2 Corinthians 5:21

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• #HC15 What kind of mediator and deliverer must we seek? One who is a true and righteous man, and yet more powerful than all creatures; that is, one who is at the same time true God.
• #HC17 Why must He at the same time be true God? He must be true God so that by the power of His divine nature He might bear in His human nature the burden of God’s wrath, and might obtain for us and restore to us righteousness and life.
• #WSC33 What is justification? Justification is an act of God’s free grace, wherein he pardoneth all our sins and accepteth us as righteous in his sight only for the righteousness of Christ imputed to us and received by faith alone...
• #BC36 What is justification? Justification is an act of God’s free grace, wherein he pardoneth all our sins, and accepteth us as righteous in his sight, only for the righteousness of Christ imputed to us, and received by faith al...
• #HC36 What benefit do you receive from the holy conception and birth of Christ? He is our Mediator, and with His innocence and perfect holiness covers, in the sight of God, my sin, in which I was conceived and born.
• #HC37 What do you confess when you say that He suffered? During all the time He lived on earth, but especially at the end, Christ bore in body and soul the wrath of God against the sin of the whole human race. Thus, by His suffering, as the only atoning sac...
• #AOC37 For what cause should he suffer under Pilate, as being his Judg? That he being innocent and condemned before a civil Judg might deliver us from the severe Judgment of God which remained for all men.
• #HC38 Why did He suffer under Pontius Pilate as judge? Though innocent, Christ was condemned by an earthly judge, and so He freed us from the severe judgment of God that was to fall on us.
• #AOC55 What believest thou concerning Remission of Sins? That God, for the Satisfaction made by Christ, hath put out all the Remembrance of my Sins, and also of that Corruption within me wherewith I must fight all my life time, and doth freely indow me with...
• #AOC59 How art thou righteous before God? Only by Faith in Christ Jesus. So that although my Concience accuse me that I have grievously trespassed against all the Commandments of God, and have not kept one of them, and further am as yet prone...
• #HC60 How are you righteous before God? Only by true faith in Jesus Christ. Although my conscience accuses me that I have grievously sinned against all God’s commandments, have never kept any of them, and am still inclined to all evil, yet...
• #WLC70 What is justification? Justification is an act of God’s free grace unto sinners, in which he pardoneth all their sins, accepteth and accounteth their persons righteous in his sight; not for any thing wrought in them, or don...
• #WLC71 How is justification an act of God’s free grace? Although Christ, by his obedience and death, did make a proper, real, and full satisfaction to God’s justice in the behalf of them that are justified; yet inasmuch as God accepteth the satisfaction fr...
• #BC87 Is any man able perfectly to keep the commandments of God? No mere man since the fall is able in this life perfectly to keep the commandments of God, but doth daily break them in thought, word, or deed.