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Q. 72. What is forbidden in the seventh commandment?

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

Matt. 15:19; Matt. 5:28; Eph. 5:3-4.

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Index: ADULTERY Forbidden
Index: CHASTITY
Index: COMMANDMENTS, TEN Perfect rule of righteousness
Index: COMPANY Unchaste company not to be kept
Index: DANCING Lascivious dancing forbidden
Index: DUTY OF GOD In the Ten Commandments
Index: IDLENESS Unlawful
Index: INCEST Forbidden
Index: LOOKS Wanton looks sinful
Index: MARRIAGE Between more than one man and one woman at a time unlawful
Index: PICTURES Lascivious pictures forbidden
Index: POLYGAMY Unlawful
Index: SINGING Lascivious songs forbidden

Proof texts

Matthew 15:19
KJV
Matthew 15:19 For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
also cited by 4
Matthew 5:28
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Matthew 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.
also cited by 1
- LC 139
Ephesians 5:3-4
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Ephesians 5:3 But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;
also cited by 1
- LC 139

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