Guard Against Negligence The Eighth Commandment Love for neighbor requires active concern for their property and full restoration of any loss we may cause. Exodus 22:6 “If fire breaks out and catches in thorns so that the stacked grain or the standing grain or the field is consumed, he who started the fire ...

A Call to Stewardship The Eighth Commandment Exodus 20:15 “You shall not steal.” Deuteronomy 5:19 “‘And you shall not steal.’” All things have been created to serve God’s purposes in bringing glory and honor to His Name (Ps. 119:89-91). God distributes His blessing among men as He will, to whom He will, and in the proportion ...

Stealing The Eighth Commandment You shall not steal The Commandment God is sovereign in the disposition of blessings, and He calls each of us to exercise proper stewardship over what He has entrusted to us and to respect and preserve the stewardship of others. We must not, by stealing in any way, ...

Divorce The Seventh Commandment 7.4 Regulate divorce Deuteronomy 24:1-4 “‘When a man takes a wife and marries her, if then she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some indecency in her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her ...

Homosexuality and Bestiality The Seventh Commandment Leviticus 18:22 “You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination.” Leviticus 20:13 “If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon ...

Cult Prostitution The Seventh Commandment Leviticus 19:29 “Do not profane your daughter by making her a prostitute, lest the land fall into prostitution and the land become full of depravity.” Prostitution was closely linked to idolatry in pagan practice. It was often the case that pagan centers of worship included male and female ...

Rape The Seventh Commandment Deuteronomy 22:25-27 “But if in the open country a man meets a young woman who is betrothed, and the man seizes her and lies with her, then only the man who lay with her shall die. But you shall do nothing to the young woman; she has committed no ...

Adultery with a Betrothed Woman The Seventh Commandment Deuteronomy 22:23, 24 “If there is a betrothed virgin, and a man meets her in the city and lies with her, then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them to death with stones, the ...

Premarital Sex The Seventh Commandment Exodus 22:16, 17 “If a man seduces a virgin who is not engaged to be married and lies with her, he shall give the bride-price for her and make her his wife. If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he shall pay ...

Adultery (4) The Seventh Commandment 7.3 Do not commit other unlawful relations Leviticus 20:14 “If a man takes a woman and her mother also, it is depravity; he and they shall be burned with fire, that there may be no depravity among you.” This statute is guards against a violation of marriage on ...