Question 77

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What is forbidden in the seventh commandment?

The seventh commandment forbiddeth all unchaste thoughts, words, and actions.a

What is forbidden in the seventh commandment?

The seventh commandment forbids all unchaste thoughts, words, and actions.a

  1. a. Matthew 15:19; 5:28; Ephesians 5:3–4

    Matthew 15:19

    15:19 For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:

    15:19 For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, and slander.

    Matthew 5:28

    5:28 But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

    5:28 But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman to lust after her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

    Ephesians 5:3–4

    5:3 But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints; 5:4 Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.

    5:3 But among you, as is proper among the saints, there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed. 5:4 Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk, or crude joking, which are out of character, but rather thanksgiving.

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Question 77, sung: The Baptist Catechism Set to Music, Jim Scott Orrick
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Changes from Westminster Shorter Catechism (1647), Question 72

No change.

No change.

Westminster Shorter Catechism (1647), Question 72

What is forbidden in the seventh commandment?

The seventh commandment forbiddeth all unchaste thoughts, words, and actions.

Westminster Shorter Catechism (1647), Question 72

What is forbidden in the seventh commandment?

The seventh commandment forbiddeth all unchaste thoughts, words, and actions.

The Baptist Catechism (1695), Question 77

What is forbidden in the seventh commandment?

The seventh commandment forbiddeth all unchaste thoughts, words, and actions.

Westminster Shorter Catechism (1647), Question 72

What is forbidden in the seventh commandment?

The seventh commandment forbids all unchaste thoughts, words, and actions.

Westminster Shorter Catechism (1647), Question 72

What is forbidden in the seventh commandment?

The seventh commandment forbids all unchaste thoughts, words, and actions.

The Baptist Catechism (modernized) (1695), Question 77

What is forbidden in the seventh commandment?

The seventh commandment forbids all unchaste thoughts, words, and actions.

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Westminster Larger Catechism (1647), parallel to this question

Question 139

What are the sins forbidden in the seventh commandment?

The sins forbidden in the seventh commandment, besides the neglect of the duties required, are, adultery, fornication, rape, incest, sodomy, and all unnatural lusts; all unclean imaginations, thoughts, purposes, and affections; all corrupt or filthy communications, or listening thereunto; wanton looks, impudent or light behavior, immodest apparel; prohibiting of lawful, and dispensing with unlawful marriages; allowing, tolerating, keeping of stews, and resorting to them; entangling vows of single life, undue delay of marriage; having more wives or husbands than one at the same time; unjust divorce, or desertion; idleness, gluttony, drunkenness, unchaste company; lascivious songs, books, pictures, dancings, stage plays; and all other provocations to, or acts of uncleanness, either in ourselves or others.

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