Question 85 of 114
The Duty God Requires of Man
What is required in the tenth commandment?
Answer
The tenth commandment requireth full contentment with our own condition (; ), with a right and charitable frame of spirit toward our neighbour, and all that is his (; ; ; ).
Read the 6 proof texts (KJV)
- Hebrews 13:5
- [Let your] conversation [be] without covetousness; [and be] content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
- 1 Timothy 6:6
- But godliness with contentment is great gain.
- Job 31:29
- If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him:
- Romans 7:15
- For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
- 1 Timothy 1:5
- Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and [of] a good conscience, and [of] faith unfeigned:
- 1 Corinthians 8:4,7
- 4As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one. 7Howbeit there is not in every man that knowledge: for some with conscience of the idol unto this hour eat it as a thing offered unto an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled.