Now I Belong to Jesus

Q. What is your only comfort in life and death? 

That I am not my own, 

• but belong with body and soul, 
• both in life and in death, 
• to my faithful Savior Jesus Christ. 

For the Bible Tells Me So...

1 Corinthians 6:19,20 Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.

Romans 14:7-9 For none of us lives to himself, and no one dies to himself. For if we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or die, we are the Lord’s. For to this end Christ died and rose and lived again, that He might be Lord of both the dead and the living. 

1 Corinthians 3:23 And you are Christ’s, and Christ is God’s. 

Titus 2:14 …who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from every lawless deed and purify for Himself His own special people, zealous for good works.

He has fully paid for all my sins with His precious blood, 

For the Bible Tells Me So...

1 Peter 1:18,19 ..knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your aimless conduct received by tradition from your fathers, but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot. 

1 John 1:7 But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin. 

1 John 2:2 And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the whole world.

and has set me free from all the power of the devil.

 John 8:34-36 Jesus answered them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, whoever commits sin is a slave of sin. And a slave does not abide in the house forever, but a son abides forever. Therefore if the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed.” 

Hebrews 2:14,15 Inasmuch then as the children have partaken of flesh and blood, He Himself might destroy him who had the power of death, that is, the devil, and release those who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage. 

1 John 3:8 He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil.

The Heidelberg Catechism Lord's Day 1