The Law of Moses

The commandments given at Sinai, and how the New Testament describes their purpose.

Exod 20:1-17

1And God spake all these words, saying,

See also: Deuteronomy 5:22, Deuteronomy 5:4

2I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

See also: Deuteronomy 5:6, Hosea 13:4

3Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

See also: Deuteronomy 5:7, Matthew 4:10

4Thou shalt not make unto thee 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.

See also: Deuteronomy 5:8, Deuteronomy 5:9

5Thou 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 fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;

See also: Deuteronomy 5:9, Numbers 14:18

6And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.

See also: Romans 8:28, Joshua 22:5

7Thou 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.

See also: Deuteronomy 5:11, Leviticus 19:12

8Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.

See also: Deuteronomy 5:12, Leviticus 26:2

9Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:

See also: Luke 13:14, Exodus 23:12

10But 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:

See also: Deuteronomy 5:14-15, Exodus 34:21

11For 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.

See also: Genesis 1:1, Jeremiah 32:17

12Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

See also: The Story of Ahikar 2:26, Ephesians 6:2

13Thou shalt not kill.

See also: Matthew 5:21, Deuteronomy 5:17

14Thou shalt not commit adultery.

See also: Romans 7:3, Hebrews 13:4

15Thou shalt not steal.

See also: Deuteronomy 5:19, Romans 13:9

16Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

See also: Deuteronomy 5:20, Proverbs 19:5

17Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s.

See also: Romans 13:9, Deuteronomy 5:21

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Matt 5:17

17Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.

See also: The Gospel of the Ebionites (Fragments) 1:5, Romans 10:4

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Rom 10:4

4For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.

See also: Matthew 5:17, Isaiah 54:17

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Gal 3:24-25

24Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

See also: Romans 10:4, John 5:46

25But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.

See also: Romans 6:14, Galatians 5:1

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