WLC 113: What are the sins forbidden in the Third Commandment?

Answer: The sins forbidden in the Third Commandment are, the not using of God’s name as is required1; and the abuse of it in an ignorant2, vain3, irreverent, profane4, superstitious5, or wicked mentioning, or otherwise using his titles, attributes6, ordinances7, or works8, by blasphemy9, perjury10; all sinful cursings11, oaths12, vows13, and lots14; violating of our oaths and vows, if lawful15; and fulfilling them, if of things unlawful16; murmuring and quarreling at17, curious prying into18, and misapplying of God’s decrees19 and providences20; misinterpreting21, misapplying22, or any way perverting the Word, or any part of it23, to profane jests24, curious or unprofitable questions, vain janglings, or the maintaining of false doctrines25; abusing it, the creatures, or anything contained under the name of God, to charms26, or sinful lusts and practices27; the maligning28, scorning29, reviling30, or anywise opposing of God’s truth, grace, and ways31; making profession of religion in hypocrisy, or for sinister ends32; being ashamed of it33, or a shame to it, by unconformable34, unwise35, unfruitful36, and offensive walking37, or backsliding from it.38

  1. Mal 2:2;
  2. Acts 17:23;
  3. Prov 30:9;
  4. Mal 1:6–7, 12; 3:14;
  5. 1 Sam 4:3–5; Jer 7:4, 9–10, 14, 31; Col 2:20–22;
  6. 2 Kgs 18:30, 35; Ex 5:2; Ps 139:20;
  7. Ps 50:16–17;
  8. Isa 5:12;
  9. 2 Kgs 19:22; Lev 24:11;
  10. Zech 5:4; 8:17;
  11. 1 Sam 17:43; 2 Sam 16:5;
  12. Jer 5:7; 23:10;
  13. Dt 23:18; Acts 23:12, 14;
  14. Esth 3:7; 9:24; Ps 22:18;
  15. Ps 24:4; Ezk 17:16, 18–19;
  16. Mk 6:26; 1 Sam 25:22, 32–34;
  17. Rom 9:14, 19–20;
  18. Dt 29:29;
  19. Rom 3:5, 7; 6:1–2;
  20. Eccl 8:11; 9:3; Ps 39;
  21. Mt 5:21–48;
  22. Ezk 13:22;
  23. 2 Pet 3:16; Mt 22:24–31;
  24. Isa 22:13; Jer 23:34, 36, 38;
  25. 1 Tim 1:4, 6–7; 6:4–5, 20; 2 Tim 2:14; Tit 3:9;
  26. Dt 18:10–14; Acts 19:13;
  27. 2 Tim 4:3–4; Rom 13:13–14; 1 Kgs 21:9–10; Jude 4;
  28. Acts 13:45; 1 Jn 3:12;
  29. Ps 1:1; 2 Pet 3:3;
  30. 1 Pet 4:4;
  31. Acts 13:45–46, 50; 4:18; 19:9; 1 Th 2:16; Heb 10:29;
  32. 2 Tim 3:5; Mt 23:14; 6:1–2,5, 16;
  33. Mk 8:38;
  34. Ps 73:14–15;
  35. 1 Cor 6:5–6; Eph 5:15–17;
  36. Isa 5:4; 2 Pet 1:8–9;
  37. Rom 2:23–24;
  38. Gal 3:1, 3; Heb 6:6

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