Exodus
20:2-17 |
| 1st |
20:2 |
I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of
Egypt, out of the house of bondage. |
| 20:3 |
Thou shalt have no other gods before me. |
| 2nd |
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. |
| 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; |
| 20:6 |
And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my
commandments. |
| 3rd |
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. |
| 4th |
20:8 |
Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. |
| 20:9 |
Six days thou shalt labour, and do all thy work: |
| 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, nor thy
manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is
within thy gates: |
| 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. |
| 5th |
20:12 |
Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the
land which the LORD thy God giveth three. |
| 6th |
20:13 |
Thou shalt not kill. |
| 7th |
20:14 |
Thou shalt not commit adultery. |
| 8th |
20:15 |
Thou shalt not steal. |
| 9th |
20:16 |
Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour. |
| 10th |
20:17 |
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy
neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor
his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's. |
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| The Ten Commandments are also listed in Deuteronomy 5:6-21. But it may
be easier if you look at how Jesus simplified the first four and
latter six commandments into two golden rules: Matthew 22:37-40 or Luke 10:27 (which is also written in
and about Leviticus 19:18).
These Ten Commandments can be very simple for us to remember: Love God and
love everyone the way you would yourself. Love is the highest
command and is the essence of the Law (and see 1 Corinthians 13:1-8 for a
good definition of love, or "charity" as the KJV Bible states). |