Question 68
What is required in the sixth commandment?
The sixth commandment requireth all lawful endeavours to preserve our own life,1 and the life of others.2
Scripture
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Ephesians 5:29 [1]For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, (ESV)
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Matthew 10:23 [1]When they persecute you in one town, flee to the next, for truly, I say to you, you will not have gone through all the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes. (ESV)
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Psalm 82:3–4 [2]Give justice to the weak and the fatherless; maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute. Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked.” (ESV)
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Job 29:13 [2]The blessing of him who was about to perish came upon me, and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy. (ESV)
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1 Kings 18:4 [2]and when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the LORD, Obadiah took a hundred prophets and hid them by fifties in a cave and fed them with bread and water.) (ESV)