By Rev. Richard Jones
THE 10 COMMANDMENTS – Part 3
Exodus 20:12-14
RESPECT FOR AUTHORITY Exodus 20:12
“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.
Ephesians 6: 1-3
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. 2 “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), 3 “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.”
Deuteronomy 21:18-21
“If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and, though they discipline him, will not listen to them, 19 then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city at the gate of the place where he lives, 20 and they shall say to the elders of his city, ”˜This our son is stubborn and rebellious; he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton and a drunkard.”™ 21 Then all the men of the city shall stone him to death with stones. So you shall purge the evil from your midst, and all Israel shall hear, and fear.
RESPECT FOR HUMAN LIFE Exodus 20:13
“You shall not murder.
1 John 3: 15
Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.
Exodus 17: 8-9
Then Amalek came and fought with Israel at Rephidim. 9 So Moses said to Joshua, “Choose for us men, and go out and fight with Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the staff of God in my hand.”
Genesis 9: 6
“Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for God made man in his own image.
Romans 13: 1-4
Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. 2 Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. 3 For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of the one who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval, 4 for he is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God’s wrath on the wrongdoer.
Exodus 22: 2
If a thief is found breaking in and is struck so that he dies, there shall be no bloodguilt for him,
Numbers 35: 22-25
“But if he pushed him suddenly without enmity, or hurled anything on him without lying in wait 23 or used a stone that could cause death, and without seeing him dropped it on him, so that he died, though he was not his enemy and did not seek his harm, 24 then the congregation shall judge between the manslayer and the avenger of blood, in accordance with these rules. 25 And the congregation shall rescue the manslayer from the hand of the avenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to his city of refuge to which he had fled, and he shall live in it until the death of the high priest who was anointed with the holy oil.
RESPECT FOR MARRIAGE Exodus 20:14
“You shall not commit adultery.
Genesis 2: 24
Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
Leviticus 20: 10
“If a man commits adultery with the wife of his neighbor, both the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
Leviticus 20: 22-24
“You shall therefore keep all my statutes and all my rules and do them, that the land where I am bringing you to live may not vomit you out. 23 And you shall not walk in the customs of the nation that I am driving out before you, for they did all these things, and therefore I detested them. 24 But I have said to you, ”˜You shall inherit their land, and I will give it to you to possess, a land flowing with milk and honey.”™ I am the Lord your God, who has separated you from the peoples.
Hebrews 13: 4
Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.
1 Thessalonians 4: 3-5
For this is the will of God, your sanctification:[a] that you abstain from sexual immorality; 4 that each one of you know how to control his own body[b] in holiness and honor, 5 not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God;