Baptist Catechism of 1693 · Question 82
What is required in the ninth commandment?
The ninth commandment requireth the maintaining and promoting of truth between man and man, and of our own and our neighbour’s good name, especially in witness bearing.
Scripture proofs King James Version
- Zechariah 8:16 These are the things that ye shall do; Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbour; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates:
- John 5:12 Then asked they him, What man is that which said unto thee, Take up thy bed, and walk?
- Proverbs 14:5, 25 A faithful witness will not lie: but a false witness will utter lies. ... A true witness delivereth souls: but a deceitful witness speaketh lies.
Edition & Source Public domain
- Source
- The Baptist Catechism (Keach’s Catechism)
- Translation
- Original English, spelling lightly modernized; Scripture proofs: King James Version
- Published
- 1693; text of the 1695 fifth edition
- Original URL
- baptistcatechism.org/
- Copyright
- Public domain.
- License
- Public domain
- Attribution
- Public domain: published before 1931. Text taken from baptistcatechism.org, which uses the oldest known copy (the 1695 fifth edition). The other online text I found (reformedreader.org) is the Spurgeon-era version, a different wording, so it could not be used to check this one. Not yet proofread against a scanned original. Scripture proof texts are the King James Version, from the public-domain Project Gutenberg edition, added with tools/add_kjv.py. A few references could not be matched to verses (whole-chapter references such as ‘Genesis 1 throughout’, and typing slips in the source) and are shown without text.
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