10th Commandment Flashcards
What is the 10th Commandment?
You shall not covet your neighbors wife, workers, animals, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.
What is the explanation to the 10th commandment?
We should fear and love God that we do not force or entice away our neighbor’s spouse, workers, or animals, but urge them to stay and do their duty.
What does it mean when God forbids us to covet?
When God forbids us to covet, he is forbidding us to have a sinful desire or craving in our hearts for something we should not want to have.
What will sinful desires tempt us to do?
Sinful desires will tempt us to sin also in the word or action
What kind of desires does God want us to have in our hearts.
God wants us to have only pure and holy desires in our hearts.
The sinful nature is only inclined to . . .
do evil.
The sinful nature will never . . .
submit to God’s laws.
Martin Luther compared the sinful nature to a . . .
stubborn donkey.
The new heart you have was . . .
given to you in your baptism through faith in Jesus.
The _____________ works faith in you to believe and fight against temptation
Holy Spirit
