The Ten Commandments were laws given by God as guidelines for daily living. Although God gave the commandments to His people through Moses at Mount Sinai more than three thousand years ago, they are still relevant today.
About three thousand years after God gave these commandments, Jesus upheld them. He actually placed these laws on a higher plane, demanding that the spirit, as well as the legal aspects, of the laws be observed. He placed His stamp of approval on the commandments by declaring, "Do not think that I came to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I did not come to abolish, but to fulfill." (Mt. 5:17)
And as we know all of the commandments can now be summed up into obeying the two that Jesus told us in Matt. 22:37 "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the great and foremost commandment. The second is like it, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' On these two commandments depend the WHOLE LAW and the Prophets."
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