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 THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
These are the
commandments which God gave to man to guide him to happiness in this life and
in the next:
I. I AM
THE LORD THY GOD: THOU SHALT NOT HAVE STRANGE GODS BEFORE ME.
Commands:
faith, hope, love, and worship of God; reverence for holy things;
prayer.
Forbids:
idolatry, superstition, spiritism, tempting God, sacrilege, attendance at false
worship.
II.
THOU SHALT NOT TAKE THE NAME
OF THE LORD THY GOD IN VAIN.
Commands:
reverence in speaking about God and holy things; the keeping of oaths and
vows.
Forbids:
blasphemy, the irreverent use of God's name, speaking disrespectfully of holy
things, false oaths, and the breaking of vows.
III.
REMEMBER THOU KEEP HOLY
THE SABBATH DAY.
Commands:
going to church on Sundays and holy
days.
Forbids:
missing church through one's own fault; unnecessary servile work; public buying
and selling; court trials.
IV.
HONOR THY FATHER AND MOTHER.
Commands:
love, respect, obedience on the part of children; care on the part of parents
for the spiritual and temporal welfare of their children; obedience to civil
and religious
superiors.
Forbids:
hatred of parents and superiors; disrespect, disobedience.
V. THOU
SHALT NOT KILL.
Commands:
safeguarding of one's own life and bodily welfare and that of
others.
Forbids:
unjust killing, suicide, abortion, sterilization, dueling, endangering life and
limb of self or others.
VI.
THOU SHALT NOT COMMIT ADULTERY.
Commands:
chastity in word and
deed.
Forbids:
obscene speech; impure actions alone or with others.
VII.
THOU SHALT NOT STEAL.
Commands:
respect for the property and rights of others; the paying of just debts; paying
just wages to employees; integrity in public
officials.
Forbids:
theft; damage to the property of others; not paying just debts; not returning
found or borrowed articles; giving unjust measure or weight in selling; not
paying just wages; bribery; graft; cheating; fraud; accepting stolen property;
not giving an honest day's work for wages received; violation of contract.
VIII.
THOU SHALT NOT BEAR FALSE WITNESS
AGAINST THY NEIGHBOR.
Commands:
truthfulness, respect for the good name of others; the observance of secrecy
when
required.
Forbids:
lying, injury to the good name of others, slander, talebearing, rash judgment,
contemptuous speech, and the violation of secrecy.
IX.
THOU SHALT NOT COVET
THY NEIGHBOR'S WIFE.
Commands:
purity in
thought.
Forbids:
willful impure thoughts and desires.
X. THOU
SHALT NOT COVET
THY NEIGHBOR'S GOODS.
Commands:
respect for the rights of
others.
Forbids:
the desire to take, to keep, or to damage the property of others.
Imprimatur: Walter J.
Kellenberg
Bishop of Rockville Centre, N.Y.
June 6, 1971
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