THE SEVENTH COMMANDMENT (EXODUS 20: 14)
"Thou shalt not commit adultery."
The duties required by the seventh commandment are,
-chastity in body, mind, affections, words, and behavior; and
-the preservation of it in ourselves and others;
-watchfulness over the eyes and all the senses;
-temperance; keeping in chaste company; modesty in apparel;
-marriage by those that have not the gift of continency;
-conjugal love, and cohabitation;
-diligent labor in our callings;
-shunning
all occasions of uncleanness, and resisting temptation thereunto.
(taken from the Larger Catechism of the Presbyterian Church - Answer to
Question 138)
Commanded: Loving
and being faithful to your spouse with the highest regard for the
sanctity of the God-ordained institution of marriage. Loving
others with a sexually pure, chaste love, striving to preserve and
promote their chastity of heart and behavior as well as your own.
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 and impudent or light behavior;
-prohibiting of lawful, and dispensing with unlawful marriages;
- allowing, tolerating, keeping of (brothels), and resorting to them;
-entangling vows of single life;
-undue delay of marriage;
-unjust
divorce or desertion or 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. (taken from the Larger Catechism of the Presbyterian Church
- Answer to Question 139).
Forbidden:
Self-indulging in sexual acts and impure thoughts (outside of the
God-ordained state of marriage). Treating the institution of
marriage lightly; indulging in anything, even imaginations, that tend
to defile yourself, or in questionable behavior or speech that might
stimulate others to lustful feelings.
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