The Heidelberg Catechism

What is your only comfort in life and in death?

How do you come to know your misery?

Did God create man so wicked and perverse?

Is God then not unjust by requiring in his law what man cannot do?

Since, according to God's righteous judgment we deserve temporal and eternal punishment, how can we escape this punishment and be again rece...

Why must he be a true and righteous man?

Are all men, then, saved by Christ as they have perished in Adam?

How are these articles divided?

What do you believe when you say: I believe in God the Father almighty, Creator of heaven and earth?

What do you understand by the providence of God?

Why is the Son of God called Jesus, that is, Saviour?

Why is he called Christ, that is, Anointed?

Why is he called God's only-begotten Son, since we also are children of God?

What does it mean that he was conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary?

What do you understand by the word 'suffered'?

Why was it necessary for Christ to humble himself even unto death?

What benefit do we receive from the resurrection of Christ?

What do you confess when you say, He ascended into heaven?

Why is it added, And sits at the right hand of God?

What do you believe concerning the Holy Spirit?

What do you believe concerning the holy catholic Christian church?

What comfort does the resurrection of the body offer you?

But what does it help you now that you believe all this?

But why can our good works not be our righteousness before God, or at least a part of it?

Since then faith alone makes us share in Christ and all his benefits, where does this faith come from?

How does holy baptism signify and seal to you that the one sacrifice of Christ on the cross benefits you?

Does this outward washing with water itself wash away sins?

How does the Lord's Supper signify and seal to you that you share in Christ's one sacrifice on the cross and in all his gifts?

Do the bread and wine become the actual body and blood of Christ?

What difference is there between the Lord's Supper and the papal mass?

What are the keys of the kingdom of heaven?

Since we are delivered from our misery by grace alone through Christ, without any merit of our own, why must we yet do good works?

What is the true repentance or conversion of man?

What is the law of the Lord?

What does God require in the second commandment?

What is required in the third commandment?

But may we swear an oath by the name of God in a godly manner?

What does God require in the fourth commandment?

What does God require in the fifth commandment?

What does God require in the sixth commandment?

What does the seventh commandment teach us?

What does God forbid in the eighth commandment?

What is required in the ninth commandment?

What does the tenth commandment require of us?

Why is prayer necessary for Christians?

Why has Christ commanded us to address God as Our Father?

What is the first petition?

What is the second petition?

What is the third petition?

What is the fourth petition?

What is the fifth petition?

What is the sixth petition?