Question 1 - What is your only comfort in life and death?
Answer - That I am not my own,¹ but belong with body and soul, both in life and in death,² to my faithful Saviour Jesus Christ.³ He has fully paid for all my sins with His precious blood⁴, and has set me free from all the power of the devil.⁵ He also preserves me in such a way⁶ that without the will of my heavenly Father not a hair can fall from my head;⁷ indeed, all things must work together for my salvation.⁸ Therefore, by His Holy Spirit He also assures me of eternal life⁹ and makes me heartily willing and ready from now on to live for Him.¹⁰

¹ I Cor. 6:19, 20 ² Rom. 14:7-9. ³ I Cor. 3:23; Tit. 2:14. ⁴ I Pet. 1:18, 19; I John 1:7; 2:2. ⁵ John 8:34-36; Heb. 2:14, 15; I John 3:8. ⁶ John 6:39, 40; 10:27-30; II Thess. 3:3; I Pet. 1:5. ⁷ Matt. 10:29-31; Luke 21:16-18. ⁸ Rom. 8:28. ⁹ Rom. 8:15, 16; II Cor. 1:21, 22; 5:5; Eph. 1:13, 14. ¹⁰ Rom. 8:14.

Question 2 - What do you need to know in order to live and die in the joy of this comfort?

Answer - First, how great my sins and misery are;¹ second, how I am delivered from all my sins and misery;² third, how I am to be thankful to God for such deliverance.³

¹ Rom. 3:9, 10; I John 1:10. ² John 17:3; Acts 4:12; 10:43. ³ Matt. 5:16; Rom. 6:13; Eph. 5:8-10; I Pet. 2:9, 10.