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

2. How many things are necessary for you to know, that in this comfort you may live and die happily?

FIRST PART: OF MAN'S MISERY

3. From where do you know your misery?

4. What does the Law of God require of us?

5. Can you keep all this perfectly?

6. Did God create man thus, wicked and perverse?

7. From where, then, does this depraved nature of man come?

8. But are we so depraved that we are completely incapable of any good and prone to all evil?

9. Does not God, then, do injustice to man by requiring of him in His Law that which he cannot perform.

10. Will God allow such disobedience and apostasy to go unpunished?

11. But is not God also merciful?

SECOND PART: OF MAN'S REDEMPTION

12. Since, then, by the righteous judgment of God we deserve temporal and eternal punishment, how may we escape this punishment and be again received into favor?

13. Can we ourselves make this satisfaction?

14. Can any mere creature make satisfaction for us?

15. What kind of mediator and redeemer, then, must we seek?

16. Why must he be a true and righteous man?

17. Why must he also be true God?

18. But who now is that Mediator, who in one person is true God and also a true and righteous man?

19. From where do you know this?

20. Are all men, then, saved by Christ as they have perished in Adam?

21. What is true faith?

22. What, then, is necessary for a Christian to believe?

23. What are these articles?

24. How are these articles divided?

25. Since there is but one Divine Being, 1) why do you speak of three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Ghost?

OF GOD THE FATHER

26. What do you believe when you say: "I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth"?

27. What do you understand by the providence of God?

28. What does it profit us to know that God created, and by His providence upholds, all things?

OF GOD THE SON

29. Why is the Son of God called "Jesus," that is, Savior?

30. Do those also believe in the only Savior Jesus, who seek their salvation and welfare from "saints," themselves, or

31. Why is He called "Christ," that is, Anointed?

32. But why are you called a Christian?

33. Why is He called God's "only begotten Son," since we also are the children of God?

34. Why do you call Him "our Lord"?

35. What is the meaning of "conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the virgin Mary"?

36. What benefit do you receive from the holy conception and birth of Christ?

37. What do you understand by the word "suffered"?

38. Why did He suffer "under Pontius Pilate" as judge?

39. Is there anything more in His having been "crucified" than if He had suffered some other death?

40. Why was it necessary for Christ to suffer "death "?

41. Why was He "buried"?

42. Since, then, Christ died for us, why must we also die?

43. What further benefit do we receive from the sacrifice and death of Christ on the cross?

44. Why is it added: "He descended into hell"?

45. What benefit do we receive from the "resurrection" of Christ?

46. What do you understand by the words, "He ascended into heaven"?

47. But is not Christ with us even unto the end of the world, 1) as He has promised?

48. But are not, in this way, the two natures in Christ separated from one another, if the manhood is not wherever the Godhead is?

49. What benefit do we receive from Christ's ascension into heaven?

50. Why is it added: "And sitteth at the right hand of God"?

51. What does this glory of Christ, our Head, profit us?

52. What comfort is it to you that Christ "shall come to judge the living and the dead"?

OF GOD THE HOLY GHOST

53. What do you believe concerning the "Holy Ghost"?

54. What do you believe concerning the "Holy Catholic Church"?

55. What do you understand by the "communion of saints"?

56. What do you believe concerning the "forgiveness of sins"?

57. What comfort do you receive from the "resurrection of the body"?

58. What comfort do you receive from the article "life everlasting"?

59. What does it help you now, that you believe all this?

60. How are you righteous before God?

61. Why do you say that you are righteous by faith only?

62. But why cannot our good works be the whole or part of our righteousness before God?

63. Do our good works merit nothing, even though it is God's will to reward them in this life and in that which is to come?

64. But does not this doctrine make men careless and profane?

THE SACRAMENTS

65. Since, then, we are made partakers of Christ and all His benefits by faith only, where does this faith come from?

66. What are the sacraments?

67. Are both the Word and the sacraments designed to direct our faith to the sacrifice of Christ on the cross as the only ground of our salvation?

68. How many sacraments has Christ instituted in the New Testament?

OF HOLY BAPTISM

69. How is it signified and sealed to you in Holy Baptism that you have part in the one sacrifice of Christ on the cross?

70. What is it to be washed with the blood and Spirit of Christ?

71. Where has Christ promised that we are as certainly washed with His blood and Spirit as with the water of Baptism?

72. Is, then, the outward washing with water itself the washing away of sins?

73. Why then does the Holy Ghost call Baptism the washing of regeneration and the washing away of sins?

74. Are infants also to be baptized?

OF THE HOLY SUPPER

75. How is it signified and sealed to you in the Holy Supper that you partake of the one sacrifice of Christ on the cross and all His benefits?

76. What does it mean to eat the crucified body and drink the shed blood of Christ?

77. Where has Christ promised that He will thus feed and nourish believers with His body and blood as certainly as they eat of this broken bread and drink of this cup?

78. Do, then, the bread and the wine become the real body and blood of Christ?

79. Why then does Christ call the bread His body, and the cup His blood, or the new testament in His blood, and the Apostle Paul, the communion of the body and the blood of Christ?

80. What difference is there between the Lord's Supper and the Pope's Mass?

81. Who are to come to the table of the Lord?

82. Are they, then, also to be admitted to this Supper who show themselves by their confession and life to be unbelieving and ungodly?

83. What is the Office of the Keys?

84. How is the kingdom of heaven opened and shut by the preaching of the Holy Gospel?

85. How is the kingdom of heaven shut and opened by Christian discipline?

THIRD PART: OF THANKFULNESS

86. Since, then, we are redeemed from our misery by grace through Christ, without any merit of ours, why must we do good works?

87. Can they, then, not be saved who do not turn to God from their unthankful, impenitent life?

88. In how many things does true repentance or conversion consist?

89. What is the dying of the old man?

90. What is the making alive of the new man?

91. What are good works?

THE LAW OF GOD

93. How are these Commandments divided?

94. What does God require in the first Commandment?

95. What is idolatry?

96. What does God require in the second Commandment?

97. May we not make any image at all?

98. But may not pictures be tolerated in churches as books for the people?

99. What is required in the third Commandment?

100. Is the profaning of God's name, by swearing and cursing, so grievous a sin that His wrath is kindled against those also who do not help as much as they can to hinder and forbid it?

101. But may we swear reverently by the name of God?

102. May we swear by "the saints" or by any other creatures?

103. What does God require in the fourth Commandment?

104. What does God require in the fifth Commandment?

105. What does God require in the sixth Commandment?

106. Does this Commandment speak only of killing?

107. But is this all that is required: that we do not kill our neighbor?

108. What does the seventh Commandment teach us?

109. Does God forbid nothing more in this Commandment than adultery and such gross sins?

110. What does God forbid in the eighth Commandment?

111. But what does God require of you in this Commandment?

112. What does the ninth Commandment require?

113. What does the tenth Commandment require?

114. Can those who are converted to God keep these Commandments perfectly?

115. Why then does God so strictly enjoin the Ten Commandments upon us, since in this life no one can keep them?

116. Why is prayer necessary for Christians?

117. What belongs to such prayer which is acceptable to God and which He will hear?

118. What has God commanded us to ask of Him?

119. What is the Lord's Prayer?

120. Why did Christ command us to address God thus: "Our Father"?

121: Why is it added: "Who art in heaven"?

122. What is the first petition?

123. What is the second petition?

124. What is the third petition?

125. What is the fourth petition?

126. What is the fifth petition?

127. What is the sixth petition?

128. How do you close this Prayer?

129. What is the meaning of the word "Amen"?