Catechesis

Westminster Shorter Catechism

Question 61

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. Malachi 1:13 [1]
    But you say, ‘What a weariness this is,’ and you snort at it, says the LORD of hosts. You bring what has been taken by violence or is lame or sick, and this you bring as your offering! Shall I accept that from your hand? says the LORD. (ESV)
  3. Amos 8:5 [1]
    saying, “When will the new moon be over, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may offer wheat for sale, that we may make the ephah small and the shekel great and deal deceitfully with false balances, (ESV)
  4. Ezekiel 23:38 [2]
    Moreover, this they have done to me: they have defiled my sanctuary on the same day and profaned my Sabbaths. (ESV)
  5. Isaiah 58:13 [3]
    “If you turn back your foot from the Sabbath, from doing your pleasure on my holy day, and call the Sabbath a delight and the holy day of the LORD honorable; if you honor it, not going your own ways, or seeking your own pleasure, or talking idly; (ESV)
  6. Jeremiah 17:24 [3]
    “‘But if you listen to me, declares the LORD, and bring in no burden by the gates of this city on the Sabbath day, but keep the Sabbath day holy and do no work on it, (ESV)
  7. Jeremiah 17:27 [3]
    But if you do not listen to me, to keep the Sabbath day holy, and not to bear a burden and enter by the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then I will kindle a fire in its gates, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem and shall not be quenched.’” (ESV)