Do you believe that the nine laws dealing with morality to God and our fellow man are the only thou shalt nots and if you keep just those nine you will be pleasing to God? Do you realize there are hundreds of ways we can hurt our fellow man and thus hurt God? Here are just a few that Paul listed in Gal 5: 19 The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; 20 idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions 21 and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.
Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1828 - Moral
MOR'AL, a. [L. moralis, from mos, moris, manner.]
1.
Relating to the practice, manners or conduct of men as social beings in relation to each other, and with reference to right and wrong. The word moral is applicable to actions that are good or evil, virtuous or vicious, and has reference to the law of God as the standard by which their character is to be determined. The word however may be
applied to actions which affect only, or primarily and principally, a person's own happiness.
Keep at the least within the compass of moral actions, which have in them vice or virtue.
Mankind is broken loose from moral bands.
2.
Subject to the moral law and capable of moral actions; bound to perform social duties; as a moral agent or being.
3. Supported by the evidence of reason or probability; founded on experience of the ordinary course of things; as moral certainty, distinguished from physical or mathematical certainty or demonstration.
Physical and mathematical certainty may be stiled infallible, and moral certainty may be properly stiled indubitable.
Things of a moral nature may be proved by moral arguments.
4.
Conformed to rules of right, or to the divine law respecting social duties; virtuous; just; as when we say, a particular action is not moral.
5. Conformed to law and right in exterior deportment; as, he leads a good moral life.
As posted somewhere else all of God's 10 commandments are the standard of "right doing which is translated as "righteousness" They give us the knowledge of GOOD AND EVIL; SIN AND RIGHTEOUSNESS. *
ROMANS 3:20;
ROMANS 7:7;
1 JOHN 3:4;
PSALMS 119:172 and if we knowingly break any one of them *
JAMES 4:17; ACTS 17:30-31 according to the scriptures we stand guilty before God of sin *
JAMES 2:10-11
Hebrew and Greek Dictionaries w/TVM, Strong - H6664
RIGHTEOUSNESS; RIGHTEOUS; from צדק; tsedeq (H6663); meaning
the right (natural,
moral or legal; also (abstractly) equity or (figuratively) prosperity: - X even, (X that which is altogether) just (-ice), ([un-]) right (-eous) (cause, -ly, -ness).
God's Word defines Righteousness or Righteouss as right doing and the moral standard as God's commandments.
PSALMS 119:172 My tongue shall speak of your word for
ALL YOUR COMMANDMENTS ARE RIGHTEOUSNESS <Right Doing - MORAL>
The first four commandments of God's 10 Commandments are our duty of love and right doing towards God and the next six commandments are our duty of love and right doing towards our fellow man. This is why JESUS says on these two great commandments of love to God and love to man hang all the law and the prophets *MATTHEW 22:36-40. Paul is saying the same thing in ROMANS 13:8-10 as does JAMES in JAMES 2:8-12.
Hope this helps Bob.