The Book of Confessions - The Presbyterian Leader

435 10. I John 5:14.
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11. Ps. 47:7; Heb. 12:28; Gen. 18:27; James 5:16; Eph. 6:18; James 1:6, 7; Mark 11:24; Matt.
6:12, 14, 15; Col. 4:2.
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12. I Cor. 14:14.
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13. I John 5:14.
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14. I Tim. 2:1, 2; John 17:20; II Sam. 7:29.
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(i) Ed. 1647 includes: "nor for those of whom it may be known, that they have sinned the sin unto
death."
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15. This statement is based on the absence of any command to pray for the dead, and of any
example in the Scripture of such prayer. I John 5:14.
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16. Original note 16 removed by amendment enacted by the General Assembly in 1939.
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17. Acts 15:21; Acts 17:11; Rev. 1:3.
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18. II Tim. 4:2.
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19. James 1:22; Acts 10:33; Heb. 4:2; Matt. 13:19; Isa. 66:2.
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20. Col. 3:16; Eph. 5:19; James 5:13.
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21. Matt. 28:19; Acts 2:42; I Cor. 11:23-29.
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22. Deut. 6:13.
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(j) Ed. 1647 lacks: "and."
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23. Ps. 116:14; Isa. 19:21; Neh. 10:29.
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