So the greatest commandments are not found in the Ten Commandments? To love God with all thy heart, thy soul and might.The “Greatest Commandment” was also not found in the ‘10 Commandments’ …
Deuteronomy 6:4-5 Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
So we can break this very first commandment in the Ten Commandments and this is obeying the greatest commandment by worshipping other gods and ignoring what He personally wrote and personally spoke? Exo 32:16 Exo 31:18
Exo 20:3 “You shall have no other gods before Me.
This is not how the apostles interpreted the greatest commandments- shall we have a look?
Romans 13:9 For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” [b]“You shall not bear false witness,” “You shall not covet,” and if there is any other commandment, are all summed up in this saying, namely, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
The greatest commandments are found right in the Ten Commandments
The first four how we are to Lord the Lord
Exodus 20:3 “You shall have no other gods before Me.
4 “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 you shall not bow down to them nor [b]serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting[c] the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, 6 but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.
7 “You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain.
8 “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10 but the 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, nor your stranger who is within your gates. 11 For 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.
The last six how we love our neighbor
12 “Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the Lord your God is giving you.
13 “You shall not murder.
14 “You shall not commit adultery.
15 “You shall not steal.
16 “You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
17 “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; 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.”
All of the law and prophets hangs on these two commandments- loving God and loving neighbor.
Hangs does not mean we delete; it means ALL of God's Word is about love. And love to man and love to God which is keeping God's commandments 1 John 5:2-3 is summarized in love. The summary does not delete the details.
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