Achilleion Palace, Corfu, Greece, 2012- former home of Empress Elizabeth of Austria (taken my Martha Wiggins)
“And he was there with Jehovah forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.” Exodus 34:28
How often do you read, or examine your attitude toward and your success in upholding, God’s ten commandments. While civil law protects our societies, moral law protects our souls. It is good to know God’s laws, and the repercussion and penalties for not following them. Listed here are each of the ten commandments along with a scripture to expand on its theme. Keep God’s commandments and thou shalt reap His reward of Eternal Life.
1. I am the Lord thy God; thou shalt not have strange gods before Me. (“And there is salvation in no one else; for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among men by which we must be saved.” Acts 4:12)
2. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain. (“God, furthermore, said to Moses, ‘Thus you shall say to the sons of Israel, ‘The Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.’ This is My name forever, and this is My memorial-name to all generations.” Exodus 3:15)
3. Remember thou keep holy the Lord’s day. (“If because of the sabbath, you turn your foot from doing your own pleasure on My holy day, and call the sabbath a delight, the holy day of the Lord honorable, and honor it, desisting from your own ways, from seeking your own pleasure and speaking your own word, then you will take delight in the Lord,
and I will make you ride on the heights of the earth; and I will feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father, for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.” Isaiah 58:13-14)
4. Honor thy father and thy mother. (“Hear, my son, your father’s instruction
and do not forsake your mother’s teaching; Indeed, they are a graceful wreath to your head and ornaments about your neck.” Proverbs 1:8-9)
5. Thou shalt not kill. (” If, however, a man acts presumptuously toward his neighbor, so as to kill him craftily, you are to take him even from My altar, that he may die.” Exodus 21:14)
6. Thou shalt not commit adultery. (“In the prophets of Jerusalem also I have seen a horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies; and they strengthen the hands of evil-doers, so that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them become unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.” Jeremiah 23:14)
7. Thou shalt not steal. (“Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing that is good, that he may have whereof to give to him that hath need.” Ephesians 4:28)
8. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor. (“A false witness shall not be unpunished; And he that uttereth lies shall not escape.” Proverbs 19:5)
9. Thou shalt not covet thy neigbor’s wife. (“For this ye know of a surety, that no fornicator, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.” Ephesians 5:5)
10. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s goods. (“And he said unto them, Take heed, and keep yourselves from all covetousness: for a man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.” Luke 12:15)
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