# “True piety” by John Calvin

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- Published: 2024-05-30T11:00:00-05:00
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“True piety consists rather in a pure and true zeal which loves God altogether as
Father, and reveres Him truly as Lord, embraces His justice and dreads to offend
Him more than to die.”

–John Calvin, [_Instruction in Faith (1537)_](https://amzn.to/4bPJ73C), Trans. and
Ed. Paul T. Fuhrmann (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 1537/1977), 22.

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## Comments

### By: Maya

- Link: https://tollelege.net/2024/05/30/true-piety-by-john-calvin/comment-page-1/#comment-30034
- Published: 2024-05-30T14:01:01-05:00

Pharisees were pious. So are Muslims, Buddhists, Catholics, Mormons, you fill in
the blanks. You can have all the piety in the world but if you are following a false
god or doctrine, it is meaningless.

You can “offend Him” by rejecting the truth that God so loved the world that He 
sent His only begotten Son Jesus Christ to die on the Cross because He desires that
ALL persons be saved.