Question 74: What is required in the sixth commandment?

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What is required in the sixth commandment?

The sixth commandment requires all lawful endeavors to preserve our own life and the life of others.

Scripture Proofs

Ephesians 5:28-29

So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies... no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it.

1 Kings 18:4

Obadiah took an hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.