WLC 104: What are the duties required in the First Commandment?

Answer: The duties required in the First Commandment are, the knowing and acknowledging of God to be the only true God, and our God1; and to worship and glorify him accordingly2, by thinking3, meditating4, remembering5, highly esteeming6, honoring7, adoring8, choosing9, loving10, desiring11, fearing of him12; believing him13; trusting14, hoping15, delighting16, rejoicing in him17; being zealous for him18; calling upon him, giving all praise and thanks19, and yielding all obedience and submission to him with the whole man20; being careful in all things to please him21, and sorrowful when in anything he is offended22; and walking humbly with him.23

  1. 1 Chronicles 28:9; Deuteronomy 26:17; Isaiah 43:10; Jeremiah 14:22
  2. Psalm 95:6-7; Matthew 4:10; Psalm 29:2
  3. Malachi 3:16
  4. Psalm 63:6
  5. Ecclesiastes 12:1
  6. Psalm 71:19
  7. Malachi 1:6
  8. Isaiah 45:23
  9. Joshua 24:14; Joshua 24:22
  10. Deuteronomy 6:5
  11. Psalm 73:25
  12. Isaiah 8:13
  13. Exodus 14:31
  14. Isaiah 26:4
  15. Psalm 130:7
  16. Psalm 37:4
  17. Psalm 32:11
  18. Romans 12:11; Numbers 25:11
  19. Philippians 4:6
  20. Jeremiah 7:23; James 4:7
  21. 1 John 3:22
  22. Jeremiah 31:18; Psalm 119:136
  23. Micah 6:8

 

 

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