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Q. 68. What is required in the sixth commandment?

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The sixth commandment requireth all lawful endeavours to preserve our own life, and the life of others.

Eph. 5:28-29; 1 Kings 18:4.

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Index: COMMANDMENTS, TEN Perfect rule of righteousness
Index: DUTY OF GOD In the Ten Commandments
Index: LOVE Love for our neighbor
Index: PASSIONS To be restrained
Index: PATIENCE Patient bearing of the hand of God, a duty
Index: RECREATIONS To be moderately used

Proof texts

Ephesians 5:28-29
KJV
Ephesians 5:28 So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
also cited by 1
- LC 135
1 Kings 18:4
KJV
1 Kings 18:4 For it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the LORD, that Obadiah took an hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)
also cited by 2
- CF 23.3
- LC 135

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