Catechesis

Keach's Catechism

Question 67

What is forbidden in the fourth commandment?

Scripture

  1. Ezekiel 22:26 [1]
    Her priests have done violence to my law and have profaned my holy things. They have made no distinction between the holy and the common, neither have they taught the difference between the unclean and the clean, and they have disregarded my Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them. (ESV)
  2. Ezekiel 23:38 [1]
    Moreover, this they have done to me: they have defiled my sanctuary on the same day and profaned my Sabbaths. (ESV)
  3. Jeremiah 17:21 [1]
    Thus says the LORD: Take care for the sake of your lives, and do not bear a burden on the Sabbath day or bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem. (ESV)
  4. Nehemiah 13:15 [1]
    In those days I saw in Judah people treading winepresses on the Sabbath, and bringing in heaps of grain and loading them on donkeys, and also wine, grapes, figs, and all kinds of loads, which they brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. And I warned them on the day when they sold food. (ESV)
  5. Nehemiah 13:17 [1]
    Then I confronted the nobles of Judah and said to them, “What is this evil thing that you are doing, profaning the Sabbath day? (ESV)
  6. Acts 20:7 [1]
    Eutychus Raised from the Dead On the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to break bread, Paul talked with them, intending to depart on the next day, and he prolonged his speech until midnight. (ESV)