WLC 109: What are the sins forbidden in the Second Commandment?

Answer: The sins forbidden in the Second Commandment are, all devising1, counseling2, commanding3, using4, and anywise approving, any religious worship not instituted by God himself5; tolerating a false religion6; the making any representation of God, of all or of any of the three persons, either inwardly in our mind, or outwardly in any kind of image or likeness of any creature whatsoever7; all worshiping of it8, or God in it or by it9; the making of any representation of feigned deities10, and all worship of them, or service belonging to them11; all superstitious devices12, corrupting the worship of God13, adding to it, or taking from it14, whether invented and taken up of ourselves15, or received by tradition from others16, though under the title of antiquity17, custom18, devotion19, good intent, or any other pretense whatsoever20; simony21; sacrilege22; all neglect23, contempt24, hindering25, and opposing the worship and ordinances which God has appointed.26

  1. Num 15:39;
  2. Dt 13:6–8;
  3. Hos 5:11; Mic 6:16;
  4. 1 Kgs 11:33; 12:33;
  5. Dt 12:30–32;
  6. Dt 13:6–12; Zech 13:2–3; Rev 2:2, 14–15, 20; 17:12, 16–17;
  7. Dt 4:15–19; Acts 17:29; Rom 1:21–23, 25;
  8. Dan 3:18; Gal 4:8;
  9. Ex 32:5;
  10. Ex 32:8;
  11. 1 Kgs 18:26, 28; Isa 65:11;
  12. Acts 17:22; Col 2:21–23;
  13. Mal 1:7–8, 14;
  14. Dt 4:2;
  15. Ps 106:39;
  16. Matt 15:9;
  17. 1 Peter 1:18;
  18. Jer 44:17;
  19. Isa 65:3–5; Gal 1:13–14;
  20. 1 Sam 13:11–12; 15:21;
  21. Acts 8:18;
  22. Rom 2:22; Mal 3:8;
  23. Ex 4:24–26;
  24. Matt 22:5; Mal 1:7, 13;
  25. Matt 23:13;
  26. Acts 13:44–45; 1 Thess 2:15–16

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