Breaking The Ten Commandments

`If ye love me, my commands keep,

`And God speaketh all these words, saying, — read the full passage →

he who is saying, `I have known him,' and his command is not keeping, a liar he is, and in him the truth is not;

`Whoever therefore may loose one of these commands--the least--and may teach men so, least he shall be called in the reign of the heavens, but whoever may do and may teach <FI>them<Fi> , he shall be called great in the reign of the heavens.

Every one who is doing the sin, the lawlessness also he doth do, and the sin is the lawlessness,

for whoever the whole law shall keep, and shall stumble in one <FI>point<Fi> , he hath become guilty of all;

Jesus saith to him, `I am the way, and the truth, and the life, no one doth come unto the Father, if not through me;

`And God speaketh all these words, saying, — read the full passage →

`Thou dost not commit adultery.

And he said to him, `Why me dost thou call good? no one <FI>is<Fi> good except One--God; but if thou dost will to enter into the life, keep the commands.'

`If in the breaking through, the thief is found, and he hath been smitten, and hath died, there is no blood for him; — read the full passage →

not avenging yourselves, beloved, but give place to the wrath, for it hath been written, `Vengeance <FI>is<Fi> Mine,

`Thou hast no other Gods before Me.

What, then, shall we say? the law <FI>is<Fi> sin? let it not be! but the sin I did not know except through law, for also the covetousness I had not known if the law had not said:

`Thou dost not murder.

`I Jehovah <FI>am<Fi> thy God, who hath brought thee out from the land of Egypt, from a house of servants. — read the full passage →

if my commandments ye may keep, ye shall remain in my love, according as I the commands of my Father have kept, and do remain in His love;

and He declareth to you His covenant, which He hath commanded you to do, the Ten Matters, and He writeth them upon two tables of stone.

so that the law, indeed, <FI>is<Fi> holy, and the command holy, and righteous, and good.

And having seen the multitudes, he went up to the mount, and he having sat down, his disciples came to him, — read the full passage →

`Thou dost not desire the house of thy neighbour, thou dost not desire the wife of thy neighbour, or his man-servant, or his handmaid, or his ox, or his ass, or anything which <FI>is<Fi> thy neighbour's.'

`Thou dost not take up the name of Jehovah thy God for a vain thing, for Jehovah acquitteth not him who taketh up His name for a vain thing.

have ye not known that the unrighteous the reign of God shall not inherit? be not led astray; neither whoremongers, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites,

`Thou dost not steal.

`Honour thy father and thy mother, so that thy days are prolonged on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee.

And he is there with Jehovah forty days and forty nights; bread he hath not eaten, and water he hath not drunk; and he writeth on the tables the matters of the covenant--the ten matters.

I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah thy God, who hath brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of a house of servants.

there is not here Jew or Greek, there is not here servant nor freeman, there is not here male and female, for all ye are one in Christ Jesus;

I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah thy God, who hath brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of a house of servants. — read the full passage →

`Because that thou hast not served Jehovah thy God with joy, and with gladness of heart, because of the abundance of all things-- — read the full passage →

Then come unto Jesus do they from Jerusalem--scribes and Pharisees--saying, — read the full passage →

`Ye heard that it was said: Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth; — read the full passage →

`Do not suppose that I came to throw down the law or the prophets--I did not come to throw down, but to fulfil; — read the full passage →

`When a man doth steal an ox or sheep, and hath slaughtered it or sold it, five of the herd he doth repay for the ox, and four of the flock for the sheep. — read the full passage →

and the dragon was angry against the woman, and went away to make war with the rest of her seed, those keeping the commands of God, and having the testimony of Jesus Christ.

`Ye heard that it was said to the ancients: Thou shalt not commit adultery; — read the full passage →

To the Overseer. --By sons of Korah. `For the Virgins.' --A song. God <FI>is<Fi> to us a refuge and strength, A help in adversities found most surely.

`And He writeth on the tables, according to the first writing, the Ten Matters, which Jehovah hath spoken unto you in the mount, out of the midst of the fire, in the day of the assembly, and Jehovah giveth them unto me,

A spring troubled, and a fountain corrupt, <FI>Is<Fi> the righteous falling before the wicked.

`Thou dost not take vengeance, nor watch the sons of thy people; and thou hast had love to thy neighbour as thyself; I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah.

for the wages of the sin <FI>is<Fi> death, and the gift of God <FI>is<Fi> life age-during in Christ Jesus our Lord.

And Jesus said to him, `Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thine understanding-- — read the full passage →

and doing kindness to thousands, of those loving Me and keeping My commands.

The end of the whole matter let us hear: --`Fear God, and keep His commands, for this <FI>is<Fi> the whole of man.

And Jehoshaphat his son reigneth in his stead, and he strengtheneth himself against Israel, — read the full passage →

`Cursed <FI>is<Fi> he who doth not establish the words of this law, to do them, --and all the people have said, Amen.

And Moses calleth unto all Israel, and saith unto them, `Hear, Israel, the statutes and the judgments which I am speaking in your ears to-day, and ye have learned them, and have observed to do them. — read the full passage →

And He giveth unto Moses, when He finisheth speaking with him in mount Sinai, two tables of the testimony, tables of stone, written by the finger of God.

