To Be Different From the Rest

 

THE SEVENTH COMMANDMENT

“You shall not commit adultery.”

What does the seventh commandment teach us?

• That God condemns all unchastity, 
• and that therefore we should thoroughly detest it 
• and live decent and chaste lives, 
• within or outside of the holy state of marriage. 

Does God, in this commandment, forbid only such scandalous sins as adultery?

• We are temples of the Holy Spirit, body and soul, 
• and God wants us both to be kept clean and holy. 
• That is why God forbids 
• all unchaste actions, looks, talk, thoughts, or desires, 
• and whatever may incite someone to them. 

For the Bible Tells Me So...

Matthew 5:27-29 You have heard that it was said to those of old, “You shall not commit adultery.” 28But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart. 29 If your right eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and cast it from you; for it is more profitable for you that one of your members perish, than for your whole body to be cast into hell. 

1 Corinthians 6:18-20 Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body. 19 Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? 20 For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s. 

Ephesians 5:3-4 But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as is fitting for saints; 4 neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor coarse jesting, which are not fitting, but rather giving of thanks.

The Heidelberg Catechism Lord's Day 41