## Lord’s Day 2

### 3. Q. How do you come to know your misery?

**A**.The law of God tells me.<sup>1</sup>

<sup>1</sup> [Rom. 3:20](/References/Bible/45%20-%20Romans/Romans3.md#20); [7:7–25](/References/Bible/45%20-%20Romans/Romans7.md#7)

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### 4. Q. What does God’s law require of us?

**A**. Christ teaches us this in summary in Matthew 22:37–40: “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind, and with all your strength.”<sup>1</sup> This is the greatest and first commandment. And a second is like it: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”<sup>2</sup> On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.

<sup>1</sup> [Deut. 6:5](/References/Bible/05%20-%20Deuteronomy/Deuteronomy6.md#5)
<sup>2</sup> [Lev. 19:18](/References/Bible/03%20-%20Leviticus/Leviticus19.md#18)

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### 5. Q. Can you live up to all this perfectly?

**A**. No.<sup>1</sup> I am inclined by nature to hate God and my neighbor.<sup>2</sup>

<sup>1</sup> [Rom. 3:9–20, 23](/References/Bible/45%20-%20Romans/Romans3.md#9); [1 John 1:8, 10](/References/Bible/62%20-%201John/1John1.md#8)
<sup>2</sup> [Gen. 6:5](/References/Bible/01%20-%20Genesis/Genesis6.md#5); [Jer. 17:9](/References/Bible/24%20-%20Jeremiah/Jeremiah17.md#9); [Rom. 7:23–24](/References/Bible/45%20-%20Romans/Romans7.md#23); [8:7](/References/Bible/45%20-%20Romans/Romans8.md#7); [Eph. 2:1–3](/References/Bible/49%20-%20Ephesians/Ephesians2.md); [Titus 3:3](/References/Bible/56%20-%20Titus/Titus3.md#3)