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Exo 20:1  And God spoke all these words, saying, 

Exo 20:2  I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. 

Exo 20:3  Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

Exo 20:4  Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: 

Exo 20:5  Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; 

Exo 20:6  And showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments. 

Exo 20:7  Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.

Exo 20:8  Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. 

Exo 20:9  Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work: 

Exo 20:10  But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:

Exo 20:11  For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it. 

Exo 20:12  Honor thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

Exo 20:13  Thou shalt not kill.

Exo 20:14  Thou shalt not commit adultery. 

Exo 20:15  Thou shalt not steal.

Exo 20:16  Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor. 

Exo 20:17  Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbor's.

 

The Ten Commandments In The New Testament

It is an interesting fact that the New Testament gives divine sanction to each of the ten commandments.

1st commandment,–Matt. 22:37.

2nd commandment,–1 John 5:21; 1 Cor. 10:19-21; John 4:24.

3rd commandment,–matt. 5:33-37.

4th commandment,–Mark 2:27, 28; Matt. 24:20; 28:1; Mark 16:1, 2; Luke 4:16; 23:54-56.

5th commandment,–Matt. 15:4-9; Eph. 6:1-3.

6th commandment,–Matt. 5:21, 22; 1 John 3:15.

7th commandment,–Matt. 5:27, 28; 19:9, 18.

8th commandment,–Matt. 19:18; 15:19.

9th commandment,–Matt. 19:18.

10th commandment,–Rom. 7:7; Matt. 19:21-22.

 

Last Updated on Tuesday, 09 December 2008 11:12