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Heidelberg Catechism, Question 93

Question 93

How are these ten commandments divided?

Into two tables (Deut. 4;13); the first of which teaches us how we must behave towards God (Matt. 22;37, 38); the second, what duties we owe to our neighbour (Matt. 22;39).

Scripture references for paragraph 1

Berean Standard Bible. Public domain text and source credits.

Deuteronomy 4:13

13He declared to you His covenant, which He commanded you to follow—the Ten Commandments that He wrote on two tablets of stone.

Matthew 22:40

40All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”

Deuteronomy 10:3

3So I made an ark of acacia wood, chiseled out two stone tablets like the originals, and went up the mountain with the two tablets in my hands.

Deuteronomy 10:4

4And the LORD wrote on the tablets what had been written previously, the Ten Commandments that He had spoken to you on the mountain out of the fire on the day of the assembly. The LORD gave them to me,

Matthew 22:37

37Jesus declared, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’

Matthew 22:38

38This is the first and greatest commandment.

Mark 12:30

30Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’

Matthew 22:39

39And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’

Mark 12:31

31The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ No other commandment is greater than these.”

Source and edition

Heidelberg Catechism. RCA English, E. R. Good & Bro., Tiffin, 1879. RCA English, E. R. Good & Bro., Tiffin, 1879

Public Domain (historic text); CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikisource transcription). Source transcription.

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