Command 7 Adultery. (371)

Show notes are based on the statements in the Westminster Catechism questions on the 7th commandment. In preparing my notes, my spell checkers insisted on updating to modern, American English spelling. I let them win.

137. Which is the seventh commandment?
Answer: The seventh commandment is, thou shalt not commit adultery.

138. What are the duties required in the seventh commandment?
Answer: The duties required in the seventh commandment are, chastity in body, mind, affections,
1 1 Thess. 4:4; Job. 31:1; 1 Cor. 7:34

words,
2 Col. 4:6

and behavior;
3 1 Pet. 2:3

and the preservation of it in ourselves and others;
4 1 Cor. 7:2,35,36

watchfulness over the eyes and all the senses;
5 Job. 31:1

temperance,
6 Acts 24:24,25

keeping of chaste company,
7 Prov. 2:16-20

modesty in apparel;
8 1 Tim. 2:9

marriage by those that have not the gift of continency;
9 1 Cor. 7:2,9

conjugal love,
10 Prov. 5:19,20

and cohabitation;
11 1 Pet. 3:7

diligent labor in our callings;
12 Prov. 31:11,27,28

shunning all occasions of uncleanness, and resisting temptations thereunto.
13 Prov. 5:8; Gen. 39:8-10

139. What are the sins forbidden in the seventh commandment?
Answer: The sins forbidden in the seventh commandment, besides the neglect of the duties required, 1 Proverbs 5:7

are adultery, fornication,
2 Hebrews 13:4; Galatians 5:19

rape, incest,
3 2 Samuel 13:14; 1 Corinthians 5:1;

sodomy, and all unnatural lusts;
4 Romans 1:24,27; Leviticus 20:15-16

all unclean imaginations, thoughts, purposes, and affections;
5 Matthew 5:28; Matthew 15:19; Colossians 3:5

all corrupt or filthy communications, or listening thereunto;
6 Ephesians 5:3-4; Proverbs 7:5; Proverbs 7:21-22

wanton looks,
7 Isaiah 3:16; 2 Peter 2:14

impudent or light behavior, immodest apparel;
8 Proverbs 7:10,13

prohibiting lawful,
9 1 Timothy 4:3

and dispensing with unlawful marriages;
Leviticus 18:1-21; Malachi 2:11-12

allowing, tolerating, keeping of stews, and resorting to them;
11 1 Kings 15:12; 2 Kings 23:7; Deuteronomy 23:17; Deuteronomy 23:18; Leviticus 19:29; Jeremiah 5:7; Proverbs 7:24-27

entangling vows of single life,
12 Matthew 19:10,11

undue delay of marriage;
13 1 Cor. 7:7-9; Gen. 38:26

having more wives or husbands than one at the same time;
14 Malachi 2:14-15; Matthew 19:5

unjust divorce,
15 Malachi 2:16; Matthew 5:32

or desertion;
16 1 Corinthians 7:12-13

idleness, gluttony, drunkenness,
17 Ezekiel 16:49; Proverbs 23:30-33

unchaste company,
18 Genesis 39:10

lascivious songs, books, pictures, dancing, stage plays;
19 Ephesians 5:4; Ezekiel 23:14-16; Isaiah 23:15-17; Isaiah 3:16; Mark 6:22; Romans 13:13; 1 Peter 4:3

and all other provocations to, or acts of uncleanness, either in ourselves or others.
20 2 Kings 9:30

with

Jeremiah 4:30

and
Ezekiel 23:40

Note: due to a technical difficulty, the recording stops at footnote 11 on the final segment of this teaching. The decision was made to not finish the recording because it gave Keith the chance to look up a curious term that was used during the time of King James but is no longer in use. Also, in the show notes only scripture references are included. In the recording, Keith reads exclusively from the NASB, the new American standard Bible. See copyright info below.