WLC 139: What are the sins forbidden in the Seventh Commandment?

Answer: The sins forbidden in the Seventh Commandment, besides the neglect of the duties required1, are, adultery, fornication2, rape, incest3, sodomy, and all unnatural lusts4; all unclean imaginations, thoughts, purposes, and affections5; all corrupt or filthy communications, or listening thereunto6; wanton looks7, impudent or light behavior, immodest apparel8; prohibiting of lawful9, and dispensing with unlawful marriages10; allowing, tolerating, keeping of stews, and resorting to them11; entangling vows of single life12, undue delay of marriage13; having more wives or husbands than one at the same time14; unjust divorce15, or desertion16; idleness, gluttony, drunkenness17, unchaste company18; lascivious songs, books, pictures, dancings, stage plays19; and all other provocations to, or acts of uncleanness, either in ourselves or others.20

  1. Prov 5:7;
  2. Heb 13:4; Gal 5:19;
  3. 2 Sam 13:14; 1 Cor 5:1;
  4. Rom 1:24, 26–27; Lev 20:15–16;
  5. Mt 5:28; 15:19; Col 3:5;
  6. Eph 5:3–4; Prov 7:5, 21–22;
  7. Isa 3:16; 2 Pet 2:14;
  8. Prov 7:10, 13;
  9. 1 Tim 4:3;
  10. Lev 18:1–21; Mk 6:18; Mal 2:11–12;
  11. 1 Kgs 15:12; 2 Kgs 23:7; Dt 23:17–18; Lev 19:29; Jer 5:7; Prov 7:24–27;
  12. Mt 19:10–11;
  13. 1 Cor 7:7–9; Gen 38:26;
  14. Mal 2:14–15; Mt 19:5;
  15. Mal 2:16; Mt 5:32;
  16. 1 Cor 7:12–13;
  17. Ezk 16:49; Prov 23:30–33;
  18. Gen 39:10; Prov 5:8;
  19. Eph 5:4; Ezk 23:14–17; Isa 23:15–17; 3:16; Mk 6:22; Rom 13:13; 1 Pet 4:3;
  20. 2 Kgs 9:30; cf. Jer 4:30; Ezk 23:40

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