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Article 6

THE SIXTH COMMANDMENT

You shall not commit adultery.112
You have heard that it was said, "You shall not commit adultery."
But I say to you that every one who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.113




112 EX 20:14; Deut 5:18.


113 Mt 5:27-28.





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