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title: "Question 36: What are the benefits which in this life do accompany or flow from justification, adoption, and sanctification? | Westminster Shorter Catechism"
description: "Westminster Shorter Catechism, question 36: What are the benefits which in this life do accompany or flow from justification, adoption, and sanctification? The benefits which in this life do accompany or flow from justification, adoption, and sanctification, are, assurance of God"
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# Question 36: What are the benefits which in this life do accompany or flow from justification, adoption, and sanctification? | Westminster Shorter Catechism

The benefits which in this life do accompany or flow from justification, adoption, and sanctification, are, assurance of God’s love, peace of conscience, joy in the Holy Ghost, increase of grace, and perseverance therein to the end.

Scripture proofs: Rom. 5:1-2, 5; Rom. 14:17; Prov. 4:18; 1 John 5:13; 1 Pet. 1:5.

Original source: [2026 RPCNA Constitution](https://ctkrp.org/assets/rpcna-constitution-2026.pdf#page=163)

## Related reading

- [Assurance of salvation](https://ctkrp.org/learn/topics/assurance-of-salvation/)
- [Westminster Confession of Faith · Chapter 18: Of the Assurance of Grace and Salvation](https://ctkrp.org/confession/chapter-18-assurance-of-grace-and-salvation/)
- [Westminster Larger Catechism · Question 79: May not true believers, by reason of their imperfections, and the many temptations and sins they are overtaken with, fall away from the state of grace?](https://ctkrp.org/larger-catechism/question-79-may-not-true-believers-by-reason-of-their-imperfections/)
- [Question 35](https://ctkrp.org/shorter-catechism/question-35-what-is-sanctification/)
- [Question 37](https://ctkrp.org/shorter-catechism/question-37-what-benefits-do-believers-receive-from-christ-at-death/)

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