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The Eighth Commandment 8.1 Guard against negligence 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…
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…
The Seventh Commandment 7.4 Regulate divorce Divorce is permitted under certain conditions of indecency. 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…
The Seventh Commandment Leviticus 18:23 “And you shall not lie with any animal and so make yourself unclean with it, neither shall any woman give herself to an animal to lie with it: it is perversion.” Exodus 22:19 “Whoever lies…
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.” Leviticus 18:22 “You shall not lie with a male as with a…
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…
The Seventh Commandment 7.3 Do not commit other unlawful relations Do not allow those practices that cheapen sexuality and threaten the integrity and lawful purposes of sexual activity. Leviticus 20:14 “If a man takes a woman and her mother also,…
The Seventh Commandment Leviticus 20:20 “If a man lies with his uncle’s wife, he has uncovered his uncle’s nakedness; they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless.” Leviticus 20:12 “If a man lies with his daughter-in-law, both of them…
The Seventh Commandment Deuteronomy 22:22 “If a man is found lying with the wife of another man, both of them shall die, the man who lay with the woman, and the woman. So you shall purge the evil from Israel.”…
The Seventh Commandment 7.2 Do not commit unlawful relations between men and women Adultery in all its forms is condemned. Leviticus 18:20 “And you shall not lie sexually with your neighbor’s wife and so make yourself unclean with her.” 1…