Q104
What are the duties required in the first commandment?
The duties required in the first commandment are, the knowing and acknowledging of God to be the only true God, and our God;446 and to worship and glorify him accordingly,447 by thinking,448 meditating,449 remembering,450 highly esteeming,451 honouring,452 adoring,453 choosing,454 loving,455 desiring,456 fearing of him;457 believing him;458 trusting459 hoping,460 delighting,461 rejoicing in him;462 being zealous for him;463 calling upon him, giving all praise and thanks,464 and yielding all obedience and submission to him with the whole man;465 being careful in all things to please him,466 and sorrowful when in any thing he is offended;467 and walking humbly with him.468
Scripture Proofs
446
1 Chronicles 28:9Deuteronomy 26:7Isaiah 43:10Jeremiah 14:22
447
Psalm 95:6-7Matthew 4:10Psalm 29:2
448
Malachi 3:16
449
Psalm 63:6
450
Ecclesiastes 12:1
451
Psalm 71:19
452
Malachi 1:6
453
Isaiah 45:23
454
Joshua 24:15Joshua 24:22
455
Deuteronomy 6:5
456
Psalm 73:25
457
Isaiah 8:13
458
Exodus 14:31
459
Isaiah 26:4
460
Psalm 130:7
461
Psalm 37:4
462
Psalm 32:11
463
Romans 12:11Numbers 25:11
464
Philippians 4:6
465
Jeremiah 7:23James 4:7
466
1 John 3:22
467
Jeremiah 31:18Psalm 119:136
468
Micah 6:8