Decalogue, Ten Commandments

See also: Law, Rules, Discipline.

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Moses receives the Tablets of the Law - Villeréal - Notre-Dame Church - Stained glass of the story of Moses.

The Ten Commandments were given by God to Moses on Mount Sinai. They are the basis of the moral law of the Jewish and Christian faiths.

Jesus said: "(...) you must not think that I have come to abolish the Law. No. Only, since I am Man and I understand the weaknesses of man, I wanted to encourage you to follow it by guiding your spiritual gaze not towards the dark abyss but towards the Luminous Abyss. For if the fear of punishment may restrain three times out of ten, the certainty of reward gives you momentum seven times out of ten. Therefore, trust is more effective than fear. And I want you to possess it fully, assuredly, so that you can achieve not seven parts Good out of ten, but ten parts out of ten and conquer this very holy reward of Heaven"(...)

Then: "I do not change one iota of the Law. And who gave it amidst the thunders of Sinai? The Most High (...)"

To a person who asked him: "Master, in the Law, which is the greatest commandment?" Jesus answered: "You shall love the Lord your God with all your Heart, with all your Soul and with all your spirit. This is the greatest and first commandment. And the second is like it: You shall love your Neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets. (Matthew 22:36-39 | Mark 12:28-34).

In "The Gospel as it was revealed to me"

• Come. I will show you the Ten Commandments as they are: love, love, love. Love of God for you, of you for God. Love for the Neighbor.
• "(...) you must not think that I came to abolish the Law. No. Only, since I am Man and I understand the weaknesses of man, I wanted to encourage you to follow it by guiding your spiritual gaze not towards the dark abyss but towards the Luminous Abyss. For if the fear of punishment may restrain three times out of ten, the certainty of reward gives you momentum seven times out of ten. Therefore, trust is more effective than fear. And I want you to possess it fully, assuredly, so that you can achieve not seven parts of Good out of ten, but ten parts out of ten and conquer this very holy reward of Heaven".
• (Then): "I do not change one iota of the Law. And who gave it amidst the thunders of Sinai? The Most High. Who is the Most High? The One God and the Trinity. Where did He draw it from? From His Thought. How did He give it? By His Word. Why did He give it? Because of His Love. You see that the Trinity was present. And the Word, always obedient to Thought and Love, spoke on behalf of Thought and on behalf of Love."
• The most holy of the Ten Commandments: "Love God and your Neighbor."
• "For you, do what God says. And above all, strive to perfectly practice the two main commandments. If you love God with all the resources of your being, you will not sin, for sin is a pain caused to God. Whoever loves does not want to make suffer. If you love your Neighbor as yourself, you will be respectful children to your parents, faithful spouses to your partner, honest men in commerce, without Violence to your Enemies, without lies in testimonies, without envy for those who possess, without lustful desires for another's Woman. You will not do to others what you would not want done to you; steal; kill, slander, enter like a cuckoo in another’s nest."
• The comments are made by Jesus during a series of "lectures" at La Belle Water in November of the first year of public life: "I am the Lord your God".
• "You shall not make Gods in my Presence, you shall have no other Gods before me."
• "Do not take my name in vain."
• Honor your father and your mother."
• "You shall not commit impurity of body nor of consent."
• "Sanctify the feast days."
• "You shall not kill."
• "You shall not tempt the Lord Your God."
• "Do not covet another man’s Woman."
• "Do not bear false witness."
• "Do not desire what belongs to another."
• The Ten Commandments and their sanctions - Ten "Nos". Not one more. They are the ten pillars of the Temple of the Soul.
• Whoever even sets aside the smallest of the commandments and teaches others to do the same will be the least in the Kingdom of heaven.
• Of what nature is this Law? Something so severe that it is impracticable? No. It is a set of ten holy and easy precepts that a morally good man, truly good, is Conscience of having to observe. It says: ..." (Jesus gives the 10 commandments and comments on them).
• The Ten Commandments of God and those of Satan: The Ten Commandments of the Lord: love the True God with all yourself, love the Neighbor as yourself, respect the Sabbaths without profaning them, honor the parents, do not kill, do not steal, do not commit adultery, do not bear false witness, do not covet another’s Woman or Goods. Oh! You are Blessed if, coming from afar, you surpass those who were of the house of the Lord and left it, goaded by the ten commandments of Satan: enmity with God, self-love, corruption of Worship, hardness to the parents, desire of murder, attempt to steal another’s holiness, fornication with Satan, false testimonies, envy of the nature and the Mission of the Word, and the horrible sin that ferments and matures in the depths of Hearts, too many Hearts.
• Wisdom is to obey the Ten Commandments of God. (He repeats them). Whoever does so is wise and conquers Life and the Eternal Kingdom.
• Decalogue, the dwelling where the Lord will live until the day those who have lived in faithfulness to the Law will go to dwell in Him in the Kingdom of Heaven.
• "Woe to you, teachers of the Law, for you load people with burdens they cannot bear, by making a punishment of the paternal Decalogue given by the Most High to His People."
• You see that what I tell you is still the Decalogue. It is always the Decalogue, the word of the Rabbi. Indeed, Good, justice, glory, are found in the fulfillment of what the Decalogue teaches and orders to do. There is no other Doctrine.

In other works of Maria Valtorta

The Notebooks of 1943

• Dictation of October 21: As you see, if you Againstcome to the Decalogue, you Againstcome to love (p.399).
• Dictation of December 19: My Son did not change a word because God's word cannot be altered by anyone. Remember this. He confirmed the Law in its ten untouchable commandments. Instead, He replaced their complementary parts, which were no longer in line with the new Age, with His Doctrine of love (p.572).

In fundamental Christian texts

In the Bible

• The giving of the Ten Commandments to Moses in Exodus 20:2-17 or Deuteronomy 5:6-21.

In the Catechism of the Catholic Church

• Natural moral law, the old law, and the evangelical law.
• The Ten Commandments compared.
• The Ten Commandments commented.