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Lord's Day 41
Question 108: What does the seventh commandment teach us?
Question 109: Does God forbid in this commandment, only adultery, and such like gross sins?
A.
That all uncleanness is accursed of God: (a)
and that therefore
we must with all our hearts detest the same, (b)
and live chastely and temperately, (c)
whether in holy wedlock, or in single life. (d)
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(a)
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Lev.18:27 (For all these abominations have the men of the land done,
which were before you, and the land is defiled;)
Lev.18:28 That the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as
it spued out the nations that were before you.
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(b)
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Jude 1:23 And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire;
hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
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(c)
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1 Thess.4:3 For this is the will of God, even your sanctification,
that ye should abstain from fornication:
1 Thess.4:4 That every one of you should know how to possess his
vessel in sanctification and honour;
1 Thess.4:5 Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles
which know not God:
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(d)
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Heb.13:4 Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but
whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
1 Cor.7:7 For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every
man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another
after that.
1 Cor.7:8 I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for
them if they abide even as I.
1 Cor.7:9 But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better
to marry than to burn.
1 Cor.7:27 Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou
loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.
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A.
Since both our body and soul are temples of the holy Ghost,
he commands us to preserve them pure and holy:
therefore he forbids all unchaste actions,
gestures, words, (a)
thoughts, desires, (b)
and whatever can entice men thereto. (c)
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(a)
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Eph.5:3 But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it
not be once named among you, as becometh saints;
Eph.5:4 Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which
are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.
1 Cor.6:18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the
body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
1 Cor.6:19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy
Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
1 Cor.6:20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in
your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
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(b)
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Matt.5:27 Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou
shalt not commit adultery:
Matt.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.
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(c)
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Eph.5:18 And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled
with the Spirit;
1 Cor.15:33 Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
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