2. Fear God
Commandment 8 - Thou shalt Not Steal
"If a man shall steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it; he shall restore five
oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.” Exo 22:1 (KJV)
"Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;” Rom 12:11
(KJV)
3. Fear God
"Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of
victuals, usury of any thing that is lent upon usury:” Deu 23:19 (KJV)
"Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbour, neither rob him: the wages of him
that is hired shall not abide with thee all night until the morning.” Lev 19:13
(KJV)
"Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I am
the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt.” Lev 19:36
(KJV)
4. Fear God
Both public and private sins are included in this prohibition. The eighth
commandment condemns manstealing and slave dealing, and forbids wars of
conquest. It condemns theft and robbery. It demands strict integrity in the
minutest details of the affairs of life. It forbids overreaching in trade, and
requires the payment of just debts or wages. It declares that every attempt to
advantage oneself by the ignorance, weakness, or misfortune of another is
registered as fraud in the books of heaven. PP 309.1
5. Common Forms of Theft Today
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Tax fraud
Clocking in and out
inappropriately
Digital media and idea theft
Office supplies
Tithes
"Will a man rob God? Yet ye
have robbed me. But ye say,
Wherein have we robbed thee?
In tithes and offerings." Mal
3:8 (KJV)
Unreturned goods
6. Fear God
Commandment 9 - Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor
"But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall
give account thereof in the day of judgment. For by thy words thou shalt be
justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.” Mat 12:36-37 (KJV)
"In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ
according to my gospel.” Rom 2:16 (KJV)
7. Fear God
"Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not
convenient: but rather giving of thanks. … Let no man deceive you with
vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon
the children of disobedience.” Eph 5:4, 6 (KJV)
"Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east
wind? Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches
wherewith he can do no good?” Job 15:2-3 (KJV)
8. Fear God
"Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which
is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the
hearers.” Eph 4:29 (KJV)
9. Fear God
False speaking in any matter, every attempt or purpose to deceive our
neighbor, is here included. An intention to deceive is what constitutes
falsehood. By a glance of the eye, a motion of the hand, an expression of the
countenance, a falsehood may be told as effectually as by words. All
intentional overstatement, every hint or insinuation calculated to convey an
erroneous or exaggerated impression, even the statement of facts in such a
manner as to mislead, is falsehood. This precept forbids every effort to injure
our neighbor's reputation by misrepresentation or evil surmising, by slander
or tale bearing. Even the intentional suppression of truth, by which injury
may result to others, is a violation of the ninth commandment. PP 309.3
10. Fear God
Commandment 10 - Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s house/wife/goods
"And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was
pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of
the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and
he did eat.” Gen 3:6 (KJV)
11. Fear God
Abraham speaking: “That I will not take from a thread even to a shoelatchet,
and that I will not take any thing that is thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have
made Abram rich:” Gen 14:23 (KJV)
"And Samuel came to Saul: and Saul said unto him, Blessed be thou of the
LORD: I have performed the commandment of the LORD. And Samuel
said, What meaneth then this bleating of the sheep in mine ears, and the
lowing of the oxen which I hear?” 1Sa 15:13-14 (KJV)
12. Fear God
"But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold
the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the
children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit
fornication.” Rev 2:14 (KJV)
The tenth commandment strikes at the very root of all sins, prohibiting the
selfish desire, from which springs the sinful act. He who in obedience to
God's law refrains from indulging even a sinful desire for that which belongs
to another will not be guilty of an act of wrong toward his fellow creatures.
PP 309.5
13. Fear God
"Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth
corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves
treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where
thieves do not break through nor steal: For where your treasure is, there
will your heart be also.” Mat 6:19-21 (KJV)