The LORD is near to His people and will surely save them no matter their circumstances, and He will bring them safely home by keeping them under His loving discipline.

The LORD alone is God and King over all the nations, and He will rightly judge those who will not trust in Him but will save those who love Him.

The LORD is gracious and kind to His servants even when they need His correction and consolation.

Our deepest desires determine and empower our idols, and they will rule over us if we do not turn away from them.

Understanding the sources of their superstitions and recognizing the force they wielded in shaping their lives will keep us from walking the same course to destruction.

— Paragraph 2 These good works, done in obedience to God’s commandments, are the fruits and evidences of a true and lively faith;3 and by them believers manifest their thankfulness,4 strengthen their…

— Paragraph 1 Good works are only such as God has commanded in his Holy Word,1 and not such as without the warrant thereof are devised by men out of blind…

Chapter 15 Paragraph 3 This saving repentance is an evangelical grace,4 whereby a person, being by the Holy Spirit made sensible of the manifold evils of his sin, does, by faith…

Paragraph 3 This faith, although it be in different stages, and may be weak or strong,11 yet it is in the least degree of it different in the kind or nature…

Paragraph 1 The grace of faith, whereby the elect are enabled to believe to the saving of their souls, is the work of the Spirit of Christ in their hearts,1 and…