Q68. What is required in the sixth commandment?
The sixth commandment requireth all lawful endeavours to preserve our own life, and the life of others.
Scripture Proofs — King James Version
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:”
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.)”
Commentary — Thomas Vincent (1674)
Question 1. What doth the sixth commandment respect?
Answer. The sixth commandment doth respect our own and others life.
Question 2. What doth the sixth commandment require in reference unto our own life?