Instruction concerning any one of the commandments might be enhanced by anticipating the consequences of our obedience. Here we can ask: What benefits and joys might accrue to us, individually and collectively, when we follow the Sixth Commandment in particular? What injuries and sorrows might be avoided?

With specific answers to those questions, we might better see in the commandment something of what our wise and loving God wants for us this side of heaven. And consequently we might better see how our adherence is not only a manifestation not only of our love for God, but also love for ourselves and for one another.