Question 54

Modern Adaptation

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Scriptural References

Deuteronomy 30:17-18 (ESV)

¹⁷But if your heart turns away, and you will not hear, but are drawn away to worship other gods and serve them, ¹⁸I declare to you today, that you shall surely perish. You shall not live long in the land that you are going over the Jordan to enter and possess.

Psalm 44:20-21 (ESV)

²⁰If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a foreign god, ²¹would not God discover this? For he knows the secrets of the heart.

Psalm 90:8 (ESV)

⁸You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence.

Traditional Formulation

Question: What are we especially taught by these words, “before me,” in the first commandment?

Answer: These words, “before me”, in the first commandment, teach us, that God, who sees all things, takes notice of, and is much displeased with the sin of having any other God.

Adaptation Commentary

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