What is forbidden in the seventh commandment?
The seventh commandment forbiddeth all unchaste thoughts, words, and actions.
Proofs
- The seventh commandment forbiddeth all unchaste thoughts, words, and actions. (Matthew 15:19; 5:28; Ephesians 5:3–4)
Additional Exposition
Section 1
Is adultery a very great sin?
Answer: Yes.
Proof: It is called an abomination, (Ezekiel 22:11)
Doth it waste the body?
Answer: Yes.
Proof: And thou mourn at last when thy flesh and thy body are consumed, (Proverbs 5:11)
And wrong the soul?
Answer: Yes.
Proof: Abstain from fleshly lusts, that war against the soul, (1 Peter 2:11)
And bring a blot upon the character?
Answer: Yes.
Proof: A wound and dishonour shall they get, (Proverbs 6:33)
Is it a besotting sin?
Answer: Yes.
Proof: It takes away the heart, (Hosea 4:11)
And an impoverishing sin?
Answer: Yes.
Proof: By means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread, (Proverbs 6:26)
Is it a kind of sacrilege?
Answer: Yes.
Proof: Shall I take the members of Christ and make them the members of a harlot, (1 Corinthians 6:15)
Doth it unfit for the fellowship of the saints?
Answer: Yes.
Proof: I have written unto you not to keep company if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, (1 Corinthians 5:11)
And will it be severely punished both in this world and in that which is to come?
Answer: Yes.
Proof: For whoremongers and adulterers God will judge, (Hebrews 13:4)
5 Is fornication as well as adultery a sin?
Answer: Yes.
Proof: Mortify your members which are upon earth, fornication, (Colossians 3:5)
And incest?
Answer: Yes.
Proof: None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, (Leviticus 18:6)
And polygamy?
Answer: Yes.
Proof: Did not he make one? yet he had the residue of the spirit, (Malachi 2:15)
And all manner of uncleanness?
Answer: Yes.
Proof: But fornication and uncleanness, let it not be once named amongst you, (Ephesians 5:3)
Section 2
Are unclean desires sinful?
Answer: Yes.
Proof: We must mortify inordinate affection and evil concupiscence, (Colossians 3:5)
And unclean reflections?
Answer: Yes.
Proof: She multiplied her whoredoms by calling to remembrance the days of her youth, (Ezekiel 23:19)
And unchaste looks?
Answer: Yes.
Proof: Having eyes full of adultery, (2 Peter 2:14)
And immodest apparel?
Answer: Yes.
Proof: There met him a woman with the attire of a harlot, (Proverbs 7:10)
And obscene words?
Answer: Yes.
Proof: Neither filthiness nor foolish talking, (Ephesians 5:4)
And lascivious actions?
Answer: Yes.
Proof: Such as chambering and wantonness, (Romans 13:13)
And that intemperance and idleness which lead hereto’?
Answer: Yes.
Proof: This was the iniquity of Sodom, pride, idleness, and fulness of bread, and she committed abomination before me, (Ezekiel 16:49–50)