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The Ten Commandments

Saint Anne asked Colette Coulombe to spread the Ten Commandments as a “passport to Heaven” (we interpret that this includes the Refuges of protection against the coming Great Tribulation). In a 1996 message she told her:

“Tell my little children to put God’s commandments on the wall of their house so that they touch people’s hearts, that they convert and find peace again… These commandments are your passport to Heaven.”

1. You shall love God above all things

Forbids idolatry (worshipping money, power, ideologies, the ego…).

Commands: To love, adore, and trust in God above everything, giving Him the first place in life.

(CCC 2084-2141)

2. You shall not take the name of God in vain

Forbids blasphemy, false oaths, and disrespectful use of the divine name.

Commands: To honor and respect the holy name of God at all times.

(CCC 2142-2167)

3. You shall keep holy the Lord’s Day

Forbids unnecessary work and forgetting God on Sundays and holy days.

Commands: To dedicate Sunday and holy days of obligation to God, participating in Mass and resting.

(CCC 2168-2195)

4. You shall honor your father and your mother

Forbids contempt, unjust disobedience, and abandonment of parents.

Commands: To respect, thank, obey (in what is just), and care for parents, and to respect legitimate authorities.

(CCC 2197-2257)

5. You shall not kill

Forbids homicide, abortion, euthanasia, suicide, and hatred.

Commands: To respect, protect, and promote human life from conception to natural death.

(CCC 2258-2330) 6. You shall not commit impure acts

Forbids adultery, fornication, pornography, masturbation, homosexual acts, and every disordered sexual act.

Commands: To live sexuality with purity, fidelity, and according to God’s plan (within marriage, open to life).

(CCC 2331-2400)

7. You shall not steal

Forbids theft, fraud, exploitation, and every economic injustice.

Commands: To respect others’ goods, practice justice and generosity.

(CCC 2401-2463)

8. You shall not bear false witness or lie

Forbids lying, calumny, defamation, and false testimony.

Commands: To always tell the truth and protect the good reputation of one’s neighbor.

(CCC 2464-2513)

9. You shall not consent to impure thoughts or desires

Forbids consenting to lustful desires and thoughts.

Commands: To guard the purity of heart and of the eyes.

(CCC 2514-2533)

10. You shall not covet your neighbor’s goods

Forbids envy, greed, and disordered attachment to riches.

Commands: To be content with what one has and to desire the good of one’s neighbor.

(CCC 2534-2557)

The commandments are divided into two tables:

1. The first three refer to the love of God.
2. The following seven to the love of neighbor.

Summary of what the CCC citations cover for each commandment, with occasional comments

1. You shall love God above all things

(CCC 2084-2141)

• Speaks of the three theological virtues (faith, hope, and charity).
• Explains the adoration due only to God.
• Treats idolatry, superstition, divination, magic, atheism, agnosticism, and irreligion.
• Includes respect for sacred images (which are not idols).
• On egoism and pride (based on the CCC):

The Catechism teaches that idolatry is not limited to external false gods. According to CCC 2113, idolatry consists in “divinizing what is not God.” This includes the self when a person places himself as the absolute center (radical egoism or self-idolatry). Pride (disordered love of one’s own excellence) is the root of this form of idolatry and of almost all sins. That is why the first commandment requires loving God above all things, including one’s own ego. The opposite virtue proposed by the Catechism is humility: recognizing that every good comes from God and that we are creatures dependent on Him.

• Idolatry frequently also involves human sacrifices (particularly of children and the elderly, as well as victims of wars) to demons such as Baal and Moloch. These constitute an extreme form of idolatry and rejection of God. There is no doubt that, in addition, many fundamental decisions in different parts of the world obey malignant influences for that reason.

2. You shall not take the name of God in vain

(CCC 2142-2167)

• The name of God is holy.
• Forbids blasphemy (speaking ill of God), false oaths, and perjury: the act of swearing falsely while invoking the name of God. That is, placing God as a witness to something one knows is a lie, or confirming something false with an oath. Example: Someone says, “I swear to God it wasn’t me”… knowing perfectly well that it was. That is perjury.
• Speaks of the respect due to the name of Jesus, Mary, and the saints.
• Also treats vows and promises made to God.

3. You shall keep holy the Lord’s Day

(CCC 2168-2195)

• Explains the meaning of the Sabbath in the Old Testament and of Sunday (the Lord’s Day) in the New.
• Obligation to participate in Mass on Sundays and holy days of obligation.
• Speaks of Sunday rest and of the works of mercy that can be done that day.

