In this post, let me share where we can find the Ten Commandments in the New Testament. I included Bible verses to prove to you that the Ten Commandments are far from being abolished in the New Covenant.
One of the most common teachings in various Christian churches today is that the Ten Commandments are not applicable anymore for us. They would argue that we are now part of the New Covenant and the Ten Commandments are only found in the Old Testament.
However, is this argument and belief accurate? Is it true that we can’t find the Ten Commandments in the New Testament and therefore, it is not applicable to us, Christians, today?
Let’s see what the Bible says.
How to receive eternal life
One of the most powerful questions asked in the Bible is found in Matthew 19:16. A rich, young ruler approached Yahshua (Jesus Christ) and asked:
“Good Teacher, what good thing shall I do that I may have eternal life?”
A lot of us want to have eternal life, right? So, we can thank this young ruler for asking this important question. And by asking this question, we also receive the important answer:
Yahshua answered, “If you want to enter into life, keep the commandments” (Matthew 19:17).
Wow! This is absolutely a different answer to what you get from most teachers, pastors, and leaders in Christian churches today.
So, it is obvious that the commandments of God are an integral part of the salvation process. Without the commandments, we won’t be able to receive eternal life!
Where do we find the Ten Commandments in the New Testament?
The argument that we can’t find the Ten Commandments in the New Testament isn’t just true. Here are some of the important verses to take note of.
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First commandment
You shall have no other gods before Me.
- Matthew 4:10 – Then Jesus said to him, “Away with you, Satan! For it is written, You shall worship the LORD your God, and Him only you shall serve.’ ”
- Matthew 22:37-40 – Jesus said to him, “‘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.’ 40 On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.”
Second Commandment
You shall not make idols.
- 1 Corinthians 6:9 – 9 Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites…
- 1 Corinthians 10:14 – 14 Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.
- Ephesians 5:5 – 5 For this you know, that no fornicator, unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.
- 1 John 5:21 – 21 Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.
Third Commandment
You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain.
- Matthew 5:33-34 – 33 “Again you have heard that it was said to those of old, You shall not swear falsely, but shall perform your oaths to the LORD.’ 34 But I say to you, do not swear at all: neither by heaven, for it is God’s throne.
- Matthew 7:21-23 – “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’
- Luke 11:2 – So He said to them, “When you pray, say: Our Father in heaven, Hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
- 1 Timothy 6:1 – Let as many bondservants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honor, so that the name of God and His doctrine may not be blasphemed.
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Fourth Commandment
Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
- Luke 4:16 – So He came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up. And as His custom was, He went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up to read.
- Acts 13:14-44 – But when they departed from Perga, they came to Antioch in Pisidia, and went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day and sat down.
- Acts 17:2 – Then Paul, as his custom was, went in to them, and for three Sabbaths reasoned with them from the Scriptures.
- Acts 18:4 – And he reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath, and persuaded both Jews and Greeks.
- Hebrews 4:8-9 – For if Joshua had given them rest, then He would not afterward have spoken of another day. There remains therefore a rest for the people of God.
Fifth Commandment
Honor your father and your mother.
- Matthew 15:3-6 – For God commanded, saying, ‘Honor your father and your mother’; and, ‘He who curses father or mother, let him be put to death.’
- Matthew 19:19 – ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ ”
- Ephesians 6:2-3 – “Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with promise: “that it may be well with you and you may live long on the earth.”
Sixth Commandment
You shall not murder.
- Matthew 5:21-22 – “You have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not murder, and whoever murders will be in danger of the judgment.’ But I say to you that whoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment. And whoever says to his brother, ‘Raca!’ shall be in danger of the council. But whoever says, ‘You fool!’ shall be in danger of hell fire.
- Matthew 19:18 – 18 He said to Him, “Which ones?” Jesus said, “‘You shall not murder,’ ‘You shall not commit adultery,’ ‘You shall not steal,’ ‘You shall not bear false witness…’
- Romans 13:9 – For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “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.”
- Galatians 5:19-21 – Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, [b]fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
- James 2:10-12 – For whoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one point, he is guilty of all. For He who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not murder.” Now if you do not commit adultery, but you do murder, you have become a transgressor of the law. So speak and so do as those who will be judged by the law of liberty.
Seventh Commandment
You shall not commit adultery.
- Matthew 5:27-28 – “You have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.”
- Matthew 19:18 – He said to Him, “Which ones?” Jesus said, “‘You shall not murder,’ ‘You shall not commit adultery,’ ‘You shall not steal,’ ‘You shall not bear false witness…’
- Romans 13:9 – For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “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.”
- 1 Corinthians 6:9 – Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites…
- 1 Corinthians 10:8 – Nor let us commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell…
- Ephesians 5:5 – For this you know, that no fornicator, unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.
- Galatians 5:19-21 – Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
- James 2:10-12 – For whoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one point, he is guilty of all. For He who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not murder.” Now if you do not commit adultery, but you do murder, you have become a transgressor of the law. So speak and so do as those who will be judged by the law of liberty.
Eighth Commandment
You shall not steal.
- Matthew 19:18 – He said to Him, “Which ones?” Jesus said, “‘You shall not murder,’ ‘You shall not commit adultery,’ ‘You shall not steal,’ ‘You shall not bear false witness…’
- Romans 13:9 – For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “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.”
- Ephesians 4:28 – Let him who stole steal no longer, but rather let him labor, working with his hands what is good, that he may have something to give him who has need.
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Ninth Commandment
You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
- Matthew 19:18 – He said to Him, “Which ones?” Jesus said, “‘You shall not murder,’ ‘You shall not commit adultery,’ ‘You shall not steal,’ ‘You shall not bear false witness…’
- Romans 13:9 – For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “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.”
- Colossians 3:9 – Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old man with his deeds…
- Ephesians 4:25 – Therefore, putting away lying, “Let each one of you speak truth with his neighbor,” for we are members of one another.
Tenth Commandment
You shall not covet.
- Luke 12:15 – And He said to them, “Take heed and beware of covetousness, for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of the things he possesses.”
- Romans 7:7 – What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Certainly not! On the contrary, I would not have known sin except through the law. For I would not have known covetousness unless the law had said, “You shall not covet.”
- Romans 13:9 – For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “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.”
- Ephesians 5:3-5 – But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as is fitting for saints; neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor coarse jesting, which are not fitting, but rather giving of thanks. For this you know, that no fornicator, unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.
Final Words
As the pieces of evidence show, the Ten Commandments are far from being nullified in the New Testament. On the contrary, instead of abolishing it, Yahshua said, “Do NOT think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill” (Matthew 5:7). Our Savior even said, “till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will by NO means pass from the law till all is fulfilled” (verse 8).
Instead of forgetting about the Ten Commandments, we must take heed the warning of Yahshua:
“Whoever therefore breaks one of the least of these commandments, and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever does and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven” (Matthew 5:19).
So, friends, don’t think that the Ten Commandments are already nullified. Instead, we must follow these commandments to help us build a closer relationship with God and one another.
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