Westminster Shorter Catechism · Question 36
What are the benefits which in this life do accompany or flow from justification, adoption, and sanctfication?
The benefits which in this life do accompany or flow from justification, adoption, and sanctification, are, assurance of God’s love, peace of conscience, joy in the Holy Ghost, increase of grace, and perseverance therein to the end.
Scripture proofs King James Version
- Rom. 5:1,2 Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: by whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
- Rom. 5:5 And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.
- Rom. 14:17 For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.
- Prov. 4:18 But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
- 1 John 5:13 These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.
- 1 Pet. 1:5 Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
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- Westminster Shorter Catechism
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- King James Version (Scripture proofs)
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- First published 1648
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