14 You shall not commit adultery. (Exodus 20:14)
As with the Fourth and Fifth Commandments, the Sixth Commandment extends beyond the strict meaning of the word adultery. While this commandment forbids sexual relations with another’s wife or husband (or with another woman or man, if you’re married), it also requires us to avoid all impurity and immodesty, both physical and spiritual.
Or, to look at it from the opposite direction, this commandment requires us to be chaste—that is, to restrain all sexual or immodest desires that fall outside of their proper place within marriage. This includes reading or looking at immodest material, such as pornography, or engaging in solitary sexual activity.
Sins of the Flesh | The 6th Commandment (10:01)
Here are the Catholic Ten Commandments:
- I am the LORD your God. You shall worship the Lord your God and Him only shall you serve.
- You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain.
- Remember to keep holy the Sabbath day.
- Honor your father and your mother.
- You shall not kill.
- You shall not commit adultery.
- You shall not steal.
- You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
- You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife.
- You shall not covet your neighbor’s goods.
