Thursday, April 28, 2011

What is required in the third Commandment?

Heidelberg Catechism

~Third Commandment

Question 99. What is required in the third Commandment?

Answer. That we must not by cursing,[1] or by false swearing,[2] nor yet by unnecessary oaths,[3] profane or abuse the name of God; nor even by our silence[4] and connivance be partakers of these horrible sins in others; and in summary, that we use the holy name of God in no other way than with fear and reverence,[5] so that He may be rightly confessed[6] and worshiped[7] by us, and be glorified in all our words and works.[8]

[1] Lev 24:10-17;
[2] Lev 19:12;
[3] Mt 5:37; Jas 5:12;
[4] Lev 5:1; Prov 29:24;
[5] Ps 99:1-5; Isa 45:23; Jer 4:2;
[6] Mt 10:32-33; Rom 10:9-10;
[7] Ps 50:14-15; 1 Tim 2:8;
[8] Rom 2:24; Col 3:16-17; 1 Tim 6:1; 1 Pt 3:15

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