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, a called apostle, having been separated to the good news of God-- — read the full passage →

because this <FI>is<Fi> the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel, after those days, saith the Lord, giving My laws into their mind, and upon their hearts I will write them, and I will be to them for a God, and they shall be to Me for a people;

`Ye heard that it was said to the ancients: Thou shalt not kill, and whoever may kill shall be in danger of the judgment; — read the full passage →

for, `Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false testimony, Thou shalt not covet;' and if there is any other command, in this word it is summed up, in this: `Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself;'

and thou hast loved Jehovah thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might,

for we have known that the law is spiritual, and I am fleshly, sold by the sin;

for this is the love of God, that His commands we may keep, and His commands are not burdensome;

To those keeping His covenant, And to those remembering His precepts to do them.

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John,

for as many as are of works of law are under a curse, for it hath been written, `Cursed <FI>is<Fi> every one who is not remaining in all things that have been written in the Book of the Law--to do them,'

`Thou dost not answer against thy neighbour a false testimony.

`Happy are those doing His commands that the authority shall be theirs unto the tree of the life, and by the gates they may enter into the city;

And the brethren immediately, through the night, sent forth both Paul and Silas to Berea, who having come, went to the synagogue of the Jews; — read the full passage →

He saith to him, `What kind?' And Jesus said, `Thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not commit adultery, thou shalt not steal, thou shalt not bear false witness,

`And God speaketh all these words, saying,

the commands thou hast known: Thou mayest not commit adultery, Thou mayest do no murder, Thou mayest not steal, Thou mayest not bear false witness, Thou mayest not defraud, Honour thy father and mother.'

Jesus said to him again, `It hath been written, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.'

`And these <FI>are<Fi> the judgments which thou dost set before them: — read the full passage →

Then saith Jesus to him, `Turn back thy sword to its place; for all who did take the sword, by the sword shall perish; — read the full passage →

Here is endurance of the saints: here <FI>are<Fi> those keeping the commands of God, and the faith of Jesus.'

and he who did look into the perfect law--that of liberty, and did continue there, this one--not a forgetful hearer becoming, but a doer of work--this one shall be happy in his doing.

`These words hath Jehovah spoken unto all your assembly, in the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness--a great voice; and He hath not added, and He writeth them on two tables of stone, and giveth them unto me.

`Do not suppose that I came to throw down the law or the prophets--I did not come to throw down, but to fulfil;

And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `Hew for thyself two tables of stone like the first, and I have written on the tables the words which were on the first tables which thou hast broken;

the circumcision is nothing, and the uncircumcision is nothing--but a keeping of the commands of God.

And also My sabbaths I have given to them, To be for a sign between Me and them, To know that I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah their sanctifier.

For this <FI>is<Fi> the covenant that I make, With the house of Israel, after those days, An affirmation of Jehovah, I have given My law in their inward part, And on their heart I do write it, And I have been to them for God, And they are to me for a people.

Declaring His words to Jacob, His statutes and His judgments to Israel.

And it cometh to pass, when he hath drawn near unto the camp, that he seeth the calf, and the dancing, and the anger of Moses burneth, and he casteth out of his hands the tables, and breaketh them under the mount;

`Remember the Sabbath-day to sanctify it; — read the full passage →

In the third month of the going out of the sons of Israel from the land of Egypt, in this day they have come into the wilderness of Sinai, — read the full passage →

Neither become ye idolaters, as certain of them, as it hath been written, `The people sat down to eat and to drink, and stood up to play;'

`Ye are of a father--the devil, and the desires of your father ye will to do; he was a man-slayer from the beginning, and in the truth he hath not stood, because there is no truth in him; when one may speak the falsehood, of his own he speaketh, because he is a liar--also his father.

Law then do we make useless through the faith? let it not be! yea, we do establish law.

And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `Come up unto Me to the mount, and be there, and I give to thee the tables of stone, and the law, and the command, which I have written to direct them.'

wherefore by works of law shall no flesh be declared righteous before Him, for through law is a knowledge of sin.

My tongue doth sing of Thy saying, For all Thy commands <FI>are<Fi> righteous.

And all the people are seeing the voices, and the flames, and the sound of the trumpet, and the mount smoking; and the people see, and move, and stand afar off,

and in this we know that we have known him, if his commands we may keep;

Jesus Christ yesterday and to-day the same, and to the ages;

`Ye heard that it was said to the ancients: Thou shalt not kill, and whoever may kill shall be in danger of the judgment;

O the happiness of a man who doth this, And of a son of man who keepeth hold on it, Keeping the sabbath from polluting it, And keeping his hand from doing any evil.

The law of Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> perfect, refreshing the soul, The testimonies of Jehovah <FI>are<Fi> stedfast, Making wise the simple,

`This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness, with the messenger who is speaking to him in the mount Sinai, and with our fathers who did receive the living oracles to give to us;

six days thou dost labour, and hast done all thy work,

`Remember the Sabbath-day to sanctify it;

Thou dost not bow thyself to them, nor serve them: for I, Jehovah thy God, <FI>am<Fi> a zealous God, charging iniquity of fathers on sons, on the third <FI>generation<Fi> , and on the fourth, of those hating Me,

the commands thou hast known: Thou mayest not commit adultery, Thou mayest do no murder, Thou mayest not steal, Thou mayest not bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother.'

and I place there the ark, where <FI>is<Fi> the covenant of Jehovah that He made with the sons of Israel.'

`And thou hast known that Jehovah thy God He <FI>is<Fi> God, the faithful God, keeping the covenant, and the kindness, to those loving Him, and to those keeping His commands--to a thousand generations,

for of Him we are workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God did before prepare, that in them we may walk.

and the seventh day <FI>is<Fi> a Sabbath to Jehovah thy God; thou dost not do any work, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, thy man-servant, and thy handmaid, and thy cattle, and thy sojourner who is within thy gates, --