A Catechism for Girls and Boys

Part II: Questions about The Ten Commandments

56. Q. What does the sixth commandment teach us?
        A. To avoid hatred, all that leads to it, and all that follows from it. 

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• Matthew 5:21-24

“You have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not murder; and whoever murders will be liable to judgment.’ But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment; whoever insults his brother will be liable to the council; and whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be liable to the hell of fire. So if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there before the altar and go. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.

• 1 John 3:15

Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.

• James 4:1-3

What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you? You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask. You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions. 

Scripture quoted from the English Standard Version.

Taken from A Catechism for Girls and Boys found here.

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