48 Bible Verses about commandments

This is the greatest and most important commandment.

"If you live by my statutes, obey my commands, and observe them,

These are the commands that the LORD commanded Moses to deliver to the Israelis on Mount Sinai.

My son, don't forget my instruction, and keep my commandments carefully in mind.

"Now these are the commands, decrees, and ordinances that the LORD commanded me to teach you. Obey them in the land you are entering to possess,

"If you love me, keep my commandments.

"You are not to steal.

Their worship of me is empty, because they teach human rules as doctrines.'"

The person who has my commandments and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I, too, will love him and reveal myself to him."

if you obey him and keep his commands and statutes that are written in this Book of the Law, and if you return to him with all your heart and soul.

Be sure to observe the commands of the LORD your God, his testimonies and his decrees that he gave you.

For this demonstrates our love for God: We keep his commandments, and his commandments are not difficult,

Because the command is a lamp and the Law a light, rebukes that discipline are a way of life

Indeed, these commands that I'm giving you today are neither confusing nor unattainable for you.

All the Law and the Prophets depend on these two commandments."

This is how we can be sure that we have come to know him: if we continually keep his commandments.

"But if you won't listen to me and obey all these commands,

He declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to observe the Ten Commandments that he wrote on two stone tablets.

And this is what demonstrates love: that we live according to God's commandments. Just as you have heard from the beginning what he commanded, you must live by it.

but showing gracious love to the thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.

And this is his commandment: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus the Messiah, and to love one another as he commanded us.

Only be very careful to keep the commands and the Law that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you that is, to love the LORD your God, to follow in all of his ways, to keep his commands, to stay close to him, and to serve him with all your heart and soul."

And this is the commandment that we have from him: the person who loves God must also love his brother.

I'm going to do this because Abraham did what I told him to do. He kept my instructions, commands, statutes, and laws."

Then the LORD told Moses, "Go up to me on the mountain and stay there. I'll give you stone tablets with the instruction and law that I've written to teach the people."

I'm giving you a new commandment"to love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another.

So then, the Law itself is holy, and the rule is holy, just, and good.

This is how we know that we love God's children: we love God and keep his commandments.

It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than to know it and turn their backs on the holy commandment that was committed to them.

Jesus asked him, "Why ask me about what is good? There is only one who is good. If you want to get into that life, you must keep the commandments."

Remember how the LORD your God led you all the way these 40 years in the desert, to humble and test you in order to make known what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands.

I will take delight in your commands, which I love.

"You are not to commit murder.

The man replied to him, "Teacher, I have obeyed all of these since I was a young man."

Dear friends, I am not writing to you a new commandment, but an old commandment that you have had from the beginning. This old commandment is the word you have heard.

Let the conclusion of all of these thoughts be heard: Fear God and obey his commandments, for this is what it means to be human.

It will be credited as righteousness for us, if we're careful to obey the entire Law in the presence of the LORD our God, as he commanded.'"

"Honor your father and mother"" (This is a very important commandment with a promise.)

But Judah, too, did not keep the commands of the LORD their God. Instead, they lived the lifestyle that Israel had chosen,

a blessing if you obey the commands of the LORD your God that I'm giving you today,