Answer: The sins forbidden in the Eighth Commandment, besides the neglect of the duties required, are, theft, robbery, man-stealing, and receiving anything that is stolen; fraudulent dealing, false weights and measures, removing land marks, injustice and unfaithfulness in contracts between man and man, or in matters of trust; oppression, extortion, usury, bribery, vexatious lawsuits, unjust enclosures and depopulations; engrossing commodities to enhance the price; unlawful callings, and all other unjust or sinful ways of taking or withholding from our neighbor: What belongs to him, or of enriching ourselves; covetousness; inordinate prizing and affecting worldly goods; distrustful and distracting cares and studies in getting, keeping, and using them; envying at the prosperity of others; as likewise idleness, prodigality, wasteful gaming; and all other ways whereby we do unduly prejudice our own outward estate, and defrauding ourselves of the due use and comfort of that estate which God has given us.
- Jas 2:15–16; 1 Jn 3:17;
- Eph 4:28;
- Ps 62:10;
- 1 Tim 1:10;
- Prov 29:24; Ps 50:18;
- 1 Th 4:6;
- Prov 11:1; 20:10;
- Dt 19:14; Prov 23:10;
- Amos 8:5; Ps 37:21;
- Lk 16:10–12;
- Ezk 22:29; Lev 25:17;
- Mt 23:25; Ezk 22:12;
- Ps 15:5;
- Job 15:34;
- 1 Cor 6:6–8; Prov 3:29–30;
- Isa 5:8; Mic 2:2;
- Prov 11:26;
- Acts 19:19, 24–25;
- Job 20:19; Jas 5:4; Prov 21:6;
- Lk 12:15;
- 1 Tim 6:5; Col 3:2; Prov 23:5; Ps 62:10;
- Mt 6:25, 31, 34; Eccl 5:12;
- Ps 73:3; 37:1, 7;
- 2 Th 3:11; Prov 18:9;
- Prov 21:17; 23:20–21; 28:19;
- Eccl 4:8; 6:2; 1 Tim 5:8