Question 73 of 114
The Duty God Requires of Man
What is required in the sixth commandment?
Answer
The sixth commandment requireth all lawful endeavours to preserve our own life () and the life of others ().
Read the 2 proof texts (KJV)
- Ephesians 5:28-29
- 28So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. 29For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:
- 1 Kings 18:4
- For it was [so], when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the LORD, that Obadiah took an hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)