Q. 55. What is forbidden in the third commandment?

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The third commandment forbiddeth all profaning or abusing of anything whereby God maketh himself known.

Mal. 1:6-7, 12; Mal. 2:2; Mal. 3:14.

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Index: COMMANDMENTS, TEN Perfect rule of righteousness
Index: CONVERSATION What it should be
Index: CURIOSITY Such prying into God’s decrees forbidden
Index: CURSING Sinful
Index: DECREES OF GOD Curious prying into them forbidden
Index: DUTY OF GOD In the Ten Commandments
Index: GOD Our duty to God
Index: HYPOCRISY Sinful
Index: NAME OF GOD How it should be used, how profaned
Index: OATH In things not sinful it binds to performance of matters involved even though it is to man’s own hurt
Index: QUARRELING At God’s decrees and providences, sinful
Index: QUESTIONS Curious and unprofitable ones to be avoided
Index: SCOFFING Sinful
Index: VOW Violating lawful and fulfilling unlawful vows is sinful

Malachi 1:6-7
KJV
Malachi 1:6 A son honoureth his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith the LORD of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name?
also cited by 1
- LC 113
Malachi 1:12
KJV
Malachi 1:12 But ye have profaned it, in that ye say, The table of the LORD is polluted; and the fruit thereof, even his meat, is contemptible.
also cited by 1
- LC 113
Malachi 2:2
KJV
Malachi 2:2 If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith the LORD of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings: yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay it to heart.
also cited by 1
- LC 113
Malachi 3:14
KJV
Malachi 3:14 Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts?
also cited by 1
- LC 113

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