus 20:6.
  • 1 Samuel 28:7,11.
  • 1 Chronicles 10:13,14.
  • Acts 5:3.
  • 2 Corinthians 1:24.
  • Matthew 23:9.
  • Deuteronomy 32:15.
  • 2 Samuel 12:9.
  • Proverbs 13:13.
  • Acts 7:51.
  • Ephesians 4:30.
  • Psalms 73:2-3,13-15,22.
  • Job 1:22.
  • 1 Samuel 6:7-9.
  • Daniel 5:23.
  • Deuteronomy 8:17.
  • Daniel 4:30.
  • Habakkuk 1:16.

Summary of Christian Duties

Summary of Christian Duties of the Westminster Larger Catechism

Summary of Christian Duties - Section of the Westminster Larger Catechism
  1. What is the duty which God requireth of man?
  2. What did God at first reveal unto man as the rule of his obedience?
  3. What is the moral law?
  4. Is there any use of the moral law to man since the fall?
  5. Of what use is the moral law to all men?
  6. What particular use is there of the moral law to unregenerate men?
  7. What special use is there of the moral law to the regenerate?
  8. Where is the moral law summarily comprehended?
  9. What rules are to be observed for the right understanding of the ten commandments?
  10. What special things are we to consider in the ten commandments?
  11. What is the preface to the ten commandments?
  12. What is the sum of the four commandments which contain our duty to God?
  13. Which is the first commandment?
  14. What are the duties required in the first commandment?
  15. What are the sins forbidden in the first commandment?
  16. What are we especially taught by these words (before me) in the first commandment?
  17. Which is the second commandment?
  18. What are the duties required in the second commandment?
  19. What are the sins forbidden in the second commandment?
  20. What are the reasons annexed to the second commandment, the more to enforce it?
  21. Which is the third commandment?
  22. What is required in the third commandment?
  23. What are the sins forbidden in the third commandment?
  24. What reasons are annexed to the third commandment?
  25. What is the fourth commandment?
  26. What is required in the fourth commandment?
  27. How is the sabbath or the Lord's day to be sanctified?
  28. Why is the charge of keeping the sabbath more specially directed to governors of families and other superiors?
  29. What are the sins forbidden in the fourth commandment?
  30. What are the reasons annexed to the fourth commandment, the more to enforce it?
  31. Why is the word remember set in the beginning of the fourth commandment?
  32. What is the sum of the six commandments which contain our duty to man?
  33. Which is the fifth commandment?
  34. Who are meant by father and mother in the fifth commandment?
  35. Why are superiors styled father and mother?
  36. What is the general scope of the fifth commandment?
  37. What is the honor that inferiors owe to their superiors?
  38. What are the sins of inferiors against their superiors?
  39. What is required of superiors towards their inferiors?
  40. What are the sins of superiors?
  41. What are the duties of equals?
  42. What are the sins of equals?
  43. What is the reason annexed to the fifth commandment, the more to enforce it?
  44. Which is the sixth commandment?
  45. What are the duties required in the sixth commandment?
  46. What are the sins forbidden in the sixth commandment?
  47. Which is the seventh commandment?
  48. What are the duties required in the seventh commandment?
  49. What are the sins forbidden in the seventh commandment?
  50. Which is the eighth commandment?
  51. What are the duties required in the eighth commandment?
  52. What are the sins forbidden in the eighth commandment?
  53. Which is the ninth commandment?
  54. What are the duties required in the ninth commandment?
  55. What are the sins forbidden in the ninth commandment?
  56. Which is the tenth commandment?
  57. What are the duties required in the tenth commandment?
  58. What are the sins forbidden in the tenth commandment?