Q139
What are the sins forbidden in the seventh commandment?
The sins forbidden in the seventh commandment, besides the neglect of the duties required,779 are, adultery, fornication,780 rape, incest,781 sodomy, and all unnatural lusts;782 all unclean imaginations, thoughts, purposes, and affections;783 all corrupt or filthy communications, or listening thereunto;784 wanton looks,785 impudent or light behaviour, immodest apparel;786 prohibiting of lawful, and dispensing with unlawful marriages;787 allowing, tolerating, keeping of stews, and resorting to them;788 entangling vows of single life,789 undue delay of marriage;790 having more wives or husbands than one at the same time;791 unjust divorce,792 or desertion;793 idleness, gluttony, drunkenness,794 unchaste company;795 lascivious songs, books, pictures, dancings, stage plays;796 and all other provocations to, or acts of uncleanness, either in ourselves or others.797
Scripture Proofs
780
Proverbs 5:7
781
Hebrews 13:4Galatians 5:19
782
2 Samuel 13:141 Corinthians 5:1
783
Romans 1:24Romans 1:26-27Leviticus 20:15-16
784
Matthew 5:28Matthew 15:19Colossians 3:5
785
Ephesians 5:3-4Proverbs 7:5Proverbs 7:21-22
786
Isaiah 3:162 Peter 2:14
787
Proverbs 7:10Proverbs 7:13
788
1 Timothy 4:3
789
Leviticus 18:1-21Mark 6:18Malachi 2:11-12
790
1 Kings 15:122 Kings 23:7Deuteronomy 23:17-18Leviticus 19:29Jeremiah 5:7Proverbs 7:24-27
791
Matthew 19:10-11
792
1 Corinthians 7:7-9Genesis 38:26
793
Malachi 2:14-15Matthew 19:5
794
Malachi 2:16Matthew 5:32
795
1 Corinthians 7:12-13
796
Ezekiel 16:49Proverbs 23:30-33
797
Genesis 39:19Proverbs 5:8
798
Ephesians 5:4Ezekiel 23:14-16Isaiah 23:15-17Isaiah 3:16Mark 6:22Romans 13:131 Peter 4:3
799
2 Kings 9:30Jeremiah 4:30Ezekiel 23:40