26 Bible Verses about commandments

This is the greatest and foremost Commandment.

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

but it is in vain they worship Me, while they lay down precepts which are mere human rules.'"

He who has my commandments and obeys them--he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will clearly reveal myself to him."

Love for God means obedience to His commands; and His commands are not irksome.

The whole of the Law and the Prophets is summed up in these two Commandments."

And by this we may know that we know Him--if we obey His commands.

The love of which I am speaking consists in our living in obedience to God's commands. God's command is that you should live in obedience to what you all heard from the very beginning.

And this is His command--that we are to believe in His Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as He has commanded us to do.

And the command which we have from Him is that he who loves God must love his brother man also.

A new commandment I give you, to love one another; that as I have loved you, you also may love one another.

So that the Law itself is holy, and the Commandment is holy, just and good.

The fact that we love God Himself, and obey His commands, is a proof that we love God's children.

For it would have been better for them not to have fully known the way of righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandments in which they were instructed.

"Why do you ask me," He replied, "about what is good? There is only One who is truly good. But if you desire to enter into Life, keep the Commandments."

"Rabbi," he replied, "all these Commandments I have carefully obeyed from my youth."

My dearly-loved friends, it is no new command that I am now giving you, but an old command which you have had from the very beginning. By the old command I mean the teaching which you have already received.

"Honour your father and your mother" --this is the first Commandment which has a promise added to it--