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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. – Exodus 20:8. This is God’s Third Commandment, as it was written on the table of stone, that is, to say, the first words.  The Sabbath day, the day of rest, was …

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Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord, thy God, in vain. – Exodus 20:7. This is God’s Second Commandment. God forbids us to take His name in vain. God’s name is everything by which He reveals Himself to …

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Thou shalt have no other gods before me. – Exodus 20:3. This is God’s First Commandment.  God forbids us to have other gods besides Him.  There are no other gods besides God (Isaiah 45:5); but if we fear, love, and …

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Thou shalt love the Lord, thy God, with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. – Matthew 22:37, 39. This is the sum, the chief contents, the …

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He hath showed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee. – Micah 6:8 a. People are all inquisitive by nature, especially concerning the things of God.  Our natural knowledge of God from the creation …

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The letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life. – 2 Corinthians 3:6. In the Holy Scriptures, we have two chief doctrines.  Both are of God, and yet they differ as widely as death and life.  And unless you clearly perceive …

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