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The Law of God
The Ten Commandments

Old Testament

New Testament

As Changed by Man

I
Thou shalt have no other gods before Me.

II
Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above. or that is the earth beneath, or that in the water under the earth: 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 fttthers upon the children unto the third and fourth genenation of them that hate Me; and showing mercy unto thousand 5 of them that love IlIe, and keep my commandments.

III
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.

IV
Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: 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: 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.

V
Honor thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be IorgI upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

VI
Thou shalt not kill.

VII
Thou shalt not commit adultery.

VIII
Thou shalt not steal.

IX
Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.

X
Thou shalt not cove thy neighbors house. thou shalt not covet thy neighbors wife, nor his manservant, nor his maldservant, nor his ox, or his ass. nor anything that is thy neighbor's. - See EXODUS 20:1-18.


I WILL NOT ALTER NOR BREAK THE THING THAT IS GONE OUT OF MY LIPS.
PSALM 89:34

I
"Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and Him only shalt thou serve."
MATTHEW 4:10

II
"Ltttle children, keep yourselves from idols." "Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device."
I JOHN 5:21; ACTS 17:29.

III
"That the name of God and His doctrine be not blasphemed." I TIMOTHY 6:1.

IV
"Pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day." "He said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath: Therefore the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath." "For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all his works." "There remaineth therefore a keeping of a Sabbath to the people of God. For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his." "For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, ..." MATTHEW 24:20; MARK 2:27, 28; HEBREWS 4:4, 9, 10, margin; COLOSSIANS 1:16.

V
"Honor thy father and thy mother." MATTHEW 19:19

VI
"Thou shalt not kill." ROMANS 13:9.

VIl
"Thou shalt not commit adultery." MATTHEW 19:18.

VIII
"Thou shalt not steal." ROMANS 13:9.

IX
Thou shalt not bear false wttness." ROMANS 13:9.

X
"Thou shalt not covet." ROMANS 7:7.


After His Death


"Do we then make void the law through faith: God forbid: yea, we establish the law." ROMANS 3:31.

"They ... rested the Sabbath day according to the commandments." LUKE 23:54-56.

I.
I am the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not have strange gods before Me.
[It will be observed that the second commandment as found in the Bible is left out.]

II
Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.

III
Remember that thou keep holy the Sabbath day.
["A Doctrinal Catechism," (Catholic) page 174, has the following question and answer -
"Q. - Have you any other way of proving that the Church has power to institute festivals of precept?

"A - Had she not such power ... she could not have substituted the observance of Sunday, the first day of the week, for Saturday, the seventh day, a change for which there is no Scriptural authority."]

IV
Honor thy father and thy mother.

V
Thou shalt not kill.

VI
Thou shalt not commit adultery.

VII
Thou shalt not steal

VIII
Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.

IX
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife.

X
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's goods.
- See General "Catholic Catechism."

"HE SHALL THINK TO CHANGE
TIMES AND THE LAW."
DANIEL 7:25, R.V.

"That Man of Sin ... who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshiped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God."
II THESSALONIANS 2:3,4.