Question 8


What is the law of God stated in the Ten Commandments?

You shall have no other gods before me. You shall not make for yourself an idol. You shall not misuse the name of the LORD your God. Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. Honor your father and your mother. You shall not murder. You shall not commit adultery. You shall not steal. You shall not give false testimony. You shall not covet.

Exodus 20:3 and Deuteronomy 5:7

You shall have no other gods before me.

You shall have no other gods before me.

Prayer

Our God and Lord, help us by your grace to learn and understand your commandments more and more every day and to live by them. Keep our hearts from becoming forgetful or ungrateful. Help us never to seek after other gods but to cling to you alone, our only God. Amen.

Derived and adapted from Martin Luther’s prayer in Luther’s Prayers, edited by Herbert F. Brokering, from the translation by Charles E. Kistler (Minneapolis: Augsburg Books, 1967), 51.

Why do we have Ten Commandments?

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