The Heidelberg Catechism

What it is

A hundred and twenty-nine questions and answers arranged as guilt, grace, and gratitude — opening with what a person's only comfort in life and death is, and answering in the first person.

Why it lasted

The warmest of the Reformation catechisms and the most widely used, still a confessional standard for Reformed churches on several continents.

Scripture it works from

Where to read it

Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.

• Christian Classics Ethereal Library
• Project Gutenberg
• Internet Archive

These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.