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What is God's moral law? What is its basis, nature, and scope? Investigate the Decalogue's unique origin (God's voice, God's finger, stone, inside the Ark), its attributes that mirror God's character (holy, just, good, spiritual, perfect, eternal), and its universal/eternal scope.

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DECALOGUE

  • Written by God: EXO 24:12; 31:18; 32:16; DEU 5:22; 9:10; HOS 8:12
  • Divine authority of: EXO 20:1; 34:27,28; DEU 5:4-22
  • Called WORDS OF THE COVENANT: EXO 34:28; DEU 4:13
  • Called TABLES OF TESTIMONY: EXO 31:18; 34:29; 40:20
  • See COMMANDMENTS: EXO 20:1-17; DEU 5:7-21; MAT 19:18,19; 22:34-40; LUK 10:25-28; ROM 13:8-10

LAW

General scriptures concerning: PSA 19:7-9; 119:1-8; PRO 28:4,5; MAT 22:21; LUK 16:17; 20:22-25; ROM 2:14,15; 7:7,12,14; 13:10; 1TI 1:5,8-10; JAS 1:25; 1JN 3:4; 5:3

OF MOSES (Contained in the books of Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy): - Given at Sinai: EXO 19; DEU 1:1; 4:10-13; 33:2; HAB 3:3 - Received by the disposition of angels: DEU 33:2; PSA 68:17; ACT 7:53; GAL 3:19; HEB 2:2 - Was given because of transgressions until the Messiah arrived: GAL 3:19 - Engraved on stone: EXO 20:3-17; with 24:12; 31:18; 32:16; 34:29; 40:20; DEU 4:13; 5:4-22; 9:10 - Preserved in the ark of the covenant: EXO 25:16; DEU 31:9,26 - Found by Hilkiah in the house of the Lord: 2KI 22:8 - Engraved upon monuments: DEU 27:2-8; JOS 8:30-35 - To be written on door posts: DEU 6:9; 11:20 - On frontlets for the forehead, and parchment for the hand: EXO 13:9,16; DEU 6:4-9; 11:18-21 - Expounded by the priests and Levites: LEV 10:11; DEU 33:10; 2CH 35:3 - Princes, priests, and Levites publicly taught: EZR 7:10; NEH 8:1-18 - From city to city: 2CH 17:7-10 - In synagogues: LUK 4:16,32; ACT 13:14-52; 15:21; with 9:20; 14:1; 17:1-3; 18:4,26 - Expounded to the assembled nation at the Feast of Tabernacles in the sabbatic year: DEU 31:10-13 - Renewed by Moses: DEU 4:44-46 - Curses of, responsively read by Levites and people at Mount Ebal and Mount Gerizim: DEU 27:12-26; JOS 8:33-35 - Formed a constitution: DEU 17:18-20; 2KI 11:12; 2CH 23:11 - Divine authority for: EXO 19:16-24; 20:1-17; 24:12-18; 31:18; 32:15,16; 34:1-4,27,28; LEV 26:46; DEU 4:10-13,36; 5:1-22; 9:10; 10:1-5; 33:2-4; 1KI 8:9; EZR 7:6; NEH 1:7; 8:1; 9:14; PSA 78:5; 103:7; ISA 33:22; MAL 4:4; ACT 7:38,53; GAL 3:19; HEB 9:18-21 - Prophecies in, of the Messiah: LUK 24:44; JHN 1:45; 5:46; 12:34; ACT 26:22,23; 28:23; ROM 3:21,22 - Epitomized by Jesus: MAT 22:40; MRK 12:29-33; LUK 10:27 - Book of, found by Hilkiah in the temple: 2KI 22:8; 2CH 34:14

TEMPORARY (Nave's classification -- verses cited by abolition position): JER 3:16; DAN 9:27; MAT 5:17-45; LUK 16:16,17; JHN 1:17; 4:20-24; 8:35; ACT 6:14; 10:28; 13:39; 15:1-29; 21:20-25; ROM 3:1,2; 7:1-6; 8:3; 10:4; 2CO 3:7-14; GAL 2:3-9; 4:30,31; EPH 2:15; COL 2:14-23; HEB 8:4-13; 9:8-24; 10:1-18; 11:40; 12:18,19,27

COMMANDMENTS

General scriptures concerning: EXO 13:8-10; 20:3-17; DEU 4:5,9,10; 5:6-21; 6:4-9; 11:18-21; 32:46,47; JOS 8:30-35; 2CH 17:7-9; NEH 8:2-8; PSA 78:1-7; PRO 3:3,4; 6:20,21; 7:1-4; ISA 57:8; JER 11:4; ZEC 7:9,10; 8:16,17

PRECEPTS OF JESUS (explicitly stated or implied in didactic discourse): MAT 5:16,22-24,27-48; 6:1-4,6-8,16-25,31-34; 7:1-29; 10:5-42; 16:24; 18:8-10,15-17,21,22; 19:16-19; 20:25-28; 22:21,34-40; 24:42-51; 25:34-46; MRK 6:7-11; 8:34; 9:35,38,39,42-50; 10:9,11,12,17-22; 11:22; 12:17; 13:33-37; LUK 6:27-42; 10:28-37; 12:12-31; JHN 7:24; 13:34,35; 14:11,15,23,24; 15:2,4,5,7-12,14,17,20-22

