Catechism for Young Children · Question 96 of 145
What does the seventh commandment teach us?
A.To be pure in heart, language, and conduct.
What does this answer mean?
The seventh commandment teaches us to be pure in heart, language and conduct: in what we think, what we say and what we do. Children can practise this with clean words and kind, modest behavior. Parents can say more as each child is ready.
What can we ask our children?
- What does the seventh commandment teach us?
- What three areas does the answer name?
- What are clean words?
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Text: Catechism for Young Children: Being an Introduction to the Shorter Catechism, Presbyterian Board of Publication (copyright entered 1840). Public domain (1840).
Checked against a second edition on November 15, 2026. Explanation and questions by Household Theology Press. Last updated November 15, 2026.