### 92. Q. What is God’s law?

**A**. God spoke all these words:

**_THE FIRST COMMANDMENT_**<br>
I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery; you shall have no other gods before me.

**_THE SECOND COMMANDMENT_**<br>
You shall not make for yourself an idol, whether in the form of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, punishing children for the iniquity of parents, to the third and fourth generation of those who reject me, but showing love to the thousandth generation of those who love me and keep my commandments.

**_THE THIRD COMMANDMENT_**<br>
You shall not make wrongful use of the name of the Lord your God, for the Lord will not acquit anyone who misuses his name.

**_THE FOURTH COMMANDMENT_**<br>
Remember the Sabbath day and keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work. But the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God; you shall not do any work— you, your son or your daughter, your male or female servant, your livestock, or the alien resident in your towns. For in six days the Lord made the heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but rested the seventh day; therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and consecrated it.

**_THE FIFTH COMMANDMENT_**<br>
Honor your father and your mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving to you.

**_THE SIXTH COMMANDMENT_**<br>
You shall not murder.

**_THE SEVENTH COMMANDMENT_**<br>
You shall not commit adultery.

**_THE EIGHTH COMMANDMENT_**<br>
You shall not steal.

**_THE NINTH COMMANDMENT_**<br>
You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

**_THE TENTH COMMANDMENT_**<br>
You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or male or female servant, or ox, or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.<sup>1</sup>

<sup>1</sup> [Ex. 20:1-17](/get-passage/Exodus+20:1-17); [Deut. 5:6-21](/get-passage/Deuteronomy+5:6-21)