Fairness and Equality The Ninth Commandment Leviticus 19:35, 36 “You shall do no wrong in judgment, in measures of length or weight or quantity. You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin: I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.” God’s ...
Truth Only The Ninth Commandment Exodus 23:2, 3 “You shall not fall in with the many to do evil, nor shall you bear witness in a lawsuit, siding with the many, so as to pervert justice, nor shall you be partial to a poor man in his lawsuit.” Leviticus 19:15, 16 “You ...
False Reports The Ninth Commandment Exodus 23:1 “You shall not spread a false report. You shall not join hands with a wicked man to be a malicious witness.” False reports can take various forms. Gossip—unsubstantiated reports about others, or reports scattered in order to impugn or defame—is perhaps the most familiar form. Slander, ...
Cross-Dressing The Ninth Commandment Deuteronomy 22:5 “‘A woman shall not wear a man’s garment, nor shall a man put on a woman’s cloak, for whoever does these things is an abomination to the LORD your God.’” In those days the only purpose for “cross-dressing” would have been to deceive—either to conceal one’s ...
Honesty in Marriage The Ninth Commandment Deuteronomy 22:13-21 “‘If any man takes a wife and goes in to her and then hates her and accuses her of misconduct and brings a bad name upon her, saying, “I took this woman, and when I came near her, I did not find in her ...
No Double Standards The Ninth Commandment Deuteronomy 25:13-16 “‘You shall not have in your bag two kinds of weights, a large and a small. You shall not have in your house two kinds of measures, a large and a small. A full and fair weight you shall have, a full and fair measure ...
The Blinding Power of Sin The Ninth Commandment Leviticus 6:1-5 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, “If anyone sins and commits a breach of faith against the LORD by deceiving his neighbor in a matter of deposit or security, or through robbery, or if he has oppressed his neighbor or has found ...
Neither Steal nor Lie The Ninth Commandment Leviticus 19:11 “You shall not steal; you shall not deal falsely; you shall not lie to one another.” Colossians 3:9 In this statute we can see the interconnectedness of the Law of God, and why, if we break one of God’s Laws, we break them all. The Law ...
Vows The Ninth Commandment Deuteronomy 23:21-23 “‘If you make a vow to the LORD your God, you shall not delay fulfilling it, for the LORD your God will surely require it of you, and you will be guilty of sin. But if you refrain from vowing, you will not be guilty ...
Dabbling in the Lie? The Ninth Commandment Leviticus 18:24-30 “Do not make yourselves unclean by any of these things, for by all these the nations I am driving out before you have become unclean, and the land became unclean, so that I punished its iniquity, and the land vomited out its inhabitants. ...