A Catechism for Girls and Boys

Part III: Questions about Salvation

87. Q. Why do you need Christ as a priest? 
       A. Because I am guilty.

(Click through to read scriptural proof.)

• Proverbs 20:9
  

  Who can say, “I have made my heart pure;

  I am clean from my sin”?

• Ecclesiastes 7:20
  

  Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and never sins.

• Romans 3:19-23
  

   Now we know that whatever the law says it speaks to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and the whole world may be held accountable to God. [20] For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.

  But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it—the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction: for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God… .

• Hebrews 10:14, 27-28
  

  For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified.

  … but a fearful expectation of judgment, and a fury of fire that will consume the adversaries. Anyone who has set aside the law of Moses dies without mercy on the evidence of two or three witnesses.

• 1 John 1:8-9
  

  If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Scripture quoted from the English Standard Version.

Taken from A Catechism for Girls and Boys found here.

Previously posted questions and answers.