4. You shall honor your father and your mother

(CCC 2197-2257)

• The family as the fundamental cell of society.
• Duties of children toward parents (respect, gratitude, obedience, assistance).
• Duties of parents toward children.
• Extends to civil and ecclesiastical authorities, and to the common good.

5. You shall not kill

(CCC 2258-2330)

• Human life is sacred from conception to natural death.
• Treats homicide, abortion, euthanasia, suicide, legitimate defense, the death penalty, just war (including the right to defense), and respect for the body (also against violence, hatred, and scandal).
• Forbids genocide (for example in Gaza, condemned by the Pope).
• Forbids human sacrifices (particularly of children) to demons such as Baal. Abortion and euthanasia are interpreted as sacrifices to that demon, with reason, since it is believed that he has driven them in governments throughout the world, especially since the “Renaissance.”
• Includes organ trafficking when it involves the death of the victim.

6. You shall not commit impure acts

(CCC 2331-2400)

• Sexuality according to God’s plan (man and woman, marriage, openness to life).
• Vocation to chastity.
• Offenses: adultery, fornication, pornography, prostitution, rape, masturbation, homosexual acts, etc.
• Also speaks of fruitfulness and the regulation of births.
• Expressly forbids pedophilia and all sexual abuse of children and young people.

7. You shall not steal

(CCC 2401-2463)

• Universal destination of goods and the right to private property.
• Social justice, work, just wage, poverty.
• Forbids theft, fraud, usury, corruption, and damage to common goods.
• Includes love for the poor and the works of mercy.
• Forbids exploitation and every economic injustice.
• Forbids trafficking in persons and organs, kidnapping and trafficking of children and young people, and slavery (which is the theft of a person’s freedom and dignity).

8. You shall not bear false witness or lie

(CCC 2464-2513)

• Truth and respect for the neighbor’s reputation.
• Forbids lying, calumny, defamation, rash judgment, and gossip.
• Speaks of professional secrecy, the means of communication, and the right to true information.
• Forbids fake news of all kinds, particularly political and geopolitical. For example, the communications war to manipulate people, whether in electoral processes, commercial campaigns, or false war propaganda.
• It is worth noting that on social media there are algorithms that present you with the material that, according to them, you want to see (it forms part of your interests, based on your history). This encloses you in “your world” and frequently distances you from reality, if what you intend is to find out the truth of what is happening. On the other hand, the algorithm is being designed to lead the respective network toward the interest and viewpoint of a determined position (after all, the devil, who tries to manipulate everyone), for example regarding who killed Charlie Kirk, who started the war in Iran or Ukraine and for what purpose. On both sides you are incited, failing against the commandment, to distance yourself from the truth that represents God.
• As Pope Leo XIV warns in his encyclical Magnifica Humanitas (May 15, 2026), artificial intelligence and algorithmic systems are not neutral: they can become instruments of manipulation of information and knowledge, concentration of power, and distancing from the truth. Therefore it is urgent to “disarm” these technologies so that they serve human dignity and do not dominate it, serving the enemy (the devil).

9. You shall not consent to impure thoughts or desires

(CCC 2514-2533)

• Purity of heart.
• Combat against the concupiscence of the flesh.
• Speaks of modesty, pure gaze, and the interior struggle for purity.
• On concupiscence (according to the Catechism):

Concupiscence is the inclination to evil that remains in human nature as a consequence of original sin (even after Baptism). It is not in itself a sin, but it pushes toward sin when it is consented to.

• In the context of the ninth commandment, it refers especially to the concupiscence of the flesh: the disordered desire for sexual pleasure. The Catechism teaches that the Christian is called to combat it through purity of heart, modesty, custody of the eyes, and interior struggle, trusting in the grace of God. Deliberately consenting to impure thoughts or desires already constitutes a fault against this commandment.

10. You shall not covet your neighbor’s goods

(CCC 2534-2557)

• Concupiscence of the eyes and avarice.
• Forbids envy and the disordered desire for what belongs to others.
• Invites to poverty of spirit and to place the heart in God, not in riches.

Compiled by Felipe Pérez Martí, taking the first phrase of the traditional catechism and explaining according to the Catechism of the Catholic Church of St. John Paul II (CCC). Other references are also used, such as the encyclical Magnifica Humanitas of Pope Leo XIV and personal opinions on current events.