Q68. What is required in the sixth commandment?
The sixth commandment requires all lawful efforts to preserve our own life and the life of others.
Scripture Proofs — King James Version
1
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:”
2
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.)”