The document discusses the 7th and 10th commandments regarding stealing and coveting. It defines stealing as taking or keeping another's goods without their consent. It says stealing violates justice and charity by exploiting or harming others for personal gain through means like fraud, violating contracts, or knowingly benefiting from stolen goods. The 7th commandment forbids unjustly taking others' property and requires respecting ownership, stewardship of possessions, and giving what is owed.

1. THE 7TH AND 10TH
COMMANDMENT
YOU SHALL NOT STEAL AND YOU SHALL NOT COVET YOUR NEIGHBOR’S
GOODS.

2. YOU SHALL NOT STEAL
 The “seventh word” of the Decalogue primarily reveals us to that God
wants us to act justly and with charity in our relationship with one another.
 This commandment viewed to forbid the taking or keeping of a
neighbor’s goods and demanding respect for the right to the private
property.
 The seventh commandment teaches us that obtaining gain by the ungodly
means is evil.
 This of course applies to acts of theft, whether great or small, discovered
or hidden.
 This includes far more than mere physical or intellectual property.

3. The Seventh Gift; You Shall not Steal
 JUSTICE AND CHARITY
 JUSTICE is the moral virtue that “consists in the constant and firm will to
give their due to God and neighbor.
 CHARITY is the theological virtue by “which we love God above all things
for his own sake, and our neighbor as ourselves for the love of God.

4. Commands of 7th commandment
 THE EXPLOITATION OF OTHERS
 To take advantage of the ignorance or poverty or powerlessness of another person
and to exploit their condition for our own benefit is to steal the dignity which their
maker decreed as the rightful due of every human being made in his image.
 KNOWINGLY RECEIVING THAT WHICH HAS OBTAINED TROUGH SINFUL
MEANS
 It is not only wrong to steal, it is also wrong to knowingly benefit from those who
steal. The support of entities known to violate the law of God through such
exploitive sins as child-labor, coercion, slavery, oppression, or any other unholy
means which violate basic human rights is to endorse the flourishing of such
businesses and their practices, and to encourage their continuation.

5.  THE VIOLATION OF COMMITMENTS & CONTRACTS
 The term upon which an agreement honor and uphold those terms, even at
great expense to themselves. To do otherwise is to steal that which was
promised to them, ehich by nature of the agreement, is righfully theirs.
 EVERY FORMS OF FRAUD, FALSE ADVERTISING, SCHEMING, AND
MISLEADING OF OTHERS IN THE PERSUIT OF PERSONAL OR CORPORATE
PROFIT
 To prey upon the vulnerability, inherent trust, and good-will of others as a
means to personal or corporate gain in despicable and vile. By such means,
the well-being of our fellow man is stolen through deception, manipulation,
and swidling.

6.  “Thou shall not steal” is not only prohibits the violation of our brothers
private property, but also means that we are not willfully impede our
brother’s success, to restrain his progress, to restrict his development, or to
take advantage of his circumstances in any ways which are contary to love.

7. Commands
 Respect the reality of property owneship.
 Recognized the stewardship required of owners.
 Do not take things that are not yours.
 Do not misuse things are not ultimately yours.
 Give to God has cheerfully as he has given to you.

8. The seventh commandment forbids
 The seventh commandment forbids unjustly taking or keeping the goods
of one’s neighbor and wronging him in any way with respect to his goods.
It commands justice and charity in the care of earthly goods and the fruits
of men’s labor.
 Theft; damage to the property of others; not paying just debts; not
returning found or borrowed articles; giving unjust measure or weight in
selling; not paying just wages; bribery; graft; cheating; fraud; accepting
stolen property; not giving an honest day’s work for wages received;
breach of contract.

9. Sin against the 7th commandment
1. THEFT – is the secret purloining of another man’s goods contrary to the
rational will of their owner.
2. ROBBERY – is theft accompanied by personal violence.
3. CHEATING – consists in injuring one’s neighbor’s in his prossessions by
crafty means.
4. USURY – consists in making use of the needy circumstances of another to
one’s own profit.
5. WILLFULLY INJURING- another man’s property, keeping back: what one
has found or what has been lent to one, and refusing! To pay one’s debts,
is equivalent to stealing.