Question 81 of 118
What is forbidden in the eighth commandment?
The eighth commandment forbids whatsoever does or may unjustly hinder our own or our neighbor’s wealth or outward state.
Scripture proofs
- 1 Timothy 5:8
But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
- Proverbs 28:19
One who works his land will have an abundance of food; but one who chases fantasies will have his fill of poverty.
- Proverbs 23:20-21
Don’t be among ones drinking too much wine, or those who gorge themselves on meat; for the drunkard and the glutton shall become poor; and drowsiness clothes them in rags.
- Ephesians 4:28
Let him who stole steal no more; but rather let him labor, producing with his hands something that is good, that he may have something to give to him who has need.
Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible (public domain).
More on the law and the ten commandments
- Q45. What is the duty which God requires of man?
- Q46. What did God at first reveal to man for the rule of his obedience?
- Q47. Where is the moral law summarily comprehended?
- Q48. What is the sum of the Ten Commandments?
- Q49. What is the preface to the Ten Commandments?
- Q50. What does the preface to the Ten Commandments teach us?
- Q51. Which is the first commandment?
- Q52. What is required in the first commandment?
- Q53. What is forbidden in the first commandment?
- Q54. What are we especially taught by these words, “before me,” in the first commandment?
- Q55. Which is the second commandment?
- Q56. What is required in the second commandment?