The Ten Commandments

God Gave Us the Ten Commandments to follow

Exodus 20: 1-17

1-2God spoke all these words:
I am God, your God,
who brought you out of the land of Egypt,
out of a life of slavery.
3No other gods, only me.
4-6No carved gods of any size, shape, or form of anything whatever, whether of things that fly or walk or swim. Don’t bow down to them and don’t serve them because I am God, your God, and I’m a most jealous God, punishing the children for any sins their parents pass on to them to the third, and yes, even to the fourth generation of those who hate me. But I’m unswervingly loyal to the thousands who love me and keep my commandments.
7No using the name of God, your God, in curses or silly banter; God won’t put up with the irreverent use of his name.
8-11Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Work six days and do everything you need to do. But the seventh day is a Sabbath to God, your God. Don’t do any work—not you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your servant, nor your maid, nor your animals, not even the foreign guest visiting in your town. For in six days God made Heaven, Earth, and sea, and everything in them; he rested on the seventh day. Therefore God blessed the Sabbath day; he set it apart as a holy day.
12Honor your father and mother so that you’ll live a long time in the land that God, your God, is giving you.
13No murder.
14No adultery.
15No stealing.
16No lies about your neighbor.
17No lusting after your neighbor’s house—or wife or servant or maid or ox or donkey. Don’t set your heart on anything that is your neighbor’s.
Respond:  Which of these commandments do you follow?  Which do you find yourself having a hard time following?

4 thoughts on “The Ten Commandments

  1. I try to follow all of them but I have trouble not arguing with my parents and using the lords name in vain.

  2. I follow the commandment of no stealing. I follow a lot of the others too. Definitely no murder. I do sometimes have trouble following no lies about your neighbor. I’m sure a lot of people do, or it’s just me.

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