Question 62: What is the reason annexed to the third commandment?

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What is the reason annexed to the third commandment?

The reason annexed to the third commandment is, that however the breakers of this commandment may escape punishment from men, yet the Lord our God will not suffer them to escape His righteous judgment.

Scripture Proofs

1 Samuel 2:12

Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial; they knew not the LORD.

1 Samuel 2:17

Wherefore the sin of the young men was very great before the LORD.

1 Samuel 3:13

For I have told him that I will judge his house for ever for the iniquity which he knoweth.

Deuteronomy 28:58-59

If thou wilt not observe to do all the words of this law... the LORD will make thy plagues wonderful.