The Ten Commandments, often called the Moral Law of israel, were the supreme expression of the revelation of the old testament dispensation. it was God,s revealed standard of righteousness and the basis of old testament ethics and morality.its inner principles are eternal and although the ten commandments were not carried over into the dispensation of grace as a legal code under which the christian is placed, yet every principle expressed in the ten commandments is clearly taught in spirit and principle in the New Testament.