- What does the ninth commandment forbid?
Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour. Exod 20:16
2. How is such a person regarded?
For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body. James 3:2
3. To what double use is the tongue put?
Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be. verse 10
4. Can anyone, unrenewed by grace, control his tongue?
For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind: But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. verses 7-8
5. What is our duty, under the circumstances?
Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God. Rom 6:13
6. Through whom may we find deliverance from this law of sin in our members?
Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God. Rom 7:23-25
7. Of what are one’s words the index?
O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. Matt 12:34
8. What will our words have to do with our standing in the judgment?
For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned. verse 37
9. What special sin is covered by the ninth commandment?
Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people: neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbour: I am the LORD. Lev 19:16
10. What are the words of a talebearer like?
The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly. Prov 26:22
11. What is their effect?
He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends. Prov 17:9
12. What would follow if each attended to his own affairs only?
Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth. Prov 26:20
13. What is that word like which is fitly spoken?
A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver. Prov 25:11
14. To whom are all our words known?
For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether. Ps 139:4
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