Question 92

Which is the Law of God?

God spake all these wordes.^a 1 I am the Lorde thy God, which hath brought thee out of Aegypt, out of the house of bondage, Thou shalt haue no other Gods in my sight. 2 Thou shalt make to thee no grauen Image, nor the likenes of any thing that is in heauē aboue, or in the earth beneath, nor in the water vnder the earth. Thou shalt not bowe downe to them nor worship them: for I the Lord thy God am a ielouse God, and visit the sins of the fathers vpon the childrē vnto the third & fourth generatiō of thē that hate me, & shew mercy vnto thousands of them that loue me and keepe my commandementes. 3 Thou shalt not take the name of the Lorde thy God in vaine: for the Lorde will not holde him guiltlesse that taketh his name in vaine. 4 Remember thou keepe holy the sabboth day, sixe daies shalt thou labour and doe al that thou hast to doe, but the seuenth day is the sabboth of the Lord thy God, in it thou shalt doe no maner of works, thou, and thy son, & thy daughter, thy man-seruant, & thy maid seruāt, thy cattle, & the stranger, that is within thy gate. For in six daies the Lord made heauen & earth, the sea & all that in them is, and rested the seuenth daie: wherefore the Lorde blessed the seuenth daie and hallowed it. 5 Honor thy father & thy mother, that thy daies may be long in the land which the Lord thy God giueth thee. 6 Thou shalt doe no murther. 7 Thou shalt not commit adultery. 8 Thou shalt not steale. 9 Thou shalt not beare false witnesse against thy neighbour. 10 Thou shalt not couet thy neighbours house, nor his wife, nor his seruant, nor his maide, nor his oxe, nor his asse, nor any thing that is his.