1695 Baptist Catechism · 1695

Q73. What is required in the sixth Commandment?

The sixth Commandment requireth all lawful Endeavors to preserve our own Life, and the Life of others.
Answer · 1695 Baptist Catechism

Scripture proofs

  1. [1]
    Ephesians 5:28-29

    So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:

  2. [2]
    1 Kings 18:4

    For it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the Lord, that Obadiah took an hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)

Proof texts as given in the original; verse text from the King James Version.