| The Old Testament |
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Exodus 20:1-5
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And God spoke all these words saying:
I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. You shall have no other gods before Me. You shall not make for yourself any carved image, or 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; you shall not bow down to them nor serve them.
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| Exodus 24:7 |
"All that the Lord has said we will do, and be obedient." |
| Leviticus 26:12 |
"I will walk among you and be your God, and you shall be My people." |
| Deuteronomy 6:4,5 |
Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one! You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might. |
| Deuteronomy 11:1 |
"Therefore you shall love the Lord your God, and keep His charge,
His statutes, His judgments, and His commandments always." |
| 1 Kings 8:60-61 |
"[A]ll the peoples of the earth may know that the Lord is God; there is no other.
Let your heart therefore be loyal to the Lord our God,
to walk in His statutes and keep His commandments, as at this day." |
| Psalm 100 |
Know that the Lord, He is God;
It is He who has made us, and not we ourselves.
We are His people and the sheep of His pasture. |
| Psalm 145:8 |
The LORD is near to all who call upon Him,
To all who call upon Him in truth. |
| Jeremiah 11:4 |
Obey My voice, and do according to all that I command you;
so shall you be My people, and I will be your God. |
| Isaiah 37:16 |
"O Lord of hosts, God of Israel, the One who dwells between the cherubim, You are God,
You alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth." |
| The New Testament |
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| Matthew 22:37-40 |
You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets. |
| Mark 12:32 |
There is one God, and there is no other but He. |
| John 13:34 |
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another. |
| John 14:15, 21 |
If you love Me, keep My commandments....He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me.
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| Revelation 22:14 |
Blessed are those who do His commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter through the gates into the city. |
| The Heavenly Doctrine |
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| Doctrine of the Lord 65 |
God is one in Person and Essence, and this God is the Lord.
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| True Christian Religion 766 |
The Lord is present with every person, urging and pressing to be received.....[A person receives Him] when he acknowledges Him as his God, Creator, Redeemer and Savior. |
| Apocalypse Explained 815:7 |
...[I]t is to be believed that the Lord is the God of heaven and earth, and that He is omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, infinite, and one with the Father.... |
| Arcana Coelestia 8864:1 |
"I am Jehovah your God" means the Lord in respect of the Divine Human reigning universally, in every single aspect of goodness and truth....
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| Apocalypse Explained 950:3 |
"Thou shalt not make to thee other gods" includes not loving self and the world above all things; for that which one loves above all things is his god. |
| Arcana Coelestia 8865 |
What reigns universally with a person is that which is present in every idea of his thought and every desire of his will....That which reigns universally within a person should be the Lord.... |
| see True Christian Religion 329 |
The Ten Commandments contain everything to do with love for God and everything to do with love towards the neighbor....They prescribe that evil is not to be willed, thought or done, either against God or against the neighbor. |
| Doctrine of Life 53 |
One might therefore wonder why these laws, known as they are the world over, were promulgated from Mount Sinai by Jehovah Himself with so great a miracle. But listen: they were promulgated with so great a miracle in order that men may know that these laws are not only civic and moral laws, but are also spiritual laws; and that to act contrary to them is not only to do evil to a fellow-citizen and to the community, but is also to sin against God. |
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