PRECEPTS OF PAUL (explicitly stated or implied in didactic epistles): ROM 12:1-3,6-21; 13:8-14; 14:19-21; 15:1,2; 1CO 8:1,7-13; 10:7-10,24,28,29,31,32; 14:20; 16:13,14; 2CO 13:7; GAL 5:1,16; 6:1,2; EPH 4:1-3,26-32; 5:1-6,11,15,17-21; 6:10,11,13-18; PHP 1:27,28; 2:2-8,12-16; 4:6,8,9; COL 2:6,16,20-23; 3:1,2,5,8,9,12-17,23; 1TH 3:12; 4:1,3,5,6,9-12; 5:6,8,12-22; 2TH 2:15; 3:6-15; 1TI 1:4; 2:1,2,8-12; 3:2-13; 4:1-7,12-16; 5:1-14,16-21; 6:11-14,17-20; 2TI 1:13,14; 2:19,22-25; 3:2-5; TIT 1:5-14; 2:2-5,9-12; 3:1,2,8; HEB 6:1,11,12; 10:22-25; 13:1-3,5,7,9,15-17

OTHER APOSTLES: JAS 1:16,19,21,22; 2:1-4,8-12; 3:1; 4:7-11,13-15; 5:7-12,16; 1PE 1:13-17; 2:11-25; 3:8-12,15-17; 4:1-16; 5:1-3,5-9; 2PE 1:5-7,10; 3:14,18; 1JN 2:15,28; 3:10-23; 4:1,7,8,11,12,15,16,21; 5:21; 2JN 1:5,6; 3JN 1:11; Jude 1:3,4,20-23; REV 3:11,18,19; 22:17

OF MEN: ISA 29:13; MAT 15:3-20; MRK 7:2-23; ROM 14:1-6,10-23; 1TI 4:1-3

TEN COMMANDMENTS

(Nave's redirects to COMMANDMENTS)

COVENANT

  • Sacred: JOS 9:18-21; GAL 3:15
  • Binding: JOS 9:18-20; JER 34:8-21; EZK 17:14-18; GAL 3:15
  • The Mosaic law called a covenant: EXO 34:28
  • Of the sabbath: EXO 31:16
  • Of the Ten Commandments: EXO 34:28; DEU 5:2,3; 9:9
  • THE SECOND COVENANT: JER 31:31-34; HEB 8:4-13; 12:18-24; 13:20

OBEDIENCE

General scriptures concerning: GEN 18:19; EXO 19:5; 20:6; 24:7; NUM 9:23; 14:24; DEU 5:10; JOS 14:6-14; 22:2; 24:24; 1KI 3:14; 2KI 18:6; 21:8; NEH 1:5; PSA 1:2; 18:44; 25:10; 99:7; 103:17,18,20,21; 111:10; 112:1; 119:2,4-6,8,10,15,16,22,30,31,33,44,45,55,56,59,60,72,77,87,97,100-102,104-106,109,112,129,167,168; 143:10; PRO 1:33; 19:16; 28:7; ISA 1:19; JER 7:23; EZK 18:19; 33:14-16; DAN 7:27; MAT 5:19; 6:24; 9:9; 12:50; 13:8,23; 25:20-23; MRK 2:14; 3:35; 4:20; LUK 1:6; 6:46-48; 8:15,21; 11:2,28; 12:37,38; JHN 8:28,51; 9:4; 10:27; 14:15,23,31; 15:10,14,16; ACT 4:19; 5:29; ROM 6:17; EPH 2:10; PHP 2:12; HEB 10:7; JAS 2:10-12; 1PE 1:2,14; 1JN 2:3-6,17; 3:22,24; 5:2,3; 2JN 1:6-9; REV 12:17; 22:7,14

WORD OF GOD

Called: BOOK, BOOK OF THE LORD, BOOK OF THE LAW, GOOD WORD OF GOD, HOLY SCRIPTURES, LAW OF THE LORD, ORACLES OF GOD, SCRIPTURES, SCRIPTURES OF TRUTH, SWORD OF THE SPIRIT, THE WORD, WORD OF GOD, WORD OF CHRIST, WORD OF LIFE, WORD OF TRUTH

Key references for this study: - PSA 19:7-11 (the law described as perfect, sure, right, pure, clean, true, righteous) - PSA 111:7,8 (all his commandments are sure, they stand fast for ever and ever) - PSA 119:9,11,89,96-100,103-105,111,142,144,152,160 (eternal, settled in heaven, exceeding broad, everlasting) - ISA 40:8 (the word of our God shall stand for ever)

SIN

Key entries for this study: - Sin defined as transgression of the law: 1JN 3:4 - Sin known by the law: ROM 7:7,13 - Universality of sin: ROM 5:12-21 - Whoever keeps whole law but offends in one point is guilty of all: JAS 2:10,11 - All have sinned: ROM 3:23

HOLINESS

Key entries for this study: - GEN 17:1; EXO 19:6; LEV 19:2 ("Ye shall be holy: for I the LORD your God am holy") - LEV 20:7,26; DEU 14:2 - PSA 119:1-3 - ROM 7:12 (the law is holy) - 1PE 1:14-16 ("Be ye holy; for I am holy")

RIGHTEOUSNESS

  • By faith: GEN 15:6; ROM 4:3,5,9,11,13,20,22,24
  • Counted for the sake of obedience: DEU 6:25
  • FRUITS OF: DEU 6:25; PSA 1:3; 15:1-5; 24:3-5; etc.
  • ARK OF THE COVENANT -- Multiple Nave's entries reference the ark as repository of the tables of the covenant
  • TABLES (of stone) -- Nave's cross-references to TABLES from WRITING and LAW entries
  • DUTY TO GOD -- Referenced from LAW entry