Question 77: What is required in the seventh commandment?

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What is required in the seventh commandment?

The seventh commandment requires the preservation of our own and our neighbor's chastity, in heart, speech, and behavior.

Scripture Proofs

1 Corinthians 7:2-3

Let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

1 Thessalonians 4:3-5

For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication.

1 Peter 3:2

While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.