Bible Verses about โ10 commandmentsโ
The Bible contains 39 verses about 10 commandments across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
โOwe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.โ
โ"Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.โ
โFor the commandments, "You shall not commit adultery," "You shall not murder," "You shall not steal," "You shall not give false testimony," "You shall not covet," and whatever other commandments there are, are all summed up in this saying, namely, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."โ
โLove doesn't harm a neighbor. Love therefore is the fulfillment of the law.โ
โ"You shall not murder.โ
โyou shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me,โ
โ"But I tell you who hear: love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,โ
โ"You shall not make for yourselves an idol, nor any image of anything that is in the heavens above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:โ
โ"You shall have no other gods before me.โ
โ"As you would like people to do to you, do exactly so to them.โ
โ"You shall not take the name of Yahweh your God in vain, for Yahweh will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.โ
โ"You shall not commit adultery.โ
โfor in six days Yahweh made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day; therefore Yahweh blessed the Sabbath day, and made it holy.โ
โ"You shall not steal.โ
โbut the seventh day is a Sabbath to Yahweh your God. You shall not do any work in it, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your livestock, nor your stranger who is within your gates;โ
โ"Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.โ
โ"You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.โ
โ"You shall not covet your neighbor's house. You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor's."โ
โYou shall labor six days, and do all your work,โ
โIf you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them.โ
โIf you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.โ
โand showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.โ
โbless those who curse you, and pray for those who mistreat you.โ
โ"I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.โ
โIf you make me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of cut stones; for if you lift up your tool on it, you have polluted it.โ
โGod spoke all these words, saying,โ
โNeither shall you go up by steps to my altar, that your nakedness may not be exposed to it.'โ
โFor the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."โ
โGive to everyone who asks you, and don't ask him who takes away your goods to give them back again.โ
โYou shall most certainly not make alongside of me gods of silver, or gods of gold for yourselves.โ
โYou shall make an altar of earth for me, and shall sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your cattle. In every place where I record my name I will come to you and I will bless you.โ
โAll the people perceived the thunderings, the lightnings, the sound of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking. When the people saw it, they trembled, and stayed at a distance.โ
โThey said to Moses, "Speak with us yourself, and we will listen; but don't let God speak with us, lest we die."โ
โMoses said to the people, "Don't be afraid, for God has come to test you, and that his fear may be before you, that you won't sin."โ
โThe people stayed at a distance, and Moses drew near to the thick darkness where God was.โ
โYahweh said to Moses, "This is what you shall tell the children of Israel: 'You yourselves have seen that I have talked with you from heaven.โ
โTo him who strikes you on the cheek, offer also the other; and from him who takes away your cloak, don't withhold your coat also.โ
โHe was there with Yahweh forty days and forty nights; he neither ate bread, nor drank water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.โ
โHe declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even the ten commandments; and he wrote them on two tables of stone.โ
