Bible Verses About the Ten Commandments

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The significance of every single commandment issued by God is profound. From these commandments, we can see God is a righteous and holy God who hates evil, and know what God hates and what He loves and how to fear God and shun evil, as well as what standards to follow for our lives on earth. Read these Bible verses about the Ten Commandments to understand and practice God’s will and requirements of us, thus living in God’s blessings.

Bible Verses About the Ten Conmandments:

Exodus 34:28

And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote on the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.

Deuteronomy 10:4

And he wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten commandments, which the LORD spoke to you in the mount out of the middle of the fire in the day of the assembly: and the LORD gave them to me.

The Content of the Ten Conmandments:

Exodus 20:3

You shall have no other gods before me.

Exodus 20:4-6

You shall not make to you any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. 5You shall not bow down yourself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; 6And showing mercy to thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.

Exodus 20:7

You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that takes his name in vain.

Exodus 20:8-11

Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shall you labor, and do all your work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD your God: in it you shall not do any work, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, your manservant, nor your maidservant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger that is within your gates: For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: why the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.

Exodus 20:12

Honor your father and your mother: that your days may be long on the land which the LORD your God gives you.

Exodus 20:13

You shall not kill.

Exodus 20:14

You shall not commit adultery.

Exodus 20:15

You shall not steal.

Exodus 20:1

You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

Exodus 20:17

You shall not covet your neighbor’s house, you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is your neighbor’s.