Q138
What are the duties required in the seventh commandment?
The duties required in the seventh commandment are, chastity in body, mind, affections,766 words,767 and behaviour;768 and the preservation of it in ourselves and others;769 watchfulness over the eyes and all the senses;770 temperance,771 keeping of chaste company,772 modesty in apparel;773 marriage by those that have not the gift of continency,774 conjugal love,775 and cohabitation;776 diligent labour in our callings;777 shunning all occasions of uncleanness, and resisting temptations thereunto.778
Scripture Proofs
767
1 Thessalonians 4:4Job 31:11 Corinthians 7:34
768
Colossians 4:6
769
1 Peter 2:3
770
1 Corinthians 7:21 Corinthians 7:35-36
771
Job 31:1
772
Acts 24:24-25
773
Proverbs 2:16-20
774
1 Timothy 2:9
775
1 Corinthians 7:21 Corinthians 7:9
776
Proverbs 5:19-20
777
1 Peter 3:7
778
Proverbs 31:11Proverbs 31:27-28
779
Proverbs 5:8Genesis 39:8-10