All the Commandments?
- Aug 8
- 2 min read

Jesus said in Mar 12:30, "And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment." This first commandment covers:
1. You shall have no other gods before Me (Exodus 20:3).
2. You shall not make for yourself a carved image (Exodus 20:4).
3. You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain (Exodus 20:7).
4. Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy (Exodus 20:8) Genesis 2:2-3 And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had made; and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had made. And God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it:... There are 116 verses in the Bible mentioning the sabbath with 7 specifically naming the sabbath as being the seventh day. It is the only day of the 7 day week set by God at creation that is mentioned by name and that name is Sabbath. All others are referred to and the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth days with the sixth day sometimes referred to as preparation day. The Sabbath day is very important to God and to our relationship to Him. It is a vital part of showing that we love the Lord our God with all our heart, and with all our soul, and with all our mind, and with all our strength. Jesus spent a lot of time and energy helping us to understand how to live on Sabbath, not as the religious lawmakers had created their petty rules to do, but as our Creator had created the Sabbath for us to bless us on the day that He created.
Mar 12:31 "And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these." When we follow this commandment, we are following:
5. Honor your father and your mother (Exodus 20:12).
6. You shall not murder (Exodus 20:13).
7. You shall not commit adultery (Exodus 20:14).
8. You shall not steal (Exodus 20:15).
9. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor (Exodus 20:16).
10.You shall not covet (Exodus 20:17).
Jesus definitely spoke to the continuing validity of the Ten Commandments as well as all the laws God gave us in Matthew 5:18 when He declared, "For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
In the Strong's Hebrew and Greek Dictionary:
- jot is numbered G2503 and is directly translated as "iota", the name of the eight Greek alphabet, or put [figuratively] for a very small part of anything.
- tittle is numbered G2762 and is defined as something horn like, that is, (specifically) the apex of a Hebrew letter (figuratively the least particle).
Then in Mat 5:17, Jesus said, "Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil." He did not change any laws.


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