Heidelberg Catechism

Question 10. Will God allow such disobedience and rebellion1 to go unpunished?

Answer: Absolutely not. He is terribly displeased (a) with our original as well as our actual sins; and will punish them by his just judgment both now and eternally, (b) as he has declared, “Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the book of the law.” (c)

1Man’s own willfull disobedience (See answer to Question 9).

(Click through to see scriptural proofs.)

a. Genesis 2:17

… but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.

      Romans 5:12

Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned … 

b. Psalm 5:4-6

For you are not a God who delights in wickedness;

evil may not dwell with you.

The boastful shall not stand before your eyes;

you hate all evildoers.

You destroy those who speak lies;

the Lord abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.

      Nahum 1:2

The Lord is a jealous and avenging God;

the Lord is avenging and wrathful;

the Lord takes vengeance on his adversaries

and keeps wrath for his enemies.

      Exodus 34:7

[God] 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.”

      Romans 1:18

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. 

      Ephesians 5:6

Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.

      Hebrews 9:27

And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment … .

c. Deuteronomy 27:26

‘Cursed be anyone who does not confirm the words of this law by doing them.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’