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Q&A 105 What is God's will for you in the sixth commandment?
- I am not to belittle, insult, hate, or kill my neighbor--
- not by my thoughts, my words, my look or gesture,
- and certainly not by actual deeds--
- and I am not to be party to this in others;1
- rather, I am to put away all desire for revenge.2
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- I am not to harm or recklessly endanger myself either.3
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- Prevention of murder is also why
- government is armed with the sword.4
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- 1 Gen. 9:6; Lev. 19:17-18; Matt. 5:21-22; 26:52
- 2 Prov. 25:21-22; Matt. 18:35; Rom. 12:19; Eph. 4:26
- 3 Matt. 4:7; 26:52; Rom. 13:11-14
- 4 Gen. 9:6; Ex. 21:14; Rom. 13:4
Q&A 106 Does this commandment refer only to killing?
- By forbidding murder God teaches us
- that he hates the root of murder:
- envy, hatred, anger, vindictiveness.1
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- In God's sight all such are murder.2
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- 1 Prov. 14:30; Rom. 1:29; 12:19; Gal. 5:19-21; 1 John
2:9-11
- 2 1 John 3:15
Q&A 107 Is it enough then that we do not kill our neighbor in any
such way?
- No.
- By condemning envy, hatred, and anger
- God tells us
- to love our neighbors as ourselves,1
- to be patient, peace-loving, gentle,
- merciful, and friendly to them,2
- to protect them from harm as much as we can,
- and to do good even to our enemies.3
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- 1 Matt. 7:12; 22:39; Rom. 12:10
- 2 Matt. 5:3-12; Luke 6:36; Rom. 12:10, 18; Gal. 6:1-2;
Eph. 4:2; Col. 3:12;
- 1 Pet. 3:8
- 3 Ex. 23:4-5; Matt. 5:44-45; Rom. 12:20-21 (Prov. 25:21-22)
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