1. Confirmation Lesson Four (Loving God First—Commandments 1-3)

2. Memory Verses

3. Memory Verses
For I am not _______ of the gospel, for it is the _____ of God for _________ to everyone who ________, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. ______ 1:16
For by grace you have been _____ through _____. And this is not your own _____; it is the gift of God, not a ______ of ____, so that no one may _____. Ephesians 2:8-9
For we are his ___________, created in ______ _____for good works, which God prepared __________, that we should walk in them. Ephesians 2:10
I will put ______ between you and the _____, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall ______ your head, and you shall bruise his____.” Genesis 3:15
I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.” Genesis 12:3
But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.” 1 Samuel 16:7

4. Memory Verses
This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it. Psalm 118:24
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise. Psalm 51:17
But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it. Romans 3:21
The righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction: Romans 3:22
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. Romans 3:23
and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, Romans 3:24

5. Memory Verses
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 6:23
I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Romans 12:1
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. Romans 12:2
So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin. James 4:17
So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead. James 2:17

6. Exodus 20:3
You shall have no other gods before me.

7. John 4:24
God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.

8. Psalm 90:2
Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world,     from everlasting to everlasting you are God.

9. Malachi 3:6
For I the Lord do not change; therefore you, O children of Jacob, are not consumed

10. Psalm 139:1-4
O Lord, you have searched me and known me!  You know when I sit down and when I rise up;     you discern my thoughts from afar. You search out my path and my lying down     and are acquainted with all my ways. Even before a word is on my tongue,     behold, O Lord, you know it altogether.

11. Jeremiah 23:24
Can a man hide himself in secret places so that I cannot see him? declares the Lord. Do I not fill heaven and earth? declares the Lord.

12. Leviticus 19:2
“Speak to all the congregation of the people of Israel and say to them, You shall be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy.

13. Deuteronomy 32:4
The Rock, his work is perfect,     for all his ways are justice. A God of faithfulness and without iniquity,     just and upright is he.

14. Psalm 145:9
The Lord is good to all,     and his mercy is over all that he has made.

15. Exodus 34:6-7
The Lord passed before him and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children's children, to the third and the fourth generation.”

16. 1 Corinthians 8:6
yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist.

17. Matthew 28:19
Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

18. Isaiah 42:8
I am the Lord; that is my name; my glory I give to no other, nor my praise to carved idols.

19. Matthew 22:37-38
And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment.

20. Matthew 10:37
Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

21. Ephesians 5:5
For you may be sure of this, that everyone who is sexually immoral or impure, or who is covetous (that is, an idolater), has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.

22. Proverbs 3:5
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.

23. Exodus 20:7
You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.

24. Exodus 20:7
You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.

25. Leviticus 24:15-16
And speak to the people of Israel, saying, Whoever curses his God shall bear his sin.  Whoever blasphemes the name of the Lord shall surely be put to death. All the congregation shall stone him. The sojourner as well as the native, when he blasphemes the Name, shall be put to death.

26. James 3:9-10
With it we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse people who are made in the likeness of God.  From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.

27. Matthew 5:34-35
But I say to you, Do not take an oath at all, either by heaven, for it is the throne of God, or by the earth, for it is his footstool, or by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King.

28. Deuteronomy 18:10-12
There shall not be found among you anyone who burns his son or his daughter as an offering, anyone who practices divination or tells fortunes or interprets omens, or a sorcerer or a charmer or a medium or a necromancer or one who inquires of the dead, for whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord. And because of these abominations the Lord your God is driving them out before you.

29. Jeremiah 23:31
Behold, I am against the prophets, declares the Lord, who use their tongues and declare, ‘declares the Lord.’

30. Matthew 15:8
This people honors me with their lips,     but their heart is far from me

31. Psalm 50:15
and call upon me in the day of trouble;     I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me.

32. Psalm 103:1
Bless the Lord, O my soul,     and all that is within me,     bless his holy name!

33. Exodus 20:8
Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy

34. Colossians 2:16-17
Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink, or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath. These are a shadow of the things to come, but the substance belongs to Christ.

35. Hebrews 10:25
not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.

36. John 8:47
Whoever is of God hears the words of God. The reason why you do not hear them is that you are not of God.

37. 1 Thessalonians 2:13
And we also thank God constantly for this, that when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men but as what it really is, the word of God, which is at work in you believers.

38. Ecclesiastes 5:1
Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. To draw near to listen is better than to offer the sacrifice of fools, for they do not know that they are doing evil.

39. Luke 11:28
But he said, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and keep it!”

40. Hebrews 13:17
Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who will have to give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be of no advantage to you.

41. Mark 16:15
And he said to them, “Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation.

42. Worksheet #4