Part 3 - The Ten Commandments

Question 0

What are the Ten Commandments called?

Answer 0

The Decalogue.

Question 1

How any commandments did God give on Mount Sinai?

Answer 1

Ten commandments.

Question 2

What do the first four commandments teach?

Answer 2

Our duty to God.

Question 3

What do the last six commandments teach?

Answer 3

Our duty to our fellow men.

Question 4

What is the sum of the Ten Commandments?

Answer 4

To love God with all my heart, and my neighbour as myself.

Question 5

Who is your neighbour?

Answer 5

Everybody is my neighbour.

Question 6

Is God pleased with those who love and obey Him?

Answer 6

Yes. God says, “I love them that love me.”

Question 7

Is God pleased with those who do not love and obey Him?

Answer 7

No. “God is angry with the wicked every day.”

Question 8

What is the first commandment?

Answer 8

The first commandment is, “Thou shalt have no other gods before Me.”

Question 9

What does the first commandment teach us?

Answer 9

To worship the One True God, and Him alone.

Question 10

What is the second commandment?

Answer 10

The second commandment is “Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, 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 of them that love me, and keep my commandments.”

Question 11

What does the second commandment teach us?

Answer 11

To worship God only as he commands, and not to worship God by using statues or pictures.

Question 12

What is the third commandment?

Answer 12

The third commandment is, “Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh His name in vain.”

Question 13

What does the third commandment teach us?

Answer 13

To treat God’s name, word, and works with reverence.

Question 14

What is the fourth commandment?

Answer 14

The fourth commandment is, “Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour and do all thy work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy Go; in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor they son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day; wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it.”

Question 15

What does the fourth commandment teach us?

Answer 15

To work six days and to keep the Sabbath holy.

Question 16

What day of the week is the Christian Sabbath?

Answer 16

The first day of the week, called the Lord’s day.

Question 17

Why is it called the Lord’s day?

Answer 17

Because on that day Christ rose from the dead.

Question 18

How should the Sabbath be spent?

Answer 18

I should rest from my daily work and faithfully worship God.

Question 19

What is the fifth commandment?

Answer 19

The fifth commandment is, “Honour thy father and thy mother that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.”

Question 20

What does the fifth commandment teach us?

Answer 20

To love and obey our parents.

Question 21

What is the sixth commandment?

Answer 21

The sixth commandment is, “Thou shalt not kill.”

Question 22

What does the sixth commandment teach us?

Answer 22

Not to take anyone’s life unjustly and to avoid hatred.

Question 23

What is the seventh commandment?

Answer 23

The seventh commandment is, “Thou shalt not commit adultery.”

Question 24

What does the seventh commandment teach?

Answer 24

To be pure in heart, language, and conduct, and to be faithful in marriage.

Question 25

What is the eighth commandment?

Answer 25

The eighth commandment is, “Thou shalt not steal.”

Question 26

What does the eighth commandment teach us?

Answer 26

Not to take anything that belongs to someone else.

Question 27

What is the ninth commandment?

Answer 27

The ninth commandment is, “Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.”

Question 28

What does the ninth commandment teach us?

Answer 28

To tell the truth and not to speak evil of others.

Question 29

What is the tenth commandment?

Answer 29

The tenth commandment is, “Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neighbour’s.”

Question 30

What does the tenth commandment teach us?

Answer 30

To be content with whatever God chooses to give us.

Question 31

Can any man keep these ten commandments perfectly?

Answer 31

No. Since the fall of Adam, the only One who has been able to do this is Jesus.

Question 32

Of what use are the ten commandments to us?

Answer 32

They teach us what is pleasing to God, and show us how much we need a Saviour.