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living by the ten commandments

What does the Bible say about living by the ten commandments? These are the passages readers found most helpful — tap any citation to read it in context.

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10If you keep my precepts, you shall abide in my love, just as I also have kept my Father’s precepts and I abide in his love.

17And he said to him: “Why do you question me about what is good? One is good: God. But if you wish to enter into life, observe the commandments.”

21Not all who say to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the kingdom of heaven. But whoever does the will of my Father, who is in heaven, the same shall enter into the kingdom of heaven.

16All Scripture, having been divinely inspired, is useful for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in justice,

1And the Lord spoke all these words: 2“I am the Lord your God, who led you away from the land of Egypt, out of the house of servitude. 3You shall not have strange gods before me. 4You shall not make for yourself a graven image, nor a likeness of anything that is in heaven above or on earth below, nor of those things which are in the waters under the earth. 5You shall not adore them, nor shall you worship them. I am the Lord your God: strong, zealous, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the sons to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, 6and showing mercy to thousands of those who love me and keep my precepts.

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33But this will be the covenant that I will form with the house of Israel, after those days, says the Lord: I will give my law to their inner most being, and I will write it upon their heart. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

28Therefore, he was in that place with the Lord for forty days and forty nights; he did not eat bread and he did not drink water, and he wrote on the tablets the ten words of the covenant.