Exodus 20:1-17

New King James Version

The Ten Commandments^(A)

20 And God spoke ^(B)all these words, saying:

²^(C)“I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, ^(D)out of the house of ^[a]bondage.

³^(E)“You shall have no other gods before Me.

⁴^(F)“You shall not make for yourself a carved image—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; ⁵^(G)you shall not bow down to them nor ^[b]serve them. ^(H)For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, ^(I)visiting^[c] the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, ⁶but ^(J)showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.

⁷^(K)“You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord ^(L)will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain.

⁸^(M)“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. ⁹^(N)Six days you shall labor and do all your work, ¹⁰but the ^(O)seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, ^(P)nor your stranger who is within your gates. ¹¹For ^(Q)in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.

¹²^(R)“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be ^(S)long upon the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

¹³^(T)“You shall not murder.

¹⁴^(U)“You shall not commit ^(V)adultery.

¹⁵^(W)“You shall not steal.

¹⁶^(X)“You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

¹⁷^(Y)“You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; ^(Z)you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.”

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Footnotes

Exodus 20:2 slaves
Exodus 20:5 worship
Exodus 20:5 punishing

Hebrews 12:4-11

New King James Version

⁴^(A)You have not yet resisted to bloodshed, striving against sin. ⁵And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to sons:

^(B)“My son, do not despise the ^[a]chastening of the Lord,
Nor be discouraged when you are rebuked by Him;
⁶For ^(C)whom the Lord loves He chastens,
And scourges every son whom He receives.”

⁷^(D)If^[b] you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what ^(E)son is there whom a father does not chasten? ⁸But if you are without chastening, ^(F)of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate and not sons. ⁹Furthermore, we have had human fathers who corrected us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much more readily be in subjection to ^(G)the Father of spirits and live? ¹⁰For they indeed for a few days chastened us as seemed best to them, but He for our profit, ^(H)that we may be partakers of His holiness. ¹¹Now no ^[c]chastening seems to be joyful for the present, but painful; nevertheless, afterward it yields ^(I)the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.