1695 Baptist Catechism · 1695

Q85. What is required in the tenth Commandment?

The tenth Commandment requireth the full Contentment with our own Condition, with a right and charitable frame of Spirit toward our Neighbor, and all that is his.
Answer · 1695 Baptist Catechism

Scripture proofs

  1. [1]
    Hebrews 13:5

    Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.

    1 Timothy 6:6

    But godliness with contentment is great gain.

  2. [2]
    Job 31:29

    If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him:

    Romans 12:15

    Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.

    1 Timothy 1:5

    Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned:

    1 Corinthians 13:4-7

    Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; …

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