WLC 141: What are the duties required in the Eighth Commandment?

Answer: The duties required in the Eighth Commandment are, truth, faithfulness, and justice in contracts and commerce between man and man1; rendering to everyone his due2; restitution of goods unlawfully detained from the right owners thereof3; giving and lending freely, according to our abilities, and the necessities of others4; moderation of our judgments, wills, and affections concerning worldly goods5; a provident care and study to get6, keep, use, and dispose these things which are necessary and convenient for the sustentation of our nature, and suitable to our condition7; a lawful calling8, and diligence in it9; frugality10; avoiding unnecessary lawsuits11 and suretyship, or other like engagements12; and an endeavor, by all just and lawful means, to procure, preserve, and further the wealth and outward estate of others, as well as our own.13

  1. Ps 15:2, 4; Zech 7:4, 10; 8:16-17
  2. Rom 13:7
  3. Lev 6:2-5; Lk 19:8
  4. Lk 6:30, 38; 1 Jn 3:17; Eph 4:28; Gal 6:10
  5. 1 Tim 6:6-9; Gal 6:14
  6. 1 Tim 5:8
  7. Prov 27:23–27; Eccl 2:24; 3:12-13; 1 Tim 6:17-18; Isa 38:1; Mt 11:8
  8. 1 Cor 7:20; Gen 2:15; 3:19
  9. Eph 4:28; Prov 10:4
  10. Jn 6:12; Prov 21:20
  11. 1 Cor 6:1-9
  12. Prov 6:1–6; 11:15
  13. Lev 25:35; Dt 22:1-4; Ex 23:4-5; Gen 47:14, 20; Phil 2:4; Mt 22:39

 

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