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The Belgic Confession of Faith

Written by Guido de Brès in 1561 as a defense of the Reformed faith, the Belgic Confession remains our church’s confession of what the Scriptures teach. Scripture texts from the RCUS outline open at Blue Letter Bible.

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We all believe with the heart and confess with the mouth that there is one only simple and spiritual Being, which we call God; and that He is eternal, incomprehensible, invisible, immutable, infinite, almighty, perfectly wise, just, good, and the overflowing fountain of all good.

Jn. 4:24Eph. 4:6Deut. 6:4I Tim. 2:5I Cor. 8:6Dt. 33:27Is. 40:28Rom. 11:33Rom. 1:20I Tim. 1:17Ps. 102:27Mal. 3:6Heb. 13:8James 1:17I Kg. 8:27Ps. 147: 5Is. 44:6Jer. 23:24Gen. 17:1Dt. 32:39I Sam. 14:6I Chr. 29:11,12II Chr. 20:6Job 34:14Ps. 115:3Is. 26:4Mk. 14:36Rev. 19:1,6Ps. 104:24Dan. 2:20-22Rom. 16:27Jer. 12:1Job 34:10-12Zeph. 3:5Rom. 3:4- 6, 26I Jn. 1:9Rev. 16:5-7Ex. 34:6Ps. 25:8Mt. 19:17Rom. 11:22I Chr. 29:10-12II Chr. 5:13Ps. 33:5