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#### Confession of Faith
##### Chapter 19: Of the Law of God
This law, after his fall, continued to be a perfect rule of righteousness; and, as such, was delivered by God upon Mount Sinai, in ten commandments, and written in two tables:[^fnref:wcf1] the first four commandments containing our duty towards God; and the other six, our duty to man.[^fnref:wcf2]
[^fnref:wcf1]: <div class="esv"><h5>James 1:25</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p59001025.01-1">But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing.</p> </div><h5>James 2:8</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p59002008.01-2">If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.</p> </div><h5>James 2:10-12</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p59002010.01-3">For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become accountable for all of it. For he who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not murder.” If you do not commit adultery but do murder, you have become a transgressor of the law. So speak and so act as those who are to be judged under the law of liberty.</p> </div><h5>Romans 13:8-9</h5> <div class="esv-text"> <p id="p45013008.06-4">Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law. For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”</p> </div><h5>Deuteronomy 5:32</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p05005032.01-5">You shall be careful therefore to do as the <span class="small-caps">Lord</span> your God has commanded you. You shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.</p> </div><h5>Deuteronomy 10:4</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p05010004.01-6">And he wrote on the tablets, in the same writing as before, the Ten Commandments that the <span class="small-caps">Lord</span> had spoken to you on the mountain out of the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly. And the <span class="small-caps">Lord</span> gave them to me.</p> </div><h5>Exodus 24:1</h5> <div class="esv-text"> <p id="p02024001.04-7"><span class="chapter-num" id="v02024001-7">24:1 </span>Then he said to Moses, “Come up to the <span class="small-caps">Lord</span>, you and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel, and worship from afar. (<a href="http://www.esv.org" class="copyright">ESV</a>)</p> </div> </div>
[^fnref:wcf2]: <div class="esv"><h5>Matthew 22:37-40</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p40022037.01-1">And he said to him, <span class="woc">“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.</span> <span class="woc">This is the great and first commandment.</span> <span class="woc">And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.</span> <span class="woc">On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”</span> (<a href="http://www.esv.org" class="copyright">ESV</a>)</p> </div> </div>