The Ten Commandments · piece 3 of 26
The Third Commandment
From Luther’s Small Catechism, 1529
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You must keep the Sabbath holy. (Exodus 20:8)
What does this mean?
We must fear and love God, so that we will not look down on preaching or God's Word, but consider it holy, listen to it willingly, and learn it.
In plain words
God speaks to you through the Bible and through preaching. Do not treat God’s Word as unimportant or boring. Instead, treat it as holy, which means it belongs to God. Listen to it gladly and keep learning it.
Our summary of Luther’s explanation, for reading after his words, not instead of them.
Where Jesus says it
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Luke 11:28 Jesus says the people who hear God’s word and keep it are blessed.
Read Luke 11:28
28 But he said, “On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it.”
World English Bible, public domain. The whole chapter on Free Scripture → · Read in the NRSVue, the ELCA’s standard translation →
Translated by Robert E. Smith for Project Wittenberg (revised 2004) and placed in the public domain by the translator. How we checked it, and the whole Catechism on one page