By the Law is the knowledge of sin. – Romans 3:20. God knows, of course, that we cannot keep His Law perfectly, as His holiness demands of us. But He wants us also to know that this is the case. …
By the Law is the knowledge of sin. – Romans 3:20. God knows, of course, that we cannot keep His Law perfectly, as His holiness demands of us. But He wants us also to know that this is the case. …
Enter not into judgment with Thy servants; for in Thy sight shall no man living be justified. – Psalm 143:2. Is it true that all men, without exception, have deserved death by their transgression of the divine Law? And is …
The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ, our Lord. – Romans 6:23. The real and completely just punishment with which God threatens those who hate Him and transgress His commandments …
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, and showing mercy unto thousands of them that love Me, and …
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s house. – Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s wife, nor his man-servant, nor his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neighbor’s. – Exodus 20:17. These are God’s Ninth …
Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor. – Exodus 20:16. This is God’s Eighth Commandment. God forbids us to bear witness against our neighbor with a deceitful heart, to give testimony against him to his harm. The most …
Thou shalt not steal. – Exodus 20:15. This is God’s Seventh Commandment. But not only pickpockets and burglars transgress this commandment. Whoever defrauds his neighbor in business, or craftily wrests trade and profit from him, or takes advantage of his …
Thou shalt not commit adultery. – Exodus 20:14. This is God’s Sixth Commandment. – Matrimony is instituted by God. Therefore we must not profane it nor commit adultery. Neither by fornication, nor by willful desertion, nor by divorce obtained in …
Thou shalt not kill. – Exodus 20:13. This is God’s Fifth Commandment. But they err greatly who think they have kept this commandment as long as they have not murdered any one, or done their fellow-man any other great hurt …
Honor thy father and thy mother. – Exodus 20:12. This is God’s Fourth Commandment. By father and mother our own parents are meant first and above all, but the Bible also directs us to apply Fourth Commandment principles in our …