Lord’s Day 24: The Tenth Commandment #

84: Which is the tenth commandment?  #

The tenth commandment is You shall not covet your neighbour’s house, you shall not covet your neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his dockey, nor anything that is your neighbour’s.

(Ex. 20:17)

85: What is required in the tenth commandment?  #

The tenth commandment requires full contentment with our own condition, with a right and charitable frame of spirit toward our neighbour, and all that is his.

(Heb. 13:5; 1 Tim. 6:6; Job 31:29; Rom. 7:15; 1 Tim. 1:5; 1 Cor. 8:4, 7)

86: What is forbidden in the tenth commandment?  #

The tenth commandment forbids all discontentment with our own estate, envying or grieving at the good of our neighbour, and all inordinate motions and affections to anything that is his.

(1 Kings 21:4; Esther 5:13; 1 Cor. 10:10; Gal. 5:26; James 3:14, 16; Rom. 7:7, 8, 13:9; Deut. 5:21)