48 Bible Verses about commandments

This is the greatest and first commandment.

" 'If you walk in my statutes and you keep my commands and you do them,

These [are] the commands that Yahweh commanded Moses for the {Israelites} on {Mount Sinai}.

My child, do not forget my instruction, and may your heart guard my commands.

"Now this [is] the commandment, the rules and the regulations, that Yahweh your God charged to teach [to] you [for you] {to observe} in the land that you [are] about to cross [over] into to take possession of it,

"If you love me, you will keep my commandments.

"You shall not steal.

and they worship me in vain, teaching [as] doctrines the commandments of men.'"

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

[He will do this] if you listen to the voice of Yahweh your God by keeping his commandment and his statutes written in the scroll of this law [and] if you return to Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your inner self.

You shall diligently keep the commandments of Yahweh your God and his legal provisions and his rules that he has commanded you.

For this is the love of God: that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome,

For [like] a lamp [is] a commandment, and instruction [is] light, and the way of life [is the] reproof of discipline,

"For this commandment that I [am] commanding you {today} [is] {not too wonderful for you}, and it [is] not [too] far [from you].

On these two commandments depend all the law and the prophets."

And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments.

" 'But if you do not listen to me and you do not carry out all these commands,

And he declared to you his covenant, {the Ten Commandments}, which he charged you {to observe}, and he wrote them on [the] two tablets of stone.

And this is love: that we walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning, so that you should walk in it.

and showing loyal love to thousands [of generations] of those loving me and of those keeping my commandments.

And this is his commandment: that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as {he commanded us}.

Only be very careful to observe the commandment and law that Moses Yahweh's servant commanded you, to love Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, to keep his commandments, to hold fast to him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul."

And this [is] the commandment we have from him: that the one who loves God should love his brother also.

because Abraham listened to my voice and kept my charge: my commandments, my statutes, and my laws."

And Yahweh said to Moses, "Come up to me [on] the mountain, and be there, and I will give you the tablets of stone and the law and the commandments that I have written to instruct them."

"A new commandment I give to you: that you love one another--just as I have loved you, that you also love one another.

So then, the law [is] holy, and the commandment [is] holy and righteous and good.

By this we know that we love the children of God: whenever we love God and keep his commandments.

For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than having known [it], to turn back from the holy commandment that had been delivered to them.

And he said to him, "Why are you asking me about [what is] good? There is one [who is] good. But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments!"

And you shall remember all [of] the way that Yahweh your God led you [during] these forty years in the desert in order to humble you and to test you to know what [is] in your heart, whether you would [diligently] keep his commandments or not.

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

"You shall not murder.

And he said to him, "Teacher, all these I have observed from my youth."

Dear friends, I am not writing a new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you have had from the beginning. The old commandment is the message which you have heard.

Now that all has been heard, here is the final conclusion: Fear God and obey his commandments, for this [is] the whole [duty] of man.

And it shall be righteousness for us if we diligently observe [and] do all [of] this commandment {before} Yahweh our God, as he has commanded us.'

"Honor your father and mother" (which is the first commandment with a promise),

Even Judah did not keep the commands of Yahweh their God, and they walked in the customs of Israel which they introduced,

the blessing, if you listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God that I [am] commanding you {today},