What is the chief and highest end of man?


A. Man’s chief and highest end is to glorify God, and fully to enjoy him forever.


Psalm 16:5–11


5 The LORD is my chosen portion and my cup;


you hold my lot.


6 The lines have fallen for me in pleasant places;


indeed, I have a beautiful inheritance.


7 I bless the LORD who gives me counsel;


in the night also my heart instructs me.


8 I have set the LORD always before me;


because he is at my right hand, I shall not be shaken.


9 Therefore my heart is glad, and my whole being rejoices;


my flesh also dwells secure.


10 For you will not abandon my soul to Sheol,


or let your holy one see corruption.


11 You make known to me the path of life;


in your presence there is fullness of joy;


at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.


Psalm 69:6–12


6 Let not those who hope in you be put to shame through me,


O Lord GOD of hosts;


let not those who seek you be brought to dishonor through me,


O God of Israel.


7 For it is for your sake that I have borne reproach,


that dishonor has covered my face.


8 I have become a stranger to my brothers,


an alien to my mother’s sons.


9 For zeal for your house has consumed me,


and the reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.


10 When I wept and humbled my soul with fasting,


it became my reproach.


11 When I made sackcloth my clothing,


I became a byword to them.


12 I am the talk of those who sit in the gate,


and the drunkards make songs about me.


Psalm 73:24 –28


24 You guide me with your counsel,


and afterward you will receive me to glory.


25 Whom have I in heaven but you?


And there is nothing on earth that I desire besides you.


26 My flesh and my heart may fail,


but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.


27 For behold, those who are far from you shall perish;


you put an end to everyone who is unfaithful to you.


28 But for me it is good to be near God;


I have made the Lord GOD my refuge,


that I may tell of all your works.


John 17:21 –23


21 that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me. 22 The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one, 23 I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me.


Romans 11:36


36 For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen.


1 Corinthians 1:31


31 so that, as it is written, “Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.”


1 Corinthians 6:20


20 for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.


Revelation 21:3–4


3 And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God. 4 He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.”