A Catechism for Girls and Boys

Part II: Questions about The Ten Commandments

60. Q. What does the eighth commandment teach us?
      A. To be honest and not to take the things of others.

(Click through to read scriptural proof.)

• Exodus 23:4

If you meet your enemy’s ox or his donkey going astray, you shall bring it back to him.

• Proverbs 21:6-7

The getting of treasures by a lying tongue

is a fleeting vapor and a snare of death.

The violence of the wicked will sweep them away,

because they refuse to do what is just.

• Ephesians 4:28

Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need.

Scripture quoted from the English Standard Version.

Taken from A Catechism for Girls and Boys found here.

Previously posted questions and answers.