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2087 Our moral life has its source in faith in God who reveals his love to us. St. Paul speaks of the "obedience of faith" ⁹ as our first obligation. He shows that "ignorance of God" is the principle and explanation of all moral deviations. ¹⁰ Our duty toward God is to believe in him and to bear witness to him.

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PART THREE: LIFE IN CHRIST

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SECTION TWO: THE TEN COMMANDMENTS

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CHAPTER ONE: YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND

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ARTICLE 1: THE FIRST COMMANDMENT I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. You shall have no other gods before me. You shall not make for yourself a graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them or serve them. 3 It is written: "You shall worship the Lord your God and him only shall you serve." 4

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I. "YOU SHALL WORSHIP THE LORD YOUR GOD AND HIM ONLY SHALL YOU SERVE"

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9 Rom 1:5; 16:26.

10 Cf. Rom 1:18-32.

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