WLC 142: What are the sins forbidden in the Eighth Commandment?

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.

  1. Jas 2:15–16; 1 Jn 3:17;
  2. Eph 4:28;
  3. Ps 62:10;
  4. 1 Tim 1:10;
  5. Prov 29:24; Ps 50:18;
  6. 1 Th 4:6;
  7. Prov 11:1; 20:10;
  8. Dt 19:14; Prov 23:10;
  9. Amos 8:5; Ps 37:21;
  10. Lk 16:10–12;
  11. Ezk 22:29; Lev 25:17;
  12. Mt 23:25; Ezk 22:12;
  13. Ps 15:5;
  14. Job 15:34;
  15. 1 Cor 6:6–8; Prov 3:29–30;
  16. Isa 5:8; Mic 2:2;
  17. Prov 11:26;
  18. Acts 19:19, 24–25;
  19. Job 20:19; Jas 5:4; Prov 21:6;
  20. Lk 12:15;
  21. 1 Tim 6:5; Col 3:2; Prov 23:5; Ps 62:10;
  22. Mt 6:25, 31, 34; Eccl 5:12;
  23. Ps 73:3; 37:1, 7;
  24. 2 Th 3:11; Prov 18:9;
  25. Prov 21:17; 23:20–21; 28:19;
  26. Eccl 4:8; 6:2; 1 Tim 5:8

 

 

 

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