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Q.34: How many commandments did God give on Mount Sinai?
A. Ten commandments.
( Exodus 20:1-17; Deuteronomy 5:1-22 )
Q.35: What are the ten commandments sometimes called?
A. God’s moral law.
( Luke 20:25-28; Romans 2:14, 15; 10:5 )
Q.36: What do the first four commandments teach?
A. Our duty to God.
( Deuteronomy 6:5, 6; 10:12, 13 )
Q.37: What do the last six commandments teach?
A. Our duty to our fellow men.
( Deuteronomy 10:19; Micah 6:8; cf. Galatians 6:10 )
Q.38: What is the sum of the ten commandments?
A. To love God with all my heart, and my neighbor as myself.
( Deuteronomy 6:1-15; 11:1; Matthew 22:35-40; James 2:8 )
Q.39: Who is your neighbor?
A. All my fellow men are my neighbors.
Q.40: Is God pleased with those who love and obey him?
A. Yes. He says, ‘I love them that love me’
( Proverbs 8:17; Exodus 20:6; 1John 4:7-16 )
Q.41: Is God pleased with those who do not love and obey him?
A. No. ‘God is angry with the wicked every day’
( Psalm 7:11; Malachi 2:17; Proverbs 6:16-19; 1Corinthians 16:22 )
Q.42: What is the first commandment?
A. The first commandment is, Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
( Exodus 20; Deuteronomy 5:7 )
Q.43: What does the first commandment teach us?
A. To worship God only.
( Isaiah 45:5, 6; Matthew 4:10; Revelation 22:8, 9 )
Q.44: What is the second commandment?
A. The second commandment is, Thou 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: thou shalt not bow down thyself to 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; and showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
( Exodus 20:4-6; Deuteronomy 5:8-10 )
Q.45: What does the second commandment teach us?
A. To worship God in the right way, and to avoid idolatry.
( Isaiah 44:9-20; 46:5-9; John 4:23, 24; Acts 17:29 )
Q.46: What is the third commandment?
A. The third commandment is, 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.
( Exodus 20:7; Deuteronomy 5:11 )
Q.47: What does the third commandment teach us?
A. To reverence God’s name, word, and works.
( Isaiah 8:13; Psalm 29:2; 138:2; Revelation 15:3, 4 )
Q.48: What is the fourth commandment?
A. The fourth commandment is, 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, nor 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.
( Exodus 20:8-11; 23:12; Deuteronomy 5:12-15 )
Q.49: What does the fourth commandment teach us?
A. To keep the Sabbath holy.
( Leviticus 19:20; 23:3; Isaiah 58:13, 14 )
Q.50: What day of the week is the Christian Sabbath?
A. The first day of the week, called the Lord’s Day.
( Acts 29:7; Revelation 1:10 )
Q.51: Why is it called the Lord’s Day?
A. Because on that day Christ rose from the dead.
( Matthew 28:1; Mark 16:9; Luke 24:1-6; John 20:1 )
Q.52: How should the Sabbath be kept?
A. In prayer and praise, in hearing and reading God’s Word, and in doing good to our fellow men.
( Isaiah 58:13, 14; Acts 20:7; 1Corinthians 16:2; Luke 4:16; Matthew 12:10-13 )
Q.53: What is the fifth commandment?
A. The fifth commandment is, Honor thy father and thy mother that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
( Exodus 20:12; Deuteronomy 5:16 )
Q.54: What does the fifth commandment teach us?
A. To love and obey our parents.
( Matthew 15:3-6; Ephesus 6:1-3; Colossians 3:20 )
Q.55: What is the sixth commandment?
A. The sixth commandment is, Thou shalt not kill.
( Exodus 20:13; Deuteronomy 5:17 )
Q.56: What does the sixth commandment teach us?
A. To avoid hatred.
( Matthew 5:21-24; 1John 3:15 )
Q.57: What is the seventh commandment?
A. The seventh commandment is, Thou shalt not commit adultery.
( Exodus 20:14; Deuteronomy 5:18 )
Q.58: What does the seventh commandment teach us?
A. To be pure in heart, language and conduct.
( Matthew 5:27, 28; Ephesus 5:3-5; Philippians 4:8, 9 )
Q.59: What is the eighth commandment?
A. The eighth commandment is, Thou shalt not steal.
( Exodus 20:15; Deuteronomy 5:19 )
Q.60: What doe the eighth commandment teach us?
A. To be honest and not to take the things of others.
( Exodus 23:4; Proverbs 21:6, 7; Ephesus 4:28 )
Q.61: What is the ninth commandment?
A. The ninth commandment is, Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.
( Exodus 20:16; Deuteronomy 5:20 )
Q.62: What does the ninth commandment teach us?
A. To tell the truth and not to speak evil of others.
( Psalm 15:1-3; Zechariah 8:16; 1Corinthians 13;6; James 4:11 )
Q.63: What is the tenth commandment?
A. The tenth commandment is, Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbor’s.
( Exodus 20:17; Deuteronomy 5:21; Romans 7:7 )
Q.64: What does the tenth commandment teach us?
A. To be content with what we have.
( Philippians 4:11; 1Timothy 6:6-8; Hebrews 13:5 )
Q.65: Can any man keep these ten commandments?
A. No mere man, since the fall of Adam, ever did or can keep the ten commandments perfectly.
( Proverbs 20:9; Ecclesiastes 7:20; Romans 3:19, 20; James 2:10; 1John 1:8, 10 )
Q.66: Of what use are the ten commandments to us?
A. They teach us our duty, make clear our condemnation, and show us our need of a Saviour.
( 1Timothy 1:8-11; Romans 3:20; Galatians 3:24 )
Q.67: Does God condemn all men?
A. No. Though he could justly have done so he has graciously entered into a covenant to save many.
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