THE FIRST COMMANDMENT

Exodus 20:2-6

I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt not have strange gods before me. Thou shalt not make to thyself a graven thing, nor the likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, nor of those things that are in the waters under the earth. Thou shalt not adore them, nor serve them: I am the Lord thy God, mighty, jealous, 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 to them that love me, and keep my commandments.

Sins Against The First Commandment

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THE SECOND COMMANDMENT

Exodus 20:7

Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that shall take the name of the Lord his God in vain.

Sins Against The Second Commandment

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THE THIRD COMMANDMENT

Exodus 20:8-11

Remember that thou keep holy the sabbath day. Six days shalt thou labour, and shalt do all thy works. But of the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God; thou shalt do no work on it, thou nor thy son, nor thy maidservant, nor thy beast, nor the stranger that is within thy gates. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and the sea, and all things that are in them, and rested on the seventh day, and sanctified it.

Sins Against The Third Commandment

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THE FOURTH COMMANDMENT

Exodus 20:12

Honour thy father and thy mother, that thou mayest be longlived upon the land which the Lord thy God will give thee.

Sins Against The Fourth Commandment

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THE FIFTH COMMANDMENT

Exodus 20:13

Thou shalt not kill.

Sins Against The Fifth Commandment

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THE SIXTH COMMANDMENT

Exodus 20:14

Thou shalt not commit adultery.

Sins Against The Sixth Commandment

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THE SEVENTH COMMANDMENT

Exodus 20:15

Thou shalt not steal.

Sins Against The Seventh Commandment

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THE EIGHTH COMMANDMENT

Exodus 20:16

Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.

Sins Against The Eighth Commandment

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THE NINTH COMMANDMENT

Exodus 20:17

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's... wife.

Sins Against The Ninth Commandment

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THE TENTH COMMANDMENT

Exodus 20:17

Sins Against The Tenth Commandment

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house; neither shalt thou desire... his servant, nor his handmaiden, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is his.

Scriptural text is taken from the Douay Rheims Bible

Note: As a clarification for Protestant Christians, the numbering of the commandments follows that of the Catholic Christian tradition. The difference is due to manner in which the first two and the last two commandments are organized which affects the numbering of the other commandments. By either tradition the commandments are the same.

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By Jim Drzymala 10/03/95