Westminster Larger Catechism

Q139

What are the sins forbidden in the seventh commandment?

The sins forbidden in the seventh commandment, besides the neglect of the duties required,780 are, adultery, fornication,781 rape, incest,782 sodomy, and all unnatural lusts;783 all unclean imaginations, thoughts, purposes, and affections;784 all corrupt or filthy communications, or listening thereunto;785 wanton looks,786 impudent or light behaviour, immodest apparel;787 prohibiting of lawful,788 and dispensing with unlawful marriages;789 allowing, tolerating, keeping of stews, and resorting to them;790 entangling vows of single life,791 undue delay of marriage;792 having more wives or husbands than one at the same time;793 unjust divorce,794 or desertion;795 idleness, gluttony, drunkenness,796 unchaste company;797 lascivious songs, books, pictures, dancings, stage plays;798 and all other provocations to, or acts of uncleanness, either in ourselves or others.799
Duty

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

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