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What is forbidden in the fourth commandment?

The fourth commandment forbids the omission or careless performance of the duties required, and the profaning the day by idleness, or doing that which is in itself sinful, or by unnecessary thoughts, words, or works, about worldly employments or recreations.

Scripture proofs

  • Ezekiel 22:26

    Her priests have done violence to my law and have profaned my holy things. They have made no distinction between the holy and the common, neither have they caused men to discern between the unclean and the clean, and have hidden their eyes from my Sabbaths. So I am profaned among them.

  • Ezekiel 23:38

    Moreover this they have done to me: they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my Sabbaths.

  • Jeremiah 17:21

    The LORD says, “Be careful, and bear no burden on the Sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem.

  • Nehemiah 13:15

    In those days I saw some men treading wine presses on the Sabbath in Judah, bringing in sheaves, and loading donkeys with wine, grapes, figs, and all kinds of burdens which they brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day; and I testified against them in the day in which they sold food.

  • Nehemiah 13:17

    Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said to them, “What evil thing is this that you do, and profane the Sabbath day?

  • Acts 20:7

    On the first day of the week, when the disciples were gathered together to break bread, Paul talked with them, intending to depart on the next day; and continued his speech until midnight.

Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible (public domain).

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