Part II: Questions about The Ten Commandments
35. Q. What are the ten commandments sometimes called?
A. God’s moral law.
But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
For when Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law. 15 They show that the work of the law is written on their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness, and their conflicting thoughts accuse or even excuse them….
For Moses writes about the righteousness that is based on the law, that the person who does the commandments shall live by them.
Scripture quoted from the English Standard Version.
Taken from A Catechism for Girls and Boys found here.