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    What is required in the fifth commandment?

    The fifth commandment requireth the preserving the honour and performing the duties belonging to every one in their several places and relations, as superiors,a inferiors,b or equals.c

    What is required in the fifth commandment?

    The fifth commandment requires the preserving the honor and performing the duties belonging to every one in their several places and relations, as superiors,a inferiors,b or equals.c

    1. a. Ephesians 5:21

      Ephesians 5:21

      5:21 Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.

      5:21 Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.

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    2. b. 1 Peter 2:17

      1 Peter 2:17

      2:17 Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.

      2:17 Treat everyone with high regard: Love the brotherhood of believers, fear God, honor the king.

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    3. c. Romans 12:10

      Romans 12:10

      12:10 Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;

      12:10 Be devoted to one another in brotherly love. Outdo yourselves in honoring one another.

      King James VersionBerean Standard Bible

    Question 69, sung: The Baptist Catechism Set to Music, Jim Scott Orrick
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    Changes from Westminster Shorter Catechism (1647), Question 64

    No change, but in spelling and punctuation.

    No change, but in spelling and punctuation.

    Westminster Shorter Catechism (1647), Question 64

    What is required in the fifth commandment?

    The fifth commandment requireth the preserving the honour and performing the duties belonging to every one in their several places and relations, as superiors, inferiors, or equals.

    Westminster Shorter Catechism (1647), Question 64

    What is required in the fifth commandment?

    The fifth commandment requireth the preserving the honor, and performing the duties, belonging to every one in their several places and relations, as superiors, inferiors, or equals.

    The Baptist Catechism (1695), Question 69

    What is required in the fifth commandment?

    The fifth commandment requireth the preserving the honour and performing the duties belonging to every one in their several places and relations, as superiors, inferiors, or equals.

    Westminster Shorter Catechism (1647), Question 64

    What is required in the fifth commandment?

    The fifth commandment requires the preserving the honor and performing the duties belonging to every one in their several places and relations, as superiors, inferiors, or equals.

    Westminster Shorter Catechism (1647), Question 64

    What is required in the fifth commandment?

    The fifth commandment requires the preserving the honor, and performing the duties, belonging to every one in their several places and relations, as superiors, inferiors, or equals.

    The Baptist Catechism (modernized) (1695), Question 69

    What is required in the fifth commandment?

    The fifth commandment requires the preserving the honor and performing the duties belonging to every one in their several places and relations, as superiors, inferiors, or equals.

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    Westminster Larger Catechism (1647), parallel to this question

    Question 126

    What is the general scope of the fifth commandment?

    The general scope of the fifth commandment is, the performance of those duties which we mutually owe in our several relations, as inferiors, superiors, or equals.

    Question 127

    What is the honor that inferiors owe to their superiors?

    The honor which inferiors owe to their superiors is, all due reverence in heart, word, and behavior; prayer and thanksgiving for them; imitation of their virtues and graces; willing obedience to their lawful commands and counsels; due submission to their corrections; fidelity to, defense and maintenance of their persons and authority, according to their several ranks, and the nature of their places; bearing with their infirmities, and covering them in love, that so they may be an honor to them and to their government.

    Question 129

    What is required of superiors towards their inferiors?

    It is required of superiors, according to that power they receive from God, and that relation wherein they stand, to love, pray for, and bless their inferiors; to instruct, counsel, and admonish them; countenancing, commending, and rewarding such as do well; and discountenancing, reproving, and chastising such as do ill; protecting, and providing for them all things necessary for soul and body: and by grave, wise, holy, and exemplary carriage, to procure glory to God, honor to themselves, and so to preserve that authority which God hath put upon them.

    Question 131

    What are the duties of equals?

    The duties of equals are, to regard the dignity and worth of each other, in giving honor to go one before another; and to rejoice in each other’s gifts and advancement, as their own.

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