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The eighth commandment is predominantly an economic concern. While people steal all sorts of things via all sorts of methods, the motivation is almost always financial. And so the laws of the Hebrew people address theft of property, theft of a...

The Old Testament Prophets recognized a parallel between the commitments that spouses make in a marriage and the covenant commitment between God and his people. They also often used adultery as a metaphor to speak about the people’s unfaithfulness to...

The Old Testament Prophets recognized a parallel between the commitments that spouses make in a marriage and the covenant commitment between God and his people. They also often used adultery as a metaphor to speak about the people’s unfaithfulness to...

The New Testament doesn’t deal extensively with marital relationships, but two significant areas should draw our attention. The first pertains to the subject of lust or covetous thinking with regard to others’ spouses, and the second treats the matter...

The New Testament doesn’t deal extensively with marital relationships, but two significant areas should draw our attention. The first pertains to the subject of lust or covetous thinking with regard to others’ spouses, and the second treats the matter...

The subject of sexual intimacy is so often avoided by the church that one has to wonder if the numerous examples of Christians’ failings in this area aren’t somehow connected. Both in Proverbs and the Song of Songs, the biblical writers celebrate the...

The subject of sexual intimacy is so often avoided by the church that one has to wonder if the numerous examples of Christians’ failings in this area aren’t somehow connected. Both in Proverbs and the Song of Songs, the biblical writers celebrate the...

While the seventh commandment is often read to apply only to the marriage relationship, the larger focus is on the sanctity of and care for the family as a whole throughout the community. In loving their neighbor, the people of God were not to do...

The positive side of the sixth commandment has some pretty far-reaching aspects. While many will be covered in the following commands, two that are specifically tied to killing and violence are reconciliation and forgiveness. The New Testament writers...